Cash Contests


8th Mar

Zooppa: Pilsbury Crescent – $10,000 – Over 18 y.o. – 15 seconds – Due: May 10th, 2010

Pillsbury invites you to join its advertising legacy by creating its next television ad for Crescent Rolls!  We’re calling this campaign Easy Pillsbury Crescent Meals, because Crescent Rolls can be used as the foundation for many easy kid-pleasing meals. And the #1 Pillsbury Crescent Meal that families love is the Crescent Dog. (more…)
2nd Mar

Video meets Baby Boomers – $10,000 – over 13 yo – 3-5 minutes – Due: April 15, 2010

The LFMP ‘Video meets Baby Boomers’ is looking for some talented people to document how people 50+ interact with technology.   So grab your video camera and make a short documentary featuring yourself, family members, teachers or other acquaintances.  Is there a generation gap going on with technology?   What is the difference between how boomers use technology versus how teens and twenty-somethings use it?  Your film could be funny or scientific, but if it’s entertaining and insightful with a unique POV you could walk away with $10,000. (more…)

20th Feb

Skinit Spotlight – $25,000 – Over 13 y.o. – 30 to 60 seconds – Due: May 31st, 2010

The Skinit Spotlight Challenge is back – and this time we’re giving away more money! We have added two new products and created six categories to compete in.
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18th Feb

Tax Slayer – $15,000 – Over 18 y.o. – 15 & 30 Seconds – Due: April 15th, 2010


Tax Slayer.com is conducting a video contest this tax season that will reward $15,000 to first place, and $5,000 to second place. In addition the winning video may be broadcast on national television as part of the 2011 national campaign.

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30th Jan

Sunkist ‘Be Dickie V’- $10,000 – Over 18 yo – Under 60 seconds – Due: February 3rd, 2010

This basketball season, Sunkist soda wants you to do your best impression of Dickie V for the shot at winning a trip to a conference championship game and $10,000!

Brush up on your Dick Vitale vocabulary and submit your 60-second or less video today!

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27th Jan

Best Part Of Wakin’Up – $25,000 – Over 18 y.o. – 30 to 60 seconds – Due: February 28th, 2010

Want a chance to showcase your musical talents? Send us your original take on the Folgers® Coffee jingle. The winner will receive $25,000 plus the chance to have their jingle featured in a Folgers Coffee commercial.

Compose your original version of the Folgers Coffee Jingle. Just include “The Best Part of Wakin’ Up is Folgers in Your Cup” melody and lyrics as shown in our Tool Kit.

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26th Jan

I am Free Enterprise – $50,000 – Over 18 y.o. – Under 3 minutes – Due: April 9th, 2010

Are you America’s next great inventor? Have you successfully launched a business or created a new product? Are you generating new jobs to boost the economy? If you have a great story to tell or idea to share, we want to hear it! Make your idea come to life by shooting a 3-minute video explaining what free enterprise means to you by April 9. Any digital video camera will do, be it low-end or professional quality. Provide a virtual tour of your big plans or get some friends together to tell your free enterprise story.
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22nd Jan

Hitvidi Webshow – $10,000 – Over 13 y.o. – 2 to 30 minutes – Due: May 31st, 2010

Choose any genre you like: comedy, prank, reality, lifestyle, doc, drama – it’s up to you.
Map out season one of your series. Shoot your pilot episode. Upload it with your series proposal by May 1st, 2010.
Your pilot should be between 2 to 30 minutes in length
The Series Proposal must include:
i.A brief overview of the Show, approximately a short paragraph;
ii.The number of episodes to be made, approximately between 5 to 20 episodes.
iii.A brief outline of each episode, approximately a short paragraph; and
iv.A brief description of the main characters, including information such as name and background.
Ten hit shows will premiere to a global audience during the Fall 2010 launch of hitvidi.com
The hitvidi Submission Contest is open worldwide, where it is allowed, to people who are thirteen years of age or older as of December 15, 2009.
The hitvidi Submission Contest is open worldwide, where it is allowed, to people who are thirteen years of age or older as of the Contest start date described below.
Submission period ends 11:59:59 PM PT on May 1, 2010.
The Judging Panel will be appointed by the Contest Sponsor at its sole discretion. Each Entry reviewed by the Judging Panel will be assigned a Score, based on the following criteria:
Creativity and Originality – 40%
Technique – 30%
Overall Appeal – 30%
The ten Entries with the total highest Score will be declared the Winners.
There are ten Production Deals available to be awarded to ten Entrants whose Entries are judged to be the best by the Judging Panel.
If you’re a hitvidi winner, you’ll get a production deal worth $10,000 to produce the first season of your series.
To enter this Contest click here

Create a hit web show of any kind comedy, prank, reality, lifestyle, doc, drama – it’s up to you.

Map out season one of your series. Shoot your pilot episode. Upload it with your series proposal by May 1st, 2010. If you’re a hitvidi winner, you’ll get a production deal worth $10,000 to produce the first season of your series. (more…)

5th Jan

Mofilm: Pepsi Refresh Your World – $10,000 – Open to all – 60 seconds – Due: February 1st, 2010

Pepsi and MOFILM want to encourage and nurture the art of the short film. Go out with your camcorder (or phone) and put together a video up to 60 seconds in length. This isn’t an ad competition but a serious film competition which will culminate at the Barcelona GSMA World Congress in February 2010!
It’s not the quality of the production that counts but the story and how you put it across!
Create a 60 second movie to ‘refresh your world’ with one of the following 5 themes:
If Youth Ran The World
All You Can Do With 1 Dollar, Pound or Euro
Paint Your World*
Tomorrow
Here’s To The Crazy Ones
We open this contest to all young film-makers… those with passion to Refresh
their World, and talent to tell stories in a truly surprising, new way.
Deadline for submissions is midnight GMT Feb 1st 2010.
The judges will review all approved videos and will use their own pre-arranged system to rate the videos according to how well they meet the brief, their originality and how well the message is communicated.
Grand Prize (1 overall winner)
US$10,000
Contract to shoot a Pepsi commercial film… with a $20,000 production budget and Academy Award Winning Producer Jon Landau as your co-producer!
Gold Prizes (1 per category)
Fly with a friend to Barcelona on Feb 15th, 4 days hotel stay and US$2,000 spending money
Join in the Mofilm awards gala with Jon Landau as host, the Mofilm and Pepsi teams and much more
Silver Prizes (1 per category)
US$1000 plus a Kodak Zi8 digital video camera
Bronze Prizes (1 per category)
US$500 plus a Kodak Zi8 digital video camera
Runner-Up Prizes (40 in total)
8 runners-up per category will each receive a Kodak Zi8 digital video camera
To enter this Contest click here

Mofilm Pepsi

Pepsi and MOFILM want to encourage and nurture the art of the short film. Go out with your camcorder (or phone) and put together a video up to 60 seconds in length. This isn’t an ad competition but a serious film competition which will culminate at the Barcelona GSMA World Congress in February 2010!

It’s not the quality of the production that counts but the story and how you put it across!

Create a 60 second movie to ‘refresh your world’ with one of the following 5 themes:

  1. If Youth Ran The World
  2. All You Can Do With 1 Dollar, Pound or Euro
  3. Paint Your World
  4. Tomorrow
  5. Here’s To The Crazy Ones

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22nd Dec

The Reason Project – $10,000 – Over 18 y.o. – Under 8 minutes – Due: February 28th, 2010

The primary goal of The Reason Project is to spread scientific thinking and secular values. We invite you to help us further our work by submitting a short video that conveys the message of the foundation.
Contest is open to legal residents of the 50 United States and the District of Columbia, the United Kingdom, and Canada, who are over the age of majority in his/her jurisdiction and who have internet access.
All Entries must be received by February 28, 2010 at 12:00 AM PST to be considered eligible.
All eligible Entries received by Sponsor during the Contest Period will be judged to select ten finalists by a panel of qualified judges based on the following criteria (weighed equally):
Expressing the message of The Reason Project
Creativity
Production quality
Level of entertainment
Finalists’ Entries will be featured at www.reasonproject.org between 12 AM PST on March 15, 2010 and 12 AM PST on March 21, 2010. The Finalist that receives the highest number of valid votes, as determined by Sponsor, will be deemed the “Grand Prize winner” and so forth.
The prize for the Winning Video of 2010 will be $10,000.
The prize for Second Place will be $4,000.
The prize for Third Place will be $1,000.
To enter this Contest click here

The primary goal of The Reason Project is to spread scientific thinking and secular values. We invite you to help us further our work by submitting a short video that conveys the message of the foundation.

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