So here are the details from YouTube on “The Office” promotion. I feel like I’ve blogged about this before, but it was probably one of my many posts that gets lost by WordPress when I select “Publish.” Here is the website about the contest. Now I love that NBC is finally playing nice with the…
Before today, the last contest I won was a liquor wagon in high school. My dad took it all away, but left me with the red wagon. But thanks in part to you, dear readers, I’ve won the first weekly “Be the Bee” prize. Here’s the note I received: Dear ‘nalts’, Congratulations, you are the…
To encourage reader comments, I'm offering links to related sites from this blog — which gets as high as 300 people per day. All you have to do is comment frequently, and if your site is related I'll throw in a link on the right column. I'll also do a post covering your site if…
Okay, the competition for the Kiss Kiss Bang Bang contest is better than I expected. Which means I need to blog a desperate plea for votes. If you have a second, please give the following three short videos "5 stars." You don't even have to suffer through them or click the ads. And if I…
My first camera was a Panasonic. I called her Panny. I'd bring her to parties and make $200 videotaping the event. I'd also throw it on my shoulder whenever I got stuck in an awkward conversation- it works even better than the "I need to fill my drink" line. Anyway, here's a Panasonic contest. You…
Avid announced the grand prize winner and five runners-up from its video contest that challenged entrants to capture their passions and tell a story, via video, within 60 seconds. More than 200 people entered. Taking viewers on a cross-country road trip, Brian Sharpe, a 27 year-old independent filmmaker from Chicago, IL, won the grand prize…
Make a video with a Bee theme, and you can win some decent prizes from this www.BarterBee.com contest. Here's the CEO explaining the rules, in arguably one of the lowest budget clips I've seen by a website. Here's the competition so far…
Panasonic is running a contest via YouTube for videos under 5 minutes. Panasonic is the first non-entertainment company to run a promotion with YouTube. Panasonic will award prizes to makers of the four weekly finalist videos, including a first prize of a plasma high-definition TV and digital camera, worth about $5,000. The electronics company is…
VH1 and IFILM's "Web Junk 20," premiers Friday, June 9. Here's a site with more details. To e-mail your suggestions, write to: webjunk@ifilm.com.
…And here are the winners of Amex's "15-Second Clip" contest. I'll be searching for more of these contests in the weeks ahead. They must not get a lot of entries.