E Online “Winners” of $25K contest?

Wow. Here are the winners of an Eonline "CyberSmack" contest. Not that my stuff is great, but I regret not entering. Some of these winners are really bad!

Wow. Here are the winners of an Eonline "CyberSmack" contest. Not that my stuff is great, but I regret not entering. Some of these winners are really bad!
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…
Time for the “Crap in a Tiffany’s Bag” contest. There’s not an actual physical prize for this, but you’ll win the respect of your peers. The idea generated through some comment discussions on this blog. Can you make a video that attracts the most views but has the worst ratings? It’s tough because it has to…
…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.
Show me a marketer without “viral” on her marketing plan and I’ll show you an online video site that’s profitable. Advertising offline is getting harder with time-shifted television and declining viewership, and online advertising is getting more complex with paid-search prices rising and banner click-thru’s dropping. Given the low variable cost of viral, it’s natural…
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…
Here’s the latest two entries to the “Crap in a Tiffany’s Bag” contest. The bar is set wonderfully low for this contest. All you have to do is enter and you’re pretty much guaranteed to be a finalist as long as your video isn’t that good. Remember the rules- it has to garner lots of…
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You’re right. Nothing special. Check out what the guys at Hombre Films are doing. http://www.hombrefilms.com – better than this stuff. Much better (and, No, I have no connection with them. Followed a link from Adland) Way cool.
Wow- that’s a great site. Thanks, Malcolm.
http://www.hombrefilms.com/
You should have entered, dude. “Normal Town” would have liked to see some competition.