You have until September 30, 2006 to enter the “Mentos Geyser Video Contest.” Prizes include enough Mentos to feed you for a year. Here’s the official website, and here’s the YouTube Mentos Geyser group that features the qualified entries to date.
Here are my two entries.
Mentos Jet Pack– kids had some fun strapping bottles to their back
SaveMentosNow PSA (in honor of the actual website)
iJustine, the YouTube star and graphic designer, is holding a contest to benefit Charity:Water. Check out the 2011 version of a press release (here), by MASScanvas — a new type of online graphic design contest. “Creating synergy among celebrities, designers and charities, MASScanvas aims to inspire a community of creativity and philanthropy – Design with a…
Being a finalist in the Oreo Global Moments contest renewed my interest in online-video contests. There are a few that have deadlines looming:The XLNTAds Road Trip is due June 30 and has a prize of $7500 with two “runner’s up” prizes of $750. Shoot a pilot episode of a road-trip based show that will attract the interest…
eMarketer reports online video is growing. Mkay. Not sure I have a lot to add to this, but Larry Kress has some analysis. Here’s the index of the report in case you feel like buying it for me. Paul Verna wrote it, but never interviewed me. So it must not be very comprehensive. Oh- and…
Some highlights of a rather skeptical view of online video ads (with my thoughts below in the circle bullets). Writted by Tom Hespos, president of Underscore Marketing, for a recent Mediapost.com article: “I have a rather controversial stance on online video ads: I think a lot of people will make a lot of money in…
You know, he may be one of the most over-exposed YouTubers of the summer. But he’s absolutely one of my favorite YouTube personalities. Having met him, I can tell you he’s really centered and a wholesome family man. So that makes videos like this Moto Man (in which he spins his motorcycle around his house…
Oh sweet. I found a bootlegged copy of Naltz (me) on “The Retarded Policeman” by MedlOcre FlLm$ and P0nce. Note how I use obscure charactes to spell this so they’re copyright police don’t find this post. The episode was removed due to a conflict over the ownership of this episode (which was written by ponce’s…
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Revver seems to be broken. No stats showing. Anyone else having the same problem
yep
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Mentos jet pack may go down in history as “the day social services had to get involved….” Nice work with the duct tape….
1) Revver seems to be working at the moment
2) I was kind of bummed to see the folks at Mentos embrace YouTube for the contest vs sticking with Revver. Both from a strategic perspective as well as a flexibility perspective I would have rather seen a contest website powered by Revver (and simply bought some banners at YouTube. Yahoo Video, and maybe some Google Paid Search) vs the retrofit of a YouTube group.
3) Nalts, nice money shot on pouring the mentos in the kids mouth, if your video does not win you will at least be the favorite of the Mentos brand manager.
I LOVE that (randomly) the thumbnail for the YouTube is my neighbor with the Mentos box. I think that helps. But I also know competition for this will be too strong for me to last. I just got a mighty blow on the http://www.barterbee.com contest. A skateboarder with a bee outfit and cool shots and music. There goes my HDTV. 🙁
I agree a contest makes more sense on Revver. The premise is that the traffic on YouTube is higher, so they’ll get more views. I believe the opposite is true. I doubt they’re getting traffic from being on YouTube. There’s too much competition.
Note that over time Revver will be the amateur’s preferred tool (since they profit) so it will be an essential vehicle for reaching contest submitters even if the traffic for their target audience might be higher on a YouTube or Google.
Mark- Charlie totally loved having that pack on his back. He wasn’t even PHASED by the soda. If he had cried… yeah… I would have continued and edited that part out. But he didn’t care. He got free candy out of it.
Is that still exploitation?
I just want you to know that I think you did a terrific job on this websight.