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)
I’m just proving that you don’t have to be Tina Fey (or LisaNova) to appear on CNN impersonating Sarah Palin. Yeah that’s me in drag (see Sarah Palin Exposed, which is almost at a half-million views). My parents are so proud. I usually don’t know my clips are going to be used on television until after…
There are two forms of comedy that I can’t envision ever “jumping the shark.” They are “The Office” (either UK or US) and “JibJab.” While not every JibJab tops the previous, this one is certainly a giant move in the right direction. We see voice personality Jim Meskimen getting tossed in the air from a…
You’d like to think there was a system that helped good videos surface to the top and garbage go away. Despite the voting and comment functionality, popularity is no more democratic than it was in high school. Proof: I have several videos where I’ve accidentally uploaded the same one twice. One will get great ratings,…
Thanks for the notes inquiring about my back My sciatica. My spondilolythesis. My herniated discs. My fractured sacrum. My psychosomatic illnesses with a dose of hypochondriacism. If you have back problems or are considering manifesting your psychological pain via your back, here are the 7 stages of grieving you can expect. If you’re like me,…
Red Giant software showed that, despite the horrific odds, a company can still produce great entertainment that also promotes a product… it helps that the product includes software effects for videos. Source: Mashable. It’s gotten 500K plus views on Vimeo, which I’d say represents about a 50% penetration to its target market (artistic video creators)….
Yesterday I urged marketers to pursue niches instead of wildly popular videos. But if video creators pursue small niches, their videos will get fewer views, and they’ll therefore make less money via YouTube’s Partner program (which shares ad revenues based not on the appeal of the videos but the total view count). Ideally creators will…
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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.