Faster Skier has a short video contest for ski lovers. The deadline is almost here, so get speedy.
content: make a ski video of max 15 min that captures the 2007/2008 season and enter it in the FasterSkier “Packed to Powder and Everything in Between” Video Contest. Anything goes as long is it has to do with XC ski culture and/or sport and happened in the 2007-2008 season.
prizes: First Place: A T73 Iron, Second Place: A LF 60 Gram wax set 6, 7 and 8, Third Place: A TO188b Steel Brush
Sick Profits Video Contest gives you a chance to criticize the current problems of the health insurance industry. The sponsor is Northwest Federation of Community Organizations.
content: making fun at corporate health insurance, bring about changes and fight for a guaranteed health care system for everyone in the US. Parody is key.
Some themes:
Health insurance companies care more about their profits than about people
Health insurance companies make their money by saying no to people who are applying for insurance and stamping DENIED! on requests for health care
We need to investigate health insurance companies to find out how they weasel out of paying for health care and where their money really goes
Health insurance companies split us apart by age, health status, etc. rather than supporting a health care system that works for everyone in our communities
prize: $1,000 eligibility: over 18-year-old US residents
As Gale is celebrating National Library Week (April 13-19, 2008), it announced a YouTube video contest for ’songwriters’ who are willing to perform love songs to their favorite book or author. “The contest encourages booklovers to literally sing the praises of their favorite books and authors during this year’s Books & Authors contest.” (PRweb)
content: sing your love you song to your favorite books (OK, not every book may inspire such a love song…) prize: $5,000 Grand Prize, more precisely: The video with the most votes will be awarded the Grand Prize of $5,000. The songwriter(s)/performer(s) will be awarded $2,500; the other $2,500 will go to the library of the winner’s choice. So win half the prize for your favorite library! deadline: May 31 2008 eligibility: for over 13 year old residents further info and video contest rules: on Gale
Here’s a nice video of the Librareo Lounge from the official contest group:
Check out further online video contests in a quick overview in this user-friendly Video Contest Calendar.
Content of IKEA Video Contest: submit an original video between 30 seconds and 3 minutes in length of a rhythmic performance utilizing only items commonly found in a residential kitchen.
Eligibility: for legal residents of one of the forty eight contiguous United States or the District of Columbia, at least 13 years of age or older
Prizes: One (1) Grand Prize: The “$5,000 IKEA All You Can Grab” event.
Best Western International Hotel Chain marks the 20th anniversary celebration of its loyalty program, Gold Crown Club International, with two online video contests that offer Best Western Rewards(SM) members the chance to win 1 million points or $50,000. Membership is free in the hotel chain (more than 4000 hotels).
‘Points for Free’ Video Contest
content: the Points for Free video contest asks you to decorate your office water cooler — the center of most office break rooms — in the spirit of the 1980s, film a 30-second video describing the creation and why it deserves to win eligibility: Open only to individuals or groups (maximum of 5 people per group), who are legal U.S. (with exception of U.S. Territories and Puerto Rico) and Canadian residents (with the exception of Quebec), 18 years of age or older as of date of entry. deadline: May 23 prize: one million Rewards points — the equivalent of roughly a hundred free room nights at Best Western’s 4,000 hotels worldwide, enough airline miles for nine free round-trip tickets.
Rewards Mania Sweepstakes gives Rewards(SM) program members the chance to win prizes online, including $100 Best Western Travel Cards, or a grand prize of $50,000. Members can play once a day between April 16 and May 29, 2008.
more info: http://www.bestwestern.com/celebrate20.
“Many of Best Western’s loyal customers are busy Gen Xers. We’ve
created these contests especially for them — to thank them for choosing
our brand, give them a chance to win and let them have some fun with our
1980s theme,” said Dorothy Dowling, Best Western’s senior vice president of
marketing and sales. “This kicks off a year of rewarding our most loyal
customers.”
Bahama Breeze video contest poses the question ‘Why You need a Caribbean Escape?’, and all you need to do is to answer it in a video format, and hope to win a super cool grand prize with your friends.
eligibility: over 21, continental US residents
content: Submit a short video of no more than 2 minutes that shows why you need a Caribbean escape
prize: all-expense paid four-night cruise to The Bahamas aboard a luxury cruise line for up to six people. Includes roundtrip airfare to and from the port of departure, up to three ocean-view cabins and all applicable fees and gratuities. Grand prize winner will also receive a Flip video camcorder to take on the trip, etc.
Get Smart comedy is advertising itself with a series of mini comedies featuring you phoning your shoe…
Anyway, this is one of the best viral video contest ideas this year so far, I think. It’s short (15 sec), very viral and can be funny. Like this guy:
In the original show, .Maxwell Smart’s (aka Agent 86) had a built in rotary-dial telephone in his shoe that he would use to contact CONTROL. The best part – not only would it actually ring, but it required a dime to place a call
content: make a 15 second video of yourself answering your own shoe phone and post it on YouTube
Maxwell Smart (Steve Carell) is on a mission to thwart the latest plot for world domination by the evil crime syndicate known as KAOS. When the headquarters of U.S. spy agency CONTROL is attacked and the identities of its agents compromised, the Chief (Alan Arkin) has no choice but to promote his ever-eager analyst Maxwell Smart, who has always dreamt of working in the field alongside stalwart superstar Agent 23 (Dwayne Johnson). Smart is partnered instead with the lovely-but-lethal veteran Agent 99 (Anne Hathaway). Given little field experience and even less time, Smart—armed with nothing but a few spy-tech gadgets and his unbridled enthusiasm—must thwart the doomsday plans of KAOS head Siegfried (Terence Stamp).
Do you think making commercials is easy? Here’s your chance for making a truly creative and motivating one for iRise, a provider of visualization software for business applications.
Eligibility: for over 18 US residents
content: 30 to 60 second commercial about iRise
prize: first place video receiving $15,000 and two semi-finalists receiving $2,500 each
In cooperation with the Wright Museum of World War II History (Wolfeboro, NH), Big Y Foods (Springfield, MA), Market Basket (Tewksbury, MA), the Manchester City Library (Manchester, NH), and other New England businesses, nonprofits and community groups, the U.S. Navy Leadership Challenge invites you to use your creative video force to produce a short film about your “Hometown Hero.”
eligibility: New England high school students between 15 and 18
prize: two-day, all-expenses-paid trip to a Navy installation on the East Coast in June 2008.
Once in a while most of us give in and buy something irresistibly silly, useless, expensive, whatever. No matter how strong resistance you could show for a couple of days/ weeks/ months. Here’s your chance to share your shopping confession in a video contest organized by eBillme.
Content: Create a video of your shopping confession. Your video will show the world what you bought, who it was for, and why you hid it. Tell us how your secret was finally revealed (or maybe this is the first time it will be). If you got caught in the act, we want to know what happened and how you tried to get out of it.
Deadline: the vid competition runs throughout 2008, until Dec 26!
Prize: eBillme is giving away $1,500 in cash or prizes EVERY month for the entire year in 2008, and a GRAND PRIZE of $15,000 (unlike their Prize page, the official rule says $1000 per month!)
Here’s the winner in February from Christine Kearcher (it’s about her embarrassing Valentine’s Day shopping confession)
and the video contest winner in January from Craig Kerfoot (about his embarrassing Xmas present to is parents)
So as you can see, both users used a very simple video shot and narrative to win $1,500!
