Wine Spectator is organizing a video contest again for those who are passionate about wine. If you missed the boat bottle last year, it’s time to grab your camcorder now.
content: e.g. interviews with winemakers, chefs or sommeliers, tours of wineries, tastings of selected wines or simply a wine adventure of max 3 min eligibility: international video contest for citizens over 21 deadline: Aug. 18, 2008 prize: two complimentary registrations to the Wine Experience in New York City on Oct. 16-18, 2008. The winning video may be shown as part of the official program, finalists, as chosen by our editors, will each receive two tickets to the Grand Tastings at the Wine Experience in New York City on Oct. 16 or 17, 2008 (plus every valid entry will automatically win either a one-year subscription to WineSpectator.com or any course at Wine Spectator School.) further info on rules and more: on Wine Spectator
Here is the winner video entry for 2007 (also presented at the 2007 New York Wine Experience)
Are you running Windows on your Macbook? Have you heard about VMware Fusion or even used to it to make your switch easier? You can participate in a video contest and win a Macbook Air.
content: make a short video about VMware Fusion, i.e. “My Switch to VMware Fusion” (Or you can also write a blogpost and win an ipod touch) eligibility: it’s an international video contest for over 18 citizens (except for residents of Cuba, Iran, Iraq, Libya, North Korea, Sudan, or Syria) prize: Macbook Air of Approximate Retail Value (“ARV”): 2000 USD deadline: May 15 2008 (every video contest entry gets a Fusion t-shirt and a “My Mac Loves VMware” bumper sticker.)
criteria: your video
* Shows value of virtualization on Mac (20%)
* Production value of video-crispness of editing, sound quality, inclusion of screencasts, music, etc. (20%)
* Describes why switching to VMware Fusion was important (20%)
* Originality and interestingness of video’s storyline line (20%)
* Demonstrates applications not available for Mac OS X (20%)
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.
Mintertainment sounds an entertaining video contest from Ferrero, makers of Tic Tac® breath mints.
content: submit an original video clip which creatively re-enacts or creates a Tic Tac® Moment – max half a minute eligibility: over 18, U.S. residents deadline: June 15 2008
prize: $10,000 grand prize, other prizes include a $1,500 Best Buy® gift card, a year’s supply of movie passes, and a year’s supply of Tic Tac® Mints, good gracious!
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.
“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.
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.
This is a small scale video contest, but a very charming one for those who like keeping beautiful aquarium fishes. Here are the video entries from the previous contest.
Content: you can choose from 4 different themes:
– A tip or trick you use to help with your aquarium
– Tour of your equipment and the role each piece plays
– Your maintenance routine
– A frag technique you have been successful with
– A DIY project related to your tank
Prize: a Seachem Pinnacle+ Reverse Osmosis™ 100 GPD RO/DI Filter Eligibility: register as 3reef.com member Deadline: May 12 2008 Further info:3reef.com
One video from the first video contest of 3Reef
Falcon Productions announces its first ever Instant Video Contest.
Content: “What would it look like if presidential candidates McCain, Clinton, and Obama were contestants on American Idol?”Impersonations are fine, as are standup routines. Videos can concentrate on one, two, or all three candidates.
Prize: $500 for the funniest video, and every video properly submitted will receive a press release.
where to publish? vids should be posted to a universally accessible site, such as Break.com, Metacafe.com, or YouTube. The link to the site must be sent to Falcon Productions by email by April 22, 2008 at midnight. All decisions of the judges are final.
Video Contests that Rock 