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.
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.
20th sounds really Methuselah’s age for an online video contest, but Videomaker.com has been in the business for more than two decades, or exactly.
The first two winners are on YouTube too, enjoy:
Grand Prize Angus Lyne, Downey, CA: Electro-Magnetic Flight and You!
a tongue in the cheek video about “Nazi UFO’s of World War II. Martians, Aliens, Area 51, Roswell, all nothing more then a conspiracy of propaganda to hide the truth about Nikola Tesla’s Electromagnetic Flying Machine.” It’s sort of Monty Python to identify the real war function of UFOs (see solution in the film)
Number 1 Eric Spink, Bronx, NY: Trepidation: Forest of Fear
A documentary of Tuxedo New York’s Forest of Fear, a haunted house, really scary start
Help to figure out our energy future. What is best for citizens and the environment of Maryland? “The video submissions will be shown the evening of Earth Day, April 22 at St. Mary’s College following a presentation by Arjun Makhijani, author of “Carbon-Free and Nuclear-Free; A Roadmap for U.S. Energy Policy.”
content: answer the question What is best for citizens and the environment of Maryland? in max 3 minutes deadline April 17 2008 prize: $500 further info: http://www.chesapeakeclimate.org
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