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(Warning: contains graphic pro-American sentiment. May not be suitable for open-minded viewers.) As an American, I watch a lot of American films. I guess it’s by default, but when I watch a foreign film, it feels foreign. “Oh, yeah, that’s totally French,” we say knowingly. There’s a certain flavor: shot choices, pacing, even character development. [...]

As most of you know, videos play an important role in many of our advertising competitions. But new Zooppa community members who are interested in submitting video need a place to start. Fortunately, the Internet places a wealth of content about the art of videomaking at our finger tips. Below are 6 great online resources that we’ve [...]

THANK YOU FOR A GREAT 2009 FROM YOUR FRIENDS AT ZOOPPA This has been one exciting year for Zooppa! Following two successful years in Europe, Zooppa expanded to the U.S. and relocated our headquarters to Seattle. During this year our Creative Community has almost doubled in size to 50,000 members. We partnered with some of [...]

How do you make an interactive video? Or an interactive web experience? It’s not as hard as it looks. You can use YouTube to make interactive experiences online with the YouTube video annotation feature. How make your first interactive YouTube experience: Decide on what experience you want to present. It can be a game, a website, a [...]

Hi Zooppa creatives! We’ve had some great submissions for the Brad Paisley competition at Zooppa, but it would be wonderful to see even more. Get out your cameras, grab your friends and make an incredible video…show us your American Saturday Night! To enter your video click here. A little behind the scenes: I shot this [...]

Promote your entry with a custom contest badge! You’ve made an amazing ad, why not show your fans? Putting a contest badge on your website, blog, or social network profile (Myspace, Facebook, Vimeo…) is a great way to share your work with your friends and fellow creatives. This tutorial will show you how you can [...]