Hey Zooppers,
We love seeing what clients do with our videos. Horizon has launched its Back to School Blues Video Matchup game featuring your work! They’ve got a bracket system going and they’ll be featuring 2 more videos everyday for you to vote on. So keep checking back to see if your video has been displayed.
One note: this will not be the way that the client will make their decision about the Zooppa contest rankings. This is for fun!
Thanks for making this a great contest, Zooppers!
Hey Zooppers,Siemen
Here’s a digest of the latest and greatest happening on the Zooppa front.
Zooppa Facebook App Launches!
We now have a Facebook application with our first Facebook contest running! FoodSaver is our first client to use our Facebook app to run a video contest. The contest is called “If They Only Had a FoodSaver”.
Your Mission:
Make a video, up to 30 seconds long, demonstrating one or more alternative food preservation methods that didn’t quite work out. The failed methods can be historically accurate, or they can be fanciful failed food preservation methods of your own devising.
Your videos can showcase failed preservation techniques from today, or famous food preservation fails from the past. If you so choose, you can demonstrate how things might have been different if your subjects had access to a FoodSaver®.
End Date: 11/7/11
$8,000 in awards
Verizon Field Tester Challenge Sharing Contest Ends Tomorrow!
This is a sweepstakes so you still have a chance at winning. All you have to do is share a video with at least 3 people who click through using your link. You must register to enter. There are four prizes of $500 each to be randomly chosen.
One Week Left for MegaPath!
The MegaPath contest is set to end Monday 9/19/11 at 4:00pm. The Top Prize is $14,000! All you have to do is make a video about nerds talking nerd speak and you’re golden!
Amazon Wireless Closes in Two Weeks!
Total Prizes equal $15,000. All you have to do is make a video about why it’s better to use AmazonWireless than go to the store to buy your mobile merchandise.
Siemens Mini Documentary Contest Closes At the End of the Month!
Our biggest contest right now! Top Prize gets $15,000! All you have to do is create a mini-documentary on how your city is becoming or should become sustainable. These are 2-5 minutes long. $40,000 in total awards!
MatchingDonors Contest Ends on October 1st!
This special contest will give it’s winners something really wonderful. For one, it’s the chance to help save lives through film making. Also! The top 3 filmmakers will have the chance to assistant produce or have a credit in a major movie, television show or music video with one of our guest judges.
Hey Zooppers,
Today marks a milestone for Zooppa because we’re launching our Facebook application with a new contest for FoodSaver!
You may have already noticed the Facebook tab on Zooppa.com/contests which led you to the FoodSaver contest which in turn led you to the FoodSaver Facebook page. It was in Alpha mode and now we’re ready to have everyone take a look at our new app.
Our new app lets you participate in Zooppa contests straight through Facebook.
Hey Zooppers,
Horizon is looking for videos to use in a national Back-To-School engagement program on the Horizon Facebook page. If you submit your video early (before August 30), Horizon will consider using it in their Back-To-School Blues video match-up and promote your work to their national Facebook audience!
YOUR MISSION:
Make a video 60 seconds or less about the trial and tribulations about Back to School Seasons for moms and how they can still depend on milk for their kids’ nutrition.
And of course, the main incentive to send us your videos:
“Sponsor Chosen” Prizes
Grand Prize: $7,000
2nd Place: $2,500
3rd Place: $1,000
4th Place: $1,000
5th Place: $500
6th Place: $500
7th Place: $500
8th Place: $500
“Voter’s Choice” Prizes
1st Place: $500
2nd Place: $400
3rd Place: $300
4th Place: $200
5th Place: $100
Contest is void in Colorado, Louisiana, Maine, Missouri, Minnesota, Puerto Rico and where prohibited by law.
Take it easy,
Manny
We have about 20 entries for the contest so far in this hilarious contest. Some folks have also posted their entries on youtube, which is totally fine. We would love letting your videos go viral as much as possible. If you entered the contest share your Zooppa video on Facebook and other venues as well!
We also wanted to let you guys know that we have received some great entries that we couldn’t show because of copyright issues. We have to keep track of that sort of thing because we’re awarding money in these contests. Plus, in some competitions, there could be a chance that your video receive some additional television and web exposure. This makes the images and music you use subject to copyright laws.
So check out the videos on the Cold Shower Challenge page on Zooppa!
Take it easy,
Manny
This is a cool concept:
While you are on your road trip this summer, there’s a Jones Soda RV out there somewhere, navigating highways and byways, just itching to get some cold Jones Soda in your hand, or put your photo on the bottle itself!
Far from a traditional approach to advertising, Jones is asking for people to share their road trip experiences via various social networks.
-Kirk
While not precisely about user-generated advertising, this video of NYU professor Clay Shirky’s recent talk at TED@state is essential viewing for anyone interested (as we assume you all are) in how the social media boom is changing the world.
Titled “How cellphones, Twitter, Facebook can make history,” Shirky’s talk addresses, “… how Facebook, Twitter and TXTs help citizens in repressive regimes to report on real news, bypassing censors (however briefly). The end of top-down control of news is changing the nature of politics.”
Sounds pretty awesome, right?
TED Blog also recently posted this transcript of an interview with Shirky in which he talks specifically about the way Twitter is facilitating the recent protests in Iran. You can check out Shirky’s site here.
If you haven’t heard of it, TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) is an annual conference that “… brings together the world’s most fascinating thinkers and doers, who are challenged to give the talk of their lives (in 18 minutes).”
A huge number of these talks can now be viewed on TED’s site. If we weren’t so committed to bringing the user-generated advertising revolution to fruition, we’d probably just stay home all day watching TED videos and thinking about the future.