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The simple magic of the Dollar Shave Club promo
- I read a lot of video contest briefs and lately I’ve see one particular video get referenced over and over and over; The Dollar Shave Club’s “Our Blades Are F***ing Great” promo. Here’s a snippit...
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Folgers refuses to help contestants after their video uploader crashes
This lady is happy because she managed to upload her jingle before the site started freezing up Believe it or not, Folgers’ 2011 Jingle contest was one of the popular video contests in history....
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“Occupy Conan” winners and full episode
Some day you may find yourself playing a game of Trivial Pursuit with your grand kids (or your 2nd gen clones) and to win the Entertainment wedge you’ll need to name the first TV show that ever aired...
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VCN Sponsor Spotlight: 3/19/13
Usually when I do a “Sponsor Spotlight” I list what I think are the best current Mofilm, Poptent and Tongal contests. But this month I thought I’d change things up and post some recent winners from...
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“Dub the Dew” contest turns into a hilarious crowdsourced disaster
I love the Internet and all the goofballs who work so hard to keep it weird. I’ve said this a million times before but contests that let “the public” determine the winners via online voting are an...
View ArticleAfter 8 years, Youtube is ready to select a winner…
Today is April 1st, 2013 which means that Youtube.com’s 8 year submission period has finally come to a close. Starting today, youtube’s judges will review all of the entries they’ve received since...
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Vote for Dan in the Elimination of Prejudice video contest!
A few weeks back I shot an entry for the annual Elimination of Prejudice video contest and on Monday I got word that I had made the top 5. I was kind of surprised to hear that since the contest...
View ArticleMSNBC profiles the rise of Tongal
When I’m working on a new blog post I like to keep MSNBC on mute in the background. Every so often I’ll look over and see the kind but concerned faces of Rachel Maddow or Lawrence O’Donnell and I’ll...
View ArticleJoseph Gordon-Levitt Invites you to Hit RECord
Hey you know what? That Joseph Gordon-Levitt kid is ok in my book. He easily could have grown up to be a Shia Labeouf-style douche bag but he seems to actually care about his craft and his medium. I...
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Bye, Bye Beardy!
If you’re a regular reader of VCN you’ve probably noticed that the site looks a little different today. After 3 1/2 years of loyal service, our faithful cartoon mascot “Beardy” has retired. He was...
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Vote Swapping video contest winner gets disqualified and loses $100,000 prize
On August 27th, 2012, a lawyer from Georgia named Theodore Scott got some very good news; he was the $100,000 grand prize winner in Gold Peak Tea’s “Take the Year Off Contest.” Scott entered the...
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What is Vote Farming?
- Last week I posted a story about a man who lost a $100,000 contest prize after he was disqualified for “vote farming.” The ex-winner was a lawyer and he was considering a lawsuit because he felt the...
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Help pick Wild Kingdom’s new Wild Guide
Mutual of Omaha is currently running a contest to find a “Wild Guide” to host a new web version of Wild Kingdom A friend of VCN named Tim O. managed to make the finals and his entry is so good that I...
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Vote for Dan in Hain’s “A Healthier Way of Life” video contest!!
- Hain Celestial is running a video contest right now and I managed to make the top 10. For this contest people were supposed to explain what they’re doing to lead a healthier lifestyle. The finalist...
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Vidopp.com is up for sale
Vidopp.com was launched in January of 2007 which means it might just be the oldest video contest site on the web. (Correction: It’s not. Turns out OnlineVideoContests.com beat them by two months)...
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Tongal gets into the music video business
- 2013 has been a very good year for Tongal. The site received $15 Million dollars in funding in January and since then the site has been landing one gigantic client after another. It seems like...
View ArticleGUEST POST: How to run a successful video contest
Dan’s Note: Today we’re featuring a guest post from a reader named Mike Gabel. Mike started entering video contests recently and he’s already got some nice wins under his belt. I don’t want to spoil...
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New changes to Youtube make it HARDER to spot fake views
I used to absolutely love youtube. It was such a fun, simple, efficient, user-friendly website. But Google just couldn’t leave well enough alone and bit by bit they’ve turned the site into a...
View ArticleFacebook is going to start shoving commercials into your (already...
Glob help us. According to Bloomberg, Facebook is about to get a hell of a lot more annoying. An unnamed source from inside the company claims that Facebook will soon start selling 15-second long...
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Video Contest News turns 4 years old!?
More candle than cake If you work for the NSA you probably already know this but yesterday I got an e-mail from Godaddy that said my registration for the domain VideoContestNews.com had just...
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