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A peek inside Tongal’s Santa Monica headquarters
Greetings from sunny Santa Monica! I’m in LA this week to cover Tongal’s first ever awards ceremony, the Tongies. The big party is tonight but Tongal has already treated everybody to a whole slate of...
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Tongal honors their best and brightest at the first annual Tongie awards
- The 2014 Tongie awards might just be remembered as the moment when “Commercial Contests” broke away from the rest of the ad world and became a full-fledged, independent industry. Over the years, a...
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A&E announces new DocuSeries featuring Crash the Super Bowl champs, the...
The team from Herbert Brothers Entertainment Joe and Dave Herbert are the founding fathers of the video contest revolution. In 2009 they won the the Crash the Super Bowl contest and their entry, “Free...
View ArticleThey Might Be Giants’“Am I Awake?” music video contest winners
Man, the guys from They Might be Giants seem to really love music video contests. And I love They Might be Giants so I’m always happy to post their winning entries. The band’s latest contest was for...
View ArticleThe WALLEY POS-86 is finally here!
Forget about the Lumix GH4, the BlackMagic Cinema Camera, the Scarlet-X Red Dragon, the Panasonic Brawnwafher Mark IV or the Super Canon THX-1138. The new hot new video camera for 2014 is the POS-86...
View ArticleSo close, but yet so far…
Have you ever done one of those 48 hour filmmaking challenges? I got roped into entering a couple of them a few years ago. I know some people love those types of contests but to be honest, I didn’t...
View ArticleBillboard explains what happened to Sony and Universal’s 2 billion missing...
For the first time in VCN histiry, I have a correction to make. In December of 2012, The Daily Dot broke a story about Youtube’s attempt to crack down on fake views. The article, entitled Youtube...
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Right-Wing fearmonger Alex Jones announces the winner of the “We Will Resist...
Janet Napolitano and her demonic army of jack-booted stormtroopers Back in April I flew out of the LAX for the first time. Since it’s one of the busiest airports in the country I assumed that the...
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Happy Birthday America, let’s party like it’s 2776!
This post sponsored by the robo-freemasons Good morning, America! What a great day to be alive in the land of the free and the home of the proud whopper. I’m in a great mood and not just because...
View ArticleTongal confirms that the Tongies will be back for 2015
Earlier this year I was lucky enough to get an invite to the first ever Tongie Awards in LA. It was the most baller party I’ve ever been to and I deeply and sincerely pity anyone who wasn’t there....
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Yes kitties, u can haz all the votes and nomz!
Video contests that use online voting to determine the winner always suck. A lot of contestants flat-out cheat which means the best videos rarely win. But the folks at Friskies have succeeded in...
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Zooppa’s 7-11 contest named “Best Advertising Online Campaign” of the year
This news is a few months old but the details are interesting so I thought it deserved a post. Back in April, The Web Marketing Association gave Zooppa and 7-11 an award for running the “Best...
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Voting is open in Lays’ 2014 “Do Us a Flavor” contest
Yum? What’s your favorite candy? Licorice? Milky Ways? Gummi Bears? Well my favorite candy are those chocolate covered marshmallow pumpkins that some stores sell around Halloween. It’s a tough...
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VCN turns 5!
I already ate the cake that was under this candle Happy blogiversary to me! Video Contest News is now FIVE years old. That’s bananas, isn’t it?? If VCN was a human he’d be ready for kindergarten....
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2014 Crash the Super Bowl finalist Chris Capel makes the Project Greenlight...
“Living with Jigsaw” by Chris Capel Hardcore Crash the Super Bowl fans will remember the 2013-2014 finalist ad, Office Thief which featured a cheese dust-covered employee who may or may not have been...
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Via Mashable: “The Ad Industry has made peace with Crowdsourcing”
Still from “Speed Chaser,” a Chevy ad produced for a 2014 Mofilm contest Here’s your Fun Fact of the Day: The term “Crowdsourcing” was coined in 2005 by Jeff Howe, a contributing editor for Wired...
View ArticleHelp Kickstart a documentary about the king of Royalty-Free music, Kevin MacLeod
I just realized that I might hold a really lame world record. I bet I’ve watched more video contest entries than anyone else on the planet. I probably watch at least 1,500 contest videos every year...
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GOOD NEWS: Doritos will not give you Ebola
- This weekend is your last chance to film an entry for the 2015 Crash the Super Bowl contest. If you’re about to head to the store to stock up on chips for your shoot, I have good news for you;...
View ArticleHow Mofilm works for Brands
The judges over at FritoLay were supposed to announce their semi-finalist picks for the Crash the Super Bowl contest on Monday. But it’s now Thursday night and the semi-finalist’s gallery over at...
View ArticleSteven Spielberg VS. Alfred Hitchcock. BEGIN!
This has been a crazy month for national and international news but there hasn’t been much Video Contest News to report lately. This always seems to happen in December. I think it’s because most...
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