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NYPD officers attack a “prankster” who filmed a “Dance Dare” entry behind...
Earlier this month, Ellen DeGeneres announced the return of her very popular, Dance Dare video contest. To enter, contestants are supposed to film themselves dancing behind unsuspecting strangers. If...
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Voting is open for the 2015 Tongie Awards!
We’re only 9 days into the new year and 2014 already feels like ancient history. But we can’t put the past year behind us just yet. There’s still one more piece of 2014 business to attend to. It’s...
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Poptent and Userfarm merge to form the “undisputed” largest community of...
On Wednesday it was announced that the two “biggest” crowdouced video sites in world, Poptent and Userfarm, will merge in April to form a new site named Vizy. Here are a few quotes from Poptent’s...
View ArticleIt’s party time, you nerds! Net Neutrality is a big win for crowdsourcers
Last fall I decided to shoot a last minute entry for a Bud Light contest on Tongal. And when I say “last minute” I mean I was still editing my submission about an hour before the deadline. As time...
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The Masters of the Tongal-verse converge in LA for the 2nd annual Tongie awards
That’s me flanked by my video contest buddies HappyJoel Levinson and Joe “Bisbinetts” Binetti For the second year in a row I was lucky enough to get an invitation to the Video Contest Prom, AKA the...
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As Poptent winds down operations, dozens of anxious filmmakers are still...
- Two months ago Poptent and Userfarm announced that in April they’re going to join forces and launch a new crowdsourced video company named Vizy. While the architects of this plan are quick to call...
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Vizy starts paying out Poptent’s missing prize money
Right now Poptent owes dozens of filmmakers tens of thousands of dollars in un-paid prize money. And that’s a big problem because Poptent isn’t going to exist much longer; the company is about to...
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Help me and my puppet pals win a jingle contest!
I’ve been really busy for the last 6 months so I haven’t been able to shoot many video contest entries. But a few weeks ago I had some down time so I decided to look around and shoot an entry for the...
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Userfarm Jr. (AKA Vizy.com) goes live
Vizy.com, the offspring of Poptent and Userfarm is now live and the new company is already running several big video contests. I poked around the site last night and I still can’t tell why this big...
View ArticleZooppa passes a milestone and things get really weird, really fast
Last week Zooppa announced that their community had just passed 300,000 members. To celebrate, the company’s sales director smoked a bunch of crack, dressed up like a spartan, murdered a camera...
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Userfarm “de-merges” with Poptent and shuts down Vizy, Poptent may be heading...
RIP Vizy: 2015 – 2015 In January 2015, Poptent and Userfarm announced that they were merging to form the largest crowdsourced Video company in the world. The new site, Vizy.com was launched just a few...
View ArticleA look inside Poptent’s abandoned office space
The story of Poptent’s demise is starting to gain some traction in the media. The Fox affiliate in Philadelphia paid a visit to Poptent’s offices to see if anyone was left. There wasn’t… – That was...
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The results of Downtown Indy’s anti-RFA video contest
– Remember back in March when the whole country went nuts because Indiana passed a “religious freedom” law that gave businesses more power to discriminate against customers or employees because of...
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Why did Poptent go broke?
Poptent’s Philadelphia office Poptent owes a lot of people a lot of money. One former employee told me that the company has failed to pay filmmakers more than half a million dollars in prize money....
View ArticleVideo highlights from the 2015 Tongie awards
Whoa wait a second, has it really been three months since the 2015 Tongie awards? It feels like the ceremony was just last weekend. Let me tell you folks something, if you haven’t been to the Tongies...
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$350 Million “BrandTech” group acquires a majority stake in Mofilm
Mr. Jones of “You and Mr. Jones” It sounds like our friends over at Mofilm have a new boss. Last week it was announced that the world’s first “brandtech” group, You and Mr. Jones has acquired a...
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Poptent.net goes offline
RIP Poptent: 2007 – 2015 I used to have a lot of love for Poptent. That site basically saved my ass a few years ago. Back in 2008 I was working for an AV company when the economy suddenly crashed and...
View ArticleFilmmakers will soon be able to monetize their Facebook videos
Most people used to post their videos to youtube and then use facebook to promote their work. But now filmmakers and social media stars are cutting out the middleman and posting their viral efforts...
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MofilmPro goes public
– Most video contest/spec commercial sites occasionally run semi-secret “pro” contests that aren’t exactly open to the public. Companies love these pro contests because they’re guaranteed to get...
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The Chiquita video contest was bananas…..bananas. B.A.N.A.N.A.S. bananas.
Ok, the Chiquita video contest wasn’t really bananas. I just thought the Gwen Stefani reference would make for a funny title. Truth be told, this contest was actually 100% non-bananas. It was just...
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