Posts Tagged ‘Contest’

The 2012 Miss America Pageant broadcasts live from Las Vegas on January 14, but the show has already started on YouTube. This year, each of the 53 Miss America contestants have created their very own YouTube video, showing off their style and personality, and fans are invited to vote for their favorite finalist.

Join Baratunde Thurston (left), The Onion’s Director of Digital and author of How to Be Black, for an entertaining look at creative social media campaigns in our Social Media Marketing Boot Camp starting February 16. Other speakers include Morin Oluwole (Facebook), Tim Devane (bitly), and SocialTimes' writer Devon Glenn.   Register now.

Over a hundred submissions have been posted on Tumblr and the number of entries is expected to continue to grow until the contest closes after Christmas. Last summer, Wattpad’s hugely successful photo-sharing contest on Instagram received over 2,500 submissions.

Have you ever seen an online video ad or commercial and thought to yourself, “Eh, I could so much better!” Verisign and .tv are giving you a chance to prove yourself, asking you to submit your own unique commercial for the chance to win $10,000 and other great prizes.

Three reasons why I plead “nolo contendere”

What is the future of news? The Shorenstein Center at Harvard University wants to see how aspiring journalists, filmmakers and avid media consumers answer this question and so they’ve launched a video contest to find out.

DoUpTo, a platform that lets you buy or sell any service for a small fee, has launched one of the wackiest video contests we’ve ever seen—all you have to do is shoot a funny and crazy video involving a giraffe and you could win $15,000.

“How I Haul” videos hosted by popular fashion haulers, Annie St. John, Alex DiFabio and CiCi Dawn will launch the contest, showcasing their personal hauling style and inviting others to create their own 3- to 5- minute video for the chance to win some awesome prizes.

The Facebook planking craze just keeps on growing—these days everyone is planking, from drivers on the IndyCar circuit to footballers, and even Brady Bunch mom Florence Henderson! So it’s only fitting that planking would get its very own theme song.

Hey singers and songwriters!  The DigiTour, the first ever large scale tour of YouTube musicians, is looking for a theme song and it’s up to you to write it.  That’s right—the DigiTour is holding a contest called ‘The DigiTour Song Search!’ that asks you to submit your best DigiTour theme song.  The winning song will [...]

Hey game developers!  If you’ve got a great idea for a new mobile game you could win up to $10,000 in the GameCast 2011 Contest, hosted by MoMinis, a cross-platform mobile gaming solution for developers.  How does the contest work?  It’s simple.  Just build your mobile game using the MoMinis Studio and you could win [...]