VideoVoo: Online Video Marketing

There are so many online video contests going on aiming to tap users’ creativity and give a different angle to advertising that you can pick the theme, style and reward that best suits your aims. From local non-profit campaigns, like the anti-smoking video campaign targeting Louisiana students (Dirty Habits) or the smoke-free Florida campaign to nation-wide (USA) profit-oriented video campaigns like the Nesquick video contest.

Prizes of video contests

Prizes range from free cool gadgets (e.g. free ipods, camcorders, Xbox 360 game consoles, etc.) to many thousands of bucks (up to $25,000 or more), usually $10,000 for the gold-medalists. So get yourself together and choose a video contest for your style now!

Eligibility: Age

The vast majority of video contests are for legal US residents, the typical lower limit is 18 years of age, but the age range could be starting from 13 years of age.

But how do you know if you are in time for the contest? Here’s a Video Contest Calendar that you can share, send, match your own personal Gmail calendar, embed in your site, etc. I hope it makes your life a lot easier when to enroll. :)

It’s also a good idea to start your video contest selection by checking out the video competition collection on YouTube.

The Video Contest Calendar is far from complete. Please help me update it with further ideas. Thanks.

You can see a general overview of video contests and major video sites here.