Viral Video Contest Software: Memelabs

The time for video submissions has come to an end for the Chevy Transworld Snowboarding Video Contest. We have received tons of hot videos and now is the time to vote for the finalists. Watch the videos and vote for your favorite, voting will continue until June17, 2007. The videos that made the cut into the top five are: Karate Chop 360, Park City, Hammers, Spring Killington Session, and Backlip Danish. Congrats to the finalists.

To all the finalists, get your videos out there and rock the vote. Email your friends, post the video on your site, and throw raging parties. Do whatever you need to to get your friends to vote for you so you win. The winner of the contest will receive a trip for 2 to Vegas and the two runners up will receive awesome snowboarding swag. Good luck to all of the finalists. We will be announcing the winners here on June 18, 2007.

Funny, useful, and effective tips to wining video contests.

1. Enroll in speed dating. Talk about your entry with the eligible bachelors and bachelorettes that you meet. Try to enroll in speed dating that's below your "league"; your potential partners will be more interested in what you say and will therefore be more likely to vote for you.

2. Create an overly personal and sexual entry. Sell it to the tabloids under a fake name. Shame your family and collect your winnings.

3. Create a "making of" your contest entry and post it on YouTube. Preferably, make it absolutely mortifyingly embarrassing for you; people will take more pleasure in watching it.

4. Create a top ten list detailing why you should win. Post it on Digg.

5. Include Chuck Norris in your entry. Chuck Norris will never get old; Chuck Norris created contests.

6. Get a popular blogger to mention your entry in a daily post - even if it's making fun of you.

7. Get a keg and throw a party for all of your friends, their friends and their friend's friends; entry at the door will require a vote for your entry. If you don't have any friends, visit your local Legion or dive bar and yell "FREE BEER!" Try not to get your ass handed to you by the bouncers on your way out. This will also work with groups of surly teenagers; you can often find them at bus stations.

8. Write a "letter to the editor" of your local newspaper promoting your contest entry and how relevant it is to hot issues in your city. The more of a stretch it is the better!

9. Raffle off a date with you (or your hot sister) to anyone who votes for you. If you are awkward or unattractive and are not blessed with hot siblings, you may want to try giving away your car or some of your Mom's extra crap.

10. Create an online identity; a really ridiculous but still believable character works best. Get your identity a MySpace, Facebook, LiveJournal and every other social networking site out there. Get popular (or hated) - this may take some time. Then, when the time is right, promote your contest entry and watch your casual readers turn into voters.

Have you surfed the Atlantic on a giant King of Clubs?

Cruised the boulevard on a bike made of Queens?

If you can perform a particular Card Stunt that has never been done before, film it and send it to Memelabs Card Trick Video Contest!

We are giving away $3000 to the two most original and outrageous entries, $500 to 3 talented second prize winners and 10 creative third place winners will each receive an iPod. If you're a winner, your video will receive worldwide exposure in large-scale
international advertising campaigns along with the other amazing prizes!

Once you've got your idea, shot the video and uploaded it to the Cards Gone Crazy contest site, start promoting your video to your friends and networks, get blogging, or contact your local paper to get maximum exposure and start racking up the votes. The contest closes on July 18th, 2007, so be quick and get
your video posted, your voters up, and keep your chances high!

If you've exhausted your Texas Hold'em hand and are looking to do something new with that deck of cards, get creative and get your submission in! This is a great opportunity to create some stunning work, get seen, and win some great prizes.

Good luck to all!

memelabs has launched a new Video Contest with Intrawest. Tell us about your worst vacation and you could win your perfect vacation.

Everyone has got a story about being snowed in, sitting next to a crying baby on a plane for 15 hours, or lying ill in a foreign motel...whether you've got home movies, pictures, or can retell the story of your worst vacation we want to hear about it! Submit your videos and you may be the winner. Top three vote-getting vid's wins you and 3 friends a trip to Mont Tremblant with all of the luxuries involved in a perfect vacation!

So get creative, show us your worst vacation video, upload it here and get your friends and family to vote for you! Hopefully you'll be rewarded for telling your story by heading off on an amazing vacation to Mont Tremblant!

Read and share more Vacation Horror Stories here.
Good Luck!

Meme Labs was featured in the Georgia Straigt today...Keep reading to get the whole story...

Vancouver's Art of Dying is looking for creative types to make music videos for its song "Completely". Recently rated one of the top 15 bands "on the brink of bigness" by the U.K.-based Classic Rock magazine, the group, which is gaining popularity in Europe, is participating in a "viral video" contest. Through Memelabs.com and Indie MV, AOD has agreed to have "Completely" featured in an Internet contest open to the public. Nadia Nascimento of Memelabs.com told the Straight that the contest is a chance for budding videomakers to get some exposure, as well as win free prizes.

"This way they [AOD] are actually getting people who are filmmakers or who haven't heard of them," Nascimento said. Anyone 16 years of age or older can make a submission. Videos can be no longer than a minute long and will be voted upon by the public. The maker of the top-rated video will win a MacBook computer. Nine other runner-ups have a chance at Canon digital video recorders, CDs, and T-shirts. The contest is already open and will close 60 days after the 50th entrant has submitted a video. To download "Completely" and sign up, log on to www.memelabs.com/indiemv/ .

IndieMV presents The Art of Dying Video Contest and have a gang of prizes to be won. How does a brand new MacBook sound? Here's what you need to do to win it:

1. Download the track, 'Completely' here.
2. Make a killer video for the track and upload it to memelabs
3. Tell the world about the video and rack up the votes!

It's that easy. Register today and get down to business. Hopefully you'll be editing your next contest video on a brand new MacBook.

Good luck!

Meme Labs is a powerful, completely customizable tool for organizing user contributed video submissions. It's a Video Web Application which can be managed from any location, whether you're at home, at the office, or on vacation, and there's no software to install or discs to lose. It's clean and modern, never bulky or awkward, always simple and efficient.

The format of Memelabs makes it perfect for a myriad of uses; most notably, Memelabs can be used to run a similar service to YouTube/Google Video, or to run promotional Video Contests like Wind Blows. Memelabs is a fully managed tool; our team designs, programs, runs and administers your project from first steps to execution to completion.

We've created Memelabs to cater specifically to those interested in inspired, high-level, creative marketing initiatives. Memelabs was originally put together to promote Viral Marketing Contests and similar low-cost, high-exposure marketing campaigns, such as the significantly successful promotional viral video contest.

All we need from you is an Contest Idea. We'll work closely with you to develop your project - we can roll out a ready-to-start Video Contest in as little as two weeks, including design, testing and setup. Once the project launches, we'll monitor submissions, answer questions, field entrants and users, and verify registrations.

The Wind Blows contest is over and the $10,000 prize has been awarded to Depictions of Energy! Congratulations to the Depictions team.

Want to win sweet prizes making cool videos? Check out Memelabs for more contests.

We all know that oil sucks, and everybody knows that the wind blows. These entrants have shown us what "Wind Blows" means to them for a chance at a cold, hard $10,000. Which is your favourite?

Register now to vote for your favourite videos, and remember to sign up for the Western Wind Energy newsletter to keep updated on alternative energy.

When Western Wind Energy approached us to design the marketing campaign that would raise awareness of their company and of alternative energy sources worldwide, we asked ourselves a few questions. How, we pondered, could we get the word out while at the same time inspiring communities across North America and worldwide to get involved? How could we create a campaign that would motivate people, especially those in the influential, up-and-coming twenties demographic, to really get into something we're so passionate about?

The answer was Wind Blows, a viral video contest - the call would go out to filmmakers and animators, aspiring, amateur and professional, to make a 60-second tops video about wind energy. Western Wind Energy offered a prize of $10,000 for the winner; the contest would be judged entirely by votes. We promoted the contest with a video of our own, saucy and sexy, and before long we'd been listed in major ad blog AdRants and online green news site TreeHugger.

These news plugs brought a tonne of attention to Western Wind Energy and to the contest. Soon, the entries were pouring in. We chose to keep the submissions open until we'd received 50 videos, and then the 60-day countdown was to begin. Voting would be open the entire time, based on registration to help us weed out cheaters. It was up to the entrants and fans to spread the videos around, but soon word-of-mouth was moving so quickly that some videos had received upwards of 1,000 votes.

YouTube and MySpace became seeding grounds for the videos, with entrants posting their videos and linking to the Wind Blows site. The viral concept was spreading like wildfire, just as we'd planned; after mentioning the contest to a few select groups, it had taken off on its own.

Wind Blows receives thousands of pageviews per day. Wind Blows refers more traffic to Western Wind Energy's own website than any other site with the exclusion of Google, the internet's most powerful search engine.

Online marketing is a rapidly changing industry - over the years we've seen banner, button and pop-up advertising, text advertising, in-line story advertising, page-turn Flash advertising. As we grow accustomed to each new type of advertising, however, we learn to tune it out. We mute the commercials on TV, scroll past the banner ads without a second glance. Viral Marketing defies all of this.

A viral is passed around from person to person, much like the common cold on a stuffy bus. You've seen them - they're usually videos, short and funny or sexy, packing a punch in less than a minute. You've gotten them in your email with a note from a friend ("Check out this hilarious vid!") and you've followed the link to something you didn't even know was an advertisement.

Well, it was. It was effective, it was interesting, and best of all, it wasn't annoying. Virals, unlike traditional advertising, can't be "skipped" or "tuned out", because each viewer has made an active choice to view the viral. A good viral can reach thousands of people within a few days, without any expensive placement charges. You're not paying for a spot in the newspaper or a few seconds on TV.

We know how virals work, and we know how to get them out there. By seeding them to the right groups of people, we can get the message out to your target demographic, and from there - who knows where it'll go? You may pick up attention from areas you didn't expect. That's the magic of the viral; once it's seeded, it advertises itself.

Interested in spreading your own piece of internet wildfire? We're experts. Check out Memelabs.com for more information on Video Contests.