Who knew that loving avocados could be worth some serious cash? As it turns out, the winners of the Avodisiac Video Contest know exactly what it feels like. The top 3 winners receiving $2000 for each of their entries are: Joseph Robba, Josh Anderson, and Griffin Hammond. There were a lot of creative entries submitted for this contest and we are glad there were plenty of prizes to go around. Congrats!
Best Recipe – Joseph Robba
Most Entertaining – Josh Anderson
Most Original – Griffin Hammond
The grand prize winner has been announced, anointed, and adorned with a $5000 check! The fame goes to YouTube user tgo0116 for the winning entry entitled “Don’t Forget.” Congrats to all 3 winners!
Grand Prize Winner: $5000
2nd Place: $2500
3rd Place: $500
So Lash Allure M.D put a call out for videos of YouTube users explaining what they would do with $100,000 (the crazy part being they would pay 100k to the best video). Well, it appears they did. We were a bit skeptical (still are) about this contest because of the extremely high cash prize vs. the somewhat clunky contest page that was put up. However, we will send our congrats to the named winner, Tessa Violet, for gaining audience support and winning the $100k! We hope you really do use that money for college.
Maybe you saw them during the big game, maybe you didn’t. Either way, here are the big winners from the Dorito’s Crash the Super Bowl video contest whose entries aired on national TV! You can also learn a little bit more about each filmmaker from their INTERVIEW we posted a while back. Traditionally Doritos selects only 3 entries to air, but this time they went with 4. I guess they loved what they got. Check back to see if any of these filmmakers become the lucky millionaire decided by the USA Today admeter! UPDATE: Underdog prevailed as #2 on the USA Today admeter! This means that Joshua Svoboda receives $600,000 for his entry which only cost $200 to produce. That in itself is incredible. Congratulations to all the big winners and we hope to cover this contest again next year. Click HERE to view all the winners’ reaction shots.
Underdog by Joshua Svoboda
House Rules by Joelle De Jesus
Casket by Kevin Willson and Erwin McManus
Snack Attack Samurai by Ben Krueger
LG Electronics, a global leader and technology innovator in home electronics, has named Nuit Blanche, a HD short film created by Arev Manoukian of Ottawa, Ontario, as the $100,000 grand prize winner of the LG Life’s Good FilmFest. The announcement was made as part of a Grand Finale event in Toronto, featuring celebrity appearances from actress Jaime King, singer/songwriter K-OS and hosted by television personality George Stroumboulopoulos.
“The LG Life’s Good FilmFest has been an amazing experience for all involved, helping to cement LG’s position as the world leader in premium HD viewing experiences,” says Tim Barnes, Marketing Team Leader, LG Electronics Canada and Founder of the LG Life’s Good FilmFest. “Our $100,000 winning HD short film Nuit Blanche delivers an engaging, memorable story, which when enjoyed on our latest line of LCD LED TVs, offers our customers what we consider to the best HD film experience available.”
$100,000 Winner- Nuit Blanche by Arev Manoukian
In addition to Nuit Blanche, the following three HD short films were awarded secondary prizes of $10,000 as winners in their respective categories:
All four category winners can be viewed online at www.lgfilmfest.com.
All category finalists were viewed by a panel consisting of representatives from LG Electronics Canada and the following four notables:
The LG Life’s Good FilmFest kicked off in August 2009 and invited filmmakers from around the globe to submit inspiring HD short films. Each HD entry was to be no longer than five minutes in length, expressing a positive, uplifting message conveying the notion that “Life’s Good.” Congratulations again to all the winners!
Wonderful Pistachios is a pretty cool brand, not only because they’ve made it cool to eat pistachios, but because they gave away $25,000 to anyone who could come up with a kick-ass commercial.
The big check went to YouTube user DeStorm for his fantastic music video style commercial. This guy definitely has talent and goes to show that with a little bit of creativity comes a big reward in the world of video contests. Congrats!
$25,000 winner: DeStorm
It’s been a little while since we’ve seen a video contest where you could win serious cash, Crash the Bowl aside, but the Nikon Video Contest/Film Fest promised and delivered big time! The results are in and the grand prize of $100,000 goes to…Marko Slavnic for his entry entitled “Chicken vs. Penguin.” While the story is funny, charming, and very deserving of the prize, it was really a tough call since there were so many top notch entries to be viewed.
I think I was more taken back by all the amazing talent on display than actually supporting one video. Of course, we cannot forget the runner up who, in this case, was still a big winner taking home $25,000…Joshua Friedberg! As a former pro-skater, Friedberg was able to gain widespread support for his film “New York State of Mind” and take home the coveted Audience Award.
We’re so happy for these guys and I hope we get another awesome video contest like this from Nikon soon!
Chicken vs. Penguin by Marko Slavnic – $100,000 Prize
New York State of Mind by Joshua Friedberg – $25,000 Prize
Check out the winner for the Governor Fitzys Texticle Music Video Contest. The honor goes to Tyler Short from Portland Oregon who snags a $1000 check. Good job Tyler! You can watch the runners up HERE.
Poptent got together with Snickers and asked you to create an ad for them. Well you delivered and below are the resulting videos! 3 were purchased for $5000 each and could possibly lead to some other open doors for the filmmakers. Congrats!
After careful consideration, the judges have made their decision in the Global Summit Video Contest. More than $8000 was delivered in total to the winning videos. UPDATE: The only video that is available on YouTube is the 3rd place winner.
3rd Place $1000: Think Now to have Peace Then
The rules were this, create a 12 second ad that would grab peoples attention for a new Mountain Dew flavor. If selected, you would go on to produce an actual TV commercial for Mountain Dew that will air in Spring 2010. Well…here are the winners! Congratulations and we look forward to seeing your commercials on TV!
DISTORTION
TYPHOON
WHITE OUT
Announcing the winners from the AMC Technology Video Contest: First Place went to Daniel Lamoureux! His holiday themed entry has earned a respectable $2,500 prize. You can check below to see the runner up winners as well. Congrats Dan!
$2,500 Grand Prize: Daniel Lamoureux
$1,500 Second Place: Jonathan Mann
$1000 Third Place: John Hill
