Wingstop’s “No Bones About it” winner
When it comes to chicken wings, I’m a bit of a connoisseur. For bone-in wings I’ll go to Hooters and for boneless wings I’ll go to Buffalo Wild Wings. But if I’m in a hurry, the boneless wings at...
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Buitoni’s “Girls Like Guys Who can Cook” winner
A few weeks back I told you about Buitoni’s “Girls Like Guys Who Can Cook” video contest and the results are in. For this contest, you basically had to make a cooking video that featured a guy making...
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Apartments.com finally reveals the winner of the 2012 “Roommate of the Year”...
Being a finalist in Apartments.com’s annual “Roommate of the Year” video contest has really got to suuuuck. This year the submission deadline was May 21st and a group of finalists were announced about...
View ArticleSpeed Stick’s 2013 Super Bowl comercial was shot for a Tongal contest!
The ads that win the Crash the Super Bowl contest always get a lot of attention. But “Goat 4 Sale” and “Fashionista Daddy” weren’t the only crowdsourced commercials that aired during Super Bowl XLVII....
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Genero picks their 2012 Video of the Year
Holly Gennero: Die Hard’s wife and founder of Genero.tv (I assume) It’s not easy to produce a decent, low-budget music video (especially when you can’t shoot new footage of the featured artists) but...
View ArticleG&G’s “Greatest Glory” video contest winners
<sarcasm> Everybody loves war, right? I mean, how could you not? It’s a super fun way to make friends, get exercise and enjoy the outdoors. If you’ve never been lucky enough to fight in a real...
View Article“101 Ways to Use Lysol Disinfectant Spray” winner
I just found out that a friend of VCN, Tim O. won the $10,000 grand prize in Lysol’s “101 Ways to Use Lysol Disinfectant Spray” contest. For this competition you could enter a photo, video or written...
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Sunkist’s “Power Orange Challenge” winners
- Hey what’s your favorite fruit? Mine’s Pineapple. My cabinets are packed with so many cans of sliced and cubed and even crushed pineapples that it looks like I’m prepping for some kind of...
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Sorry Sriracha fans, Cheesy Garlic Bread wins Lay’s “Do us a Flavor” contest
- Lay’s “Do Us a Flavor” promotion wasn’t a video contest but it was one of the biggest online contests in history so I figured some VCN readers might be interested in the results. Earlier this year...
View ArticleWhat does the good side of the Internet look like?
Trend Micro is a company that makes men’s razors specializes in keeping people and data safe on the Internet. For the last four years they’ve been holding their annual “What’s Your Story” video...
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Looking@Democracy winners
- If I could sneak into the Library of Congress with some kind of magic liberty pen and scribble one legally binding amendment on the bottom of the constitution, it would probably be this: “No Person...
View ArticleJW Pet Company’s “2013 VideoDOGrapher” winner
What is a VideoDOGrapher? Well it’s a Dog-Videographer, of course. Yes, dogs have mastered the art of filmmaking and if you ask me, they’re totally f-ing up the industry. Dogs are willing to shoot...
View ArticleFolgers announces their 2013 Jingle Contest winner
Folgers’ annual jingle contest doesn’t usually get much attention but it’s actually one of the biggest video contests in the world. In 2011, the contest received more than 3,000 entries. Now that I...
View ArticlePringles’“Force For Fun” winners
Pringles’ Star Wars-themed “Force For Fun” commercial contest was one of Tongal’s biggest competitions ever. There was a $75,000 prize pool and Pringles even promised to use the winning videos in a...
View ArticleGreen Day gives a kick ass video a lame ass prize
Last year Green Day went nuts and released 37 new songs at once. The tracks were spread out over three albums entitled ¡UNO!, ¡DOS!, and ¡TRE! To promote the new records, Green Day launched a video...
View ArticleBridgestone’s (surprisingly good) “Teens Drive Smart” winners
I don’t usually post the winners of “teen” video contest because as you’d expect, all the entries are shot by goofy kids and the winning videos are pretty much guaranteed to suck. But all of the...
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B&H’s “That’s Not What it’s Meant for” winners
- I like B&H. I’ve sent them a lot of money over the years and they always sell good gear at fair prices. I also think it’s kind of cute that their website is down half the time in observance of...
View ArticleOK, GO watch this super cool music video
Every once in a while I’ll see a video contest entry that includes a technique or a trick that’s so clever I get mad that I didn’t think of it first. Case in point: the winner of OK GO’s “I’m Not...
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Apartments.com’s 2013 “Roommate of the Year”
It’s December which means it’s time for me to post the winner of Apartments.com’s 5th annual “Roommate of the Year” competition. “Roommate of the Year” is a really strange video contest because the...
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Moga’s Mega Video Challenge winners
One of the biggest and best video contests of 2013 was the Moga Mega Video Challenge. If you’re unfamiliar with Moga, they make game controllers that hook up to Android smartphones. Their Mega Video...
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