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[ November 30, 1999 12:00 am to March 2, 2009 8:00 pm. ] On your marks, Get Set, Film!! Chips Not Dead Yet is gearing up for the 2nd annual funnest race in town and this year we are looking to you to show us what your ideal themed wave would look like!  Dress up as your favourite superhero or even run in your underpants! Tell us what […]

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Online video advertising start-up Keystream officially launched its innovative in-stream, interactive ad service today in the U.S. Keystream’s technology searches online video content for intuitive locations of static space where ads can be placed unobtrusively.  The company has been in incubation mode testing its product with a media company in the U.K., and the company […]

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Despite fourth-quarter advertising cutbacks, online video ad prices in the slumping economy appear to be holding steady so far.  Online video will take its lumps, but the medium counts several points in its favor that may lessen the blow.
Experts say more advertisers will enter the online video market in the coming months, including smaller advertisers […]

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AOL is shutting down the AOL Video Uploads service starting this week.  Users must move their videos prior to December 18, when the service closes for good and the videos will no longer be available. AOL is recommending that users transfer videos to Motionbox, a New York based video sharing and editing startup.
The FAQ that […]

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[ January 2, 2009; 8:00 pm; ] Rayman Raving Rabbids TV party is the first ever video game you can play with your butt. But what about all the games you can’t play with your butt? Submit a video that shows and tells a game you cannot successfully play with your butt…and the funniest, and most creative and original entries will be rewarded […]

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Nightmares. Everybody has them.  Not that you asked, but ours usually involves being chased by an aggravated minotaur as we’re running in slow motion on yellow shag carpet… ahem.  When it comes to computers however, sometimes your worst nightmares can become reality. Whatever your worst computer nightmare is, we want to see it in video […]

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Happy Thanksgiving!  We would like to thank our loyal audience for all of your support and terrific contest entries over the last two years.   You make it great fun to run VidOpp.  We are always trying to make VidOpp better, so let us know if there is anything we can do to make it more useful and […]

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Get ready for dozens of new video ad networks to bloom. Adify, the company behind more than 140 online display ad networks, is adding video, which will allow publishers to easily syndicate video with advertising attached.  The new system will allow those publishers to distribute video across the websites within their ad networks and automatically […]

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Welcome to Project Direct, YouTube’s annual short film competition.  Direct an original short incorporating Moviefone’s red phone and 2 other props that represent the most memorable films from the first 25 years of the Sundance Film Festival, and you could get the exposure you need to turn your craft into a career.
If you win, you’re […]

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[ January 15, 2009; 8:00 pm; ] Tell us about you.  Tell us about your community, your interest, your friends.  The city, state or country you live in.  Get a cell phone with minutes just for entering and really cool prizes for the winners! FreshBrain and Next Vista for Learning would like you to tell your story through video.  

This can be as simple […]

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