Prizes Getting Bigger and Better in Video Contests
The stakes in video contests are rising. Instead of a year's supply of mints, The Yahoo! Talent Show Contest -- will give the grand prize winner his/her own Yahoo! show and $50K in cash.
The Yahoo! Talent Contest is an 8-week video contest dedicated to saving the world from bad videos. Joining YouTube and MusicNation and dozens of other sites, The Yahoo! contest runs for 8 weeks beginning Nov. 13.
Jerry Yang, Yahoo! co-founder says in the contest video that since he and David Filo founded Yahoo! 11 years ago, the Web has become a wildly different place where it's hard to find the good stuff among the clutter. The judges? The 20 million people who visit Yahoo! every day, And a ninja. Natch.
About BL Ochman
Blogger, social media strategy consultant to Fortune 500 companies, and sought-after corporate speaker B.L. Ochman heads the creative team of whatsnextonline.com. She also publishes the Ethics Crisis blog for SRF Global Translations