[ June 22, 2009; 8:00 pm; ] Make us a video showing off your Sim's dream life and you could score some amazing The Sims 3 prizes. Just create a quick video, upload it to Youtube and enter The Sims 3 Live the Dream Contests. Your video could be featured on The Sims Channel on Youtube! 

The Sims 3 "Live the Dream" Contest [...]

[ March 1, 2010; 9:00 am; ] Sharing emotions, thoughts and feelings through music, poetry, performance, art, and storytelling has long been a way of communicating and enlightening others about an issue.
ShopRite Partners In Caring is asking for your help in fulfilling its mission to increase the awareness of hunger in our community.  Please submit an original video that depicts how you [...]

YouTube is trying to harness search and paid video promotion to generate meaningful revenue.  This is a good opportunity to work with small businesses to create video to improve SEO performance: 
YouTube has been working hard to put small business tools into place and early signs are it is getting some search advertisers to buy campaigns on the video [...]

AdHack has a good article today about using annotations to creat a call to action on YouTube videos.  It is a detailed step by step method that looks very useful - here is the outline:
We recommend you use YouTube’s video Annotations feature. It’s a simple tool built in to YouTube that allows you to create [...]

[ November 30, 2009; 8:00 pm; ]

No, your eyes didn't deceive you. Lash Allure MD is hosting an online video giveaway and giving away $100,000 to one lucky winner! 

Record or create a video telling everyone what YOU would do with $100,000. 

Once your video is uploaded to YouTube, just get your family and friends on twitter, facebook, hi5, bebo, and other social [...]

The Project Palms for Life Fund is calling out to young filmmakers, 25 years of age and under, to visually depict in their communities the growing epidemic of hunger in the United States. This national competition for documentary short films entitled “Faces of Hunger in America” intends to bring the issue of hunger onto the [...]

As if it matters to us, YouTube is spending billions on bandwidth.  Of course, if you are planning a video site that serves up 9 billion video views, you should know that it will cost about $25 million per month:
“Even with the benefit of peering, we estimate that YouTube’s total bandwidth costs in 2009 will [...]

[ March 10, 2010; 6:00 am; ] There are so many freaking awesome military videos out there on YouTube and we want to foster that a bit more and give people the opportunity to showcase their creativity.  So here’s the deal. We’re asking you to submit a YouTube video that talks about how Ranger Up is awesome. That may sound a little [...]

Looks like the world just got a little more difficult for video series creators working with sponsors - YouTube is cracking down on sponsored video.  Mediaweek ran a story about video producers getting take-down notices on videos that have product placements.  Nalts is an old favorite of ours - sorry to hear that YouTube is [...]