Comments on: Video Competition Lessons Learned

By: Shelley Bernstein

Shelley Bernstein — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 15:08:41 +0000

We just thought those other groups would find this of interest, so we posted to Brooklyn Flickr groups and made sure it was in our own Flickr profile’s photo stream. On YouTube, we reached out to our contacts through emails and bulletins. On MySpace, we made sure it was in the blog and sent a couple of bulletins there.

By: Keith Robbins

Keith Robbins — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 15:00:30 +0000

Thanks, Shelley. This was a very helpful post and I wish there were more like it. Can you elaborate on cross-promoting or direct me to resources that you found helpful? I am trying to get my hands around the dynamics of youtube, flickr, myspace, etc. I assume that keywords were important, for example. What else is important to be effective?

Thanks again.

By: Shelley Bernstein

Shelley Bernstein — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 22:33:32 +0000

Hi Justin,

We were curious to see if contests needed to be sponsored (i.e., if we had to pay to do it) or if we could just do it ourselves for free. It wasn’t totally clear in the stuff I was seeing and we didn’t want to get booted off there in the middle of the contest. Basically, they will let you do it as a group, but not as a “contest”. contest = $, groups are their DIY structure.

By: justin heideman

justin heideman — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 22:28:05 +0000

Hi Shelly,

We’re doing a similar project at the Walker (you’ll see our annoucment soon), so this is very helpful. I’m wondering a bit by this part:

Contact YouTube or whichever site you are using to find out how their Terms of Service apply to your project. We did and got some great info.

What did YouTube tell you, if you don’t mind me asking? I read their TOS and it looks like they want you to stream the video only.