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Oxfam – Youtube Cannes Contest – My Video Entry

by Sarosh Waiz on May 19, 2009 in Random with No comments

I have been waiting for this contest to start off so that I could participate. It was a great opportunity for a lot of creative young minds to explore and try out their skills in this Youtube 48-hour ad contest. Since I also tried and made up a video for it with my cell phone camera, it really took the brains to think of a different concept. One of my first actual videos that I made for the internet, which I cannot really rate myself. But atleast I did an effort and I am happy about it :) .

Here’s the video, please watch and rate it on Youtube, I need your support to increase the chances of it being competitive guys.

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Well I dont know if the concept turned out too obvious, but I wanted to say that the smoke that we create through human activities and pleasures everyday, is resulting in passive smoking for the earth. And of course we all know that passive smoking kills. And yeah.. alot people have been asking me what am I doing with the banana in the end… well.. it is used to block the car exhaust of other people so that they don’s use their cars as well… in other words you should help others to not create passive smoke for the earth. Yeah.. too technical? lolz.. 

Please do rate a high 5-star on Youtube guys.. Please do it .. I need your support :) …

YouTube Cannes Lions 48 hour Ad Contest

by Sarosh Waiz on May 3, 2009 in Creative with 4 Comments

I heard about the Cannes Lions 48 hour Ad contest last month when someone mailed me a link to the Youtube username canneslions. There was nothing mentioned there, accept that I would need to check back by the end of April for the updates of the competition. I subscribed to the updates for this user, and received an email last night regarding the competition linking back to the Youtube page. 

The competition starts on 15th May 2009 and will be open for 48 hours until 17th May 2009. A brief will be released at Midnight, GMT, 15th of May for an ad for a charity and the interested participants will have 48 hours to create, upload and submit the ad to the canneslions channel. After that, the participants will have about 2 weeks (from 17th May to 1st June) to promote the video through viral marketing campaigns before it is decided who will win a trip to Cannes to take part in the Young Lions contest at the Cannes Lions International Advertising Festival. 

Two winners will be be judged on the basis of:

  • Creativity
  • Videos Viewed
  • Ratings & Footprint

The winners will win an all expenses paid trip to Cannes to represent Youtube in prestigious Young Lions contest.

A very interesting opportunity for young creative people who need a chance to prove their creativity. This competition has been opened first time to the world via Youtube, and it is a great opportunity to tap on to. Gear up guys and get ready to participate. :-)

For more information regarding the contest and the Young Lions contest at Cannes, please visit this Youtube page.