Collab Challenge – Win a Copy of My Book!
This Collab Challenge is the first in my new series of video contests offering some great prizes designed to help you build your audience and subscriber base on YouTube. I’m going to pose these challenges periodically to my readers and anyone else who would like to participate.
Your first challenge is to make a collab video with another YouTuber who you’ve never collaborated with before. Your video can be any length and fall into any genre or category you desire. Simply write, shoot and upload your Collab Challenge video to YouTube before midnight EST on Sunday, September 21, 2008 (about one week from now, full entry details below).
This should be a real fun project that not only scores one lucky content creator some great promotion and a free copy of my book, but also a new way for all of us to get to know more of each other on YouTube. Collab videos are one of the best ways to interact with others on YouTube.
The winning collaboration video will be chosen by WhatTheBuckShow, nalts and myself.
Prizes:
- One free copy of YouTube: An Insider’s Guide to Climbing the Charts, the book I co-wrote (with Michael W. Dean) about building a successful channel and following on YouTube. Book will be mailed to you upon publication.
- Promotion for your winning video on YouTube, Twitter and other social networking sites by WhatTheBuckShow, nalts and myself. This will include clickable links to your winning video and may include links to your channel.
- Your winning video embedded in an announcement post on this blog, along with a link to your channel.
Entry Rules:
- Your video must be new, not a reupload, and must contain at least one other YouTuber in addition to yourself, who you’ve never collaborated with before.
- Your video must be uploaded to YouTube and added to the official Collab Challenge Group on YouTube.
- Your video description must begin with the following statement: “This video is part of a Collab Challenge hosted on http://viralvideowannabe.com by fallofautumndistro.”
- Your video should be appropriate for audiences of ages 13 and up.
If you have any questions, please feel free to post them in the comment section below. This is the first challenge I’ve hosted, so I’m bound to learn from it, with your help.
Judging will not take view or subscriber count into consideration, we are only interested in the content of the video. Whether you have 5 subscribers or 5,000 – you are welcome to participate in this challenge.
Need help making a collab video? Not sure how to get people to collab with you? Check out this post on Will Video For Food that offers up a few great tips on finding and landing collab partners.
In addition, each post this week on Viral Video Wannabe will be related to making collab videos, including:
I’m looking forward to your videos. Now stop reading and go grab your webcams!
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September 15th, 2008 at 12:33 pm
lol gutted… I just spent weeks making a collab for student.com but it’s gone up already. Don’t think I have it in me to make another within a week, but I like the idea of challenges via your blog. Hope it goes well. =)
September 15th, 2008 at 12:40 pm
Catch 22, I need you’re book to know how to make collab video. LOL j/k good luck with contest. =D
September 15th, 2008 at 1:04 pm
i’m stuck in prague writing a 10 page paper and there’s war in my country (georgia), so i lack the inspiration to make any videos these days but good luck to all the contestants and a wonderful idea.
September 15th, 2008 at 2:03 pm
Annaconda, you have inspiration right now. Make a video talking about the war. A collab doesn’t need to be funny; it could be a serious piece about the war.
September 15th, 2008 at 6:43 pm
Dave, sorry about the timing man, that sucks.
Mirtheous, you should join in, win a copy for free!
Anna, sorry to hear that, keep your head up, are you still going on that US tour soon?
September 15th, 2008 at 11:48 pm
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September 16th, 2008 at 6:07 am
[...] currently hosting a collab video contest, with prizes including promotion from some huge YouTubers, and a copy of my upcoming book, YouTube: [...]
September 17th, 2008 at 6:36 am
[...] Hope you guys are hard at work on your collab videos for my first ever video contest! [...]
September 17th, 2008 at 3:15 pm
I love to see film collaboration. That’s what our website http://www.rootclip.com is all about. We’re taking a different approach though, as we are trying to develop whole films as a community.
Good luck on this contest, it sounds great!
September 17th, 2008 at 3:38 pm
I just went and looked at my wedding video from 1996, and there is Alan waving in the background.
September 17th, 2008 at 7:43 pm
Was it Goth Alan?
September 18th, 2008 at 6:04 am
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September 20th, 2008 at 12:37 pm
Alan, I’ve got my vid here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbGXn03Khbo and I joined the group, but there is not yet an option for adding the vid to the group. Just fyi!
September 21st, 2008 at 12:39 pm
[...] midnight tonight, Collab Challenge week ends, and blogTV week [...]
September 23rd, 2008 at 11:16 am
yeay! did i win? lol
September 23rd, 2008 at 5:46 pm
That’s what I was wondering… if you won!
September 23rd, 2008 at 6:29 pm
when will the winner be announced??
October 2nd, 2008 at 12:13 pm
Any update on the challenge?
October 5th, 2008 at 9:03 am
[...] weeks ago I wrapped up my first challenge in which I asked readers to make a collaboration video on YouTube with someone who they had never [...]