Today Visible Measures is releasing The 2011 Social Video Advertising Report , an annual review of how well social video advertising is performing as a whole. And as a whole, it's doing very, very well

Here's another exciting YouTube initiative: film and video makers around the world can enter "Your Film Festival" beginning February 2 and have the chance to win $500,000 to work with Ridley Scott and top-notch producers on their next project.

Last year, MLB.com offered a chance for one lucky person to watch all 2,429 regular season games and attend All-Star and postseason games through a contest called MLB Dream Job.

Miss America is doing something a little different this year, and it involves online video .

Well, YouTube can't redesign every week, and they did that last week...

The piece of online video news that made the biggest splash this week didn't even fall on a week day. In fact, it happened yesterday, when Netflix announced its deal to air brand new episodes of cult-classic television show, Arrested Development, almost singlehandedly returning the DVD and streaming content provider back into the public's good graces. Of course, a lot of other important news stories happened this week in the video realm

As users upload videos and share them with their friends, your video contest will form a viral loop and begin to naturally promote itself. Until then however, it’s worthwhile investing some time & effort in promoting your contest and in the first section of the ‘Promoting on a Budget’ chapter of this series, we will look at several ways you can use paid media to create awareness and drive traffic to your contest site. This post was made possible by Launchpad6 , an out of the box solution for creating video contests.

Contrary to popular belief, the best prizes aren’t always the one’s with the largest monetary value. There are other factors that impact whether a prize will be attractive to your audience.

The premise (or contest idea in layman's terms) is the most important ingredient in a successful video contest. If your contest idea appeals to your target market and content is readily available or easily created you have taken the first step to success. In order to evaluate and improve your contest idea, ask yourself the following questions: This post was made possible by Launchpad6 , an out of the box solution for creating video contests.

This post is the first in a seven-part series that looks at how to plan and execute a successful online video contest. We'll examine what separates the successful video contests from the unsuccessful one’s, and offer a road map marketers can use to help ensure a great contest