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Plenty of news in the world of online video this past week, though many of us probably found ourselves distracted by things like family interaction, football games, and turkey. Because we were all a little more distracted than normal, it's an even better idea to catch up on the latest news, opinions, articles, and tips from the online video universe. Reel Stories You Might Have Missed Netflix will take a loss in 2012...

Throughout this series on running a successful online video contest, we've covered a lot of ground. We talked about the importance of The Premise and The Prize. We've also looked at using earned, owned, and paid media to promote your contest on a budget.

In parts 1 & 2 of the ‘promote’ chapter of our series on running a successful online video contest, we looked at ways of utilizing paid media & owned media to promote your video contest while remaining on a budget. Today in Part 3, we look at ways of using earned media channels to increase awareness and drive users to your video contest site.

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

Online video contests are growing in popularity and complexity and are now far more savvy than the upload a YouTube video and get people to like it ,etc. A crop of online video contest platforms have sprung up and more are coming all the time.