Music Video Contests are a perennial favorite and one of the most common sub-genres in the video contest world. They are a great option for filmmakers without a lot of equipment because you don’t need to mess around with body mics or booms. And with audio out of the mix, your ideas and cinematography get pulled to the forefront.

A lot of video contests are looking for you to show off a product or idea in a positive light, but music videos give you free reign to do something a little more experimental. The constraints of a single track, with it’s inherent rhythms and beats, can provide great inspiration for those who are more artistically inclined. 

If you’re ready to rock, get clickin’!

Do you like to paint, play or rock out? Then you’ll love our newest batch of video contests! This week, there are a lot of artistically-inclined contests to stoke your creativity.

Here are some of the highlights this week:

Biggest cash prize: $12,500 in the ‘Chalkboard Paint In Any Color’ Video Project, brought to you by Tongal. Submit a pitch by May 22, and if accepted, you get some cash to fund production AND you’re guaranteed to place in the final video round!

Best non-cash prize: $15,000 grant towards playground equipment in the Let’s Play ‘Our Dream Playground’ Video Contest. If your community is in need of a safe, fun place for kids to play, you should consider giving back with this video contest.

Best trip: A trip for your band to attend Lollapalooza + perform at the MOFILM Awards in the Lollapalooza 2012: Battle of the Bands Contest, brought to you by MOFILM.

OVC’s Pick of the Week: Overall, our favorite contest this week is the Keane ‘Black Rain’ Music Video Contest, brought to you by Genero.TV. Who doesn’t love making a music video? A band’s music provides a great jump off point for you to get creative, and you don’t have to deal with pesky things like making sure your shots are mic’ed properly! The video that’s chosen as the winner, will earn $5000 and become the official video for the track!

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None of these video contests striking your fancy? There are TONS more contests waiting for you at OnlineVideoContests.com! Which contests will you be working on?

Hey OVCers! If you were too busy waiting in line for the midnight showing of The Avengers (or heck, just too busy at work) to check in on our little ol’ site, let us get you caught up on the newest and best-est video contests added this week.

Here are some of the highlights this week:

Biggest cash prize: $10,500 in the Robert Half ‘Career Coaching Gone Awry’ Project, brought to you by Tongal. Use humor to share a bad job/career-advice moment (real or imagined!).

Best non-cash prize: A chance to reach your fitness goals + $2000 in the Zumba Fitness ‘Rush Challenge’ Video Contest. If you want help reaching your fitness goals, Zumba’s got your covered. Just share your aspirations and you could get everything you need to get going.

Best trip: Round trip tickets to South Korea in the Korean Cultural Center ‘2012 K-Pop’ Video Contest. K-Pop fans, bust out your best moves.

OVC’s Pick of the Week: Overall, our favorite contest this week is the ‘Your Earth, Your Dream, Your Action’ Contest, brought to you by Zooppa. Siemens invites you to think big and share your actionable ideas for a greener world. The top prize is $10,000, and runner-ups prizes aren’t too shabby either (15 videos will be awarded in all)! There is just under two weeks left for this contest, so hurry up!

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None of these video contests striking your fancy? There are TONS more contests waiting for you at OnlineVideoContests.com! Which contests will you be working on?

Entering video contests can be a real gamble. You put in time, and often some cash, to make your video shine - without any guarantee that you’ll win something.

But sometimes you actually do get a guarantee! Smart contest promoters want to start populating their video contest site with content ASAP, so they’ll sometimes offer entrants an early entry prize.

The early entry prize is often awarded to the first X amount of entrants (say, the first 10, 50, 100!) OR it’s awarded to the best entry(ies) received by some designated date ahead of the final entry deadline. Prizes vary from contest to contest, so make sure you read the fine print, but this can be a great advantage for entrants. There tends to be less competition if you get your video in early, so you have a higher chance of getting something back!

Ready to start earning those early entry prizes?

Get Clickin’!

It’s the last week in April, and with May just around the corner, summer’s so close we can almost taste it!

But, before we can get to backyard BBQs and warm nights (soon, please!), we’ve got to get down to one last piece of business for this week. I’m talking the best and brightest of the new crop of video contests. Without further ado…

Here are some of the highlights this week:

Biggest cash prize: $10,500 in the @SpeedStick #HANDLEIT Video Project, brought to you by Tongal. The goal of this project is to create a fresh, funny 20-second video based on Speed Stick’s favorite #HANDLEIT tweet. The final videos will get voiceover input from Community’s Danny Pudi!

Best non-cash prize: A $500 Amazon Gift Card in the 23andMe SUPER FAN Video Contest. If you geek out on DNA and genetics, this is a cool contest. Bonus: the first 100 entries get a T-shirt.

Best trip: A $30,000 trip for 4 to New Zealand in the New Zealand ‘Stories Beat Stuff’ Video Contest. Two trips are up for grabs - just let them know what possession you’d be willing to give up for the trip of a lifetime.

OVC’s Pick of the Week: Overall, our favorite contest this week is the ‘Get Caught Listening’ 2012 Video Contest. This is the second year of this contest, so they’ve got a proven track record (An OVCer took home the win last year!). Grand Prize is a cool $5k, with some solid runner’s up prizes as well.

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None of these video contests striking your fancy? There are TONS more contests waiting for you at OnlineVideoContests.com! Which contests will you be working on?

OVCer Tony L is a Finalist in the MetroFax ‘Smash-a-Fax’ Video Contest! Congrats, Tony!

With just 5 days left to vote, you can help him out by watching his entry, ‘A Man and His Fax Machine’ (C’mon, you totally want to see Tony ruin an old fax machine!). Click to watch and VOTE HERE!

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If you need help winning a video contest, let us know on the OVC “Up For Vote” page. And don’t forget to let us know when you win.

As the week winds down, we look back on the new video contests that have piqued our interest and rocked our world. If you missed out on the new offerings posted to OVC, let us get you up to speed.

Here are some of the highlights this week:

Biggest cash prize: $12,500 in the RadioShack ‘Trade & Save’ Video Project, brought to you by Tongal.

Best non-cash prize: $25,000 office makeover in the Turnstone ‘Look at Me Now’ Video Contest. If you are a small business (less than 99 employees) who needs to update your office design and furniture - make your case with this contest.

Best trip: A trip to CA to visit Cypress Grove Chevre’s creamery in the Humboldt Fog 20th Birthday Video Contest. Love Humboldt Fog? You could win a trip to the source of this delicious cheese.

OVC’s Pick of the Week: Overall, our favorite contest this week is the Monster Energy ‘Ultimate Intern Search’ Contest. Forget those unpaid internships, Monster Energy is offering $15,000 AND the opportunity to work some sweet sporting/entertainment events this summer to TWO ultimate interns. Plus, we’re pretty sure that you’ll get all the Monster Energy you can drink. Not bad! Submissions don’t officially open until April 9th, but you might want to get started on your video because the first 250 entries will receive a cool swag pack.

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None of these video contests striking your fancy? There are TONS more contests waiting for you at OnlineVideoContests.com! Which contests will you be working on?

Best Videos Contest 3 - A hilariously confusing send-up of video contests by Good Neighbor

We think you’ll appreciate the absurdity of this video if you’ve entered a video contest or two.

Are you ready to vote? All ya gotta do is click on over and watch/give a vote to your fellow OVCers.

First up, Steven H created a video for the ‘The Greener Me, The Better Us’ Video Contest and all you need to do is watch it to help him out! Click here to see his video.

Next, Darlene J created a sweet music video for Morning Parade. Click here to watch it and cast your vote of support.

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If you need help winning a video contest, let us know on the OVC “Up For Vote” page. And don’t forget to let us know when you win.

Hey guys, it’s FRIDAY! And we all know what that means: you’ll inevitably get that Rebecca Black song stuck in your head at some point during the day. Oh…does that only happen to us???

Actually, Friday means it’s time for us to take a look back at the week that was and round up the best new video contests!

Here are some of the highlights this week:

Biggest cash prize: $10,000 in the ECOS Liquid Laundry ‘Get Washed’ Film Contest. ECOS is looking for 30-second commercials for their green laundry detergent.

Best non-cash prize: $25,000 development deal with FOX in the NYTVF Fox Comedy Script Contest. Pitch an original half-hour comedy series to FOX.

Best trip: A trip to Hollywood, the star treatment and a dance with Mario Lopez in ‘The Dance of a Lifetime’ Video Contest. GSN wants to see your best dance moves.

OVC’s Pick of the Week: Overall, our favorite contest this week is the AMD Visionary Young Directors Award Contest. If you have an idea for a movie, submit a trailer and you could end up meeting Robert Rodriguez at the Austin City Limits Music Festival and win a new computer + editing software! Sweet!

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None of these video contests striking your fancy? There are TONS more contests waiting for you at OnlineVideoContests.com! Which contests will you be working on?