The Video Awards

We’ve got a bit of a new look for The Video Awards. We’ve streamlined the home page to allow for a quicker download time and a better view of what’s going on. It’s purely a change to the homepage but we would love to hear if you like it better then the pure video layout.

September has gone by really quick and it’s time to name our winner! Congratulations to the winner as well as the honorable mentions. You can read about them on The Video Awards September Winners page.

Want your video to win in October and get all the fame and fortune which comes along with it? Post it now!

Wow, this is some interesting news. Jumpcut being only 6 months old has been swallowed by Yahoo!. The news is still new so there isn’t any other details on it. You can see the post on the Yahoo blog and the Jumpcut blog hasn’t made any mention of it yet has a post about it here. I guess we’ll wait to see.

Ryan Carter from Download Squad has written a great article on how you can produce your own video to get your 15 minutes of fame.

…but now I can share my experience with you and the best easy and free ways I found to produce such a video in a day and a half on no budget that looks decent and make customers drool. You don’t need excellent computer skills either, but a little will to learn and a few hours time depending how involved you want this video to be. Take one, marker, action!

Well it was bound to happen, you can now submit your videos from MySpace and Yahoo Video to The Video Awards. The content that comes from these providers are great and we hope to see alot of videos from them.

If you haven’t seen our latest winners for August make sure to check it out. We’re currently running our September contest so post your videos and vote!

August is finally over and so is our first unofficial contest. We’ve named the winner as well as some honorable mentions. Make sure to check it out here and a congratulations to 45 Degree Woman for taking home the award!

Read about our winner as well as some of our honorable mentions

Want your video to win in September? Post it now!

(Official Post Here) 

Good news, you can now submit videos from Break and Dailymotion! And to kick it off here’s a Dave Chappelle Mac Parody Video.

We’re always looking for more providers to add to our list. Know of one we missed? Let us know!

So one question we’ve been meaning to answer is the fact that we do not require people to login to the site to vote. This is actually by design and not by accident or “lack of functionality.” We believe there is value in anonymous. We want to make the experience as painless as possible. You can come to the site, upload a video, vote and comment without the “baggage” of creating a new account. People may be more likely to interact.

Now with that said, there is definitely some value in allowing people to create a profile, vote and save their selections for later. It builds a community around the site and that makes sense. So hopefully soon, you’ll see the ability to create a new account and start your own profile on TVA.

But until then, get your quick video fix, vote and comment away!

This is one we’ve been meaning to put up for a while but haven’t had the chance. Just click on the “email” link under the video and you can send them off to any of your friends (considering they have an email address.)

We’ve also updated the design a bit as we experiment with the layout. Nothing extreme just a little tweaks here and there.

(Official Post Here)

One additional update for the popular video section. We’ve updated the rss feed for both Grouper and iFilm to pull a more frequently changing popular list. Unfortunately, Google is still only providing RSS for the top 100 which rarely changes.