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VideoGenie teams up with Bridgestone around the Copa Libertadores!

The VideoGenie Team brings its steez to South America! But seriously. We teamed up with Bridgestone to empower Soccer super fans throughout South America to share their passion of the beautiful game for a chance to win a free trip to see their favorite team in action at the Copa Libertadores. We worked with the local Bridgestone teams in Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico, Peru, Venezuela, and the Central America region around this glorious fútbol cup.

A little background on the Copa Libertadores:

The Copa Libertadores de América, commonly referred to as the Libertadores de América or simply Copa Libertadores is an annual international club football competition organized by CONMEBOL since 1960. It is the most prestigious club competition in South American football and one of the most watched events in the world, broadcast in 135 nations worldwide. It is currently sponsored by Bridgestone and thus officially known as the Copa Bridgestone Libertadores. The tournament is named in honor of the Libertadores (Portuguese and Spanish for Liberators), the main leaders of the South American wars of independence, so a literal translation of its name into English would be the "Liberators of Americas Cup". (Wikipedia)

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We’ve moved! Now based in San Francisco!

Friends! We’re thrilled to announce that the VideoGenie team has officially moved offices! After a blissful year in beautiful San Mateo, California, we decided to pack our stuff and head to the big city! VideoGenie is now based out of the SOMA district in San Francisco, CA, where we’re lucky to share office space with other highly ambitious and innovative startups in the SOMACentral space on 450 Townsend St. Now that we’re walking distance to the ballpark, we’ll be tuning in live from many a Giants games! But seriously, how sweet is this? :)

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More Coverage of the VideoGenie & Moontoast Partner

More great coverage of the VideoGenie and Moontoast partnership to innovate the two platforms by allowing fans to record and submit videos directly within the Facebook News Feed. Check out these great articles covering this exciting new partnership: allfacebook.com-- Moontoast, VideoGenie Team Up To Bring Brand Advocates’ User-Generated Videos To Facebook Yahoo!-- Moontoast and VideoGenie Partner to Bring User-Generated Video to Facebook News Feed for Increased Fan Engagement and Proven Social Ad ROI Marketingland.com--User-Generated Video Ad Units Come To Facebook News Feeds Through New
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VideoGenie and Moontoast Partner to Bring User-Generated Video to Facebook Newsfeeds!

We're very excited to announce our partnership with Moontoast, an innovative Social Rich Media advertising platform leader and recent winner of the Facebook PDM Innovation Competition.  We here at VideoGenie, are always looking for new and innovative ways to help increase ROI for our clients. This integration will combine VideoGenie's ability to capture, mange and distribute user-generated video with Moantoast's Social Rich Media ad units. Word-of-Mouth marketing is definitely becoming more important to brand and social media managers. Now, for the first time, brand advocates will be able to leverage the new Social Rich Media units to record, submit and share user-generated videos right within the Facebook News Feed. "VideoGenie is all about real people creating and sharing inherently viral video content around their biggest passions, primarily on Facebook," said Justin Nassiri, founder and CEO, VideoGenie. "We are excited to partner with Moontoast to bring the power of dynamic, authentic video experiences to leading brands looking to create meaningful and lasting relationships with their fans through social advertising directly in the Facebook News Feed." For more, read the full press release
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Telestory with Teleflora for a chance to see Lady Antebellum in concert!

Mother’s Day is a day of celebration. A day in which we can take a moment to celebrate and honor all those mothers out there who have worked tirelessly on behalf of us (their children!) This year, in tandem with our good friends at Teleflora, we wanted to give back. We worked with the Teleflora team on Facebook and Teleflora.com to honor those mom’s who have done more for us than we could ever ask for.

The theme of the campaign was “Telestory with Teleflora!” Teleflora was able to utilize the VideoGenie technology to engage their fans and all of those mom lovers out there to share a story about their mom and why they are so special. A few lucky winners were then picked to win an all expenses paid trip to Chicago to see Lady Antebellum in concert! Not bad, right?! We loved working with Teleflora on such a great campaign, and couldn’t have been happier with what we collected.

Not only did we receive incredibly inspiring and heartwarming videos from thankful sons and daughters out there, but we actually expanded beyond our bread-and-butter video offering to capture text and photo submissions for those participants who wanted to
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VideoGenie Product Updates: May 2013

We're very excited to share a few of the latest product enhancement to the VideoGenie platform, designed to help your business capture and leverage video and User Generated Content ("UGC") for reviews or contest. Meanwhile, we're continuing to work hard towards major releases in the next few months.

What's new!

Enhanced social sharing. This is a fantastic feature to increase the virality of your next campaign. Now you can share, playback and record all within the Facebook newsfeed. Now, when a video is shared on Facebook through VideoGenie, people can not only watch and interact with this video, but also record their own video within the same post.  As customer interaction increases in the Facebook newsfeed, and decreases in Facebook Apps, this is a tremendous way to drive more interaction with your customer base.

Highlight Reel for product reviews.  As video becomes a more important part of your product review mix and offerings, we're hard at work creating new features to provide a high quality viewing experience. We're introducing the Highlight Reel. Specifically designed to show off the most helpful product reviews-- features include a star-rating system and a short text description.

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VideoGenie presents at the Digitas New Fronts Conference in NYC!

This past week, Justin Nassiri, Founder & CEO of Videogenie, was invited to present at Digitas’ Silicon V/Alley workshop as a thought leader and innovator in the world of digital video. In concert with the sixth annual Digitas New Fronts Conference, Digitas made a concerted effort to bring the innovations coming out of Silicon Valley to the Big Apple to shed some light on what the digital video landscape looks like today, and how it will play out tomorrow.

At Digitas, they believe that the key to successful marketing is partnering well. Especially in this ever-changing landscape. As the world of digital video continues to shift from “lean back to participatory viewing” it is essential for the world’s leading digital agencies to seek out and partner with technology companies on the forefront of this evolution.

Alongside reputable brands like XBox and Vine, VideoGenie was one of the seven companies chosen to delineate this world. VideoGenie focused on the power of user-generated video, articulating how marketers are able to leverage the VideoGenie technology to seamlessly capture, analyze, distribute, and display user-generated video on every digital property - earned, owned and paid. The theme of the week being “real-time marketing”, and the
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Knowing What Excites Your Fan Base: Win a Free Mobile Makeover!

Republic Wireless is know for it’s innovative approach to mobile and smartphone service. It offers its customers with unlimited data, talk and text for as little as $19/month, with NO contract. Now who wouldn’t love that!

Republic wanted to increase engagement on its Facebook fan page and generate user-generated videos, so it turned to VideoGenie. Specifically, it had these several key goals in mind:

1) To engage the small, but dedicated, Republic Facebook community,

2) Have new users become excited about Republic’s wireless offering, and

3) Use successful videos to create a powerful and authentic video ad.

Republic Wireless launched the “Win a Free Mobile Makeover” campaign with the support of the VideoGenie platform. It offered its fans a chance daily to win a mobile makeover (i.e., a new smartphone + 6 a month contract). Also, it followed up by posting daily winners’ videos directly to the Facebook News Feed, thus re-engaging with fans and continuously promoting the campaign throughout the month.

The Results:

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How to Incentives and Engage Your Fans!

Recently, Sweepstakes.com wanted to generate leads and increase engagement with entrants as part of their "Enter to win $5000.00 a week for life" campaign. They turned to VideoGenie's contest solution to capture video submission. Entrants were encouraged to record a video and share it as part of the submission process. Sweepstakes.com didn’t just stop there, they also repurposed the content on other social channels allowing the entrants a platform to amplify "why they should win!"

The Results:

1. Over 9000 video submission over a 3-month period.

2.  20% of all entrants completed the record process who entered.

3.  Average user time onsite of 13 mins.

4. Generated +50,000 new leads!

Not too shabby... for adding a video UGC component to the campaign. Here, Sweepstakes.com did a great job of aligning the promotion and incentive to the business objective-- i.e., generating more leads. It just goes to show, if you understand what motivates your target audience and align the right incentive to motivate them, you’ll drive great results. For more information on great campaign that rocked using VideoGenie, click here!
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How User-Generated Contests on Social Media Boost Brand Awareness

Social media marketing is becoming essential for businesses that plan on staying in business.  With literally billions of people actively using online social networks, the time is ripe for digital marketing campaigns. Any company that can create a catchy and unique video has a chance of it going viral, and of becoming a well-known name in a matter of days.  Organizations are able to release many short advertisements to the public, often for free, instead of spending large amounts of money on a few advertising campaigns.  Customer voice is louder than ever before, and therefore earned media has never been easier to generate. Consider some of these very successful word-of-mouth marketing campaigns. The Best Job in the World In 2009, the leading tourism agency in Queensland Australia, Tourism Queensland, offered an incredible deal: one person would get to be the 'island caretaker' of Hamilton Island on the Great Barrier Reef.  This offer, known as “The Best Job in the World,” spread like wildfire across the social networks.  In two days, over 300,000 people visited the website, crashing it. Applicants had to create a user-generated video of up to one minute of themselves explaining why they were the best candidate for the job.  The requirements were to be over 18, ability to speak
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