Posts from October, 2011

Dear eYeka creators, it look longer than usual but…
We can present the winners for How would you like to move in 10 years contest.

All the entries have been of such a high quality that the client had a hard time deciding who to give the prize to! Also we had some problems again with receiving confirmation of the prize from some winners, that delayed the announcement, sorry about that.

Anyway thank you guys for your good entries and let’s not indulge any more.

The winners are….

1st Prize of EUR 1,500 goes to leon_z (China)
2nd Prize of EUR 500 goes to tagore (India)
3rd Prize of EUR 500 goes to karenvinalay (Philippines)
4th Prize of EUR 250 goes to Niteesh (India)
5th Prize of EUR 250 goes to xinfeiwu (China)
6th Prize of EUR 250 goes to yuchaoqun (China)
7th Prize of EUR 250 goes to xycomingwind (China)

Thank you very much to all for your participation and congratulations to all the winners!

For privacy reasons the client prefers to remain anonymous and the entries will remain confidential.

Two months ago, we asked you to create a video/animation to show your creative interpretation on how “Efficient Dynamics” can make the world a better place, we must say all the entries are very nice and creative. And today, the long-awaited result is here! The winning creators are…

• 1st Prize (USD 5,000): Apet (Armenia) with his work “BMW“
• 2nd Prize (USD 3,000): phonk (Spain) with his work “BMW- Efficient Dynamic Metaphors“
• 3rd Prize (USD 2,000): firol19 (Malaysia) with his work “Efficient dynamics : lightweight construction a simple changes make a huge different“

Congratulations to all the winners and thank you all for your very good efforts!

Nespresso recognizes that the livelihoods of coffee farmers are vulnerable to volatile market conditions for coffee, unpredictable weather patterns and rising farm management costs. In 2003, Nespresso started the AAA Sustainable Quality™ Program in collaboration with the Rainforest Alliance to protect the farmers and ensure that the farming methods are sustainable so that we can all get to enjoy high quality coffee years down the road.And in 2009 Nespresso pledged to source 80% of their coffee from the program by 2013.

Unfortunately, many people do not know about this initiative and its benefits. So your challenge is to create a 30s video or animation or a photograph/illustration, show us how Nespresso is doing their bit to bring about positive differences to coffee farmers and the environment so that more people will know about it.

Please note that Nespresso is looking for entries that can inspire viewers and help them understand Nespresso’s engagement on the field towards the farmers. The entries that can most creatively engage and inspire people will be picked as the winners!

PRIZES

Videos/Animations:

• 1st prize EUR 3,500
• 2nd prize EUR 2,500
• 3rd prize EUR 1,500

Photography/Illustration:

• 1st prize EUR 1,500
• 2nd prize EUR 1,000
• 3rd prize EUR 500

Contest ends on 6 December 2011, Click here to participate!

Hello everyone!

Didn’t we tell you that Heineken results were going to be aired soon?! Sometimes you need some extra-patience but you’ll always be rewarded for that.
Here are the winners, freshly uncapped from the client!

1st Prize of EUR 3000 goes to Uday-Kiran
2nd Prize of EUR 1500 goes to Zore
3rd Prize of EUR 1000 goes to Yvette
4th, 7th and 14th Prizes of EUR 750, EUR 300 and EUR 300 go to Markka
5th Prize of EUR 750 goes to Conneyfogle
6th and 15th Prizes of EUR 300 and EUR 300 go to Rib
8th Prize of EUR 300 goes to Tagore
9th Prize of EUR 300 goes to 3Detonation
10th Prize of EUR 300 goes to Chintami
11th Prize of EUR 300 goes to Foligraf
12th Prize of EUR 300 goes to Lebron4iGG
13th Prize of EUR 300 goes to cocacolacontest

Now Heineken would like to make a statement:
Heineken would like to thank you all for the enthusiasm, creativity and “out of the box” thinking you put into this challenge. We had hard time in picking the best entries and most of the entries are giving us some important insights to move forward with our project. We believe more and more how important is listening to our consumers and you definitively talked to us!
When we placed the challenge online, we were expecting certain types of submissions back (based on the topic), but you went far beyond that, showing us that there was more than we thought. Thanks to all of you and we hope to see you again on a next challenge!

And actually Heineken has been so impressed by the good quality of all your entries that they have prepared more prizes for some of the creations!

1st and 2nd Prizes of EUR 500 and EUR 500 go to Anne-Carole
3rd, 5th and 9th Prizes of EUR 500, EUR 500 and EUR 500 go to Markka
4th Prize of EUR 500 goes to jerminale
6th Prize of EUR 500 goes to goodforlove
7th Prize of EUR 500 goes to harringman
8th Prize of EUR 500 goes to lacullinane
10th Prize of EUR 500 goes to alz19

Now it is our turn for a statement: we are sorry about being a bit late.
This time we had delays because some winners were very late in accepting their prizes.
Please be reminded that if you don’t answer to the message announcing a win within ten days after the announcement, unfortunately the prize will have to given to someone else.
This should encourage you guys to check that the email address you gave us is correct and you control it regularly. Of course it is also a very good idea to leave us your phone number as well, it is pretty nice to get a call announcing that you won something, right?

Thank you all for your participation and congratulations to all the winners!

The client prefers all the media to remain confidential, thank you very much for your understanding.

Given the choice, children prefer to snack on a chocolate bar or chicken nuggets than an apple. Healthy snacks are seen as boring, not tasty, and certainly not fun. Do you agree with that?

Now we want you to come up with new snacks idea! Stretch your creativity and come up with a brand new snack for kids that is healthy, tasty, and fun!

You can submit your entry in the following formats: video, animation, illustration, 2D or 3D model, or basically any visual medium that will allow you to express a fresh, innovative, and tasty idea.

Five best creations will get USD 1,000 each! So make sure you don’t miss out this fun and tasty contest!

Submission deadline: 7^th November 2011. We look forward to your yummy ideas!

Click here to view the brief and to participate.

Our creator of October 2011 is the talented filmmaker John Waters or widely known as skhuters in the eYeka community. Hailed from the UK, he always has interesting ideas for his videos (at least those that he submitted to eYeka. We believe there are many more of them!), and with his ‘never give up’ attitude,

He has grabbed 10 awards on eYeka so far! Let us know more about him!

Hello! Would you like to tell us more about yourself?

No.

Only joking, I love talking about myself! My name is John Waters and I live in Reading, UK. (It’s near London, for those who don’t know England). I work full time as an Audiologist (or pre-registration Audiological Scientist if you’re being fancy).

At the moment my long term collaborator and girlfriend is Rachel Middle who you have probably seen in quite a number of our entries. She is quite splendid!

Anyway, I think I’m going to set up a new account under the name John Waters / Buoyant Films soon as skhuters was a result of combining mine and my ex girlfriend’s name, haha.

So how did you get start in filmmaking?

My mum sent me a link for a crowd sourcing competition to make an ad for a well-known social lending company. I got out my £10 webcam and went from there, each time I won a prize I upgraded my equipment and learnt as I went.

You have won quite a number of awards in eYeka to date, and your ideas are always very interesting. Where do you usually get your inspiration from?

My own head unfortunately, there’s an awful lot of background noise and free associations going on up there. Also it’s important to look at brand identities, previous ads and get a feel for the brand’s personality so far.

How did you get to know eYeka? What are the things you like about eYeka, and what are the things that you think could be improved on or added in the future?

I got to know about eYeka by googling for video competitions. I like that you can see other creators creations on eYeka, there’s a slightly more British / European feel to things and the guys that run it are always happy to answer questions. eYeka definitely need to work on meeting deadlines and just moving forward with payments and announcing results. I know this is mostly on brands but maybe you guys could introduce some sort of fine if they don’t get there on time! Also increasing participants, getting wider coverage and building on the existing community and hosting at least a couple of events to meet other film makers at.

Any advise to your fellow aspiring creators?

Keep trying, keep watching films, don’t be afraid to rethink things if they aren’t working, give yourself time to edit things, and most importantly have fun

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Thanks for sharing your interesting stories and ideas with us, John! Thanks for your suggestions as well. We definitely always try to find new ways to make our creators’ experiences in eYeka even better.

Anyway, check out his awesome creations here!

Hello everyone!

We are very pleased to tell you about the results of the Create the ideal beauty care experience for women 60+! contest. All the entries have been of a very high quality and we would like to thank all the participants for their inputs and of course we would like to congratulate all the winners!

And there are a looooot of them, let us introduce….

1st Prize of 4000 USD goes to MalcomIreland
2nd and 3rd Prizes of 2500 USD and 1500 USD go to imbapilipinas
4th and 16th Prize of 1000 USD and 500 USD go to xbramastazx
5th Prize of 1000 USD goes to Pwhy
6th Prize of 1000 USD goes to Dfabula
7th Prize of 1000 USD goes to Morokov_Andrew
8th and 17th Prizes of 1000 USD and 500 USD go to Asdaria
9th Prize of 500 USD goes to Harringman
10th Prize of 500 USD goes to Will24
11th and 15th Prizes of 500 USD each go to limonade
12th and 20th Prizes of 500 USD each go to markka
13th Prize of 500 USD goes to MarcoAFerraresso
14th Prize of 500 USD goes to mimosacreations
18th Prize of 500 USD goes to alz19
19th Prize of 500 USD goes to sixtysixbe
21st Prize of 500 USD goes to radou1
22nd Prize of 500 USD goes to RDS27

Congratulations to all the winners and thank you all for your very good efforts!

The client prefers to remain anonymous and the entries confidential. Thank you for your understanding.

Scott is a 25 years old Marketing Executive living in Hong Kong, the city that never sleeps. He loves going to the movies, bars, music gigs, and parties with his friends, but they are getting a bit bored because all of those activities feel pretty much the same after a while.

Now Carlsberg invites you to help them re-invent their favourite activities and tell us what even Carlsberg could create around it to make the event so extraordinary, exciting, cool, and memorable that they will talk about it for ages without getting bored!

We accept all sorts of visual mediums in this contest, be it video, animation, pictures, sketches, storyboards, … anything that will allow you to describe an extraordinary, cool, and exciting Carlsberg experience for Scott and his friends.

There’s a total prize of EUR 5,000 for 5 best ideas!

1^st Prize: EUR 2,500
2^nd Prize: EUR 1,000
3^rd – 5^th Prize: EUR 500 each

So what are you waiting for? Flood the contest group with your awesome ideas! Submission deadline is 3^rd November 2011.

Click here to view the brief and to participate!

Dear all,

We are very happy to welcome you to the new eYeka community!

Two days ago we have released new features for our community members, to help you better interact with us, to support you more in our contests, and to encourage you to interact with the other eYeka creators.
First of all, we have integrated your eYeka login with your favourite social networks. This means that you can now connect to eYeka using your Facebook, Twitter, Google + (and many more!) accounts and be able to comment and post at the same time in all your favourite social platforms.

HOW DOES IT LOOK LIKE?
Login to eYeka website and you will see the icons of your favourite social networks at the bottom of the login box:

For some of the networks, you will first need to link your account with eYeka, but this only needs to be done once.

Once you are logged in, you can link any of your existing social accounts to your eYeka account.

HOW DO YOU DO IT?
Go to ‘My Account’ section of ‘My eYeka’ page. Under ‘My Preferences’, you will see a list of all the available social networks. From there you can easily link/unlink accounts. This will enable you to share what you are up to on eYeka with the rest of your friends in all your networks.

LET’S TALK ABOUT OUR CONTESTS!
We understand how you would like to be able to share your ideas about a contest, and also discuss with fellow eYeka creators. We hear you!

You can now discuss both with us and other creators, about the contest you are participating in. You only need to click on the Discuss tab in the contest page.

It is a real forum open for all of you who have enrolled in the contest. In this page you are allowed to: talk about the contest, discuss and post questions about the brief, ask for additional information on the entry requirements etc…

Of course it is also the place where you can make your suggestions to us and/or your queries. We may also answer your queries there, so other creators who have the same issues will be able to find the answers they are looking for right away!

We want to be closer to you and support you at every stage of your submission and we have thought it may be useful for you to have some feedback on a specific contest from the other creators. You can reply to any question and “spread the word” on your social networks, if you feel like it.

All the contests translated in different languages will have their own discussion pages in the respective languages, so you will be able to talk and to meet with creators speaking your mother tongue!

THIS IS ONLY THE BEGINNING, LET US CO-CREATE THE REST!

Going forward, you can expect us to come up with even more ways for you to interact, share your ideas and creations, in short feel you are part of a vibrant community.
We are working hard to make your eYeka experience more enjoyable. Should you have any question, idea for improvement, feedback of any kind, then say so! From the Support tab on the left-hand side of your screen, simply click ‘Give feedback’.

Please do let us know how you feel about it! We’d love to hear from you!

Still remember Actimel? The probiotic yoghurt drink that strengthen your body’s natural defenses to make you feel strong, positive, enthusiastic, and active so that you can do the great big things that matter to you.

Today we have a new contest from Actimel! This time, we want your insights.

A regular morning walk, day after day that becomes a morning run. Cleaning out one cabinet at a time leading to a beautifully organized kitchen. Learning to boil an egg and soon whipping up delightful french pastries to delight friends. It is the small steps we take one at a time that can empower us to do the great big things. Maybe this is why Actimel comes in a small bottle, because at Actimel we believe that it is the small things that can make a difference.

Tell us a story of how Actimel gives you the inner strength that can help you (or someone else) doing small things that can lead to the great big things that matter.
You can tell your story through video, animation, pictures, sketches, storyboards, or any visual medium that will allow you to express your story, and for the viewers/readers to understand it easily.

Three best entries will be awarded with:

1^st Prize: EUR 2,500
2^nd Prize: EUR 1,500
3^rd Prize: EUR 1,000

This contest will be going on from 11^th October to 31^st October.

So what are you waiting for? Click here to view the brief and participate!