YouTube
Filipino Online Video Festival Launched
YouTube is huge in the Philippines. It was only a matter of time before someone made a contest of it.
Online video festival for Pinoys launched
Minic Media LLC today announced the launching of The Pinoy.TV, an online video festival based on themes that hopes to introduce the Phliippines globally through online videos.
Every month a new theme is open for submission, with entries up for ratings from site visitors. Entries should not be longer than 10 minutes and should interpret the theme.
“We are after the interpretation of themes because it is what should tell the story about Filipinos,” Minic Rivera, founder of The Pinoy.TV said.
“I am a Filipino” kicks off the festival as theme for March. At the end of every month, the winner gets $100 as prize.
“It is my hope to introduce my roots to the global community the way it should be seen. At the same time, it is wish to see Filipinos getting into online videos,” Rivera added.
These guys should use YouTube’s existing contest system. That way, they’d get seamless submissions and more exposure on YouTube itself.
(Via Jayvee Fernandez.)
TV Reporters Scavenging YouTube Scraps
You know YouTube is killing dumb TV networks when incompetent TV reporters hover like vultures waiting for scraps at YouTube interviews. That’s what reporters from Philippine TV networks GMA and ABC are doing, ambushing interviewees at The Philippine Daily Inquirer’s YouTube channel.
Here they are lying in wait for Filipino politician Mike Defensor. Having helped a young Filipina celebrity with her Web strategy after the dotcom boom, I remember when online video interviews played a distant fourth fiddle to TV, radio, and print interviews. Seeing the tide turn here gives me a certain vengeful satisfaction.
I hope the Inquirer can keep these vermin out of their building. The last thing this country needs is old media scavengers pulling down new media pioneers.
