VoteTube Competition Announcement

VoteTube is a competition for the most entertaining, most persuasive and most effective political and civic message videos made about Ireland.

There are two categories for entry. One is specifically for third and second level students and the other is for everyone else. You can enter as often as you like. Videos may be entered by teams of any size from one person up.

Entry requirements

• Thirty seconds or less video.
• Address a political issue in the widest sense. Could include voter registration, or a pitch for a certain party, policy or area.

Target Audiences: 18–35, or any part thereof.

Aim: Influence viewers. Go Viral.

What’s a political issue?

Well, it’s more than political parties. Politics is anything you feel strongly about or that you think people should do something about. It might be related to a national issue, or a hyper-local one. It might even be an international issue that you have direct knowledge and experience of.

What’s influence?

You should try to make people think about your issue or campaign and present something that will sway their opinion.

What’s viral?

The test of a good ad is whether people you don’t know mail it on to their friends and pass the link on. The key is to make your ad appealing and clever, or funny, or moving enough so that people will do this. Tip: Get past what you’ve heard other people say to what you really want to say.

Competition Rules

You can create your video using any format you like. It has to be eligible for inclusion on some public video hosting site. Your ad has to be distributed through an online video site such as YouTube or Google Video. You should send the address of your video to votetube@tuppenceworth.ie by 12 midnight (Irish Time), 15 January 2007.

It will be posted on the competition website, VoteTube.org. We also have a Bebo page and a MySpace page. You are encouraged to publicise your video and get as many people as possible to watch it.

The Judging Panel will pick a winner based on how provocative, persuasive and entertaining it is.