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You all spend a lot of time on Zooppa uploading ads, viewing, commenting and voting on other members’ work, checking out the blog and following the discussions on the forum… But don’t you still sometimes feel like it’s not quite enough quality Zooppa time?

We know how it feels. We work here, after all, and sometimes [...]

Hi,
My name is Kirk.
I am the *new* community manager at Zooppa USA.
I’m a lot like you: I make films, I’m a photographer, and I’m an excellent bass fisherman.
You can see mah works at www.kirkmastin.com and mah blog at www.lofihistyle.com
If you really want, you can see all of my latest videos at: kirkclimber.blip.tv
I’m looking forward to [...]

I’m happy to announce that uploading is working again, and in the meantime, the entire website should be running smoother than ever.
I’m looking forward to seeing some new works :)
-Kirk

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Science 2.0: User-generated Research
In his landmark book The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, philosopher and historian of science Thomas Kuhn coined the term ‘paradigm shift’ to describe the way new scientific theories come to be accepted as fact. According to Kuhn, scientific knowledge is built up not by the simple accumulation of facts, but [...]

It is 2pm Pacific Time here in Seattle WA….
…and we are still revamping some internal sections of the Zooppa website, making Zooppa even better than before.
Unfortunately, this means that uploading is still down for today. We hate it as much as you, since we love to see your new works.
Uploading should be enabled by this [...]

Sorry for the short notice everybody but our development team needs to do some maintenance and uploads are currently disabled until 8AM tomorrow. Voting, commenting, and all other facets of the site will still be functional but unfortunately you will not be able to upload. Please let us know if you have any [...]

Australian beer maker Foster’s recently unveiled Nelson, a new beer developed using principles familiar to all of us at Zooppa: It’s user-generated!
Well… The beer was brewed by professionals, but every aspect, from flavor to the shape of the bottle and the label design were informed by consumer feedback.

There’s even a limited edition label designed by, [...]

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It’s been exciting seeing the Brad Paisley entries coming in, and the banner entries have been really great…I’m always impressed by what I see here at Zooppa.
That being said, I want to make something clear: You CAN use more than just the files provided in the brief for your entry.
In fact, it would [...]

While not precisely about user-generated advertising, this video of NYU professor Clay Shirky’s recent talk at TED@state is essential viewing for anyone interested (as we assume you all are) in how the social media boom is changing the world.

Titled “How cellphones, Twitter, Facebook can make history,” Shirky’s talk addresses, “… how Facebook, Twitter and TXTs [...]

It was brought to our attention that we had the wrong Brad Paisley song in the Logo Files for the Brad Paisley Competition.
We mistakenly had a song called “Then” instead of “American Saturday Night”, the title track from Brad Paisley’s new album.  We have switched it out and the correct song is now in the [...]