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Hey there, Washington State DECA members, there’s just ten days left in our Taco Del Mar competition. That’s ten short days to view, comment on and vote on the ads submitted by your peers from across Washington State. And just ten days left to upload your own ads. It’s not too late to get in [...]

We just thought this was interesting. According to this article in AdAge, Microsoft is set to spend up to $100 million to promote its new search engine, Bing. While this enormous expenditure is meant to put a dent in Google’s and Yahoo’s shares of the search market, Microsoft’s ads won’t directly attack either search engine. [...]

Zooppa’s competition with Sun Startup Essentials kicked off today and we’ve already got a bunch of entries! This is a great competition for a really cool program. There’s over $5,000 up for grabs, so keep the submissions coming! This competition runs from today (5/27) until July 21st.

This is just to remind everyone that our UW Pocket Media Film Festival is closing this Friday, May 29. If you’re a University of Washington Student, make sure to upload your submission before the deadline. Everyone else, make sure to vote and comment on as many videos as you can before time runs out! We [...]

Hi everyone! It seems the creative brief for our Webtel.mobi competiton was a little vague about a very important distinction: Webtel.mobi is a Specialized Mobile Provider NOT a Voice over Internet Protocol!!! No special equipment is required to use Webtel.mobi. Nor do you need to connect through your personal computer. For more details on how [...]

In case you all haven’t seen his forum post about it, cauthier has some really exciting news. Jones GABA will be running an edited version of cauthier’s ad “GABA World” on broadcast TV. This is the first time a Zooppa ad will run on U.S. television. We’re incredibly excited about it, and we want to [...]

Here’s some more interesting reading about the rise of user-generated content. While the figures discussed in this Mashable post reflect all user-generated content (not ads in specific), they are still pretty darn impressive. Just think, by 2013 115 million people in the U.S. will post their own content to the web. How many of them [...]

On the off chance any of you are looking for some reading material, here’s a couple of interesting articles about social media and marketing. In the first, Anna Maria Virzi of ClickZ considers the phenomenon of controlled spontaneity in viral marketing. The second concerns the release of the International Advertising Bureau’s list of best practices [...]

As part of his ongoing series of startup interviews, Antonio Cangiano of the excellent blog Zen and the Art of Programming, recently interviewed Nicholas Wieland, Zooppa’s Chief Technical Officer. It’s a great interview, and an interesting look at one of the key members of Zooppa’s team. Check it out here.

Well, we kept it up for a while. And we can still keep it up. But we want some feedback from all you professional creatives. What do you think? Do you like the daily videos? Hate them? Please comment and let us know. Thank you.