Pepsi has teamed up with Animoto this holiday season with a contest to encourage you to “Share the Joy” of your Animoto videos.
Everyone has a different definition of joy. Submit your Animoto video that uniquely features your 2009 and makes everyone share a smile. Five winners will receive both a black Flip MinoHD™ Camcorder and a year’s supply of Pepsi!
Holy shiitake, that’s a lot of Pepsi.
January 2nd is your deadline! For more info, head to the contest page.
So far in our quest to feature the world’s best professional photographers, we’ve presented the incredibly talented Vicki Taufer, Kevin Kubota, David Ziser, and Kirk Voclain. This month, it gets even hotter with featured genius Andy Bondurant.
Andy Bondurant is the founder and director of Senior Portrait Artists (SPA), the largest organization of high school senior photographers. SPA aims to bring the best products, information and resources to its members while facilitating communication, collaboration, and inspiration. Andy maintains an active online forum, SPA Talk, publishes SPA TK Packets, and organizes SPA Events. If you’re a senior portrait photographer, you can’t miss SPA’s January event in San Diego, CA. Andy is married to famous senior portrait photographer Kia Bondurant of Antisdel.s Photography.
Find out why Andy Bondurant is committed heart, soul & body to Animoto: http://animoto.com/go/andy.
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Thinking of using Animoto for your holiday cards this year? Purchase an All-Access Pass before January 1st and you’ll get our full holiday package, which includes a hi-res video greeting to send to as many friends and family as you like!
Learn more about the holiday package »
Already an All-Access user? We’ve got you covered: all greeting cards are included with your account – and, you’re getting a free hi-res video, too. Enjoy!
Happy holidays everyone. We’ll see you in 2010.
Welcome to the most fun, personal, and easy way to send your holiday greeting cards this year!
Today we release two holiday video greetings, one in a charming pop-up card theme, and the other, a whimsical odyssey into a starry night, both rich in texture and warm winter scenery.
But we won’t just be making greeting cards for the holidays. Starting now, we’ll be making unique, elegant video greetings for every holiday and occasion year-round! Check out our first birthday card, released today as well.
Watch previews and create your own »
Planning to send out holiday cards this year? Animoto is cooking up a few new beautiful video packages that we think you’ll love.
They’re not quite ready yet, but we couldn’t help our excitement. Watch the a sneak peak below. Coming to Animoto on December 1st!
Thus far in our ad campaign featuring the world’s best professional photographers, we’ve presented the incredibly talented Vicki Taufer, Kevin Kubota, and David Ziser. This month, we are proud to present the one and only Kirk Voclain.
Kirk is the award-winning owner and photographer of Kirk Voclain Photography in Louisiana. Kirk is one of the top portrait photographers in the country, honored with numerous Fuji and Kodak Masterpiece Awards, and he is published in many popular photography magazines. When he isn’t shooting, Kirk manages Pro4uM.com, an online community he founded of professional photographers.
Get the dirt on how Kirk Voclain uses Animoto to score every senior portrait session in town: http://animoto.com/go/kirk.
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Here are a few events we’ve been invited to speak at in the coming weeks:
Piper Jaffray Global Internet Summit
Wednesday, November 11th
Menlo Park, CA
Brad will be speaking on the topic of personal content sharing with Jeff Housenbold, President & CEO of Shutterfly, Eileen Gittins, CEO of Blurb and Josh Grotstein, CEO of MotionBox.
IOP: Grids, Clouds & Service Infrastructures
Thursday, December 3rd
Sophia Antipolis, France
Stevie will be speaking on the topic of how cloud computing helps mitigate the many challenges of a new business.
SMUG: New York
Wednesday, November 18th
New York, New York
Jason will be speaking to professional photographers about the fusion of video with photography and what they can learn from the world of film & television production.
If you’ll be in town or at any of these conferences, let us know!
With over 8 million images of history’s most iconic figures, places, and events, LIFE.com offers the largest and most diverse collection of photography available online. We’re massively honored to be making a selection of LIFE.com’s images available to our users in our image collections.
When making an Animoto video, you can select LIFE.com images in our Travel category and in our new Animals category. Stunning images of some of the world’s most famous locations and adorable animals can now be included in your videos.
Need inspiration on how to use these images? Check out LIFE.com to see how they are already using Animoto. Animoto videos using images of Marilyn Monroe, the historic moon landing, and Martin Luther King’s 1963 March on Washington are being featured on their site now.
And as with any new feature/addition to our site, let us know how you end up using these images. We love hearing from you all and can’t wait to see some of the creative ways you use these iconic LIFE images in your Animoto videos.
We absolutely love everything about SmugMug… from their cutting-edge services and impeccable customer service to the transparency and personality that their website boasts. The guys that run that company are awesome and we’ve always considered the quality of their entire user experience and customer-centric approach a huge inspiration for us. So you can only image how excited we are to announce this partnership and integration here at PhotoPlus in NYC.
SmugMug users can now create Animoto videos from their photos and video clips in their SmugMug accounts, while Animoto users can export their personalized video creations straight to SmugMug for storage, sharing, and reselling.
To create an Animoto video from within SmugMug, you simply click the “Buy” menu from within a gallery and select “Create an Animoto Video.” You’re then redirected to Animoto.com and placed directly into the video creation process with your SmugMug photos and video clips already loaded. When the video is finished, you open the “Export” menu from Animoto’s video toolbox and select “SmugMug” to export the completed video back to SmugMug.
SmugMug’s CEO Don MacAskill kindly hosted Brad and Robert Scobble over at SmugMug HQ. Scobble made this great video:
Animoto and SmugMug will be showcasing together in booths #465 and #467 at the PhotoPlus International Conference + Expo in New York City, October 22-24, 2009.
It’s crazy to think that we launched Animoto for Photography just one year ago at PhotoPlusExpo.
Since then, we’ve attended nearly every national photography convention in the country and even some abroad, got some of the biggest names in the industry declaring their love for us, and managed to roll-out a whole slew of features specifically developed with our Pro-Photography users in mind.
Coming full-circle, we’ll be attending PhotoPlusExpo again this year at our stomping ground, the Javits Center. From Thursday October 22nd through Saturday the 24th, the Animoto crew will be holding down the fort at our PhotoPlusExpo booth. Best of all is… you can get in for free!
For all our tri-state area fans/users/early adopters/newbies, we encourage you to come by our booth and say “hi,” as the entire NYC staff will be taking turns manning our booth. We love meeting our users and hearing your thoughts about your Animoto experiences. It would be great if you could make it out.
Here is information on how you can snag free entrance to the show. (Tickets are normally $49!) Enter the VIP code: MOTONYC at this registration form.
We look forward to seeing you at PhotoPlusExpo!
