Whenever I hear about an interesting initiative to help web video creators and their projects succeed, I like to write about it with the hope it benefits our fast growing Spidvid community, and in this case Celtx’s community too.

Laurie of Celtx mentioned to me in a recent email conversation that they are looking to give back to all of the hard working video creators and talent who use and love their pre-production product. Celtx Seeds has launched to provide $20,000 to fund 10 projects, each getting a budget of $2,000 to work with. Celtx will also promote each seed funded project across their site, through YouTube and Vimeo, and we hope on Spidvid and UnleashVideo too so we can also help get each and every entertaining video more views, love, and attention.

Learn more about this excellent initiative by watching the Celtx Seeds pitch video below

More about Celtx Seeds:

Are you the creative force behind the next hit web series or short video? Could you use some financial support and help getting your work in front of more viewers?

Then look into Celtx Seeds – the new producer program to recognize and reward work that stands out.

Over the next 32 days, we’ll select 10 different web video projects to receive $2,000 seed funding. Plus, we’ll promote these projects to the million-strong community of content creators on celtx.com, and on the Celtx channels on YouTube and Vimeo.

Submit your best web video work completed in the last year. If your project is not quite done, but will be finished by September 30th, then submit the script and samples of your previous work.

All genres and permutations of narrative web video are welcomed. Submit your project via your Celtx Studio no later than Friday, 15 July 2011. Projects will be selected on or before Monday, 15 August 2011.

Questions? We have answers: seeds@celtx.com

Hopefully you are inspired and motivated to submit your top work to Celtx for your shot to receive $2,000 to launch your next big video project. And if you ever need partners or collaborators for your video projects, be sure to get a Spidvid profile, post your project, and build the team you need to succeed.

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Been thinking up creative ways to increase projects on Spidvid, provide some extra incentives for video creators, and get the Spidvid community more engaged with new opportunities.

So today we are launching an initiative for current and future Spidvid creators where we act as a video project producer.

Here’s how the Spidvid Creator Initiative works:

- A video concept or script must be submitted to us and pre-approved.

- Each created video should be 1-5 minutes in length.

- Each video needs to have good original entertainment and production value.

- Each video must be ad-friendly for brands.

- Since collaboration is at our core, each video must be created with at least one Spidvid community member. A team member can quickly and easily get a free Spidvid profile.

- $50-$500 will be provided for each project budget.

- The video creators and his or her teams will be given 25%-50% of the content ownership.

These are the key points of our Spidvid Creator Initiative as of today. There will be likely changes over time, and so updates will be well communicated here on our blog, in our newsletter, and via Twitter and Facebook. If you have any questions please contact us, or post a comment below.

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No matter where you upload and distribute your video or film content to, perhaps the most important reason why you are motivated to take that action is to build your up your profile, and to say to the world “I’m here and look at the talent I have”.

Video sharing sites can be great for the ego if you see lots of viewers consuming your content, but nobody knows the story behind how that video came to be through the lenses of each team member involved with the project.

Each production project is an opportunity to build your reputation as well as helping your team members build up their own as well. The reason why eBay works so well is because it’s a community built on trust, and whoever can’t earn the trust of the community will ultimately fail. Mostly on the seller side, but I’ve heard stories of these individuals getting a new eBay account giving them a second chance to gain the trust needed to become successful.

With each product and in Spidvid’s case each production project, a reputation is either enhanced or it gets hurt. It’s up to each individual to either commit and earn positive feedback, or not commit and earn negative feedback.

The Internet was long an anonymous medium in which nobody had a real name, or even a picture for others to connect to. That’s how many of us wanted it because fear was driven into us that we could be abducted, rapped, or even killed by the creepy strangers and predators lurking out there online.

There still are many bad people out there looking to hurt innocent and naive people, but for the most part many of us are looking to build social profiles which establish our credibility and to let others know that we are good, and don’t want to remain anonymous anymore.

You might be saying to yourself right now that you have references who would back you, which I have no doubt that they would do, but imagine having everyone you have worked with in the past endorsing you for each and every project you were part of. Now that’s a digital trail of reputation which is pretty valuable, and an on-demand solution for showing anyone who wants to you know about you, exactly what type of individual you are. Having your team members tell stories about who you are as a person, and reasons why others should want to work with you also is like reputation gold for your personal brand.

Our goal is to connect the right combination of individuals to undertake projects that translate into remarkable video and film entertainment, but we also want to provide a platform where a profile can be shared and leveraged on important things like resumes and media kits.

Want to build up and enhance your video production reputation? Join our community, or if you already have an account, start getting active within the community and start writing your very own Spidvid story.

Have a past video or film production project (or projects) that you would like to log and make a digital record of? Learn more about how you can build up your reputation through the videos and films you produced or helped to create weeks, months, or even years ago.

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