Vidopp.com was launched in January of 2007 which means it might just be the oldest video contest site on the web. (Correction: It’s not. Turns out OnlineVideoContests.com beat them by two months) To be totally honest, I never really check Vidopp because the layout is a hot mess. They list a ton of new contests over there but the site really needs some TLC. If you’re a hardcore video contest nut and if you have the talent and the time you may want to consider buying Videopp. The site is up for sale and it sounds like it actually generates a few hundred dollars in profit every month. The site’s being auctioned off on Flippa and the bidding is only at $330. The “buy it now” price is $4,685 but I don’t think the bidding will get that high. Like I said, the site needs a lot of work. The layout is totally all over the place. Here’s a screenshot:
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Now that I think about it, I guess someone who’s good with wordpress could probably get the site looking clean and organized in a day or so. I’m pretty handy with wordpress and I am a giant video contest nut. A crazy little voice inside of my head is telling me I should place a bid. I’m making a nice steady stream of cash from VCN and if I double the number of websites I own, I’d double my profit! But I barely have time to keep this site running so I’d probably lose my mind if I took over Videopp. Although, it does sound pretty low maintenance. There’s a form on the site where contest sponsors can submit their new contests. So that means they do most of the work. Videopp is also one of the top search results for “video contests” so there would always be traffic coming in. According to the Flippa auction, the site gets an average of 2,482 visitors a month. Those kind of numbers probably mean that Videopp is the number 3 busiest video contest site on the web. I assume that OnlineVideoContests.com is number one and if it is, that means that VCN is probably number 2. Not for nothin’ but right now is our slowest time of year and the site’s been getting 6,500 – 7,500 unique hits a month. And when Crash the Super Bowl season comes around, boy howdy do we see the traffic. Last January this site saw 33,000 unique visitors. What does any of this have to do with Videopp? Eh, nothing really. I just wanted to brag. Anyway, if you want to check out the Videopp auction and maybe put in a bid, head here.
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VidOpp was the first site to come along after we launched OVC! We posted our first contest in November of 2006 (“The Avid :30 Spot Contest”).
They were a great inspiration for OVC in the early days, before we really took it on full time, since they would post very consistently, and our posts were very sporadic (and we had an AWFUL design …). Hopefully a good buyer emerges and does something special with it.