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YOUR PBS Video Contest!

PBS has engaged memelabs to bring you the “YOUR PBS Video Contest,” — and you best be ready to discover something new, surprise your friends and, possibly, win great prizes. PBS is on the cutting edge of technology, providing a stellar online video experience and interactive audience engagement tools. Today, audiences can watch their favorite full-length PBS episodes online; interact directly with PBS talent through live chats with journalists, filmmakers and producers; as well as stay-in-the-know in real time by becoming one of its fans on PBS’s Facebook page, subscribers on its YouTube channel or one of its many followers on Twitter.

Movember Inspired Mo-Contest Launches

This year, memelabs is proud to announce its partnership with the organizing body behind Movember, in a joint effort to raise funds for men’s health issues by launching a Mo inspired video contest.

Chip’s Not Dead Yet video contest is alive and kicking!

The 2nd Annual Chip’s Not Dead Yet Memorial Mile will take place on June 20th, 2009. At last year’s event, thousands of people ran an uphill mile in one of several theme waves. They were decked out as rockstars, bridesmaids… even running in their underwear! Event founder Chip Wilson matched all the registration dollars in [...]

Congratulations to the Wells Fargo Someday Stories winner

We were honoured to work with Wells Fargo to produce the Someday Stories video contest, which endowed one lucky winner with $100,000 to put towards their dream. The contest also gifted $450,000 to three wonderful charities: Habitat for Humanity, Boys and Girls Clubs of America, and Junior Achievement.
The contest ran for two months and garnered [...]

The Heart of Houston Video Contest Launches!

Memelabs is excited to announce the newest contest to our block with the Houston Arts Alliance in “The Heart of Houston” which will feature some of the inspiring artists that Houston has to offer!
The Heart of Houston video contest has been launched to celebrate and elevate local artists asking the participants to submit one minute [...]

Weighing in at 7lb 3oz…We Welcome mini-meme to the World!

Posted by Jenn Lowther
If you’ve noticed at lack of posting recently here at memelabs, there has been a good reason for the silence. We’ve been busily working away night and day at memelabs HQ to bring you the newest addition to the memelabs family – mini-meme.

Mini-meme is a low cost, self administered alternative [...]

1st Annual Vancouver Blogathon for Charity

Posted by Jenn Lowther
Vancouver’s first annual blogathon for charity is set to start 10 pm Friday, July 26 and will finish 9 pm Sunday, July 28. There are three shifts that blogs could sign up for and Invoke – memelabs parent company – has signed up for the Sunshine Shift – 10 pm Friday [...]

Memelabs Encourages You to Rock the Vote- CDN Stlye

Memelabs is proud to announce our partnership with Apathy is Boring. As a great supporter of their initiatives and goals, we have launched a new video contest to all Canadians who believe that Apathy IS Boring.
We know the statistics. Youth aren’t voting and they aren’t opting into the traditional political system. Apathy is Boring isn’t [...]

memelabs is Proud to Present…Your Summer TV Line-up with FanTrust!

Ahh, summer. A time of vacations, beaches, watermelon, fireworks, and … reruns. While we languish through a long, dry summer in TV-land, our characters are off doing, well, what exactly? When we reconnect with them for the season premiere, everyone on TV is looking a bit better, starting another school year and wearing scarves while [...]

How Social Networks are like High School

Posted by Jenn Lowther and Nadia Nascimento
Nadia and I spend tons of time on social networking sites. We’re on or have been on facebook, linkedin, twitter, youtube, plurk, myspace, friendster, adgabber, adrants, britekite, digg, reddit, fark, slashdot… After having spent some time on all of these sites, we’ve made some general observations [...]