Posts Tagged ‘promotion’

And the Winner of the iPad is…

Thursday, April 29th, 2010

Well, we announced a contest last week to try the PhotoMix effect in the new Qik Video Camera Pro app in the Apple App Store. And we are pleased to announce that the winner is Matthew Cringle for the video below. Matthew did his magic and got 1067 people to view the video below – well done!!

Matthew – if you are reading this post, an email is on its way to get your postal address so that we can mail you the amazing iPad.

While going through all the submissions, one of the videos that caught our eye for both creativity and talent is the one below posted by Daniel Janca from Hungary.

Win the amazing iPad! Give PhotoMix effect in Qik Video Camera Pro a try!

Thursday, April 22nd, 2010

With the recent release of Qik Video Camera Pro, we added a new effect called Photo Mix. In this effect you start with selecting a picture that shows up on the main screen and then wipe parts of the picture to superimpose the video on the picture. How cool is that!!

So, starting now we are running a contest for you to win the amazing iPad just to give this a try.

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Here’s How to Participate.

  • Download Qik Video Camera Pro for ONLY $0.99 (yup – we are discounting the price just so that you can participate)
  • Then record a video with the PhotoMix effect and title it with “I want an iPad!”
  • Upload this to your Qik account
  • Tweet the text “Win an iPad from #qik. Get it at http://bit.ly/qikipad.

The video with the maximum views wins. So tweet this, post it on Facebook, share with your friends and do your thing to buzz up your video.

Contest ends 11:59pm PST on April 28. The winner will be announced form our blog and on twitter – so you may want to follow us on twitter.

By the way, make sure that you have a verified email in your Qik profile so that we know how to reach you in case you win :)


Make your videos even more special with Qik Premium

Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010

You can always do a lot with your free Qik account, but starting today you can do even more with Qik Premium. Download your videos, burn them into DVDs, enjoy higher quality playback and faster playback on slower connections for a promotional price of only $4.99/year.

  • This promotion is exclusively available from the Ovi Store by Nokia
  • Special promotional price ends March 31, 2010
  • With this promotion, you also get free access to features that we’ll be adding to Qik Premium in the Ovi Store this year.

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Build your mobile video library

Save your videos (MPEG-4) from qik.com to your computer, add them to your existing media collection, edit them, burn them into DVDs or create movies with your Qik videos.

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Better playback experience

We apply our unique high quality transcoding to make your videos look even better. See the difference for yourself by clicking the “HQ” button in this video. You can even playback these high quality videos from your mobile phone.

Your videos are also optimized for faster playback on all types of network connections. Say if you are on a slower connection, switch to non-HQ and playback your videos faster.

Below is the screenshot of the first frame of the video between the two quality levels. Watch the difference around the number 700, the texture of the grass around it and the houses and trees in the back.

Non HQ (HQ button is greyed)

Non HQ (HQ button is grey'd)

HQ

HQ

Tip: to record high quality videos, we recommend using a phone with at least 3MP camera resolution. Also, checkout tips on shooting cell phone video and eight tips for shooting great videos with a cell phone camera.

Coming next to Qik Premium:

  • Ability to upload and share videos recorded with your mobile phone’s native camera application

Qik Premium is now exclusively available from the Ovi Recommends Channel for a promotional price of only $4.99 / year, which is less than 2cents / day. You can also download this from the Ovi Store application on your Nokia phone by going to http://store.ovi.mobi/content/27434 on your Nokia phone. This promotional price also provides you with access to all the features that we’ll be adding to Qik Premium this coming year.