U Film It, an online video contest platform for brands and non-profits that want to create consumer engagement through user-generated videos, photos and text.
U Film It connects marketers, businesses and organizations to an online community comprising of video makers, graphic designers and creative thinkers.
Founded in 2011, U Film It aims at generating user awareness through online user-generated video contests. The videos create a positive consumer association for firms as they launch new products or services, or simply in generating greater audience awareness by offering tangible rewards for their participation.
Last year U Film It ran a contest to allow Kenyans use videos to spread peace messages by simply recording a short video of not more than 3 minutes of their peace message and what their take on peace is.
Participants would then upload the Video to the U Film It platform, invite friends to view and rate the video for as many views as possible before the final judging by a competent judging panel selected from the film and media fraternity.
The most exciting bit of the contest was the simplicity it afforded Kenyans since one could use any video recording device even their mobile phones, an offer that attracted very positive reviews from Kenyans especially from Generation Y who are active in social media and are tech savvy.
The aspect of social media and online video sharing platforms such as U Film It channel can be used as a critical tool for Advocacy on Social issues and is clearly explored in this short film that you can watch at the following link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qc7zHzOGrvw
U Film It brings together Creativity, Technology and Brands to one online destination. This way organizations can engage their consumers to make interesting and creative audio-visual brand communication using simple everyday tools like mobile phones/ cameras/ tablets and uploading to the web and mobile world for sharing with family and friends globally.
