# Online fundraising videos now eligible for Gold Star Award

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2009/09/01/online-fundraising-videos-now-eligible-gold-star-award/
- Published: 2009-09-01T14:19:09+01:00
- Author: Howard Lake

Global capacity-building charity the Resource Alliance is seeking entries for the
Gold Star Award for Non-Profit Video Advertising 2009, which seeks to recognise 
the best fundraising video from across the world. For the first time, the award 
scheme has been extended to include online fundraising videos, not just direct response
TV (DRTV) adverts.

 

 [⌊Gold Star Award for Excellence in Fundraising DRTV 2008⌉](http://www.flickr.com/photos/howardlake/2947069706)

 

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Sponsored by Rapp, the Gold Star Award will be presented to the best fundraising
video advert from around the world. The winner will be selected by a live audience
at the annual [International Fundraising Congress](http://www.resource-alliance.org/ifc)(
IFC) in Holland, which runs from 20-23 October.

 

To enter, fundraising videos must first be uploaded to YouTube before entries are
completed at the awards site.

 

The judging panel will select a short list of the top entries, which will then be
displayed at the IFC, where delegates will vote for the advert they think best.

 

Shortlisted candidates will receive a £200 discount to IFC, while the winner will
receive the Gold Star trophy and a free place at the 2010 IFC. Any fundraising video
advert can be submitted, so long as the appeal ran within the past 18 months. The
closing date for applications is 25 September 2009.

 

[Last year’s competition for the best DRTV appeal](https://www.fundraising.co.uk/nspcc-wins-international-drtv-award)
was won in a popular vote by the UK charity NSPCC, which beat off challenges from
Canadian, Mexican and other UK NGOs.

 

Alan Bird, Marketing and Communications Director of the Resource Alliance, which
stages the IFC, said that he hoped the inclusion of online videos will make the 
award “more accessible for many smaller organisations across the world, to whom 
TV advertising simply has not been an option.”

 

Ian Haworth, RAPP’s Global Chief Creative Officer, said: “Even with traditional 
TV ad spend dropping globally, the power and potential of film is increasing dramatically
with the many digital apertures where consumers can engage and indeed interact with
film. Film is going to a whole other level, it’s incredibly exciting and a chance
to really innovate”.

 

www.goldstar-award.com

 

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