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Two Ways to “Think Pink” with Brickfish This Month

In honor of National Breast Cancer Awareness Month, Brickfish has teamed up with brands such as Estée Lauder and Mariah Carey to spread awareness online and inspire women everywhere. 

Breast cancer continues to be one of the most prevalent diseases facing women today – it is the second leading cause of cancer death in women, after lung cancer. Thanks to early detection and treatment, an estimated 2.4 million women living in the U.S. have been diagnosed with and treated for breast cancer. These women continue to conquer the disease and go on to live happy, normal lives.

The Breast Cancer Awareness Campaign, sponsored by The Estée Lauder Companies, is proud to support this cause and gives women the opportunity to share their personal story of triumph - or honor someone they love who has battled this disease.

Women are invited to share their stories for a chance at winning some much needed pampering and products from Estée Lauder. From blogs about young survivors to beautiful photos of women and their support systems, these stories are sure to ignite the cause and make October 2008 prettier, pinker and more powerful than ever!

Aptly titled Luscious Pink, Mariah Carey’s new fragrance by Elizabeth Arden, is sure to drive some extra awareness by auctioning off an awe-inspiring dress for breast cancer research in the Design a Luscious Pink Dress for Mariah Carey Contest.

Entrants are invited to design a dress for Mariah Carey inspired by her fragrance and logo. The winning design will be selected by Mariah and a panel of fashion experts.

Three custom dresses will be made from the winning design; one to be adorned by Mariah for the world to behold, one for the contest winner to add to his/her own collection and one to be produced and auctioned off at a charity event benefiting Breast Cancer Awareness.

View these inspiring entries or create your own today!

Annoucing the Geo View Feature on Brickfish

Brickfish is proud to announce a new feature that you may have already noticed. Using Brickfish's patented Viral Map™ technology, in addition to checking out the Web View of campaigns and entries, there is now an option called Geo View. It allows you to see where in the world people are engaging with entries and campaigns.

The Web View of an entry will show how a campaign has virally spread across the Internet in real time, identifying all Web sites where the campaign has been posted and total views on each. Geo View technology, which integrates with the Google Map API, now enables you to track engagements geographically and obtain real time data on where and what types of engagements are occurring by city, state, region and country.

Make sure to check back as we release more features, straight from the fishbowl!

 

Campaigns for a Good Cause on Brickfish

Here at Brickfish, we strive to help others create, promote, watch and share. However, it still gives us goose bumps when that creativity can  be used for a good cause to help foster change, growth and positive healing in the lives of people we know and love. 

Now is the time to show your symbols for peace and share your good deeds. You and the causes you love have a chance at getting rewarded for your efforts. Take a look at some new campaigns that are sure to ignite the peace lover in you.

Design Your Symbol for Peace Poster
As a visionary, activist, advocate and artist, Nassiri has been recognized locally, regionally, nationally and internationally for his work spreading the message of peace. Now he's calling on you to design your own original symbol for peace and incorporate it into a poster along with Nassiri's Love Sees No Color logo and the World Peace logo. You an walk away with an all expense paid trip to Las Vegas, $1,000 in your pocket and more. Design Your Symbol for Peace Poster here

Helping Hands Charity Challenge
You can win $250 towards the charity of your choice and $100 for yourself! Are you giving your time, money, effort or donating goods to a charitable cause? If you're taking steps to better the world around you or improve the overall quality of life, this campaign is for you. Share your story, photo or video about how your group has made an impact anywhere from your neighborhood to the world and you. Share your good deeds here.

Check out all of our campaigns in our new Causes Category!

Win a Trip to NYC for the "Shear Genius" Finale Party!

Nexxus Salon Hair Care challenged contestants of Bravo's show "Shear Genius" to show models, step-by-step, how to style their own hair. Now they want to hear from you.

Think you have what it takes to be a pro? Prove it! Develop an easy to follow, step-by-step styling plan with either photos or video of your best look. Show us in four simple steps your best and upload them into the entry editor under submit entry.

Take your hair to the Nexxus level!

The New Brickfish Entry Editor!

The Brickfish new and improved Entry Editor is a design tool that provides an easy and fun way to create campaign entry masterpieces. User generated content is created by uploading and choosing assets, changing colors and adding original text.

Take a look at The Wackness Graffiti Throw Down and browse some of the excellent movie posters that have been created so far. Vote for the ones you like or use them as inspiration to create your own!

If Whole Foods and Granola Planks cereal are more your thing, Design an ad for Honest Foods! invites users to use to the Entry Editor to create what could be the next promotional advertisement for Honest Foods.

If you have already used the Entry Editor, leave us a comment and tell us what you think! 

We are excited to announce some new features in the Brickfish community.

Here at Brickfish we strive to continually improve our site and platform, while constantly taking feedback from our members into account.

As you may have seen, campaigns now have an Overview page. The Overview page provides you with a quick summary of important instructions and prizing for each campaign. Pressed for time and not sure what a campaign is about? Take a quick look by clicking on the Overview Tab!

 

We have reorganized the Frequently Asked Questions as well. The FAQs are now organized by subject. This will make it easier for you to navigate if a question should arise. As always we are here to answer any questions you may have. If you find your question unanswered with the FAQs, contact membersupport@brickfish.com and let us help you out.

We are also very excited to introduce a new Winner Highlights section to each campaign page where a winner interview has taken place. We realize the story of one’s creations and entries never end after a campaign. Sometimes winners love to tell their story, and we at Brickfish love to share it with you. If you have won a campaign and want to tell your story, drop us a line at brickfishrewards@brickfish.com.

One another feature we want to tell you about is the Spotlight makeover. Check it out and find featured entries we love, new sweepstakes with awesome prizes and great stories about our winners.

We will continue to bring new exciting features and upgrades to you now and in the future. Let us know what you think!

Nike wants you to Show Us Your Better

Think your Power is all powerful?

Think your Quick smells like French toast?

Some may think their baby’s better is better than your better. Others may coerce you into thinking their downward dog will make you walk away with your tail between your legs. Some might even go so far as to say, “My power moves mountains and anything else in my way.”

Now it’s your turn to show us your better. So come on, Quickie Von Quick-Quick, enter the “Show Us Your Better” Video Contest and prove that your Speed doesn’t move like a gravy boat.

All you have to do is post an original video (up to 60 seconds) that shows us why your better is better. If you bring it and your better really is better, you’ll win an Ultimate Nike SPARQ Training Pack with all the gear you need to take your game to the next level. We’ll even help you get the creative juices flowing with the Nike SPARQ Training video kit. Just download the kit, get inspired, then get to work. May the best better win.

SHOW US YOUR BETTER Video Contest Brickfish

New Feature Makes It Easier to Rise to the Top

We’ve seen your entries appear all over the internet on Facebook, Myspace, Xanga, AIM and beyond! More and more people are taking advantage of our easy Post to Websites and Embed tools to help generate excitement around an entry and rise to the top of internet fame.

To keep the excitement going, we’re adding a great new feature to help you get even more support for your entries. This new feature is launching soon, but we’re proud to offer you a sneak peak.
Now friends and family can vote wherever your entry appears! Every time an entry appears on another site (like MySpace) using the Post to Websites and Embed tools, visitors to those sites will be able to vote directly on an entry without coming to Brickfish! They simply click the “vote” button below the entry and that vote registers in the campaign!

What does this mean for you?  The more people vote for an entry, the more your score increases in the rankings!

Along with the new vote feature, we’ve revamped the look of the player to better feature the entry and help make it easier to pass along.

You can check out the latest fashionistas in SiTV’s Ultimate Fashion Challenge or read funny sports stories in Rotohog’s Share Your Funniest Sports Moment! campaign. It’s easy to share an entry and easy to earn other great rewards from Brickfish.

Dive in to one of the current campaigns.

What is Brickfish (to you)?

A brick shaped like a fish?  A fish shaped like a brick?  How would you describe Brickfish to a friend?  We’ve told you about the great campaigns and prizes we’re offering, but we’ve never gotten down to the idea behind Brickfish.  We’re a lot of things, but here is how I see Brickfish.
                                             

I don’t want to toot our own horn, but who am I kidding—if I didn’t think it was a great idea, I wouldn’t be here.  I see Brickfish as an amazing site that brings together an incredible group of individuals with shared interests.  Be it art, design, photographs, or blogs, we want to unite our members and guests through campaigns that are relevant to them.  On top of that, we want to reward you for being fantastic members, by offering one-of-a- kind experiences.

                                                                                  

Where else would you find the opportunity to earn a virtual mentorship with top New York designer Thakoon?  How about having your artwork featured on a CodeMaster’s site?  Sing on stage with Grammy Award winning artist like Rascal Flatts?  The list goes on and on.

                                                         

But the real story behind Brickfish is... YOU.  You are the heart and soul of what we are.  Your enthusiasm, your creativity, your imagination allows us to be amazing.  So, thank you.
 

Let us know “What is Brickfish to you?”  Drop us a comment here or on our profile.  We love your thoughts and feedback!

                                    

Cheers,

Josselyn

Your Brickfish Team

 

All eyes on the Prize!

We've been getting some knockout pictures in our latest Kodak contest "Pricey Ink—You're Fired! Photo Contest". The eyes are coming in fast and furious.  You name it, we've got it - human eyes, pet eyes, colorful eyes, multiple eyes, and many more.

I'd be scared to have a staring contest with any of these entrants.  Do they have enough to take the title.....that remains to be seen.

If you think the eyes have it, be sure to check out the campaign and vote for your favorite.  Voting and reviewing can qualify you for our weekly sweepstakes for great cash prizes.