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# The Rise & Fall Of Fan Created Videos
- URL: https://www.hypebot.com/junip-asks-fans-to-make-video-via-youtube-win/
- Published: 2011-06-08T13:27:00.000Z
- Updated: 2011-06-08T13:27:00.000Z
- Description: Crowdsourcing a music video is not new, but it does seems to be becoming more popular. Perhaps too popular. In the last week alone. Panic! At The Disco's held a Viddy. Continue reading [https://www.hypebot.com/hypebot/2011/06/junip-asks-fans-to-make-video-via-youtube-win.html]
- Author: Bruce Houghton
- Tags: YouTube & Video, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-01-21 10:55

[![image from users.section101.com](http://hypebot.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83451b36c69e2014e88fe7e0f970d-115wi "image from users.section101.com")](http://hypebot.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83451b36c69e2014e88fe7e0f970d-popup?ref=hypebot.com)

Crowdsourcing a music video is not new, but it does seems to be becoming more popular. Perhaps too popular. In the last week alone. [Panic! At The Disco's held a Viddy](https://www.hypebot.com/panic-at-the-disco-viddy-fortuitous-discovery-or-stealth-marketing-deal/) contest and 1600 fans submitted clips for a new [Michael Jackson video](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yv62k7mkWPE&ref=hypebot.com). With **YouTube** editing tools and [**Creative Commons**](http://youtube-global.blogspot.com/2011/06/youtube-and-creative-commons-raising.htm?ref=hypebot.com) footage, it's getting easier for fans to make a video. But are there so many fan created videos, that the concept has lost its novelty?

The latest band to ask fans to create a video for them,

in a co-promotion with [Mashable](http://mashable.com/2011/06/07/junip-contest/?ref=hypebot.com)

, is **[Junip](http://www.junip.net/?ref=hypebot.com)** . Fans can listen to the song on YouTube and submit entries.

There's more info on [YouTube](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFLvUD24xOU&ref=hypebot.com) about how to enter. But as interesting as Junip's song is, a day and a half after a full post on the highly trafficked site Mashable, the video has less than 1800 views. That in and of itself is not proof that fan created music video contests are passe, but does seem that they've lost some of their novelty.

My guess is that hard core fans will always enjoy the opportunity to make a video for their favorite band, but running a fan video contest no longer grabs the attention that it did even a few months ago.

**What do you think? Are fan created videos passe?**