Amazon.com launched “Your Kindle Commercial Contest” and invited customers in the United States to compete in a creative competition to develop the best 30-second or less Kindle advertisement for the chance to win $15,000 in Amazon.com Gift Cards. Kindle is the #1 bestselling item on Amazon.com for two years running, and it’s also the most-wished-for, most-gifted, and has the most 5-star reviews of any product on Amazon.com.

Back in 2004, Yahoo! launched its Big Idea Chair award to recognize the best practices in the interactive marketing sphere all around the globe. To support the launch of this year’s phase in Brazil, the Everything, integrated communications company, which is a part of ABC Group, developed a series of hilarious episodes «Little Kids, Big Ideas,» featuring children of 7-12 years old, who are acting as creative stuff of a mini-agency.

Earlier this summer,  Greenpeace organized a contest encouraging people all around the globe to redesign BP’s logo after the Gulf oil spill catastrophe. A week before the end of this competition and announcement of the winner, the global environmental organization launched another creative challenge at jovoto, inviting internet users to find a new key visual to support the message «Renewable energy can cover 100% of our power requirements by 2050» for its upcoming anti-nuclear power campaign in Germany.

Soon after launching its young designers contest in collaboration with MTV, Swatch is kicking off another creative project, dedicated to aspiring talents in the areas of “illustrative art works, art projects with graphic influences, animations and book art objects.” Swatch Young Illustrators Award is encouraging all emerging creatives to take part in the contest (arranged for the second time) for a chance to receive a money award of €6,000, get publication and illustration agency contracts and be invited to design a limited-edition Swatch Watch.

Nestlé has launched a UK new campaign, developed by WPP-owned Santo, to promote its new Milkybar Raisin & Biscuit among adult consumers. Through the new marketing push, which is dubbed «Ungrow UP» and is revolving around the funny bespectacled character, the Milkybar kid, the brand is inviting consumers to take part in the light-hearted online activity for a chance to take part in the next stage of the campaign.