Heinz is calling out for creative minds, which love poetry and prefer to have the taste of their meals amplified with perfect ketchup. Through its Facebook page, the brand is encouraging poetic individuals to come and join its new “Ode to Awesome” contest, which will be running online from July 12 to August 1, for a chance to get $30 gift cards, given out on a daily basis, along with two grand prizes of $500 cards and a year’s supply of Heinz ketchup.

Levi’s has sponsored this week’s YouTube hit, a simple yet great video called «Guy Walks Across America» to promote its new line of jeans and make a contribution to its portfolio of great commercials. The title of the ad (which doesn’t look like a promotion at all) tells all about the plot—Mike, a young man wearing brand-new jeans from a recently launched collection of Levi’s, goes on a walk trip along the roads of the USA, starting in New York and finishing in San Francisco.

All the roads lead to Rome—or to YouTube, when we talk about the area of commercials. Most of the spots, created to promote big and small brands, eventually appear on YouTube and are steamed either through corporate or individual channels. To make it easier for ad developers or industry fans to browse the related content on the world’s most popular video hub, YouTube launched the official “Show & Tell” channel, which comes as the “home of the best creative marketing examples.”

YouTube has launched a new program to make ‘the mountain come to Mahomet’ faster—one of the biggest online video-sharing services is offering cash to people who can make appealing clips and attract yet more visitors to the website. The Google-owned online community will spend $5 million during Partner Grants Program on big and small (ranging from a few hundred to a few hundred thousand dollars) donations to emerging creators.

YouTube is collaborating with famed filmmakers Kevin MacDonald («State of Play») and Ridley Scott («Robin Hood») as well as with thousands of internet users from around the globe to create a unique documentary about one single day. The project, which is supported by LG, will result in the full-length film “Life in a Day” featuring the most interesting videos centered on only 24 hours from a life of those, who will upload their footage to YouTube.com/LifeinaDay.