Do a google image search for "April" and you'll get this and a ton of porn

April is finally here and two big contests have deadlines this month. The first is the perennial Taxslayer.com commercial contest with the hard-to-forget deadline of April 15th. There are two big prizes in this contest; first place gets $15,000 and second gets $5,000. The other deadline to remember this month is April 23rd. That’s for the Godaddy commercial contest. Godaddy’s giving away more than $175,000 in that one so you might want to ad it to your calendar.

Since both the taxslayer and godaddy contests require contestants to upload their videos to youtube, it’s really easy to check out the competition. So let’s see what’s been submitted so far.

Let’s start Taxslayer. According to that contest’s rules, contestants must upload their entries to youtube and tag them “Taxslayercontest2010.” Doing a search for that tag yields just ONE, solitary result. Here it is:

Remember for this one, contestants are required to submit both a 30 second and a 15 second version of their entry. You can watch the 15 second version of the above ad here.

As we’ve mentioned before, Taxslayer lowered their prize amount and instituted some new rules this year. And it looks like those changes have scared everyone away. I had pretty much decided not to enter but if no one else is going to enter, maybe I should after all?

The Godaddy contest on the other hand has already received a whole bunch of entries. You can scroll through them all here: http://videos.godaddy.com/Super-Bowl-Video-Contest.aspx

But how about I save you a lot of time and just show you the three best entries so far. These three seem to be the only ones slick enough for TV:

EDIT:  Looks like I missed one.  Someone left a link to this entry in a comment.  It’s very slick but it’s kind of odd because it seems to be sort of a parody of the sample entry that godaddy produced:

As you can guess, a lot of crazy shit has been submitted too.  This video for instance is just plain WRONG. I think Chris Hanson needs to pay a visit to whoever came up with this idea:

If you shoot an entry for either the taxslayer or the godaddy contests and want to show off your work, e-mail us a link or just leave it in a comment below. We’ll post some more of our favorite entries later this month.