Comments on: Results of the Aflac 10 second “Video Contest” http://videocontestnews.com/2010/06/12/results-of-the-aflac-10-second-video-contest/ Videocontestnews.com is dedicated to providing the growing online community of video contest filmmakers with news, tips, advice, interviews and more! Wed, 16 May 2012 03:22:31 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Beardy http://videocontestnews.com/2010/06/12/results-of-the-aflac-10-second-video-contest/comment-page-1/#comment-924 Beardy Sun, 13 Jun 2010 15:36:52 +0000 http://videocontestnews.com/?p=2438#comment-924 Johnathon, Whoa. Thanks for the info. I'll add an update to the post. Shane, When the contest was announced I think everyone assumed that you were supposed to make a 10 second video. But it turns out that this was called the "10 second challenge" because you had to explain what Aflac did in 10 seconds. But that 10 second explanation could appear in a video that was up to like 2 minutes long. Johnathon,

Whoa. Thanks for the info. I’ll add an update to the post.

Shane,

When the contest was announced I think everyone assumed that you were supposed to make a 10 second video. But it turns out that this was called the “10 second challenge” because you had to explain what Aflac did in 10 seconds. But that 10 second explanation could appear in a video that was up to like 2 minutes long.

]]> By: Shane Free http://videocontestnews.com/2010/06/12/results-of-the-aflac-10-second-video-contest/comment-page-1/#comment-923 Shane Free Sat, 12 Jun 2010 21:20:28 +0000 http://videocontestnews.com/?p=2438#comment-923 this is probably a dumb question but if its a 10 second challenge why was the ad 30 seconds? this is probably a dumb question but if its a 10 second challenge why was the ad 30 seconds?

]]> By: Jonathan Mann http://videocontestnews.com/2010/06/12/results-of-the-aflac-10-second-video-contest/comment-page-1/#comment-922 Jonathan Mann Sat, 12 Jun 2010 21:01:40 +0000 http://videocontestnews.com/?p=2438#comment-922 I made it to the Aflac top ten, and I placed in the final judging. You are absolutely right about this being the kind of contest to stay away from. There were a few ways to vote, one involving Facebook, and the other didn't. If you did it on FB, you had to "accept" the contest application, giving them all your info. If you didn't vote on facebook, you had to sign up. It was a pain. Aflac knew about the cheating and addressed it. There was one kid who I know for a fact they deducted votes from. In fact, it's only because of him (and maybe a few others) losing votes that Aflac deemed not legit, that I was able to be in the top ten. One interesting note: Someone at the PR company running this contest made pretty much the biggest faux pas EVER and sent an email out to everyone in the contest WITHOUT BCCing. So for weeks I was getting random messages from people I didn't know, complaining about cheating, complaining about this, etc. It sucked. Aflac later apologized. I made it to the Aflac top ten, and I placed in the final judging. You are absolutely right about this being the kind of contest to stay away from. There were a few ways to vote, one involving Facebook, and the other didn’t. If you did it on FB, you had to “accept” the contest application, giving them all your info. If you didn’t vote on facebook, you had to sign up. It was a pain.

Aflac knew about the cheating and addressed it. There was one kid who I know for a fact they deducted votes from. In fact, it’s only because of him (and maybe a few others) losing votes that Aflac deemed not legit, that I was able to be in the top ten.

One interesting note: Someone at the PR company running this contest made pretty much the biggest faux pas EVER and sent an email out to everyone in the contest WITHOUT BCCing. So for weeks I was getting random messages from people I didn’t know, complaining about cheating, complaining about this, etc. It sucked. Aflac later apologized.

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