Video Contest News » purchased http://videocontestnews.com Videocontestnews.com is dedicated to providing the growing online community of video contest filmmakers with news, tips, advice, interviews and more! Tue, 22 May 2012 03:00:26 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Triaminic starts airing Poptent-made commercial http://videocontestnews.com/2011/11/04/triaminic-starts-airing-poptent-made-commercial/ http://videocontestnews.com/2011/11/04/triaminic-starts-airing-poptent-made-commercial/#comments Sat, 05 Nov 2011 04:00:14 +0000 Beardy http://videocontestnews.com/?p=7335 The other day I was screwing around on the Internet and I had the TV on in the background.  Out of the corner of my eye I noticed a Triaminic commercial that looked really familiar.  I knew I had seen it before but I also knew I had never actually seen it on TV.  I turned up the volume and watched carefully.  I could not figure out how I could possibly recognize a brand new TV commercial.  What was really weird was that the ad was only 15 seconds long but I was sure I remembered it being longer.  About 20 minutes later it finally hit me.  I had seen the Triaminic ad on Poptent.  I checked the site and the video was created by Poptent’s Super-Salesmen “Bisbinetts” (AKA Joe) for a Triaminic assignment from 2010!  I guess Triaminc liked the ad and decided to hold on to it until the 2011 cough and cold season started.  I haven’t seen many user-generated ads on TV this year so good for Triaminic for running Joe’s spot.  Here’s the 30 second version:

Purchased by Triaminic.  Price: $7,500:
 

 ]]> http://videocontestnews.com/2011/11/04/triaminic-starts-airing-poptent-made-commercial/feed/ 0 Warning: Content best viewed while high http://videocontestnews.com/2009/10/01/warning-content-best-viewed-while-high/ http://videocontestnews.com/2009/10/01/warning-content-best-viewed-while-high/#comments Thu, 01 Oct 2009 23:19:28 +0000 Beardy http://videocontestnews.com/?p=441 This week Poptent announced a bunch of videos that have won awards or have been purchased by various brands. This video was purchased by .INFO for $5K. The creator of this video has some crazy post-production skills. It’s very professional…and trippy. To fully appreciate this one, you might want to go do a couple bong hits before viewing:

Purchased by Brand. Fee: $5,000.

Three other videos won “Poptent Awards” of $1,000, $500 and $500. You can see those ads here: http://www.poptent.net/blog/?p=776

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