Video “assignments” that are run on websites like Poptent, Tongal and Zooppa are great because the sponsors often use the purchased/winning submissions as actual pieces of advertising. But personally I still love straight up, old school video contests. (By “old school” I mean the kind of contests companies were running all of 2 years ago.) I’m talking about the type of thing where a company runs a contest kind of just for fun and invites their fans and customers to submit videos. When people aren’t worried about creating brand-appropriate commercials they’re free to go crazy and do some really goofy stuff. Case in point, Royal Purple’s Reel Wars video contest. RP got some really off-the-wall submissions for this one. I especially liked that made the finals. I figured a beautiful russian girl + a cool car + a baby duck would = a win. But Here’s the video that came out on top:
Grand Prize Winner. Prize: $5,000.
Boosh! Yep, that was and man and I happy to be the winner. Royal Purple really ran a great contest. Even though they got more than 40 entries, RP promised to give every contestant a case of Royal Purple motor oil or a $100 worth of merchandise from their online store. That is a really classy move. It shows contestants that you actually appreciate the time and effort they put into making their entries. And Royal Purple even said they want to set up an interview with me and one of the judges where he’ll present me with a giant novelty check. No joke: Receiving a giant novelty check is one of my Life Goals! So I guess I can cross that particular item the bucket list.
Well, I’m going to do some celebrating this weekend, that’s for sure. Have a happy Friday everybody. But heads up…be sure to check back here early next week. We’re going to be announcing a MAJOR piece of video contest news in a few days. I can’t talk about it yet because I’m under a press embargo. (My second this week!) But I will tell you this, it’s a really SUPER piece of news. I’m not sure yet when the embargo will be lifted but it should be Wednesday at the latest.
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Congratulations! Well earned.
Congrats Dan, looking forward to the announcement.
congrats dude!
nice to see that goofy can still prevail!
Props!
yessss…Purple Bot rules! Congrats!
man, i’m anticipating that announcement now!
Purple Reign…Congrats on the win!
Thanks for the congratulations guys. I really appreciate the sentiments.
About the news I mentioned in this post: I’d say check back on Wednesday morning and we should have the story up by then.