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May 02, 2005
Concentric Flash Contest (in other words, win $$$!)
I have a friend who does PR for XO Communications which owns Concentric hosting. The other day, he mentioned that Concentric was holding a contest for Flash designers with a first place prize of $2,500. No, it's not enough to retire and live a leisurely life of video game playing (you'd need several more zeros for that), but it will get you a heck of a lot closer to that plasma TV you know you want. Here is an excerpt from the contest page:
We are looking for movie entries that depict Clustered Hosting and our "don't compromise" message in the following ways:
- An intriguing, thought-provoking, potentially humorous, possibly irreverent, animation for our front page, drawing people in further to our site, our message, and our products.
- A well thought-out, lucid, easy-to-understand animation explaining the clustered hosting technology.
This isn't a commercial for Concentric because I have no idea how good they are, but this is an opportunity to walk away with some pretty serious gadget and toy money just for doing what you love to do. I will be charging a 10% referral fee to the winner, by the way. PayPal information forthcoming. :)
Posted by cantrell at May 2, 2005 01:08 PM | References
Comments
Sounds like a cheap way to commision an animation to me.
Posted by: Bobnotbob at May 3, 2005 07:59 AM
That's generally what these types of contests are about. That, and word-of-mouth publicity. Nothing wrong with that, though, especially if the money is going directly into the Flash community rather than to an advertising agency.
Posted by: Christian Cantrell at May 4, 2005 01:26 PM