[A message to our community from Neil Perry, acting CEO at XLNTads]
I pushed Mark aside for a change so that I could to fill you in our progress with the outstanding creative many of you submitted as part of our Amazing Pitch webisode development plan. We received, as Mark would say, some totally awesome webisode trailers and pilots in our first go round.
As you may recall, we partnered up with Broadband Enterprises to help get these tremendous show ideas presented to major brands and ad agencies. We hosted a large number of top ad agencies at a big conference in December where your work was shown on big screen home theatres while the BE sales team joined us in pitching your work for selection.
The sales process continues, and we hope to have some good news to announce soon. Since this is a relatively new advertising approach for many brands and agencies, it’s taking a while to deliver the sale, but we remain confident based on the feedback we’ve been getting.
Broadband Enterprises has some great news of their own (they just raised $10 million in funding to grow their company!) which should help them build their business while they find webisode contracts for our creators.
In February, the XLNTads team will be attending a four-day conference in Florida with over 140 marketers representing the top 100 companies in the U.S. We’ll be sharing details on our webisode opportunity, and also presenting the best shows from both Amazing Pitch I and Amazing Pitch II.
You folks have done a fabulous job with the webisode initiative. My compliments to all of you. You still have until February 7th to get us your best pilot episode or trailer for a chance at that $30,000 production budget!
[tags]news, xlntads, broadband enterprises, amazing pitch, webisodes, video, advertising[/tags]
May 6th, 2008 at 10:11 pm
Quick question, in the Amazing Pitch II, did the 5 people that was suppose to win the Sanyo Xacti E1 or the $500 cash ever get picked for this prize? How about the $1500 for first place?