Amazing. ProQuo was absolutely floored by how awesome your videos are. In fact, I heard they had a company party, brought in pizza and beer, and watched through all the videos and chose their favorites democracy-style. Fun! Apparently, it was a pretty wild party. LOL! Well, okay, that last part I made up, but I can imagine. Viral videos always get people amped up.
Okay, lemme cut to the chase. Here are their Top Ten favorites! Congratulations to all these folks who are banking $1500 each! Stay tuned for the viral run-off to see which one gets seen the most out there in the videoland wilds. (note: they’re all embeded, so give them a second to load)
ZackScott’s Sick Mailbox
ej6inmiami’s Junk Mail Attacks
kevhdigital’s Medieval Junk Mail
JamesDierx’s Do Not Kill the Messenger
cydog’s Unsolicited
sakinnuso’s Devil Deal
MattyGahan’s Dirty Mail Lady
SlatersGarage’s ProQuo Poor Eddie
ThreeVolts’ Too Much Junk 3
kahit1227’s ProQuo ID Theft
Tags: xlntads, video, proquo, advertising, viral, commercial
May 12th, 2008 at 6:23 pm
These are great! Congrats everyone!
May 12th, 2008 at 6:27 pm
Congrats, everyone… These were fantastic!
May 12th, 2008 at 7:12 pm
Just a note from ProQuo to say thank you to everyone for all of the great videos they submitted, and a congratulations to all the winners. We were very impressed with all the effort and passion everyone gave to the entries. Trying to whittle these down to 10 was a difficult task because there were so many great ones.
Thank you again to everyone who participated and, of course, to XLNTAds.com for helping us run this contest. We are excited for the next stage and to see all of these viral videos on the Internet.
Best regards,
Erik Bratt
Director, Marketing Communications
ProQuo, Inc.
May 12th, 2008 at 7:58 pm
Maybe you could not have the people be blitzed out of their minds making gut decisions? Some of these videos that you told us to try to make so they could go viral… a lot of these have 1 glaring flaw or another (in addition to being a commercial, which we cant help). Even though I LOVED the medieval junkmail one, it took 40 seconds for anything to happen. It has been estimated that 8-10 seconds of inactivity will lead to a closing of the window. and i didnt mean to pick on that one, because its one of the better ones, but it did not make itself for the purpose of garnering a lot of views AFTER the winner was chosen… at least not views that will see the end.
May 12th, 2008 at 8:12 pm
@ erik bratt - thanks for stopping in to say hi! We’re glad you enjoyed working with us and our community.
May 19th, 2008 at 6:14 pm
I want to give all the winners a big warm congrats! All the winners are really creative and I am amazing at the depth and breadth of the productions going on here. Some really top notch talent is hanging around here now competing!
Congrats also to the brand pro quo: They really picked some great creative here . no hedging bets this time or over thinking it. They just picked A plus stuff!
I wish I could have participated - I had a film in Tribeca film festival this year so I was drunk there instead of filming cool stuff!
May 23rd, 2008 at 11:12 am
[...] people. It’s the Zack Scott again. If you keep up with XLNTads, you might know that I recently won one of the ten prizes for the ProQuo contest that recently ended. I can’t take all of the credit though. My friend Samuel Seide and I both [...]
May 29th, 2008 at 3:21 pm
[...] XLNTads is Zack Scott. He’s a great guy, a funny fella and one smart videomaker. He recently earned some cash from us for his hilarious barfing mailbox for ProQuo and he’s written a great guest post for [...]
June 12th, 2008 at 9:39 pm
[...] of our awesome creators, Bill Pouty of ThreeVolts (makers of one of the great finalists on the ProQuo assignment) was interviewed on the all-video-contest blog VidOpp.com today. He’s got some great pointers [...]
July 2nd, 2008 at 7:18 pm
[...] we wrapped up the ProQuo assignment, we asked the ten winners to upload their videos all over the Interwebs and we’d give a little extra scratch to the [...]
July 2nd, 2008 at 7:18 pm
[...] we wrapped up the ProQuo assignment, we asked the ten winners to upload their videos all over the Interwebs and we’d give a little extra scratch to the [...]