Amazon.com announced today that my commercial is one of five finalists of the Your Amazon Ad Contest, Amazon’s first national competition in search of a television commercial idea from its customers. My submission, “WISH LIST,” along with all five finalists’ videos are available for customers to view and rate until September 6 at www.amazon.com/yaac.
“We were absolutely delighted with the level of creativity our customers demonstrated in their submissions,” said Steve Shure, vice president of global marketing at Amazon.com. “It was not an easy feat choosing only five finalists, and we’re very excited to see what our customers think about the videos.”
Props go out to all the cast and crew that volunteered their time and efforts to help pull this off. Special recognition must be given to producer Paul Irwin for his mad producing skills, Casting director Ann Gillette for pulling together a solid core of actors in just a few days, Get-Kinetic for the donations, D.P. Kevin Hackenberg for his slick eye, Gato, Inc. & Abad Rosa for the insane moco move, and GK’s editor/Visual FX guru, Dan Gauthier who made the project sing!
OK, so now onto the really important part. I have two big favors to ask of you:
1. Please head over to Amazon and please vote 5 stars for “Wish List” .
2. I would love some help spreading the word via email, facebook, twitter, LinkedIN, etc.
Here is the direct link to my submission.
In an effort to make this as easy and painless as possible (Because I know you’re all busy folks) please feel free to copy and paste the post into an email/blog/etc. Also, below is a quick headline that you can use in the social site(s) of you desire….
“Gary Irwin’s submission for the Amazon Ad Contest has been named as a finalist! Please do me a huge favor and Vote 5 stars for “Wish List.” http://tinyurl.com/ldg5za and please post this as your status and get all of your friends to vote too! Thanks everyone!”
Update: Voting has ended and we placed 2nd overall! Thanks to all who voted. View the completed piece here
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