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Here’s a chance to finace your next home-improvement project. The Home Depot is giving away a $25,000 gift card (and many more prizes) to the best YouTube video entry showcasing the projects you would like to tackle around the house.

“Our YouTube gift card contest is a great way for consumers to inspire us and each other with creative home improvement ideas,” says Manish Shrivastava, President, Home Depot Incentives. “We know that a broad range of people are creating and sharing content on social media sites like YouTube every day. We wanted to see if we could capture a portion of that audience and focus them on home-improvement ideas at a time of year when everyone is thinking about how to make their homes look the best for the holidays.”

 Follow three simple steps to enter:

Dream It. Start building that mental checklist of the projects you would tackle with a big gift card. A surprise kitchen remodel? Neighborhood service project? The ultimate garage workshop? It’s your call.
Shoot It. Now the fun part – pick up a video camera and enlist a “director” to film you describing the home improvement makeover you have in mind. Walk around the house, survey friends and relatives for their ideas, or get creative with a bigger production. 
Win It. Beginning on November 10, 2007, you can upload your video to The Home Depot Holiday Gift Card Contest Group for everyone to see.

Helpful Video Hints
· Each video should address what home improvement projects you would tackle with a $25,000 Gift Card from The Home Depot.
· Please include your first name/location and “Depot Contest” in your video title (not required).
· The suggested timing for videos is between 30-60 seconds, with a maximum limit of two minutes.
· Limit one entry per person, so make it good!

You can download and use a few of The Home Depot logo gift card images here:
http://www.contestrules.net/thdgiftcards/118857_CordBow_C…
http://www.contestrules.net/thdgiftcards/118857_CrateBow_…
http://www.contestrules.net/thdgiftcards/118857_Ornament_…
· You can download The Home Depot jingle as an mp3 here:
http://www.contestrules.net/thdgiftcards/THDJingle.mp3

Judging criteria are as follows:

· Relevance to the Gift Card Contest theme – 40%
· Creativity – 20%
· Originality – 20%
· View count (number of people who have watched your video) – 20%

Entrant’s must meet, as determined by Sponsor, the following criteria to be awarded the prize: 1) video must showcase home improvement projects in or around the entrant’s home; 2) video must describe how entrant will use the $25,000 The Home Dept Gift Card if selected as the Grand Prize winner(“Gift Card Contest Theme”); and 3) video should not exceed two (2) minutes in length.

To enter this video contest click here.

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