Marillion is giving you the chance to win £5000 AND giving away a brand new song FOR FREE. Download a special edit of the BRAND NEW song “Whatever is Wrong With You?” now - then use it as the soundtrack to your OWN video.
What kind of video? Well it can be absolutely ANYTHING you want it to be - we don’t want to limit your choices by even suggesting something. Just make something that YOU want to make: funny, interesting, serious, mysterious - but something that EVERYONE would want to watch! Then upload it to YouTube… and this is where the £5000 comes in.
The video you upload to YouTube MUST be called “Marillion - Whatever Is Wrong With You”.
To enter the Marillion Whatever is Wrong With You? Video Contest, participants must upload a qualifying video later than 0:01 on 1 December 2008 local (London) time.
The contest will run until the end of the Happiness is the Road Tour 2008, and on December 1st the video with the most views will win the £5000 cash Grand Prize - it’s that simple. The better your video, the more people will watch it, and the more chance you have of winning.
In addition to the Grand Prize, we will also be giving a special Spot Prize to the video we (Marillion) think is the best, regardless of how many views it gets.
The new track ‘Whatever is Wrong With You’ as an MP3 are available below!
To download the song, get the lyrics, and enter this Contest click here
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4 responses so far ↓
1 Beau Chevassus // Jul 31, 2008 at 12:34 pm
Sweet song, but beware:
Winner is based upon number of views according to YouTube. Views are easily (with enough research and care) able to be auto-generated, of course with the risk of YouTube deleting your account (but many wouldn’t care about gambling their YouTube account for £5000). Me? I’ve worked way too hard to establish my YouTube account. There are technically two prizes–one is “judges choice” and the other is based off of “views.” Shame though. Let’s hope they change their judging criteria to something less able to be manipulated… it’s a tight song and £5000 sounds awesome!
2 ET_Phome // Jul 31, 2008 at 3:25 pm
Yuck, I hate it when contests are judged based on YouTube features. It’s always a terrible idea because (like the previous poster said) view counts can be boosted by auto-refreshers and star ratings can be hijacked with friends or multiple accounts.
3 Douglas // Aug 1, 2008 at 9:44 am
I hate to be contrarian (actually, I love to be contrarian) but you have to think of this from the contest sponsor’s POV for a minute. Do they really want a new music video on the cheap, or do they want you to frantically entice everyone you know to listen to their new song? I know that pageviews is a pretty coarse way to judge a contest, but it aligns very well with most marketing goals. I think it works as one criterium among a broader set of judging criteria.
What do you think of contests that have judges pick the top ten, which then go for voting; or the top ten most popular then go to judging for grand prize winner selection?
4 g // Aug 25, 2008 at 3:17 pm
I’ve been thinking abou tthis a while - and have had films in “contests” - when people I knew said my was on par or better than the winner, then I realized that there is no way for the cream to rise - well - I mean you are up against the problems above, but also unfortunately the possibly uneducated, or possibly naive, or possibly stupid, or possibly suspect, or possibly vitriolic “judges” who are the viewers… funny we all want to get noticed, but you can’t trust those noticing!
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