ForRent.com ‘Ready2Move?’ Video Contest Winners!!
The results are in! ForRent.com’s panel of judges have selected the winners for the ‘Ready2Move?’ video contest. We’d like to start off thanking all of our entrants for taking the time to create, in the words of Mike Brewer, ‘compelling’ submissions. It’s been a delight to have had such an amazing response. ForRent.com prides itself on being the nations leading apartment listing website.
This year’s submissions were extremely creative and made for a tough decision for our judges. The grand prize winner received $10,000, three finalists received an iPod Touch® and the voting sweepstakes winner received $1,500. Because it was so tough to judge this year, we’d like to recognize a few contestants as honorable mention. So let’s announce those winners!!
Honorable Mention:
Amorae Daly ‘Living at Home’
This contestant did a terrific job for her video. The layout of the video really presented an organized case for ForRent.com as to why she’s ready to move. She was humorous and creative which is why we would like to note her as an honorable mention. She received 800 votes on her video which proves that voters liked her submission as well. Congratulations!
Additional Honorable Mentions were: The Sky is Falling, Parallel Roommate, Top 5 Reasons We’re READY2MOVE with a whooping 1503 votes-4th highest of the contest, Crazy Roommate and last year’s winners’ submission Mean House. Congratulations everyone!
Voting Sweepstakes Winner:
Patrick Freise
“Wow, that’s tremendous!” said Mr. Freise, who voted everyday for a two week span on his friend’s video ‘The Perfect Date’. Looks like it paid off for him in the end! He won $1,500 for being a dedicated friend. Patrick is currently enrolled in his senior year at Binghamton University in New York studying financial economics. When asked what he plans on spending his new wealth on, he responded “I’m going to buy my girlfriend Katy a nice birthday present.” What a sweet guy. Congratulations Patrick!
Finalists:
Bart Baker ‘Ready 2 Move’
In an amazingly witty, humorous and professional video, Mr. Baker was able to tell ForRent.com why he was ready to move. His hip-hop music, original lyrics and professionally created music video made it a tough selection when choosing the grand prize winner. But in the end, Bart won an iPod Touch® for his hard work. Congrats!
Neehar Gupta ‘The Answer is Clear’
The storyline and professional quality for this video was spot on. We really felt that Mr. Gupta nailed it on the head with combining a commercialized video while also being personable. Voters really embraced his work as well, he topped out at 1600+ votes!! Congratulations!
Chandra Farnsworth “See Brent”
We really felt that the Dr. Seuss essence captured in this video was truly amazing. The animation and voice over were of the highest quality and really showcased all the hard work Ms. Farnsworth put into it. In addition to ‘See Brent’, Chandra also submitted two other great quality videos ‘Music Boxes’ which was another animated video with singing packing boxes, and ‘PADS’ which was a terrific spin off of MTV ‘Cribs’. Congratulations Chandra for a job well done!
Grand Prize Winner:
The selection for the grand prize winner was no easy task. There was an incredible amount of talented submissions, but in the end we could only chose one. And the winner is………… Justin Spence with ‘$1,200 a Month & No Pool’.
‘Holy Moly’ was the response from Justin when ForRent.com called him to tell him he is $10,000 richer! While the ‘phone call to a buddy’ concept of his video may not have been completely original, the quality, message and promotion of ForRent.com as the nation’s leading apartment resource made it the top of our list. He was able to capture exactly what we had hoped for in this contest and apparently we weren’t the only ones who enjoyed his work. Voters also appreciated his vide as he had over 600 votes.
As a videographer who does commercial work for local business in the Dallas, Texas area, he is a big fan of social media. “Social networking is the new media to advertise your product. It helps your message spread like wildfire and I try to convince people to use it as part of their marketing efforts.” He personally uses Facebook and MySpace which is how he pumped his video up for the contest. Looks like that avenue certainly paid off. Congratulations Justin!! Justin received his check in person by our president Terry Slattery last week in Dallas.
Well, that concludes it for our winners. We would like to thank everyone once again who participated in our ‘Ready2Move?’ video contest. We sincerely appreciate the efforts that were put into making this contest a huge success! Once more, congratulations to Patrick Freise, Neehar Gupta, Chandra Farnsworth and Justin Spence.
video depicts a conversation between Spence and a buddy, who is living lavishly in a Dallas apartment community, while Spence is desperately searching the classified listings for an apartment. The friend recommends ForRent.com as an apartment searching resource. When speaking about the benefit of the site’s functionality he boasts, “…you’re not gonna find that from some dude’s Web site in San Francisco.”
