Hubby Has a New Hobby. Now He's a Gorilla!

[IndieRetailer.com]

My hubby started taking up entering video contests on YouTube. He works as a Video Production Coordinator, so I would have thought he'd have enough of this stuff at work. But he says that being able to be creative on his off time is a bit of a release. After seeing a couple of his works and seeing what kind of money that can be had, who am I to discourage him?

He's done one for Heinz Ketchup (which has been all over the media lately), TLC (The Learning Channel) which he didn't get in on time, and the most recent is for the new Malibu Banana Rum, which is quite yummy by the way!

So, of course being the supportive spouse that I am, I told him that I'd do what I can to get him some votes. The Malibu one is up for public vote right now and we'd greatly appreciate it if you went and cast your 'thumbs up'.

Here's the link to his entry (and YES, he's the one in the gorilla suit!):
http://www.youtube.com/contest/malibubanana&results_all=true?goto=32

You'll need a YouTube account to vote. If you don't have one, don't worry, they're FREE and easy and you won't get slammed with spam; it's just a registration.

Of course I think it's cute, and if you do too, please feel free to forward the web address to everyone on the planet (uh... this one... Earth.) It could be worth $25,000!

Thanks!

[Lori]

I voted for it! It was so cute! :thumb:

[tiffanyc]

Too cute! Hope he doesn't get hot in that suit!

[IndieRetailer.com]

Thanks Lori & Tiffany!

Tomorrow, Friday the 22nd, is the last day to cast votes for our Malibu Video contest. If you haven't done so already, please go and vote for our video. Thank you.

http://www.youtube.com/contests_layout?name=malibubanana&v=laM2dw0mvL0&goto=32

To those of you who have voted, THANK YOU again!

[Audrey]

Let us know if you win :)

[Lori]

I'm going to try to put out the June newsletter today -- FINALLY.

I'll plug it :)

[Holly]

I just voted as well....it was so nicely done!

[IndieRetailer.com]

Thanks Audrey, Lori, & Holly! I never thought I'd be "nervous" about this sort of thing, but it's actually getting very exciting!

Wow, Lori! That's very generous of you; THANK YOU THANK YOU!:D :D

[Lori]

I'm almost done writing it Jennifer -- when is the voting deadline?

Lori

[IndieRetailer.com]

I'm almost done writing it Jennifer -- when is the voting deadline?

Lori

Midnight tonight, eastern. 9PM PST

Thanks again.

[IndieRetailer.com]

I just thought I'd let you all know that we didn't win the Malibu video contest. Ordinarily, we're not sore losers, but the winning video was just horrible and it generated quite some controversy on and off YouTube. Malibu removed it's comments section because of a great deal of discontent. It got so bad that the New York Times even covered the story: http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F50E13F9345B0C748EDDAF0894DF4044 82

There was some speculation that Malibu staged its own entry or conspired in some way, they also didn't even follow their own rules. Anyway, the whole ordeal was just disgusting. Again, that's not just sour grapes, check out the "winning" video and tell me if you don't agree!

You can check out the "winning" bid here:
http://youtube.com/contest/malibubanana

And again, for those of you who voted for us (especially Lori), THANK YOU!

[sarathy]

He's simply so cute. Ha ha. I've just voted for him. It takes a lot of enthusiasm to come up to do something like this. I really appreciate him for this. :)

[IndieRetailer.com]

He's simply so cute. Ha ha. I've just voted for him. It takes a lot of enthusiasm to come up to do something like this. I really appreciate him for this. :)

Well, thank you very much. I also appreciate the vote, except voting has been closed and the contest has been over for about 3 weeks now!:?

But, thanks for the kind words anyway, and I'll let you know when the next contest is up for voting.