Do you want to make some real cash doing what you love as a filmmaker? Here is your chance to win cash, prizes and become famous all at the same time. Tadcast, a startup from a couple of Harvard Business School students, wants to create an online marketplace for product placements, matching video producers with brands looking for placements.the startup is having a contest where users incorporate one of three advertisers’ products into their videos. The top prize of $5,000 goes to the user that generates the most views on YouTube for all of their videos. Second Place Prize: Adobe Creative Suite 4 Production Premium, a $1,699 value. Free 3-month subscription to IMDBPro for the top ten most viewed producers. Product donations to the top most viewed producers per product.

All you need to do is incorporate one of the products listed on our Products page in your next film and you are good to go! The site hopes to become an online resource where advertisers can post products that they want to publicize through product placement. Filmmakers will then be able to browse through the available postings and choose a product that they feel they can advertise successfully by organically incorporating it into the video. Visit the contest site for all the details. Good luck!

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Wednesday, January 14th, 2009 at 3:12 am | by Kur-nia-one |