I NEED YOU...
To help me advertise!

That's right, chumps, I'm taking money out of my pocket to advertise GamingW through Project Wonderful.  Originally founded by Ryan North (of Dinosaur Comics fame), it's a website where ad space is bid on.  This little contest is for you, the member to help bring some more life into this website. 

The objective, should you choose to accept it, is simple:

Design a banner in one of three categories.

After the contest period is over, a winner from each category will be selected by a panel of top secret judges (my mom or something).

The prize?  30$ USD gift certificate for your favorite online vendor (Amazon, Newegg, Wal-Mart, Pizza Hut, etc.) plus Premium Membership (which I'll also be donating 45$ to Gamingw regardless if you're a premium member or not).  I'm giving away 135$ in cash prizes to a bunch of random strangers and kids I'M FUCKING NUTS!!!!!!

Here are the official rules.  Read them carefully.

*Each contestant will post what kind of banner they will be designing.  You can only enter in ONE category thus you will only receive one prize.  The categories are:
-Banner 468x60
-Leaderboard 728x90
-Skyscraper 160x600

*Each image must be the exact size listed and must be saved as either a gif, jpg, or png.

*The ads should be no bigger than 200kb.  This includes animated gifs.

*Ads must be safe for work.  No coarse language, racial slurs, nudity, etc.

*You may resubmit your work at any time during the two weeks and change your category.  Just be sure to include a little note saying so.



I won't be telling you how to make your ad but make it appealing.  I still haven't decided where I'll be directly linking (probably to the forums) but this an advertisement so sell your point!

Deadline for all entires is 12AM PST (-8 GMT) June 28 (that's Saturday morning).  Either pm me the entires or email them to me at jbrown [at] email2me [dot] com.  A pm is preferred.  Winners will be determined over the weekend and the prizes will be handed out the following Tuesday, July 1st.

Happy creating!

Current Entires

Meiscool - Leaderboard
Aztec - Leaderboard
Carius - Banner

Id participate but I dont really have ideas for a clever ad. It can be animated right?

Perhaps Elighja has chance of winning this one.

What a great idea! I was hoping someone would eventually spend money to advertise GW somewhere...

My question is, where will these ads be displayed? I'm sure this has something to do with reading your link to Project Wonderful more thoroughly but I didn't really find anything on first glance.

edit: Ohhhhh. I see. So we bid on whatever sites we want to advertise our forums on. In that case, my question is: on which sites would we want to advertise Gaming World Forums?

Advertising through project wonderful is basically finding a site yourself, and bidding on it. whoever bids the most at any time on a site gets his ads displayed there. Its pretty cool.

Also costs are based on time instead of clicks, so no frauds

Id participate but I dont really have ideas for a clever ad. It can be animated right?

Yes, yes it can and with your fuck awesome sprite animation abilities you're a shoe in!  (please note the admins do not endorse any particular member FAIR CONTEST Y'ALL)

edit: Ohhhhh. I see. So we bid on whatever sites we want to advertise our forums on. In that case, my question is: on which sites would we want to advertise Gaming World Forums?

There's a very indepth search engine and I'll be searching for the cheapest websites with the highest amount of views.  Some websites literally get 40,000 unique hits a day with adspace at 40 cents a day.  Now, people can set a max bid limit which means I may be immediately outbid but I've got about 100$ sitting in my PW account so it's a matter of experimentation.

I'm going to try and advertise mostly at websites about video games, indie games, humor sites, etc. etc.  Basically, draw in a crowd much like our own but there'll still be a pretty big RANDOM factor thrown in through the use of the search engine.

This calls for some HEAVY DISCUSSION though

I mean, if we want to sell GW to people, what should we show? What should we talk about?
What represents GW the best, really?


BRRRAINSTORM

Whoops, accidentally posted it. This looks to be a good contest.

thats what we should be BREAINSTOERMING right now

what should we present in an ad

INDIE GAMES COMMUNAUTY bring your indie sword

I just started something random and went with it. I wasn't really thinking about drawing people in or anything, but more like... a logo or something. w/e

Can it be flash?

this is a great idea.

gaming world... where the poor become rich...

this is a great idea and one we had been tossing around in staff.

just figure out what the hell we should be advertising!

GAMES...COMMUNITY...FAMILY....HOPE.

Can it be flash?

Animated gif, gif, png, jpg only.

I got two entries already and while I feel it is unfair to comment on them early I just want to say that there should be some selling point to the add themselves.  I'm sure some people will see GAMINGworld and click on it instantly (because who doesn't love games?) but other than that there should be something flashy like a big picture of fogget or Bart's pimply face or something.

Also, new rule:  You can resubmit content within the two-weeks and change the category you're in at any time.  Just be sure to tell me what ad is your official ad.

I'd like to try this. I'm new here, and it will be a good 'forum member advertisement' entering a contest like this. I had won a banner contest once, like 2 years ago, so i'll go to the banner category. So, it can be everything related to gamingworld right???

But like I said we should think about this a little. Im not sure that a CONTEST is the best way to do this right now. Like, we don't even know for sure what we should present. Maybe we should come up with a good concept first together taking ideas from lotso people (heh...as a team...), and then from that concept make a contest maybe. I dunno, I'm pretty sure we will get much better results that way!

But like I said we should think about this a little. Im not sure that a CONTEST is the best way to do this right now. Like, we don't even know for sure what we should present. Maybe we should come up with a good concept first together taking ideas from lotso people (heh...as a team...), and then from that concept make a contest maybe. I dunno, I'm pretty sure we will get much better results that way!

Well shoot, we can discuss it right here.

I for one joined way back because of rpg maker.  I doubt it's actually that relevant now but I think indie gaming is a pretty big draw so include that.

Yeah but I mean how to include that. Like maybe animation clips or mockups of fake indie games being played or something, with captions saying like "you make em, you play em, gamingworld indie games community"