StupidVideos.com Launches Cash Rewards Program for Submissions

EL SEGUNDO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--StupidVideos.com (www.stupidvideos.com), the premiere online destination for family-friendly comedy, today announces the launch of a new promotional program that rewards content creators up to $25,000 for their video clips.

“Our users don’t have to calculate how much they can earn based on the number of views their clip receives or how much advertising revenue the company brings in. Basically, if our editors like it and feature it, our users make money.”

The new StupidVideos rewards program involves daily, weekly, monthly and annual cash prizes with winners selected by the StupidVideos editorial staff. User-submitted clips that are featured on the StupidVideos.com homepage automatically earn $5.00 a piece. An additional $100.00 prize is given away for the funniest video clip of the week and a $1,000.00 prize to the funniest and most emailed clip of the month.

As in years past, StupidVideos.com will also give away a grand prize for the funniest original video of the year. Past grand prize winners have received $10,000 and $15,000 awards however the prize for 2007 has increased to $25,000 for the best original clip as judged by the StupidVideos editors, and $5,000 to the best video as judged by other StupidVideos users. In addition to these cash prizes, StupidVideos is giving away $2,500 to the two members who represent the most active users in the StupidVideos community, through blogging, commenting, sharing and other activities. Information on the rewards program can be found under the ‘Win Stuff’ tab on the StupidVideos.com website (http://www.stupidvideos.com/win/).

“This is a very straight-forward approach to rewarding users who create funny viral videos,” said, Karina Kogan, General Manager of StupidVideos.com. “Our users don’t have to calculate how much they can earn based on the number of views their clip receives or how much advertising revenue the company brings in. Basically, if our editors like it and feature it, our users make money.”

Throughout the year, StupidVideos will continue to run other offerings and contests, in addition to this new rewards program. For example, users can stay tuned for promotions around non-video content housed in the newly launched Stupid Stuff section. Stupid Stuff, which includes flash games, pictures, animations, magic and illusions, jokes, crazy news, prank calls and other media aligned with StupidVideos’ wacky sense of humor, launched quietly last month and has proven remarkably popular, attracting over 900,000 visitors consuming an average of ten pieces of media per visit.

StupidVideos.com was recently declared the ‘stickiest’ or most engaging US video site by Compete.com (February, 2007), the US online traffic analysis firm, and PureVideo Networks, StupidVideos’ parent company, was named one of comScore’s top ten gaining properties for the same month.

StupidVideos.com:

StupidVideos.com is a viral video website dedicated to humorous, off-the-wall videos, including wild stunts, wacky animals, sports bloopers, funny commercials, song and dance parodies, and original comic shorts by the StupidVideos producers. Users can also find funny pictures, illusions, casual games, and animations under the new Stupid Stuff tab. StupidVideos.com has streamed more than 1.5 billion videos and maintains a PG-13 website.

For more information, please visit www.stupidvideos.com