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What started off as a conversation about a funny looking ad has evolved into a contest to see who can do better. Take your best shot at making an ad for Unitrends - the winner gets a $50 Visa gift card, a Unitrends swag bag, and their ad will get run on Spiceworks.

Enter here ! Entries have to be in by the end of August.

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Thats awesome!

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Awesome idea :slight_smile:

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Bleh, quality looks poor in the thread. It’s not so bad on my screen…

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So do we post our entries on this thread? … or on that massive thread?

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Awesome!

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Here we go!

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Just for clarifications, could the rules/guidelines and the original picture be posted here? Sifting through the replies is kind of tough.

Definitely going to work on something when I get home.

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Look what you’ve started Philip.

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not to bad when clicked on

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Everyone this is great. : Superb stuff.)

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The original banner is attached below.

Jenn (Unitrends) wrote:

Deadline… 11:59pm Eastern on August 31, 2010.

Cimin (Spiceworks) wrote:

Acceptable sizes are 300x250 px. or 160x600px.
No larger than 30KB file size.
Accepted file types are .png, .jpg, .gif, or .swf.
If using animation, no more than three rotations and it must stop animation on the last rotation.

Creative Resources

Logo in eps

Logo in jpg

General Unitrends resources (like the whitepaper itself) can be found here

Image- whatever your choice is

Copy Guidelines:

  • Should mention whitepaper

  • Title of whitepaper should be included if possible: What Most Backup Vendors Don’t Want You to Know

I’m leaving most of this vague and open since we want to know what YOU like to see on your banners.

And here is the link to the whitepaper that the banner points to: Unitrends | Unified Backup & Disaster Recovery You Can Rely On

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Magan (Spiceworks) wrote:

The original banner is attached below.

Jenn (Unitrends) wrote:

Deadline… 11:59pm Eastern on August 31, 2010.

Cimin (Spiceworks) wrote:

Acceptable sizes are 300x250 px. or 160x600px.
No larger than 30KB file size.
Accepted file types are .png, .jpg, .gif, or .swf.
If using animation, no more than three rotations and it must stop animation on the last rotation.

Creative Resources

Logo in eps

Logo in jpg

General Unitrends resources (like the whitepaper itself) can be found here

Image- whatever your choice is

Copy Guidelines:

  • Should mention whitepaper

  • Title of whitepaper should be included if possible: What Most Backup Vendors Don’t Want You to Know

I’m leaving most of this vague and open since we want to know what YOU like to see on your banners.

And here is the link to the whitepaper that the banner points to: Unitrends | Unified Backup & Disaster Recovery You Can Rely On

This shouldn’t be limited to just that particular whitepaper, just design an ad in general for unitrends :]

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I love this community! Always something going on.

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Ryan.Johnson wrote:

So do we post our entries on this thread? … or on that massive thread?

I know it’s not ideal, but just so that everything is in one place, entries should be posted in the original thread. Thanks!

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Yep, just put them in the original thread. That way they are at least all in one place so that Jenn from Unitrends can review them.

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The good, the bad and ugly…

See all the entries at: http://www.unitrends.com/unitrends_ad_contest.html

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I have just blogged it :slight_smile:

http://www.unofficialspiceworks.com/2010/08/the-good-the-bad-and-ugly-unitrends-adverts/

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Just wanted to let everyone know that voting has been extended! So you can still visit http://www.unitrends.com/unitrends_ad_contest.html and cast your vote for your favorite!

Happy Friday SpiceHeads!

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http://www.unitrends.com/unitrends_ad_contest.html