[UPDATE]: Voting is now open! You can vote for Spacevidcast on the Livestream.com site.
Exciting day for me and I think for all Spacevidcasters out there! I have wanted to get a premium account with Ustream.tv (watershed) or LiveStream.com but simply could not afford it on Spacevidcast’s budget of $0.00. Earlier this month LiveStream announced a contest to win a free premium account (I assume the small one). The contest was simple: using LiveStream’s new channel design features, create a new channel look that would wow the judges. I had a couple of weeks to make this happen, but as usual waited until the 11th hour and at the last minute submitted something. I actually liked what we submitted but had no idea if it would actually make it. The contest ended on December 14th and then… nothing. Not a peep.
Earlier today I got an e-mail from LiveStream that said,
“Nice work. Out of hundreds of page designs, yours was one of the ten best. Voting starts tonight and ends Monday, Dec 28th at 11:30 pm. Your Channel will be featured as a finalist in our next newsletter as well as on the Livestream website. Good luck.”
Sweeeeeeeeeeeeeet! I actually had no idea this was a two stage process, but at least we passed the first stage. I just figured they would pick a bunch of designs and go from there. Now we need to win stage 2! Later tonight LiveStream will post the content on their website where users can vote (I assume there will be a blog entry). I would be greatly appreciative if you would vote for the Spacevidcast design to help me get in with a premium account as a great way to start 2010.
Why should you care? Because a LiveStream premium account can have all those annoying ads removed! That’s right, no more pre-rolls, no more overlays! I can opt to add them back in if I want to make some cash for SVC, but this is a fantastic way to get epic subscribers a channel without any ads!
Now I just need ToDoCast.tv to have a similar contest so I can win a free satellite broadcasting setup and free satellite air time. That would be truly awesome!
What a great way to end 2009!