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The videos and votes are all in! Here are the top videos in each category – judges will deliberate to select the winners.

For Category #1, General Issue Ads, the top videos were (in no particular order):

“I will not be silenced”, “Alyssa wants to be a Senator”, “A penn a day to keep corruption away”, “America’s Biggest Hypocrite”, “The Government We Created”, "Americans are fed up", “This is your country”, “Money Talks”, “Money Looms Over All”, “The Devil’s Making a Call”, "Money in politics = corruption", and “Get the Money Out 2”.


For Category #2, Candidate Specific Ads, the top videos were (in no particular order):

“William the K St. Lobbyist vs. Iowa”, “Aaron supports Staci”, “Upton’s World”, and “Help Candidate Carol Shea-Porter”.


Note: the 10 videos with the most votes as of the initial deadline of 5 p.m. ET October 16, 2014, as well as the 10 videos with the most votes after the 24-hour additional voting period, are included as finalists. Due to significant overlap, this resulted in 11 finalist entries for Category #1, each of which will be reviewed by the judges. Please contact info@mayday.us with any questions.

How the contest works

Inspired by MoveOn's "Bush in 30 seconds" video ad contest from a decade ago, we're asking citizens to create 30-second video ads that could be aired on national TV. Our all-star panel of judges – George Takei, Jason Alexander, Shepard Fairey, Zephyr Teachout, Marianne Williamson, Baratunde Thurston, Anna Galland and Cenk Uygur – will review the top entries and select the winners. 

We are excited to work on this contest in partnership with our friends at MoveOn.org, and with support from partners such as PCCC and Rootstrikers.

Judging Details

Videos will be evaluated by our Contest Committee using the following criteria:


  • Does the video effectively communicate the MAYDAY message?
  • Does the video make compelling the importance of money in politics?
  • How creative is the video in delivering the concept/message?
  • Does the video have the “x” factor that a true political ad would need to move the needle on the issue of money in politics?
  • For videos in Category #2, candidate specific ads, does the video effectively support one of MAYDAY’s pro-reform candidates?

We have entrusted our esteemed panel of “Supreme Court” judges to evaluate these videos against these criteria to select the winning entry in each category. Best of luck to all of our entrants!

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The Fine Print

  • We reserve the right to take down any content deemed by us to be off topic or inappropriate.
  • Selection process: Winners will be selected in each category by earning the highest number of votes. Top ten vote-getting videos in each category will be reviewed by a Contest Committee, composed of celebrity judges (George Takei, Jason Alexander, Shepard Fairey, Zephyr Teachout, Marianne Williamson, Baratunde Thurston, Anna Galland and Cenk Uygur) and Mayday staff. The Committee will select a winning video in each category. Within our discretion, the winning videos may be aired in district races.
  • All videos must be licensed freely (CC-BY).
 

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  • This time we own all control.
    ling_kong
    4 votes
  • This video is type on a Windows document with the main points of why we have an election every two to four years. This video focuses general issues because we need to know the issues first before understand the candidates. 30 seconds GENERAL (category #1)
    dauthrt
    2 votes
  • A message love to all the Michigan voters looking for a new kind of congressman this fall
    snovey
    15 votes
  • The Devil makes a phone call.
    js232003
    61 votes
  • Money in politics = Corruption
    savedemocracy
    86 votes
  • Big Money Negates Your Opinion
    chenry
    57 votes
  • GENERAL
    chrispwaterman
    9 votes
  • Can we reclaim this democracy? This video remix of Lawrence Lessig's MIT talk, "Tweedism," asks us all to make the corrupting influence of money in politics America's #1 issue.
    jordanwharrison
    93 votes
  • Will the K Street Lobbyist gleefully explains why corporate cash is used to keep Iowans from being represented in Congress. [SPECIFIC Category #2]
    williamrice63
    91 votes
  • Vote Republicans Out!
    mayday
    2 votes
  • Animated metaphor for how corporate money is hurting our democratic process.
    cody
    60 votes
  • GENERAL #MAYDAYin30
    cm-campbell
    2 votes
  • The Government We Created #MAYDAYin30 - GENERAL
    nancy
    364 votes
  • A Washington DC power broker gloats about the influence of money in politics, but is heckled by an off-camera patriot.
    williamrice63
    118 votes
  • This is a 30 second video pitch plus a description of the rationale for the ad. This is more of a conceptual prototype for a national ad campaign than a finished product. I wish I had some talent for filming and producing video. I have almost none.
    mark
    46 votes
  • GENERAL—“Don’t Vote Crazy”
    sheiden
    42 votes
  • General (category #1): Why Campaign Finance Reform Matters
    thelizardhead
    9 votes
  • GENERAL- A penny a day to keep corruption away- #MAYDAYin30
    democracymatt
    129 votes
  • HELP CANDIDATE CAROL SHEA-PORTER
    kathyhyman41
    4 votes
  • WAKE UP AMERICA...AND VOTE !
    kathyhyman41
    6 votes
  • The Political Pig
    bobmiller321
    1 vote
  • "This is Your Country" is a satire on a classic public awareness ad, with a viscecral punch.
    ennis
    99 votes
  • Money Talks! — A supporter of "Citizens United" fantasizes about being a stack of corporate cash performing stand-up comedy for a packed house of adoring fans.
    williamrice63
    118 votes
  • Tom Steyer, the biggest political donor in America, got rich investing in coal projects abroad through his offshore hedge funds to avoid U.S. taxes. Now he backs Democrats to raise taxes and deny families affordable energy here in America.
    phil
    7590 votes
  • GENERAL #MAYDAYin30 The problem with big money in government is not complicated. Even a child gets it. A child also learns how our system "works" -- we must teach our children, and ourselves, a better way!
    charles.goldman
    191 votes
  • The Political Pig
    bobmiller321
    2 votes
  • Category #1
    David
    296 votes
  • GENERAL. The 1st step is repealing CITIZENS UNITED.
    hester.schell
    52 votes
  • The Political Pig
    bobmiller321
    1 vote
  • The Political Pig
    bobmiller321
    2 votes
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