posted by max on November 07, 2006 at 08:01:51 AM

hallo! guten tag!

I know I haven't updated in some time, I've been visiting the fatherland. I'm not back yet but I figured I'd pop in for a little contest.

Some promotional company asked me to do a promotion for the new Borat movie, and while I profit nothing and the prizes are lame, I figured it might cause a spurt of creativity.

More inside.


Some junk the promotional company sent me:


Borat Conan Interview - WMV  - part 2
Borat Conan Interview - Quicktime  - part 2
Badly resized copy of the soundtrack cover


Use this stuff or find whatever you want. The basic rules:
1. put borat in the keywords
2. make it somewhat relevant
3. contest ends on sunday the 12th.
4. i am the only judge (aka funny police)


lame prizes:

1 "Grand Prize": 1 Borat soundtrack and 1 poster
2 "You fail prizes": 1 Borat poster and sticker

When I have some more time I'll set up an easy listing of Borat sites.


Now, to address something else entirely, ads. I know you guys have been getting raped by all the ads lately, especially the popups. To clear things up, every time YTMND shows a pop-up, I die a little. AdSense revenue has been slipping for months so I've finally dropped it all together for the time being. In the next few weeks you will be seeing a lot of changes to how the site is organized, mainly to benefit the advertising. Pop-ups can't be a long term solution for YTMND's lack of revenue, so I'm working on a few things to try to avoid them. They pay more than any other ads and they lower traffic, so it's sort of a double whammy. If you have a family member or friend in media buying or internet advertising, tell them about YTMND and to drop me a line at max@ytmnd.com.

More (and better) updates soon.

Cheers from Germany

-Max