Microsoft Announces Awful Winner of Bing Jingle Contest
Microsoft Announces Awful Winner of Bing Jingle Contest
Posted 08/06/2009 at 10:30am
| by Paul Lilly
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Two weeks ago to the day, Microsoft kicked off a contest inviting participants to sing a jingle about Bing with the stipulation that videos could be no longer than 5 minutes long. It did not stipulate that videos couldn't suck, which doesn't matter anyway, unless the winning entry truly was the best submission Microsoft received.
Jonathan Mann, known on YouTube as "The Rock Cookie Bottom," will receive $500 for winning the Bing Jingle contest, and everyone who watches it gets to die a little inside.
"His concept from the beginning was to have fun and make it a bit silly," Microsoft wrote on its Bing Community blog. "He thought the idea of searching for "Learn how to dance like Jonathan" while dancing in the foreground would be pretty hilarious. And lucky for us it was both catchy and funny! Jonathan's Bing jingle was his 202nd song."
View the winning submission here, and if you like it, we suggest also watching this and this.
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Vegan
August 06, 2009 at 9:41pm
This guy got paid $500 to write a jingle for an international service from Microsoft? He got taken for a ride. If this had been actual contracted work from a marketing agency, it would've been much more.
Havok
August 06, 2009 at 4:23pm
Awww, frakin' Rick Roll'd AGAIN!!! But the lols and rofls were worth it. You guys should do thisfor April 1st, not August 6th.
Curse you Paul Lily :)
OMGWTFBBQ
Spartacus
August 06, 2009 at 1:29pm
not only that, but the rickroll video makes you lose the game... which everyone does that reads this anyways.
nerdman978
August 06, 2009 at 12:15pm
Not only was I just rickrolled by maximum pc, that video SUCKED
Toady00
August 06, 2009 at 12:15pm
That was easily the worst song I've heard in a while. I really hope that they all sucked and his sucked the least, and they gave him the prize because of contractual obligations. I hope they don't actually use that in a commercial. I've been using Bing since day one, and I might just have to go back to Google if that airs.
comptech08
August 06, 2009 at 9:59am
o wow not only did i get rick rolld i watched an annoying bing song. :\
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