Social search engine Scour today announced its “Be A Star!” contest that invites people to write, film and star in a video that will become Scour’s next commercial. The contest runs today through January 14, 2009. The top three videos with the most votes will go to the final round for selection by the Scour judges; the winner will receive a $500 VISA Gift Card and the opportunity for their entry to be the next Scour Commercial, which will be featured on the Scour homepage seen by over 1 million unique users a month.

Here’s how it works:
Participants should create a promotional video no longer than 45 seconds. It must include the phrase “Scour.com” and four out of the following six terms:

– Community
– Search socially
– Social search
– Vote
– Comment
– Reward

Completed videos must be uploaded to YouTube and tagged as “Scour Ad.” Contestants must send the link to their video to info@scour.com with “Scour Ad” in the subject.

– Voting period begins December 3, 2008 and ends January 14, 2009.
– Three finalists will be chosen based on the total amount of votes each video receives. Following that, the winner will be selected by Scour’s panel of judges.
– The winner will be announced on or about January 19, 2009, on Scour’s blog http://blog.scour.com.

Scour is a meta social search engine, grouping together search results from Google, Yahoo! and MSN. It delves into the social media realm by allowing people to vote and comment on each search result. Users are awarded one point for all activity (searching, voting, commenting) on Scour. Once 6,500 points are accrued, Scour will reward the user with a $25 Visa gift card.

For complete rules visit: http://www.scour.com/commercialcontest/rules

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