Engadget commercial contest winners!

We know you've all been waiting patiently to find out the winners of the Engadget commercial contest, and to whom the spoils (that Sony Vaio VGN-AR190G Blu-ray laptop, MSRP $3,400) went. We received nearly 100 commercials, which totally blew our mind, but today is all about the winner of the contest, as well as eight runners up we selected after a few grueling sessions. All these commercials were so good that we had to give a new iPod shuffle to the other eight who didn't take home the laptop. To everyone else who entered, thanks so much for your submissions! We'll be airing more commercials very soon, but for now click on for the top nine!

The winner!
Short version:

Full version:

The Long Arm of Steve Jobs, by:
Director: Brad Hodson
Producer: Bryant Hodson
Editor: James Spencer
Actors: Taylor Kesler, Zach McCue
Music: Anthony Spencer


Runners up (alphabetically)

Confused about technology? by Dan Sheppard
Music by Kevin Macleod

Engadget Animal Babies, by Dave Lovelace (possibly NSFW)

Engadget dating, by Ian MacFarlane

World of Engadget, by Jeremy Bowles

Engadget: porn for nerds, by Joe Russ

Screens in screens, by Juan Carlos Lopez

Yes, that was an MP3 player, by Renato Bordin

Your trip to the future starts here, by Victor DiGiovanni

Thanks again to everyone who entered, and be on the lookout for more Engadget commercials soon!

[chickendud Posted Oct 4th 2006 2:55PM]

Engadget dating was my favorite. very very funny.

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 4th 2006 9:11PM]

Same here, it was awesomely funny!

Congrats to all the winners, all of them were great!

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 4th 2006 2:57PM]

All amazing! The best man won :)

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 5th 2006 6:19AM]

I still can't understand why the character throws the papers away he just paid for with a large briefcase full of money - surely he'd want to keep the information? I can't see how dropping it makes him run any faster lol

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 4th 2006 3:12PM]

Saw these at the reader meet-up in Boston. Verry happy this one won!

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 13th 2006 1:29AM]

Whatever this video player is, it does not work with Firefox or Safari on 10.3.9

Is there any way to post it in a player that will work for sure, like youTube or Google video?

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 14th 2006 2:08PM]

http://youtube.com/watch?v=An1xtgHqlV0

That's the long version of "The Long Arm of Steve Jobs", enjoy!

[Dibbs Posted Oct 4th 2006 3:00PM]

They were all very good. Loved the Engadget Dating one, very funny.

[pitoUTK Posted Oct 4th 2006 3:00PM]

Awesome commercials. The guys face on engadget dating video right when its about to start is hillarious.

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 4th 2006 3:01PM]

I guess I'm kind of bummed I didn't get the laptop, but the #1 deserved to win. And hey, an iPod Shuffle doesn't hurt ;)

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 4th 2006 3:01PM]

Very cool entries. It was fun working on Engadget Animal Babies and I'm glad it was at least selected as a runner-up! :o)

[phi Posted Oct 4th 2006 3:01PM]

The screen-in-a-screen idea was cool, but I guess not as original as the winner. Congrats to all you guys, you did a bang up job.

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 4th 2006 4:56PM]

I would have chosen "screens in screens" or "Your trip to the future starts here", oh well

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 4th 2006 3:05PM]

um, there are no images for me, just sound

[Goldaar Posted Oct 4th 2006 3:08PM]

I liked the world of engadget one the best, but I can see why they picked the winner. All were great entries though, if at least a little disturbing... shudders at thought of pantless bunny.

[rgrossi Posted Oct 4th 2006 3:07PM]

Some of these are really clever and funny. Good job guys

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 4th 2006 3:07PM]

One word: wow

Some, ok all of those were freaking amazing!

[robertcrisler Posted Oct 4th 2006 3:15PM]

they are all great and need to be seen when windows xp boots instead of "Windows Logo"

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 4th 2006 3:19PM]

I'm just wondering why I was aked to recut my commercial (which I did), but didn't win?

Maybee I'll have to wait..."be on the lookout for more Engadget commercials soon!"

-Baldwin

[ryan Posted Oct 4th 2006 3:26PM]

I still intend to show your commercial, but on a 440px wide frame your commercial would have been impossible to see. Watch out for it soon!

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 4th 2006 3:21PM]

"Confused About Technology" is brilliant and should have won IMHO. It's short, effective, and clever.

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 4th 2006 4:20PM]

who's flash player is that? Did engadget write that player or can you buy it somewhere? I like it. Nice, simple, plain interface....

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 4th 2006 3:42PM]

The Engadget dating Guy needs an oscar lol, jack black funny!

excellent

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 4th 2006 3:45PM]

Victor got robbed!

[lolec Posted Oct 4th 2006 4:02PM]

Hey be carefull... I can tell for shure that he dosn`t coppy my idea, cuz i dont show any preview to anyone... And also for shure i don`t copy any ideas. There are many ways of telling the same thing, be respectfull with people work.

Congrats to the winner. 100% deserved . hope to see more of this soon.

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 4th 2006 3:52PM]

C'mon Engadget, you even test this player with Firefox?

[VeronicaBelmont Posted Oct 4th 2006 4:00PM]

Works perfectly in Firefox for me! Greats ads, by the way!

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 4th 2006 3:58PM]

firefox works fine, try updating flash

[Lane3000 Posted Oct 4th 2006 4:17PM]

Yea, it fails in older versions of flash (audio but no video). I can't update Flash because I'm at work and don't have administrator privileges. Boo to that.

[MorningZ Posted Oct 4th 2006 4:06PM]

I liked the dating one the best as well.... and both "screen and screen"-s 2nd and 3rd.... the winning entry took way too long to develop, but it's still an excellent little production... congrats on the laptop

[Airwave Posted Oct 4th 2006 4:18PM]

All of these commercials were awesome. It's not easy to pick a favorite.

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 4th 2006 4:24PM]

Guys,

Isn't that dating one really cool. Good fun watching it. CONGRATS ON THE WINNERS. Awesome work guys. Keep it rocking.

[alan89 Posted Oct 4th 2006 5:07PM]

World of Engadget, by Jeremy Bowles should have taken the prize

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 4th 2006 4:25PM]

I dunno but to me the cartoon was absolutely hilarious... I know is it is not really usable due to content but I have to say it gave me a good laugh.

But all ads are absolutely great. Good job!

[KTXL Posted Oct 4th 2006 4:28PM]

Engadget Dating was hysterical.

[PEZ Posted Oct 4th 2006 7:01PM]

Hmmm, I don't know.. I sort of like the 3 top runners up a bit more than the winner. Although, the winner was a cool idea, I actually thought the short version, with all the stops in it, was pretty hip and cool. Moreso than the longer version - it seemed to take to long.

The carTOON rocks! I say MOOOOOOOOOOORE bunny cartoons for engadgets!

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 4th 2006 4:39PM]

My favorites were Dave Lovelace's, and Joe Russ's comercial.

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 4th 2006 4:44PM]

Hmmmmmm has the winner ever seen 'All the Presidents Men'? http://imdb.com/title/tt0074119/

[JeffM Posted Oct 4th 2006 4:46PM]

How could you stiff Mr. Lovelace with runner up?

I thought the cereal one was better than the winner too...

Just trying to think of what would actually be entertaining on the couch... that cereal one was the best suited for TV. :)

[streetforce1 Posted Oct 4th 2006 5:16PM]

WOw these where AWSOME! MY favorite was the bunnies and the World of Engadget

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 4th 2006 5:02PM]

Haha I enjoyed all of them. Glad to see mine up there (Confused about technology?). I saw the winner's on youtube and thought damn...thats some competition...the production quality is what made it work. A touch drug out(coulda been mch tighter but I found it very well done and a clever idea as well. I found out about this contest about 6 hours before it was due so I grabbed my cheapo handycam(instead of going to the school to rent a free GL-2) and pumped out my idea as fast as I could. Thanks to the people who said they liked mine. If I were to pick a favorite I would have to say....hmmm I think the Animal Babies one was pretty funny :). Well good job to all and I thanks for gettin us out there to be creative and have some fun Engadget!

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 4th 2006 5:03PM]

i love them all, great job. i couldn't choose a winner out of all of these, they're great.

[MazinBenny Posted Oct 4th 2006 5:07PM]

OK, so don't hate me, but I actually didn't dig the commercial that won. I did like the screen-in-screen idea tho, both using that idea were great.

[Ponder Posted Oct 4th 2006 5:25PM]

OK how about firefox on linux?

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 5th 2006 10:58AM]

Brad Hodson's was definitely the best, but a close second was Victor DiGiovanni's and Jeremy Bowles's. Good job guys.

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 4th 2006 5:31PM]

:O

That winning commercial is insanely well-made. Blows the other commercials out of the water (and there were some really good runner-ups). It definitely deserved to win. Congratulations!

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 4th 2006 5:38PM]

Favorite is definately "confused about technology" for me... Although the winner was great as well. Heck, if the other one won, I would have said the same about the winner. Wow, that was confusing.

Could have done without engadget animal babies, though. I mean, seriously guys...

[AR Posted Oct 4th 2006 5:50PM]

Congrats to all. Personally, I thought World of Engadget, by Jeremy Bowles; Screens in screens, by Juan Carlos Lopez; and Your trip to the future starts here, by Victor DiGiovanni were the most polished and professional of the bunch.

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 4th 2006 6:04PM]

As the narrator and "bad guy" in the winning entry I can't really judge! But wow thanks engadget! And wow the other commercials were so good! I can see why it took so long to get the results. Great job everyone! At the end of the day there's still amazing websites who have really cool competitions and really awesome prizes.
- Taylor

[Darrolm Posted Oct 4th 2006 6:52PM]

I have to say I was not a fan of the one that was picked as a winner. I also did not like the animal babies one. I saw a couple in that list that were put together well.