Now while we didn’t win the Doritos competition with our three commercials, I did get two pretty awesome surprises outta this whole thing.
First, these Doritos spots got me mentioned in two of my favorite blogs! No joke, I first found out about getting featured on AngryAsianMan.com last Tuesday. My friend left me a post on my Facebook saying, “You’re on angry asian man, props!” Lo and behold, I checked and there my “silly Doritos commercials” were.
No way! I’ve been reading this blog (just like every other Asian Am studies minor) for years, thinking to myself, “Man, wouldn’t that be sweet to be on there as an up and coming Asian filmmaker?” For my first ever blog mention, this was just perfect.
And then for the kicker, two days later I noticed traffic to my website was just skyrocketing. What was going on here? I started to investigate and found that all the hits were coming from this post at Adrants.com, one of the biggest advertising blogs out there and one of my personal favorites!
Don’t you love how they called me and Jesse “Creatives”? Makes me feel all official-like. But seriously, it was such a trip for us to see that. I remember when the two of us used to write a weekly newsletter for Chiat\Day, we would always start our research with the one and only Adrants.com. Seeing our names on that site was that beautiful cherry on top of a crazy experience.
Thank you big name bloggers, you helped make my week. And I promise I’m gonna do my best to make sure this isn’t the last time either!
And as for the 2nd surprise, Doritos sent me a nice little consolation prize as a thank you for entering our commercials.
A free t-shirt, hat, free coupons, and a letter. Pretty nice of them huh? Thanks guys, you really didn’t have to, but it was a nice touch on an already awesome contest. Hmm, maybe I’ll enter again next year…? You never know.
