SanDisk Wants You to Capture Summer on Your Mobile Phone

Kristofer Brozio | August 5, 2009 | Uncategorized | No Comments

We all like to win stuff and Sandisk is giving you a chance to win cash and prizes for taking videos with your phone…

What: SanDisk Corporation (NASDAQ:SNDK), the global leader in flash memory cards, today announced the launch of the SanDisk® 60-Second Summer Mobile Phone Video Contest. SanDisk reminds consumers that your phone isn’t just a phone, it’s a video camera, and it’s the memory that you put in it that makes life unforgettable. More video. More pictures. More songs. You’ll get more of life’s greatest moments with a bigger memory card from SanDisk.

WE’RE GIVING AWAY SUMMER CASH + PRIZES EVERY WEEK¹:

One $5,000 Grand Prize Winner will be announced at the end of the contest.
Five $1,000 Weekly Prizes go to each week’s best entry.
Top 25 Weekly Finalists each win a SanDisk mobile memory card, MobileMate™ Micro Reader, and t-shirt.

Who: Anyone eligible can enter*. Just grab your video capable mobile phone** and shoot a video of the sights and sounds that make your summer buzz. An ideal summer afternoon. Your hometown. Vacation spots. Whatever! Make it 60 seconds or less and submit as many times as you wish.

When: Now through August 31 (“contest period”). You have until Aug 10 to submit video for the contest. A winning video selection will be judged each week. There is no limit to the number of times any individual can enter, though they cannot re-submit the same video in the same and/or following weeks during the contest period.

Where: Entries can be submitted at http://www.youtube.com/sandisk. The winning videos will be showcased on SanDisk’s YouTube channel and will be available for downloading at www.wakeupyourphone.com.

About SanDisk Mobile Memory Cards: SanDisk offers an array of memory cards designed for mobile phones with card slots. The cards can fit into a mobile phone’s microSD™ slot and come in both microSD™ and microSDHC™ card formats, in capacities ranging from 2 gigabytes (GB)² to 16GB. Using SanDisk® mobile memory cards, mobile phone users can store, share and enjoy more digital content ─ from music, photographs, and video ─ to ring tones and important files. Further information about SanDisk mobile memory cards can be found at http://www.sandisk.com/Products/Catalog(1012)-Mobile_Memory.aspx

About SanDisk

SanDisk Corporation is the global leader in flash memory cards – from research, manufacturing and product design to consumer branding and retail distribution. SanDisk’s product portfolio includes flash memory cards for mobile phones, digital cameras and camcorders; digital audio/video players; USB flash drives for consumers and the enterprise; embedded memory for mobile devices; and solid state drives for computers. SanDisk (www.sandisk.com/corporate) is a Silicon Valley-based S&P 500 company with more than half its sales outside of the United States.

¹ Participants have the chance to win each week during the contest period; by submitting their videos (Friday through Thursday, except in the first week where submissions will be accepted on Thurs July 2). A winning video selection will be judged each week (Friday through Sunday). There is no limit to the number of times any one individual can enter, though they cannot re-submit the same video in the same and/or following weeks during the contest period. Each week, twenty-five (25) video entry winners will receive one (1) 16 gigabyte (GB) microSDHC^™ card (to add memory capacity to their mobile phone (with a card slot) to store, share and enjoy thousands of digital photographs, or songs, or hours of video); one (1) MobileMate™ Micro Reader; and one (1) Contest T-Shirt. Out of these 25 video entry winners, one winner will be given the First Place Weekly Prize of $1,000. Participants can win only one First Place Weekly Prize during the contest period. All of the five (5) First Place Weekly Prize winners will be re-judged and one (1) will be awarded the Grand Prize of $5,000.

² 1 gigabyte (GB) = 1 billion bytes. Some capacity not available for data storage.

SanDisk and the SanDisk logo are trademarks of SanDisk Corporation, registered in the United States and other countries. MobileMate is a trademark of SanDisk Corporation. microSD and microSDHC are trademarks of SD-3C LLC. Other brand names mentioned herein are for identification purposes only and may be the trademarks of their respective holder (s).

* Eligibility: Contest is open only to persons who, as of date of entry, are legal residents of one of the fifty (50) United States or the District of Columbia, are at least 18 years or older (or the age of majority in their state of residence if greater than 18), who own, or have access to, a video capable mobile phone, and who are registered users (each a “Registered User”) of http://www.youtube.com (including all mirror or derivative sites, and all replacements or successor versions thereof) (“YouTube Site”) (“Entrants”). This Contest is void in Puerto Rico, all US territories and possessions, outside of the 50 United States or the District of Columbia, and where prohibited by law. Employees, officers, directors, and their immediate family members of the Contest Entities (defined as SanDisk Corporation, Marden-Kane, Inc., and YouTube, LLC) and their respective parents, affiliated and subsidiary companies, advertising and promotion agencies, legal and financial advisors, and any and all other companies associated with this Contest are not eligible to enter. For purposes of this Contest, "immediate family members" means parents, spouses, children, siblings, in-laws, grandmothers, and grandfathers. To become a Registered User of the YouTube Site, you must register for an account and agree to the YouTube Site’s “Terms of Use” set forth at http://www.youtube.com/t/terms (“Terms of Use”). There is no fee or charge to become a Registered User.

** NOTE: Video Submissions uploaded directly from a mobile phone, may be charged standard text and data rates for each entry sent from the mobile phone according to the Terms and Conditions of the Service Agreement with the wireless carrier. Each wireless carrier’s rate plan may vary, and entrants should contact their wireless carrier for information on messaging rate plans and charges relating to participation in this Contest.