I picked up a little bit of information on the Trailer/Non-Trailer and the TagWorld songwriting contest today:

1. Within the first three days online, the trailer on their site was viewed over 300,000 times. Add to that the 100,000 times it was viewed at the defunct YouTube link and youv’e got a lot of views. Unless it was just me watching it 400,000 times, there’s apparently a lot of interest out there.
2. They’ve released a new version of their player so that you can embed the video directly into your site… with permission (goodbye lawsuit threats). The code is at the bottom of their site.
3. Despite my initial misgivings, Tagworld holds that they do indeed have a strong, self-motivated, interest in working to get the winner of the contest into the movie.
4. Their songwriting contest has already received several hundred submissions. I find it surprising that they’d get so many so quickly, but maybe people are submitting non-Snakes themed songs that they’ve written previously. I hope that when the songs are put up for a vote, the winners will clearly have been written directly for the movie. Again, if you’re submitting songs there I’d love to see them here as well.

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