@LaneyKT I see. I think the proposal is made stronger by the idea that the winning video creators can double down on their high performing shorts, and that this funding/the awards/professional support will enable a volume of shorts that an unsupported creator would not otherwise be able to achieve. Lots of tests + commit to the successes is a very slow process without the kind of support I hope your project can bring to promising creatives. I don’t know much about the economics of this proposal, but the creative mechanisms seem attractive. Maximizing surface area for public feedback in the form of attention, and pairing it with short turnover, responsive iteration is hard to fail above a critical scale.

How are the competitions going to be judged? It is very hard to predict virality.

Thanks @Austin. I hope to make something our community can be proud of, and clear the way for more engaging form factors!