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Here’s your chance to put your talent out there to be viewed by the world wide web on http://www.15minutesNOW.com. We’re an online talent competition searching for the best performers to feature their videos in our daily contests. There are $25 dollar gift cards awarded to Daily Winners and even a $100 gift card for our Weekly Winner. You have nothing to lose, uploading your video is free! Simply use the coupon code “15NOW” to get free submission!

There’s an endless audience online waiting to view your video, so don’t wait! Visit http://www.15minutesNOW.com today and show us what you got!

Yeah. Right. It's all a scheme to harvest email addresses/install apps and take money from unwitting dupes. Note they will ask you for your cc number up front so they can start charging you after your 'free 30 days'.

From their FAQs:

As a “Crew Member” your membership is FREE! You will have the ability to watch videos in all of the categories, vote in the daily competitions of the three categories, and receive email clips from the daily hosts.

Receive expert critique of your performance
FREE 1 month “Talent Scout” membership with video upload (effective after time of upload)
100 NOW Points for each video upload
Chance to be entered in a daily competition
Prizes
$25 Retail Gift Card (Daily Winner)
250 NOW Points (Daily Winner)
$100 Cash and 500 NOW Points (Weekly Winner)
$500 Cash and 1,000 NOW Points (Monthly Winner)
$1,000 Cash 2,500 NOW Points (Quarterly/Grand Prize Winner)
Grand Prize Winners
$1,600 Cash Total and 4,250 NOW Points Total (By winning Weekly, Monthly, Quarterly)
Professional Website designed and created by Intellisparx
All winners will receive airfare to San Diego, CA and lodging. Music category grand prize winners will have a music video professionally produced. Dance and variety grand prize winners will have scenes in the professionally produced music video.


As a “Talent Scout” you get a chance to win cash and rewards for accurately choosing winners, as well as accumulating one NOW Point per vote and two additional NOW Points for choosing the winner! “Talent Scouts” also get exclusive purchasing opportunities at our online store and for VIP events, a 10% discount to the 15minutesNOW.com online store, advance notice of winners and special events, as well as sneak peaks of performers and online artist chat opportunities. “Talent Scout” membership is $9.95 for one month, $24.95 for three months, and $39.95 for six months. As a “Talent Scout” your vote counts as double that of a “Crew Member,” which means that those you vote for will have a better chance of winning.

But I have no talent at all. What am I going to do? Geesh, could anyone help with this please?

Cheers

GuitarMikeB wrote:Yeah. Right. It's all a scheme to harvest email addresses/install apps and take money from unwitting dupes. Note they will ask you for your cc number up front so they can start charging you after your 'free 30 days'.

From their FAQs:

As a “Crew Member” your membership is FREE! You will have the ability to watch videos in all of the categories, vote in the daily competitions of the three categories, and receive email clips from the daily hosts.

Receive expert critique of your performance
FREE 1 month “Talent Scout” membership with video upload (effective after time of upload)
100 NOW Points for each video upload
Chance to be entered in a daily competition
Prizes
$25 Retail Gift Card (Daily Winner)
250 NOW Points (Daily Winner)
$100 Cash and 500 NOW Points (Weekly Winner)
$500 Cash and 1,000 NOW Points (Monthly Winner)
$1,000 Cash 2,500 NOW Points (Quarterly/Grand Prize Winner)
Grand Prize Winners
$1,600 Cash Total and 4,250 NOW Points Total (By winning Weekly, Monthly, Quarterly)
Professional Website designed and created by Intellisparx
All winners will receive airfare to San Diego, CA and lodging. Music category grand prize winners will have a music video professionally produced. Dance and variety grand prize winners will have scenes in the professionally produced music video.


As a “Talent Scout” you get a chance to win cash and rewards for accurately choosing winners, as well as accumulating one NOW Point per vote and two additional NOW Points for choosing the winner! “Talent Scouts” also get exclusive purchasing opportunities at our online store and for VIP events, a 10% discount to the 15minutesNOW.com online store, advance notice of winners and special events, as well as sneak peaks of performers and online artist chat opportunities. “Talent Scout” membership is $9.95 for one month, $24.95 for three months, and $39.95 for six months. As a “Talent Scout” your vote counts as double that of a “Crew Member,” which means that those you vote for will have a better chance of winning.

What ever happened to just posting a want ad, with a salary to offer for a skill set.?

Gee boss I always wanted to be a talent scout!

Do I get a uniform with the title, or is that 49.99 per month?

What a deal!

I'm a male stripper. Can I get in on this? I really need the money...