FORT WORTH, TEXAS, October 16, 2009 -- From today (October 16, 2009) through November 20, 2009, The Texas Tamale Warehouse is hosting its first YouTube Video Contest.  Applicants will submit a one-to-three-minute video to be judged by online viewers, and a select TTW jury.  

The winner of the YouTube Video Contest will receive the Grand Prize:  $50.00 in cash, and $50.00 worth of tamales (your choice of flavors).

Awards will also be given for Second Place, and for Third Place.  Prizes for these will be $25.00 worth of tamales.  (Each winning video will receive only one of the three prizes.)

Simply, here’s the deal.

Make a video that contains anything you want, plus 3 things:

1. Tamales

2. The words "The Texas Tamale Warehouse" or "TheTexasTamaleWarehouse.com" in the video - someone saying/rapping the words, or the words printed on a sign, or superimposed on the video, etc.

3. A link to www.TheTexasTamaleWarehouse.com in the link section of the description for the video.

Post the video to YouTube.com, DailyMotion.com, or MetaCafe.com.  Other video websites are OK as long as we have a way to embed the videos on The Texas Tamale Warehouse website.  You must have the rights to any video that you enter.  By submitting a video for the contest, you are allowing The Texas Tamale Warehouse to use your video for promotional purposes.

Hint:  We’re looking for catchy, funny, and good; informative might work too.  And it must be family friendly.  It might be a mini-documentary about your order of Texas Tamale Warehouse Tamales and the get-together where you ate them.

Video entries will be accepted through midnight November 20, 2009, and will be posted here on this web page.