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Become a Sponsor

Sponsorship opportunities are available until February 15, 2010.

If you’re interested in sponsoring the event, please email sponsors@cogaoke.com to formalize your sponsorship package.

Sponsorship Packages

By sponsoring OK! Happy Cog’aoke, you’re taking advantage of a high-visibility marketing opportunity to deliver a message, drive brand recognition, and create an avenues for interaction. Sponsors have the opportunity to catch the attention of influential interactive industry figures, thousands of consumers, as well as national representatives from trade and consumer media devoted to the interactive industry. Additionally, you will be perceived as “very cool,” even if you are not.

Level One

Copper Microphone Sponsors Commitment: You Decide

You could give away:
Benefit to you as a sponsor:

I want to become a Copper Microphone Sponsor

Level Two

Bronze Microphone Sponsor Commitment: $500 USD

Benefit to you as a sponsor:

I want to become a Bronze Microphone Sponsor

Level Three

Silver Microphone Sponsor Commitment: $1,000 USD

Benefit to you as a sponsor:

I want to become a Silver Microphone Sponsor

Level Four

Gold Microphone Sponsor Commitment: $5,000 USD

Benefit to you as a sponsor:

I want to become a Gold Microphone Sponsor

Level Five

Platinum Microphone Sponsor Commitment: $10,000 USD

Benefit to you as a sponsor:

I want to become a Platinum Microphone Sponsor

What is OK! Happy Cog’aoke?

OK! Happy Cog’aoke is a karaoke competition and party held during the South By Southwest Interactive festival in Austin, TX. It will be held on Saturday, March 13, 2010 from 10PM to 2AM at a venue to be determined.

The history of Cog’aoke

Happy Cog held the first OK! Happy Cog’aoke event on March 14, 2009 at Austin’s Scoot Inn. The event was one of the most widely attended of the entire Interactive festival, and quickly reached capacity. We will seek to avoid this situation by choosing a bigger venue for 2010.

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The Competition

Contestants wishing to participate in the karaoke competition at OK! Happy Cog’aoke will be required to go to www.cogaoke.com to find their song, register themselves, and then convince people to vote for them. The more votes a candidate gets, the higher their chances to be selected as a contestant in the competition at the event. Contestants are encouraged to convince the public to vote for them on the website by tricking out their profile with as much “flair” as possible.

Ways contestants can do this include:

Open Bar, Open Karaoke

What’s a karaoke event without liquid encouragement? It has always been the plan to offer an open bar at this event, which may partially explain its popularity. We offered an open bar last year until our budget ran out, but this year we would like to offer an open bar for the entire event, from 10PM to last call. If you can contribute to this cause, we would be happy to put your banner behind the bar.

The competition itself will begin at 10PM sharp and go until approximately 12:30AM, when the panel of judges will select a winner based upon specific performance criteria. After the competition ends, we will pull names randomly for “open” karaoke, where anyone has the opportunity to perform.

The Website - bringing it all together

We told you a little bit about the website already. The OK! Happy Cog’aoke website at www.cogaoke.com is the cornerstone of the whole operation. Leading up to the event, the website becomes one of the most re-tweeted links in the Twittersphere as contestants sign up to sing, build their profiles, and then repeatedly request any and all friends to come to the site to vote for them to compete. You’ll see the details in our stats below, but hundreds upon hundreds of eyes pour over the pages of the site in an effort to get their friends singing in the competition. We provide contestants the opportunity to post video, audio, and photographs of their exploits in an effort to prove they are the one to beat, and the entire event succeeds wildly based purely on the traffic to the site to vote, vote, and vote some more. Think American Idol phone calls, except it’s website visits.

Stats, stats, and more stats