This is the
LAST (and slightly unhinged) brief from
Kathryn Kvas & Vignesh Seshadri,
Founders of Young Shits!
DEADLINE! → May 1, 2024, 11:59 PM EST
Hi there!
Do YOU want to own and run an advertising contest with a cult following? Now is your chance!!
We’re Vig and Kat, and we started Young Shits when we were junior creatives back in 2015! We were young, stupid and struggling, but we had a lifelong dream, one we were born to do, and nothing could get in our way – to start an online student advertising contest. One that actually gives students a chance to connect with people in the industry!
Fast forward to now, almost a decade since we started the contest. And honestly, it’s been amazing. We’ve met so many incredible people just by keeping this thing afloat, and have seen so many students grow and become amazing creatives. We’re not crying. Okay, maybe we are but just a little.
But like everything good, it’s time for us to say goodbye to this beautiful thing we made. We just can’t keep running it the way we used to/would want to, so it’s time for us to move on to other projects and life things we want to focus on. (Like our short film about breaking into advertising, coming out this year!)
So in classy shitty fashion, we’ve decided to give away the Young Shits contest to the winner of this brief, Willy Wonka style!! (without the child murder and Oompa Loompas). The winner gets the keys to the factory (AKA they inherit the Young Shits company). Yes, we’re serious. Consider this your GOLDEN TICKET!!!
The brief is simple, what would you do if you had YS? How do you see YS growing in the future?
Also, it’s open to anyone and anything! No entry fee, no strings attached. You can be a student or a CEO or anything in between. Everything is fair game.
Here are the stats about this contest we’ve been painstakingly running for anyone who’s like, why would I want this shit?
Over 100 unique and challenging briefs.
Nearly a hundred job recco’s and visa recommendation letters were provided.
Nearly 10 years of crazy creativity.
ALL-TIME STATS
208K site visits with 8% yr/yr growth
101s Average time spent on the website
1.6K entries received
$32K revenue with 9% yr/yr growth
YS Awards FB page
2.2K likes
2.3K followers
But it’s not about the numbers. It’s the friends (and connections) we made along the way.
Okay, now we gotta go ask Timothee about playing us in yet another Wonka film adaptation.
Love you all and here is some nostalgia from the past years running this contest for everyone to enjoy/weep over.
