Simply Hired & YouTube Present: Get Fired, Get Filmed, Get Famous; Online Video Contest Makes Fun of Getting Fired

Business Wire, Nov 1, 2005

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. -- Simply Hired (www.SimplyHired.com), the world's largest search engine for jobs, today announced sister site Simply Fired (www.SimplyFired.com) and online video partner, YouTube (www.YouTube.com) are launching an online video contest entitled, "Get Fired, Get Filmed, Get Famous." The contest challenges anyone with some imagination and a little spare time to submit a short video of 60 seconds or less about getting fired. The films can be real or fictional, funny or film noire. The contest runs through the end of the year and prizes include an Apple Multimedia system, Apple Video iPods, coveted Simply Fired t-shirts, and blogosphere fame. Judges include noted tech industry bloggers, Jason Calacanis, David Hornik, Om Malik, Robert Scoble, and others. Winners will be announced in January 2006. Videos will be featured on the Simply Fired site and YouTube as they are submitted.

"When Apple launched their new Video iPod, we were really excited, but then it struck us some users might want more than just old Madonna videos and Desperate Housewives re-runs," said Dave McClure, head of marketing at Simply Hired. "Our goal is to infuse a little humor into the subject of getting fired. We're hoping Steve Jobs will contribute a video about the time Apple fired him or about one of his own firing victims."

Simply Hired is launching the contest with a teaser video of some indoor golf office antics that result in a calamity that would make even Tiger Woods cringe. The company will release further videos throughout the course of the contest and community submissions will be available as they come in. Videos can be viewed at: http://www.simplyfired.com.

Online video sharing site, YouTube (www.youtube.com) has partnered with Simply Hired to host the new Simply Fired video contest. "Simply Hired does for job hunting what YouTube does for sharing videos online -- turns an otherwise complex task into something simple," said Chad Hurley, CEO of YouTube. "This contest will be a lot of fun for our community and we can't wait to see what they come up with."

About YouTube

YouTube (www.youtube.com) is a new service that allows people to easily upload, tag, and share personal video clips. Digital cameras with video recording capability are quickly becoming a commodity consumer technology. As people continue to record more video clips, YouTube will fill the need of quickly distributing their content worldwide. YouTube is a privately held company, headquartered in San Mateo, California.

About Simply Hired, Inc.

Simply Hired (www.SimplyHired.com) is a young, dynamic start-up company that operates the world's largest search engine for jobs. We aggregate and index over 4,000,000 jobs from a wide variety of sources including job boards, newspapers, classified listings, and company websites. Our mission is to help people find their next job in the simplest, most effective way possible.

Simply Hired has raised over $4M in funding to date, and is a privately held company, headquartered in Mountain View, California. The company operates the popular site Simply Fired (www.SimplyFired.com).