Young + Rubicam/SoCal has launched a contest for Toshiba pitting two small towns against one another–Boring, OR vs. Normal, IL.
According to OC Weekly, the idea is to have viewers decide which town becomes more exciting thanks to Toshiba laptops, with the winning town receiving $15,000 in technology upgrades for their local school system.
Learn more at BoringVsNormal.com (which forwards to a MySpace page). Y+R is also making Twitter updates, although not on a page dedicated to the promotion.
Now THAT’S a fun idea. I love how the money is pretty boring too. $15K is kinda just meh.