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Flight Of The Conchords launch YouTube lip-synch promo

If you’re the hiphopopotamus and your rhymes are bottomless, you’ll be wanting to check out the nifty new UGC contest launched by HBO to promote the next season of Flight Of The Conchords.

It invites fans of the musical comedy series to video themselves lip-synching the song Hiphopopotamus vs Rhymenoceros, and upload it to YouTube. HBO will then edit the best clips together to make a “fansterpiece” that will air in January, alongside the new series.

Our favourite entry so far features a dog and a parrot (above). Stiff competition.

Tags: flight of the conchords

This entry was posted on Tuesday, December 16th, 2008 at 10:30 am and is filed under Digital Music Marketing. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

3 Responses to “Flight Of The Conchords launch YouTube lip-synch promo”

Mike Says:
December 16th, 2008 at 12:28 pm
Ha ha wicked! Love FOTC – can’t wait for the new series
Amelia Says:
December 16th, 2008 at 3:30 pm
Bloody brilliant, love this!!
Music Ally | Blog Archive » TrendWatch: UGC fan music contests Says:
March 26th, 2009 at 5:38 pm
[...] there’s also the option of miming: the new series of Flight of the Conchords was promoted via a contest for fans to lip-synch to Hophopopotamus vs Rhymenoceros, while Guns’n’Roses got people to perform their widdliest air guitar solos to the title track [...]