a belated birthday blog!

October 29th, 2009

Hey bragsters! You might have noticed from our “Guess how many Bragging Rights have been awarded” contest that bragster recently celebrated its very first birthday. Yes, October 16th marked a whole year of dares, brags, challenges, contests and general craziness. And what a year its been since our relaunch!


We’ve been behind some classic stunts, including the one day the fountains at Trafalgar Square were turned into a giant bubble bath wonderland. It was also bragster that offered £200 to the first person to hit racist goon Nick Griffin with some ethnic food, showing him how much fun international diversity can be. And who could forget when we projected big Neill onto the Tate Britain, or the time our illustrious co-founder Bertrand turned up on national TV, performing in front of the X-Factor judges dressed as a gorilla, a performance which either caused Simon Cowell to proclaim it the best audition ever, or storm off in disgust (we forget which).


Of course, as brilliant as our stunts and promotions are, we’d be nothing without you, the bragster user. From the very first brag uploaded, which was The_Half_Baked_Minds absolutely epic day out in the penis costume, you guys have found new ways to amaze, amuse, baffle, disgust, and entertain us day in day out. Some of the team at HQ's favourite things from the past year:

Wim: Legendary users, several users getting bragster tattoos, hearing people in public talking about bragster
Bertrand: Pulling off the credit card stunt and going on the X-Factor. Can't wait to do both again!
Ash: Going to the tango factory and seeing a bazillion upside down tango cans
Adam: Hiding in a bush trying to co-ordinate the Oxbridge stunt
Dan: Getting to talk to all our crazy cool users everyday


Finally: some awesome brands have been initiated into the world of Bragster. Tango were game for our dare to turn two and half million cans upside down, (with the bragster logo slapped on them to boot). Ever since then, Tango have been sponsoring dares with orange iPods and t-shirts as prizes. Adidas brought in premiership football superstars Jermain Defoe and Ashley Young to captain the great F50i challenge. Magic the Gathering brought their own brand of fantasy gaming loveliness with a series of dares, all with awesome prizes, including a trip to Rome! And we have loads more cool brands and promotions lined up, all wanting to get a piece of the bragster action, and give you guys and girls tons of sweet prizes!


So join us in a slice of (metaphorical) cake and let’s make the second year of bragster funnier, crazier and better than the first!

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