Lorraine Hoey was surprised by how quickly she won on AdJack.
“I’d only been playing for two or three months when I won on Friday, Jan 1, 2010,” she said. “I really didn’t expect to win that quickly. But I read on the site where some people won early, like me. That’s really encouraging. If you do it every day your chances of winning are really good.”
An aspiring children’s writer and graduate student at Lesley University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Lorraine appreciates a good commercial on several levels. “Some of them are very, very clever. Sometimes they’re even kind of exciting. I have certain commercials I look for and watch over and over again. The commercial with the linebacker in the office--I could watch it every day. I love that one. I love the Starry-Eyed Surprise Diet Coke ad for the song. And any Will Farrell video--the basketball player—they’re great. I like that you get to rate them and give the companies feed back. That’s really cool, too.”
Her enthusiasm for smart commercials spills over to AdJack. “I think it’s great,” she says. “I signed up because it’s such a clever idea. Watching commercials for the possibility of winning something, and you don’t have to put any money into it? Well, yeah!”… more
Jim Valdez brought in the New Year in fine style, winning the CrackaJack prize on Friday, January 1, along with another winner.
Since Tom McMahon of Oradell, New Jersey, bought his TiVo, the only place he willingly watches commercials is on AdJack.
Tom Haddon was poking around on the Internet one day, looking for the E-Trade babies ‘cause they make him laugh, when he came across AdJack.

Klosterman grew up on a farm outside Wyndmere, North Dakota and upon graduating from University of North Dakota, spent several years writing for the Fargo Forum, then the Akron Beacon-Journal in Ohio. Since then, he has written a New York Times bestseller, Downtown Owl, and several other books on pop culture. His latest book, Eating the Dinosaur, covers a wide range of topics including advertising. He’s getting interviewed all over the place, and in case you haven’t read any of them, we bring you a couple of quotes here.

Three or four weeks ago Rachel Shahvar of San Francisco started looking on the Internet for risk-free sweepstakes, “something that didn’t cost anything to enter,” she said. In about five minutes she found AdJack near the top of a list of the top one hundred sweepstakes. “I’m in the advertising industry, so I thought, ‘why not? Watch some ads, maybe win some money.’” So she signed on for her first contest ever. On November’s Friday the 13th she checked her numbers, and wham, there they were, matched right up for the $1,000 CrackaJack.
Mikaela Osilaja was looking for good sweeps contests on the Internet one day last summer when AdJack popped up. Some weeks she plays often, and some weeks not at all. The week of September 25 she looked up a few Geiko ads, and voila, she’s $1,000 richer.
Beckett Rippey found AdJack one day on the Internet when she was searching for jobs.