Make one piece of media using the ZAOstock brand kit. That is the whole ask.

A poster, a clip, a story, a meme, a flyer, a 15-second pitch to camera - whatever you want. Post it publicly, drop the link here. Best one wins the pot, and the pot grows as others chip in.

ZAOstock is a free music festival on Saturday October 3, 2026, in Ellsworth, Maine. Franklin Street closes to traffic and eight independent acts play back to back on the parklet stage from noon to six. Free, all ages, rain or shine.

Thirteen days out, and this closes tomorrow afternoon. Low bar on purpose - day one is not where we find the perfect asset, it is where we find out who turns up. Twenty minutes is enough.

WHY THIS ROUND EXISTS

Because a free festival on one street in a small city lives or dies on whether anyone hears about it, and we would rather pay people who are good at that than shout louder ourselves. Everything you need is at https://zaostock.com - go and read it before you make anything.

THE BAR (short, on purpose)

1. Use the ZAOstock brand kit. It is linked below, it is CC-BY, there is nothing to ask permission for.
2. Post it publicly and submit the live URL here. If it is not claimed on this page, it is not entered.
3. Put ZAOstock and Saturday October 3 somewhere a reader can see them.
4. AUDIO: if there is audio, use original or one clear instrumental that does not compete with speech. Library music over dialog is a floor fail.

Tagging @bettercallzaal and cross-posting in /poidh helps and is not required today.

THE RUBRIC (more boxes ticked, more weight)

Reach

• It went where people who could actually attend will see it - Ellsworth, Bangor, Downeast, Maine groups
• A physical placement photographed as proof beats a post nobody saw
• Someone who is not in this bounty shared it

Craft

• Looks finished, not like a draft
• Vertical or square for mobile
• Captions if there is speech
• Date and place readable in three seconds, without clicking

Substance

• Specific about the day rather than "come to a festival"
• Names an act from the lineup
• Honest about what it is: small, free, outdoors, one street

THE ASSET KIT (use any of this, CC-BY)

Everything in one download: https://zaostock.com/brand/zaostock-brand-kit.zip The brand page, each file separately: https://zaostock.com/brand The moose, primary mark: https://zaostock.com/brand/logos/zaostock26_moose.png Poster reference: https://zaostock.com/brand/posters/moose-cracked-cement-red-1024.png The lineup, all eight acts: https://zaostock.com/artists

The moose mark is by attabotty. Keep the ZAOstock name visible in your final piece.

THE REWARD

Winner takes the whole pot. This is an OPEN bounty, so the pot is whatever this page says it is right now, and it grows in real time as others contribute. Read the number at the top of this page, not a number in this text.

Every submitter earns $ZABAL automatically through the POIDH Submitters leaderboard on Empire Builder, and the drop scales with how many BCZ rounds you have entered in total.

Track it live: https://www.empirebuilder.world/empire/0xbb48f19b0494ff7c1fe5dc2032aeee14312f0b07

This bounty promises the pot and nothing else. We might run the best entries on ZAOstock's own channels and we would like to, but it is not written here as a commitment - this programme has a record of making publication promises it did not keep, and you can read that record at https://poidhz.com/about

HOW THE WINNER IS PICKED

Live on stream at 5pm Eastern, the same day it closes. Zaal picks it out loud with the entries on screen.

Discord is where it happens and where you can argue for your own entry: https://discord.thezao.com

This is day one of thirteen, one bounty a day until ZAOstock itself. Same shape every day: opens, closes at 4pm Eastern, decided live at 5pm.

DEADLINE

Submissions close 4:00pm Eastern, Monday September 21, 2026. Winner picked live on stream at 5:00pm Eastern the same day.

ZAOstock is Saturday October 3. Promo that lands after it is worth nothing, which is why these close fast.

The festival: https://zaostock.com