Make one piece of media for ZAOstock using the brand kit. Post it publicly, claim the live link here. Closes 5pm Eastern Tuesday September 22. I name my pick live on Twitch around 5pm, right as it closes, with the entries on screen, and the people who funded the pot confirm it in a two-day vote.

WHAT I WANT MOST TODAY: VIDEO WITH AUDIO. Day one gave us strong posters and one moving piece, and the moving piece landed an hour late. The kit now has a 30-second ZAOstock spot and a radio interview you can cut under anything, so you do not have to record a note. A still gets scrolled past. Fifteen seconds that moves, with sound, is the piece we would run.

Same ask as yesterday. Six people entered, two of them after the close. If you were one of the two, or you ran out of time, this is your round: the same piece counts here.

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. Everything you need is at https://zaostock.com - read it before you make anything. 11 days out.

WHY THIS EXISTS. 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.

THE BAR. Requirements, not preferences. Miss one and it is not entered.

1. Post it publicly and claim the live URL on this page. Not claimed here, not entered.
2. Put the three facts on the piece where a reader sees them without clicking: ZAOstock, Saturday October 3, Ellsworth Maine.
3. Use the real kit. The moose, the wordmark, the type and the colours are at https://zaostock.com/brand. A redrawn or regenerated version of our mark is off-brand even when it looks good, because it is not the mark we use everywhere else.
4. No invented people. No made-up faces, no made-up bands. These are real artists playing a real show, and a picture of someone who is not them is the one thing we cannot run.
5. If there is speech, caption it. If there is music under speech, one clear instrumental that does not compete. Library music over dialog fails.
6. Tag @bettercallzaal on X and cross-post in the /poidh channel on Farcaster.

Generate whatever you like to get there. We are not against the tools. Finish it with our real assets and real details so it holds up as ours.

WHAT DAY ONE TAUGHT US. The entries that scored highest all did three things: every fact a person needs was on the piece, it was built on the real kit, and it was submitted as the actual file rather than a screenshot of a post. The best-looking entry of the day had no date and no place on it, and that is the whole difference between striking and usable. The test: tape it in a shop window on Franklin Street, and does someone in Ellsworth know where to be on October 3?

WHAT EARNS WEIGHT. More of these, more weight.

1. It went where people who could attend will see it: Ellsworth, Bangor, Downeast, Maine groups. A physical placement photographed as proof beats a post nobody saw.
2. Someone who is not in this bounty shared it.
3. Looks finished. Vertical or square for mobile. Spelling right, the eight names right.
4. Specific about the day, names an act from the lineup, and honest about what it is: small, free, outdoors, one street.

THE KIT. Use any of it for your entry. The moose mark is by attabotty; credit on the piece is asked for. Keep the ZAOstock name visible.

1. Everything in one download: https://zaostock.com/brand/zaostock-brand-kit.zip
2. The brand page, each file separately: https://zaostock.com/brand
3. The moose, primary mark: https://zaostock.com/brand/logos/zaostock26_moose.png
4. Poster reference: https://zaostock.com/brand/posters/moose-cracked-cement-red-1024.png
5. The lineup, all eight acts: https://zaostock.com/artists
6. AUDIO, the 30-second ZAOstock spot: https://zaostock.com/brand/audio/zaostock-commercial-30s.mp3
7. AUDIO, the radio interview, 7 minutes, pull any line: https://zaostock.com/brand/audio/zaostock-radio-interview-2026-09-10.mp3
8. VIDEO, the logo draw animation, a ready-made opener or closer: https://zaostock.com/brand/video/logo-draw-animation.mp4

THE REWARD. Winner takes the whole pot. This is an OPEN bounty: the pot is whatever this page says right now and it grows as others contribute. Read the number at the top of the page, not a number in this text. Every submitter also earns $ZABAL through the POIDH Submitters leaderboard on Empire Builder, scaled by how many BCZ rounds you have entered: https://www.empirebuilder.world/empire/0xbb48f19b0494ff7c1fe5dc2032aeee14312f0b07

This bounty promises the pot and nothing else. We might run the best entries on ZAOstock's 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 Twitch around 5pm Eastern, right as it closes, entries on screen. COME AND ARGUE FOR YOUR OWN. That is why the pick happens at the close instead of quietly afterwards. Then everyone who added to the pot has two days to vote on the pick before it pays out. The people who paid for it get a say. Discord: https://discord.thezao.com

One bounty a day until ZAOstock itself. Same shape every day: opens, closes at 5pm Eastern, pick named live on Twitch around then, confirmed by the people who funded it.

Submissions close 5:00pm Eastern, Tuesday September 22, 2026. ZAOstock is Saturday October 3. Promo that lands after it is worth nothing, which is why these close fast. The festival: https://zaostock.com