Verification advice for upcoming live event? Clock's tickin' and we're a sweatin'..

[mistertester]

Hello all,

I must say that all these threads have been very educational. I've had my verification rejected twice and was starting to panic until I did the research and started reading other users' experiences.

Still pending approval, but wondering if anyone could give some advice/experience for a specific situation:

PROJECT: A live 3 day webcast of monster movies (see www.100ymm.com or more info; our facebook page is most active right now), each hosted by a "horror host". Host pieces will come live from one location and films will be queued in another. Two well-known celebrities have given verbal okays to introduce specific films, but until I get them to sign something I don't want to publicize the names.

80% of the films are in the public domain, 20% of the films are being donated by an independent video label and I have a signed agreement with them.

Event is in 4 weeks. I do not anticipate (nor do I encourage) any viewing until the weekend of the event.

VERIFICATION ISSUES:

1. Initial rejection: because there was no content in the channel.
Remedy: we loaded a bunch of test content from an earlier test channel; some of it we did not have permission for

2. Second rejection (this evening): because LS could not verify that we had the permission to use the content.
Remedy: We've taken down everything but the public domain content and will resubmit with scan of agreement with video company.

MY CONCERNS:

Now I'm trying to anticipate other issues based on what I'm reading.

1. Rejection based on small audience. I won't have an audience until we go live. So I'm trying to anticipate this Catch-22 and nip it in the bud.

2. Rejection based on not all content being loaded. We will be loading 35 movies, 90 minutes each, and at a 1.5x running time upload, it will be a long time before we're totally loaded.

3. Reliable contact. I can understand from the sheer volume od people developing channels that a phone contact is deliberately made unavailable. However, we have ads running in publications and my PR guys are yelling at me to send out a release, and I'm holding back because I was simply not expecting these roadblocks. desperately seek something other than canned responses or policy quotes. Would prefer to discuss specifics of the project so I can develop workarounds tailored to LiveStream's T&C.

So, I'm hoping a LiveStream rep can see this and advise or contact me, or a producer with similar experience can guide me. With 4 weeks until the event, there is considerable pants-crapping among the staff. Not to mention my own, as I'm stalling those aforementioned celebrities until I know that we're verified.

Help me, Obi-Wan Kenobi, you're my only hope.

Thanx in advance,

Joe Sena