Starting From Scratch
Series Competition: Official Rules
Promoter: Aff Edtech Ltd, a company registered in England and Wales (Company No. 11108740).
This competition is not sponsored, endorsed or administered by, or associated with, YouTube, Meta Platforms (Facebook and Instagram), LinkedIn, or X Corp. By entering, you release each of those platforms from any and all liability related to this competition. Entries must comply with the YouTube Community Guidelines; entries that do not comply will be disqualified.
1. Eligibility
Open to individuals aged 18 or over. Employees and contractors of Aff Edtech Ltd and their immediate families are not eligible. Void where prohibited by law.
2. Entry Period
The competition opens when the series announcement video is published on 6 August 2026. Each video in the series (the announcement plus the episodes) carries its own entry, which may be submitted at any time from that video's release. All entries close at 23:59 (UK time) on Monday 24 August 2026. Entries received after that deadline will not be counted.
3. How to Enter (Free, No Purchase Necessary)
For each video in the series: (a) like the video; (b) leave a genuine comment on the video; (c) submit your entry via the official entry form on this site, including that video's keyword and a screenshot of your comment. Each video's keyword is revealed at an unannounced point within the video itself; an entry without the correct keyword for that video is invalid.
To be eligible to win the main prizes, an entrant must have valid entries for every video of the series, including the announcement video. Use the same email address for every entry.
4. Main Prizes
One winner will receive:
- The agency business built by Jordan Platten during the series, including its brand assets and systems, transferred per a handover process described in the final episode;
- A new Apple MacBook;
- A business toolkit comprising the software tools used in the series, sufficient to operate the business model shown, details announced during the series.
No cash alternative. Prizes are non-transferable.
5. Bonus Prize Draw (Optional)
Separately from the main competition, five bonus prizes will be awarded by random draw at the end of the series: two Apple iPads and three sets of Apple AirPods. To enter the draw, after submitting a main entry for a video, share that video publicly on Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn or X, tagging @jordanplatten, and upload evidence of each share via the entry form. Each video shared on each platform earns one entry into the draw, and entries stack: up to four entries per video, up to twenty across the series. One entry per unique video-and-platform combination. Maximum one bonus prize per person. Entering the bonus draw is optional and has no effect on the main competition; sharing is not required to enter or to win the main prizes.
6. Winner Selection
The main competition is a judged competition, not a random draw. From the pool of entrants with valid entries on every video of the series, the Promoter will assess the quality and genuineness of engagement across the series. When submitting their entry for the final episode, entrants will have the opportunity to provide further information about themselves and their commitment to building the agency if they win; this information will be considered as part of the judged assessment.
Our priorities in judging are twofold: fairness of opportunity for every entrant, and confidence that the winner genuinely intends to grow the agency we have invested time in building, rather than entering for the sake of the other prizes. Above all, our mission as a business is to help people who genuinely want to build successful companies, and the winner will be chosen in that spirit. The judge's decision is final. Bonus draw winners are selected at random from all valid draw entries.
7. Winner Announcement
Winners will be announced at the end of the series and contacted via the details provided on the entry form. A winner must respond within 7 days or a new winner may be selected.
8. Data & Privacy
Entry details (name, email, phone, submitted screenshots) are collected by Aff Edtech Ltd to administer the competition and contact winners. See our privacy policy. Entrants may request deletion of their data after the competition concludes.
9. General
The Promoter reserves the right to disqualify entries that are fraudulent, automated, or in breach of these rules or the relevant platform's guidelines, and to amend these rules where required for legal or operational reasons, with material changes published on this page.