Online Voting Contest

Organize an online voting contest and boost interaction with your brand. Invite participants to submit photos, videos, or text entries, or let your audience vote for their favorite from a selection of candidates you provide. Easypromos includes an advanced anti-fraud system to help ensure fair and reliable voting results.

 

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Online Voting Contest

Online Voting Contest Main Features

  • 100% customizable design

    Customize every visual element of your Online Voting Contest to match your brand identity, including colors, images, backgrounds, fonts, and more.
  • Multiple galleries and categories in a single contest

    Organize candidates into multiple galleries by category or theme. Customize their display order, the number of entries per row, and the information shown for each candidate. Voters register only once and can vote across multiple galleries. You can also create additional galleries for different voting stages.

  • Simple content submission experience

    Online Voting Contest includes an intuitive upload interface that makes it easy for participants to submit photos, videos, text entries, and documents. Thumbnails and progress indicators provide a smooth experience throughout the submission process.
  • Custom voting schedule and frequency

    Control when voting opens and closes, and define how often participants can vote. Set limits by hour, day, week, or configure the total number of votes allowed for each participant.
  • Advanced voting with points

    Allow participants to vote for multiple candidates and assign different point values to each one. Ideal for rankings, favorite-voting contests, awards with multiple finalists, and Top 3 selections. Participants can review their votes before confirming their choices.
  • Flexible publishing and integration options

    Publish your Online Voting Contest as a standalone microsite with a branded URL or a custom domain. You can also embed the voting experience on your website using widgets or integrate it into your mobile application.
  • Pre-moderation

    Review and approve participant submissions before they appear in the public gallery. Enable real-time notifications to receive alerts when new entries are submitted, so you can moderate photos, videos, text entries, and other content wherever you are.

  • Simple, customizable, one-time registration

    Participants must identify themselves and register to participate and vote in the contest. The registration form is fully customizable, and the platform supports integrations with social login providers, SSO systems, and other marketing tools to simplify access and participation. Participants only need to register once, even when voting across multiple galleries or voting stages.
  • Voting stage reminders

    Schedule automated email reminders to notify participants when new voting stages become available. Keep participants informed and encourage recurring participation throughout the contest.
  • Anti-fraud system

    Easypromos features an advanced fraud control system designed to help ensure fair and transparent voting. Multiple security checks monitor voting activity and detect suspicious patterns, including automated bots, scripts, and attempts to participate using temporary or duplicate email addresses.

Online Voting Contest Pricing

  • Premium Plan
    Premium Plan
    $199USD/month
    • Limited to 10,000 participants per promotion
    • Easypromos branding visible
    • Fully customizable microsite design
    • Fully customizable registration form
    • Pre-moderation system with real-time notifications
    • Automated email platform
    • Participant entries gallery
    • Third-party integrations
    • Access to advanced statistics
    • Video hosting included
  • White Label Plan
    White Label Plan
    $399USD/month
    • Limited to 50,000 participants per promotion. Contact us for more than 50,000
    • No visible Easypromos branding
    • No reference to Easypromos when sharing
    • Multiple languages within a single promotion
    • Use your own domain
    • Developers: Use your own CSS styles, HTML, and JavaScript code
    • Developers: Access to the API and webhooks for real-time export of entries
    • Recommended for large brands and agencies
    • Priority support

Combine it with

  • Promo Codes
    Reward participants and voters with digital coupons or promo codes.
  • Entry Form Giveaway
    Run a prize drawing among participants and reward one or multiple winners.
  • Instant Win
    Award instant prizes to participants when they complete the participation process.

Full Features

Online Voting Contest Success Stories

  • Online Voting Contest to choose the most beautiful town

    Discover how Castilla-La Mancha Media (CMM), a regional Spanish broadcaster, organizes an annual online voting contest to select the most beautiful town in Castilla-La Mancha.

    Client: CMM

    Read complete success story
  • Foodie contest to choose the best canapé

    Discover how Ducros, a herbs and spices brand, organized a Christmas voting contest featuring Instagram food influencers competing to create the best canapé.

    Client: Ducros

    Read complete success story

Online Voting Contest: Resources and Help

  • Free ebook

    Learn how to organize successful online voting contests and maximize participation.
  • Tutorial

    Follow this step-by-step tutorial to configure your Online Voting Contest with Easypromos.
  • How to create a Best of the Best contest

    Discover how to organize a Best of the Best voting contest and engage your audience with a competitive voting experience.

Online Voting Contest FAQs

  • Yes. You can allow participants to vote for one or multiple candidates. With the advanced voting system, you can assign different point values, such as 10 points for their favorite, 5 for their second choice, and 1 for their third. Participants review their votes before confirming, making this ideal for rankings, favorite-voting contests, and awards with multiple finalists.

  • Online Voting Contest allows each participant to submit multiple photos or videos and automatically organizes the content into albums and galleries. This makes it easy to manage, review, and display entries while keeping everything structured for voters and judges. It's ideal for before-and-after contests, award submissions, creative projects, and any campaign where participants need to showcase multiple pieces of content.

  • Several identification methods are available, including social login, email verification, mobile phone verification, and participant identifiers provided by your organization. This allows you to adapt the registration and voting process to the requirements of your campaign and audience.

  • Easypromos provides all the tools you need to create and manage an Online Voting Contest. You can decide whether participants submit their own content or whether you present the candidates yourself. Organize entries into multiple galleries and categories, configure the voting rules, and choose between simple voting or advanced point-based voting systems. The mechanic can be adapted to photo contests, video contests, awards, rankings, and many other participation formats.

  • Yes. Participants must register before voting, allowing you to collect contact information and other data through a fully customizable registration form. You decide which fields to include based on the objectives of your campaign.

  • Yes. You can download all submitted content in a ZIP file, preserving the original format and quality of each entry. This makes it easy to review, archive, or share the content with judges and internal teams.

  • Yes, provided you obtain the necessary permissions from participants. Explain how you intend to use their photos, videos, text entries, or other content in the contest terms and conditions, and obtain the appropriate consent and usage rights, for example through an opt-in field in the registration form. We recommend seeking legal advice before launching the contest to ensure compliance with applicable regulations.

  • Yes, but not directly with Online Voting Contest. If you want to collect photo and video posts published on Instagram, use the Easypromos Mention & Hashtag Contest. Once the content has been collected, you can create a public voting gallery and allow participants to vote for their favorite entries.

  • Yes. You can make the content gallery public so that photos, videos, text entries, and other submitted content are displayed on a dedicated page within the campaign microsite. You can also customize the appearance of the gallery to match your brand identity.

  • Yes. Participants can upload videos directly from any mobile device, computer, or tablet. You can also allow video submissions through YouTube or Vimeo links, depending on the needs of your contest.

  • Yes. Each entry has its own URL that participants can share on social media or through messaging apps such as WhatsApp. This helps them encourage friends, family, and followers to vote while extending your campaign's reach.