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Top 10 Registrations
1. WLUK-TV’s Mini to the Max Giveaway
2. WHO-TV’s Thanksgiving Day Giveaway
3. KKBQ-FM’s Gridiron Invasion
4. Our State‘s Holiday Shopping Spree
5. Toronto Sun‘s Win a Trip to Scotland
6. KSBY-TV’s Win a Trip to Disneyland
7. The San Diego Union-Tribune‘s Win a Gift Card
8. KPLR-TV’s November 11 Giveaway
9. KKBQ-FM’s Cowboy Kia
10. CityLine’s Weekly Giveaway

Top 10 Submissions
1. WLUK-TV’s Mini to the Max Giveaway
2. WMBD-TV’s Cash Wheel
3. WEEK-TV’s Chuck’s Big Toro Snowblower Giveaway
4. WALA-TV’s Cash Card Giveaway
5. The Suburban‘s Win a Trip to Sonesta Maho Beach
6. Journal-Sentinel‘s Know This Pro
7. WJBK-TV’s The Toro Winter Wonderland Giveaway8. KTVU-TV’s Ticket Tuesday
9. Journal-Sentinel‘s First Stage Holiday Staycation Sweeps
10. Tampa Bay’s Cutest Pet Photo Contest

Top 10 Sweepstakes
1. WHO-TV’s Thanksgiving Day Giveaway
2. KTLA-TV’s Win a Trip to Disneyland
3. Creative Crafts Group’s Fabric for Life
4. WKTV-TV’s New Hartford Shopping Center Holiday Giveaway
5. WSH-TV’s Fandemonium
6. KUSI-TV’s Big Bang Theory iPad Giveaway
7. KUSI-TV’s Aloha Sweepstakes
8. KTTV-TV’s Breaking Dawn Giveaway
9. CBS6′s Great Grocery Giveaway
10. Our State‘s Holiday Shopping Spree

Here are the top 10 contests of October in regards to registrations, submissions and sweepstakes.

Top 10 Registrations
1. WPRO-FM’s Baby Idol
2. KASA’s Gertrude Zachary’s Jewelry Next Model
3. WHO-HD’s Thanksgiving Day Giveaway
4. Our State‘s Shopping Spree at Crabtree Valley Mall
5. KBXX-FM’s Pose for the Cure
6. WQSB-FM’s Player of the Week
7. Newsday‘s Sands Wedding Giveaway
8. CityTv.com’s CityLine Audience Weekly Contest
9. WIL-FM’s Reba Idol
10. ABC 15′s Fiesta Bowl Queen & Court

Top 10 Submissions
1. WEEK-TV’s Chuck’s Big Toro
2. Opelika-Auburn News‘s Readers’ Choice
3. Our State‘s Fall Photo Contest
4. WPRO-FM’s Baby Idol
5. Cape Cod Media Group’s Name our Mascot
6. Fort Mill Times‘ Top of the Times Award
7. Journal Sentinel‘s Know This Pro
8. KTVL’s See Ellen Live
9. KTVU’s Ticket Tuesday
10. The News Journal‘s Delaware Auto Show

Top 10 Sweepstakes
1. Creative Crafts Group’s Fabric for Life
2. Long Island Press‘ Best of LI
3. Hot 1015′s Hot Cash Call
4. WRC-TV’s Fandemonium
5. Toronto Sun‘s The Wonders of Asia Now
6. Where Traveler‘s 75th Anniversary New York Sweepstakes
7. Our State‘s Win a Handcrafted Rocking Chair
8. Toronto Sun‘s Fabulous 40 Birthday Game
9. WJBK’s Dream Team
10. WTVR’s Win Nintendo 3DS

Kansas City Parent (Kansas City, KS) hosts this adorable “duckorating” contest for local businesses and organizations. Each business decorates a rubber duck and the top 3 will be displayed at the Children’s TLC Duck Derby – what a fun contest idea! (Check out how they promote the contest on their home page. Hint: look at the duck in the corner!)

The Daily Advocate (Greenville, OH) helped local kids get in gear for the school year with this well-executed coloring contest (love the list of sponsors listed across the welcome page). The hopeful artists download the picture to color right on the contest site and submit it to the paper. Winner receives a gift certificate for the usual back-to-school items. A fantastic late summer contest idea!

WJW-TV (Cleveland, OH) promotes the I-X Indoor Amusement Park‘s stay in their town by running this video contest. Viewers submit a video of themselves singing the park’s catchy jingle for a chance to win 3 stellar prizes – grand prize is a VIP party for 20 to the park. Browse through the adorable entries, but I’m giving you fair warning, this jingle has been stuck in my head for 4 days.

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With the Easter holiday in our midst, clever contests about eggs, chickens, and bunnies begin springing up. One that never fails to get a few chuckles from me is the “create-something-out-of-peeps,” like this contest from Seattle Times. Now, while I don’t find the candy all that appetizing, seeing those little pastel colored mallows in a diorama titled “Peeps of the Caribbean” or “Peeper Fever” (a tribute to tween sensation Justin Bieber) gets me every time.