If the Mardi Gras & St. Patrick’s Day holidays are treated as major events in your market, then you certainly want to take a peek at this contest from The Advocate (Baton Rouge, LA). As cameras are certain to be found at any parade, running a photo contest is a fantastic way to engage your audience around a community event. For more holiday-themed contests, click here.
College basketball fans across the country are gearing up for their absolute favorite time of the year – the March playoff tournament. If you are one of these folks, ask yourself, “what could be better than watching the game from my 60-inch tv?” The answer? Attending the tournament! Well, the Big Ten Network gives fans a chance to do just that with this oh, so, clever video contest. To enter, fans submit a video of their best Gus Johnson-esque announcer bit and top 3 attend the tournament and compete for the grand prize. A very engaging, unique idea for a custom sports contest – great work!
In addition to running UPICKEM’s National College Basketball Bracket, Atlanta Journal-Constitution is hosting their 5th annual custom designed Slam Dunk Contest for local high schoolers to show off their skills on the court. Slam dunk kings post a video of their best dunk in hopes to win the contest, what a fun idea! The AJC does a wonderful job of promoting this contest on their blog and created a powerful promotional video below:
Cynthia Daniels Du-Bose, the AJC’s Senior Producer weighed in on the contest:
Established as a round-by-round contest, Slam Dunk – now in its fifth year – has never awarded its winner a prize. It operates simply off of giving “buzz” and “bragging rights” to its winner. Our goals for 2011 are to increase interactivity; and to establish “buzz” around the contest. Right now, we are pegged to announce the winner right before the state championships begin.
WROC-TV is running our nationally administered Red Carpet Movie Awards contest which takes place on Sunday, February 27th. The contest is set up so users choose the actor, actress or movie they believe will take home the prize for highly anticipated categories. Well, personally, we are rooting for WROC to win an award for their :30 commercial spot.
Gather round team, we’ve got a heck of a contest to tell you about. For their sweepstakes “Swing Into Spring“, The Day (New London, CT) teamed up with minor league baseball team Connecticut Tigers and Klingerman Travel, Inc. to offer 3 incredible prizes any baseball buff would be ecstatic to win. Grand prize is an all expense paid trip for 4 to spring training – whoo hoo! Not only does this contest have ideal sponsors and scream-worthy prizes, The Day hit a promotional homerun by using their masthead to advertise the contest. See below.
To celebrate Valentine’s Day, The Albany Herald (Albany, GA) hosts this contest with a wide variety of sponsors (fitness center, boutiques, restaurants, and more) to find the cutest couple in southwest Georgia. Grand prize winners – which will be posted online and in print – receive a cruise from Your Travel Connection. What an adorable holiday contest – love the welcome page graphics.
