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Check out the top 10 contests with the most registrations, user submissions and most sweepstakes entries for the month of March.

Top 10 Registrations:
1. WROC-TV’s Cutest Kid Contest
2. WTVC-TV’s Cutest Kid Contest
3. WJW-TV’s Cleveland Glee Vote
4. KPAX’s Holland Lake Lodge Wedding Day Giveaway
5. Mega 949′s Mega Estrella
6. Michigan Central’s Cutest Baby Contest
7. WCKX-FM’s Are You Radio Ready?
8. WRAL-TV’s ACC Bracket Challenge
9. Atlanta Journal-Constitution‘s Peachtree Road Race T-Shirt
10. The Kansas City Star‘s Casual Food Chowdown

Top 10 Submissions:
1. Chatelaine’s Ikea
2. WTVC-TV’s Cutest Kid Contest
3. WPTV’s See Ellen Live
4. WGHP-TV Checkered Flag Challenge
5. North County Times‘ Local Explorations
6. Gaston Gazette‘s Reader’s Choice
7. Michigan Central’s Cutest Baby Contest
8. KXLT-TV’s Cutest Pet
9. WNOR-FM’s Show Us Your Ink
10. The Orange County Register‘s Wildflower Photo Contest

Top 10 Sweepstakes:
1. AmericanWoodworker.com’s Laguna Sweepstakes
2. Boys’ Life Nintendo 3DS Giveaway
3. The Dallas Morning News Next Generation Giveaway
4. The Dallas Morning News‘ Speedstakes
5. WHO-TV Great Grocery Giveaway
6. WFTS’s Ellen at Universal Orlando
6. Our State‘s Elizabeth City Harbor Arts Festival Getaway
8. Where Traveler’s Anniversary Trip Giveaway
9. Our State‘s First Presbyterian Church Easter Eggs
10. KDFM’s Cruise in a Cruze

P.S. Two nuggets of info to take from this blog post? Kids & Babies contests are always in style, plus, tattoo contests are a big hit.

WROC-TV (Rochester, NY) is running UPICKEM’s national golf challenge contest. To get viewers tee’d up for the challenge, the station ran this promotional video (check it out on Facebook here!) featuring Scott Hetsko from their weather team and John Kucko from their sports team. Thanks for sharing!

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.

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.

This year, more than ever, we’ve seen many great sharp looking college basketball brackets. Here’s just a peek at a few brands that really hit a slam dunk with their aesthetics:
1. P.C. Richard & Son, an electronic superstore, showcased their bracket on their homepage slider.

2. Famous Dave’s, a popular bar-be-que restaurant, boasts a “Million Dollar Madness” image that links to the contest.

3. Fathead (see Fathead Announces One Million Dollar Bracket Contests) posted both upfront and round-by-round bracket on their site for visitors.

With the approach of the NCAA playoff brackets, we are seeing creative and original brackets pop up on our UPICKEM affiliates’ sites. For example, check out this bracket contest from St. Louis Post-Dispatch – the paper pits all things St. Louis against each other to discover its readers’ favorite places, food, things & people from the city. Life Sherpa Joe Holleman wrote a column about the contest and even revealed his picks. As a gateway city resident, I am a bit partial to this contest – I’m rooting for the Zoo! (I also love the toasted ravioli arch!)