We recently hosted one of our partner’s favorite webinars (okay, it’s one of our favorites, too) – 30 Contest Ideas in 30 Minutes. During this webinar, Julie Foley, our Director of Affiliate Success & Matt Coen, our President, reveals the top 30 contest categories run on UPICKEM in the past year. Each category comes complete with several examples for you to get your contest-building creative juices flowing to help build out your year-long contest calendar.
If you weren’t able to attend the live session, watch a recording in our resource center.
Be sure to check out all the contests mentioned in our webinar.
At last, football season has arrived! With that in mind, today I’d like to showcase an excellent football contest from Tribune Chronicle (Warren, OH). The paper is running 3 football contests: a local high school contest, top 15 college games, and the national pro game (run by Second Street). To make it easy for readers to enter, they created a landing page that promotes all three contests and is surrounded by sponsors’ ads. What a genius idea! Great work – we can’t wait to see the results of your contests.
Are you running a football contest that deserves a standing ovation? Let us know in the comments.
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.
Lip Dub is a phenomenon that is sweeping the nation and WGN-TV (Chicago, IL) joins in with this video contest for local area high schools. The winning school of this creative contest gets to have WGN News broadcast from their school. What a fun prize!
“We’ve got spirit; yes, we do. We’ve got spirit; how about you?” PB Gametime (West Palm Beach, FL) – which focuses primarily on high school sports – hosted this video contest for local schools. A combination of votes, originality, creativity and student involvement crowned Glade Central Raiders the winners. Be sure to check out all the submissions – there are some excellent results!
Prom is the most magical night for high schoolers everywhere. What better way to share these memories than with a photo contest, like Gazette.net (Gaithersburg, MD) did? The grand prize winner receives a perfectly themed prize – a Canon PowerShot SD1400 IS Digital Camera. Browsing through the submissions almost makes you miss high school!
