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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.

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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Kansas City Parent Magazine (Kansas City, KS) is no stranger to contesting (they put several under their belt each month!). Before utilizing UPICKEM, the popular niche magazine enabled forms on their site to manage their contests. Since signing up for UPICKEM, they are able to customize the contests to their liking and easily capture user data. Not only is their first contest with UPICKEM completely adorable (and a great spin on a typical kids contest), it was very successful with over 250 registered users and nearly 475 votes.

The Tennessean (Nashville, TN) puts a healthy spin on a simple recipe contest – for kids, nonetheless! The grand prize winner receives a $5,000 gift certificate to Fareway Groceries (a perfect prize from the perfect sponsor), plus 30 random entries receive a $100 Fareway gift certificate! With over 2,800 registrants and nearly 13,000 votes (and stellar branding), this contest is a treat.