Coca-Cola put a little spin on their holiday photo contest with the Holiday Ambassador Photo Contest Widget. They see their employees as their brand’s greatest ambassadors and are asking them to share a little holiday cheer. Employees are given the chance to win great prizes, by posting a few photos of family and friends sharing a Coca-Cola Holiday Six-Pack.

The Coca-Cola Holiday Ambassador Photo Contest shows that promotions are fun for employees, and not just for consumers. Running an internal contest is great way to boost team morale. It’s also a unique way to motivate a sales team, or any other business department.

Coca-Cola used the Votigo photo contest widget for this promotion. Votigo’s widget tool is a quick, easy and affordable way to launch a promotion. It’s four simple lines of code that can be embedded anywhere; corporate page, internal site, blog, Facebook etc.

If you’re looking for a unique way to engage and motivate your employees, contact us today.

Want some style for the holidays? It’s the most stylish time of the year and AOL Stylelist is supplying you with a month of giveaways for a stylish holiday. Enter The Most Stylish Time of the Year Sweepstakes every day throughout the month of December for your chance to win the daily sweepstakes prize.

AOL Stylelist used a customized Votigo Sweepstakes Microsite for their Most Stylish Time of Year month long sweepstakes. Sweepstakes are quick, easy and exciting for the consumer. It’s based on pure luck and anyone can be a winner. The holiday season is an excellent time for social promotions when everyone is shopping online and offline and looking for the latest gifts to get their loved ones. Giving a different prize, AOL Stylelist kept their users coming back every day throughout the whole season to check out the new prize. This kept their community members engaged with AOL Stylelist and their related holiday content for an entire month.

If you’re looking for a simple way to engage your community, contact us today about our sweepstakes!

Christmas cheer is shared again with Kmart’s, “Live Your Christmas Story,” picture and video contest. Kmart asked their brand community to submit a photo or video explaining, “What makes you Christmas traditions unique?” Winners are selected at random to win 1 of 100 $50 Kmart Gift Cards. Perfect for holiday shopping!

Kmart’s, “Live Your Christmas Story,” picture and video contest utilized a combination of Votigo’s microsite platform and the Facebook application. If you’re looking for maximum exposure and participation, the combination of these two platforms is the perfect solution. Facebook fans view the contest in their feed, participate and then are called to your website to further engage. On the other hand, the website visitors enter through the microsite, but then can be directed to Facebook to become a fan. Both the Facebook Application and the microsite talk to the same backend. You get one database of information for both platforms.

Are you looking for maximum exposure for you contest, contact us today!

Are you ready for your close-up? M•A•C Makeup wants you to put your best face forward and finish the statement: “M•A•C me over because…” Show them what they’re looking for and you can be one of the chosen models for the Fall 2011 colour collection.

M•A•C isn’t looking for the average girl-next-door and they, also, didn’t want to use an average contest platform. Votigo’s Flash API gave M•A•C complete freedom to put the style, heart and soul they wanted into their Microsite. Using the Flash API gave them complete control over the front-end design and user experience of their Photo/Video Contest Microsite, but with a no-hassle reliable back-end.

Are you looking to WOW your brand audience with a customized contest platform? Contact us today!

What kind of Santa are you? Sears is asking their fans to ‘be the santa you want to be’ in their newest video contest. Every week, for five weeks, a new santa topic will be displayed. The first week is a savvysanta -  the santas we all envy with their christmas lists checked off before Thanksgiving. The last week is the procastisanta - the santas we hope not to be each year, but seem to end up when we’re shopping midnight on Christmas Eve. Whether you’re a savvysanta, powersanta or procrastisanta, you have the potential to win some great prizes. Sears is giving way gift cards, makeover and more to the selected santas.

The Sears ‘be the santa you want to be’ video contest microsite is a great example of how you can reach your entire audience with a simple contest. Votigo’s microsite platform made it possible for Sears to run different contests for their many different customers on one platform. Whether you have customers in different countries or that just have different skills - the Votigo platform makes it easy to engage everyone.

If you have a broad audience that you’re looking to engage, contact us today for more details on our solutions!

We’ve all had our share of uncomfortable moments. However, when’s the last time your discomfort landed you a Leather Recliner, 60” LCD TV, a Surround Sound system and a Blu-Ray DVD Player? Johnston & Murphy launched a Votigo powered Microsite and Facebook Application where users can share their uncomfortable moments, in the form of a 140 character text submission, to win these great prizes and more!  Other users can vote for the favorite “moments” and share with their friends on Facebook, Twitter, and via email.

Johnston & Murphy knew what ultimate comfort was when working with Votigo. Using the Votigo API, Johnston & Murhpy and their agency, Toth Brand Imaging, developed the front-end for the Microsite allowing them to customize the site to their every wish. Votigo offered a solid back-end and developed the corresponding Facebook Application.  The Microsite and Facebook Application work seamlessly together talking to one central database.

Visit Johnston & Murhpy’s “ Ultimate Comfort” Mircosite and Facebook Application and share you uncomfortable moment to win!

If you would like to discuss a customized platform for you next contest, contact us today.

This year TreeTop is celebrating their 50th Anniversary. To celebrate, they launched a sweepstakes on Facebook for their fans. For 50 days, fans can enter their email to be that day’s instant winner. Plus, one lucky individual will be the sweepstakes Grand Prize winner of $50,000.

TreeTop’s 50th Anniversary celebration is powered by Votigo’s Sweepstakes Facebook Application. Sweepstakes are an easy way to build your brand following.  Users are required to “Like” the TreeTop Facebook Page so they can unlock the promotion.  With Votigo, brands can run a sweepstakes on Facebook, Twitter, on a Microsite or right on your website with a widget. Votigo. also, offers custom registration questions or even a poll option to collect the information most important to you.

If you are looking to run a sweepstakes, contact us today!

Create. Inspire. Motivate. The Network for Excellence in Teaching is asking you to share you story about, “Why are you passionate about becoming a teacher? Or, how has a teacher changed your life?”.  One lucky winner will receive a $1000 gift card to a store of their choice for cool, new school supplies.

This NExT contest features Votigo’s full-service Video Contest Microsite. Video contests are a great (and cost-effective) way to generate content for your website or future promotional material.

Looking to run a UGC-contest? Click here to contact us today!

Using the global marketing power of Facebook, Ford launched a Votigo powered video contest to find social media savvy drivers across the world. The winning entrant will receive $10,000 donated to the cause of their choice and a free trip to Europe to drive the all-new Ford Focus!

“The Global Test Drive gives us an opportunity to reach out to consumers around the world and involve them in the launch of our new Focus while giving to their local charity,” said Jim Farley, group vice president, Global Marketing, Sales and Service. “We’ve learned through our previous social media initiatives, that turning the brand over to consumers early on helps build awareness and interest in the product.”

Featured in over 28 languages, the Global Test Drive demonstrates the universal appeal of Votigo’s Facebook Contest Applications.

If you’re looking to engage your audience on an international level, contact us today to learn more about our social media solutions.

Part scavenger hunt, part sweepstakes and all digital fun, Aloft Hotels are “making history as part of the first contest by a hotel brand to use digital “Tags” as entries.” The unique contest is powered by Votigo’s mobile sweepstakes platform, using Microsoft’s Tag Reader.

Users can enter the mobile sweepstakes in three easy steps:

1. Find the tag at any participating Aloft Hotel
2. Download the free app using your handset at gettag.mobi
3. Scan the tag and enter to win

The grand prize includes airfare and accommodations for Live in the Vineyard taking place from Nov. 13 to 15, in California’s Napa Valley.

“Aloft guests embrace technology like Tags, and we think they’ll appreciate that we’re the first hotel brand to get creative with Tags in a contest like this,” said Brian McGuinness, Senior Vice President of Specialty Select Brands for Starwood.

Votigo’s mobile contest platform can be used as an integral part of your next marketing initiative or special promotion. Mobile contests encourage engagement from your existing and potential customer base by providing a new platform for brand interaction.

If you’re interested in a mobile contest for your brand, contact us today!