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!

In celebration of Halloween, PetSmart wants you to scare your way into a PetSmart commercial! In the first week alone, we received over 5000 entries of pirate pooches, devilish kittens, bank robbing rabbits and much more.

Demonstrating the unlimited potential of Facebook contests powered by Votigo, PetSmart’s Pet Photo Contest has received over 1.5 million page views in just a few weeks. Community voting, viral sharing and commenting are all part of Votigo’s standard Facebook Photo Contest features that ensure your contest reaches as many users as possible.

Head over to PetSmart’s Halloween Photo Contest and vote by clicking the orange paw print under your favorite entry today!

Votigo is a Facebook Preferred Developer Consultant and has run contests on Facebook for brands including Southwest Airlines, Baskin-Robbins, HP / Sex and the City 2, Champion Athleticwear, KOHL’s, DSW Designer Shoe Warehouse, and more.

In celebration of National Breast Cancer awareness month, Sharpie launched a Votigo powered social media gallery enabling their users to fight for the cause. For every signature uploaded, Sharpie will be donating $1 up to a maximum of $10,000 to City of Hope. In addition to the Sharpie community, many celebrities have uploaded signatures to show their support including Miley Cyrus, Brett Favre, Usher Raymond and many more.

Sharpie’s Ink it Pink gallery offers many of our standard features including fully supported user registration, browsing, commenting, voting and social sharing on Facebook, Twitter, email and more. Promotions supporting a cause coupled with user generated content are a great way to expose your brand to new users.

If you would like to discuss a Votigo social media solution for your brand, contact us today.

From mild to caliente, Kmart and Steve Harvey want you to show off your Flavor Factor! Each week will feature a new flavor challenge. Show your spice by uploading a photo showing your personal style and incorporating the item of the week.

Kmart’s Flavor Factor microsite incorporates many of Votigo’s contest features including custom voting modules, user profiles, category specific galleries and much more.

Our contest microsites not only engage your audience, they can also drive traffic to your e-commerce site. Each featured Flavor Factor challenge contains pricing and links to products in the Kmart store. This is a great way to generate sales or create awareness for new products.

If you’re interested in creating a contest microsite, contact us today!

Are you the ultimate Saskatchewan Roughriders fan? The Royal Canadian Mint is on the hunt to reward one lucky Roughriders super fan with a chance to be the 13th player at the 2010 “Big Game.”

This exciting contest incorporates many of our Photo & Video microsite features. Head over to The 13th Man Contest to test a live Votigo contest today!

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In honor of National Breast Cancer Awareness next month and the 4th Annual National “Feel Your Boobies” week (October 8th-15th) right around the corner, the Feel Your Boobies foundation launched a fun and interactive video contest encouraging you to “Feel Your Boobies. Remind a Friend”.

The contest features Votigo’s full-service Video Contest Microsite complete with video upload tools, storage and playback. Using our integrated contest registration, users can create their profile, upload their video and share it on Facebook, Twitter or email all within a few minutes.

Video contests offer a variety of benefits and are perhaps the most viral of all online promotions. They promote user engagement, attract a new audience and create exposure for your brand, product or cause. Votigo’s Video Contests provide social features that encourage users to interact with each other in your brand environment such as commenting and voting.

Stop by the YouBoob Video Contest to see our microsite platform in action.