We know you love to customize your contests to give them a unique look that fits your brand's aesthetic. That's why we're thrilled to announce two new features that will help you add more personalization to the design of your contests.
It's been a long time (almost 5 years!) since we last updated the policies governing our apps. Back then, we had hired a law firm to craft the terms for us. They did a good job but lots have changed since then, notably with the adoption of strict data privacy laws in Europe and California. We thought it was time to review and update our policies accordingly.
Today we are introducing a new metric on the Stats page that will help you track the increase of Likes on your Page. The app records the number of Likes when the contest is added to your Page tab and will stop monitoring after the contest closes or once it's taken off the Page. This will give you a good overview of how your fan based increased while the contest was running. This is especially helpful if you added a Like button to your contest and want to track the impact on your Page Likes.
Contests for Pages is almost 10 years old and we have many long time customers that created hundreds of contests over the last few years. We heard from these customers that it can be difficult and frustrating to find old contests. At 5 contests per page, it requires a lot of patience to browse back through all previous contests. Today we are happy to finally make it easier to search and filter contests.
Companies have been running giveaways as far back as the early 1850s, but this marketing tactic is by no means outdated. People are still attracted by the idea of winning something for nothing, only now social media gives us the tools to do this so much easier.
If you run a popular online voting contest where there are prizes to be won, then there is a risk that scammers will try to rig the results in their favour. A quick Google search shows just how easy it is to buy contest votes off the internet. In this blog post, we explain the different mechanisms that we put in place to detect and prevent fraudulent votes.
How did you celebrate Halloween in your country? Did you carve a pumpkin? Maybe you went trick-or-treating with your kids or had a costume-themed day at the office. In any case, Halloween is a great time to organize photo voting contests and we just launched new features to help you make it perfect!
Facebook recently announced that they will no longer allow apps other than games to run on the Facebook website. This means that from now on you will have to access the admin console using this URL from your phone or computer: https://contest.app.do/