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Track Your Ads Performance With The Facebook Pixel

February 05, 2019

Boosting your contest with a promoted post is a great practice to increase its visibility. This lets you target a specific audience and reach people outside your immediate circle of fans and friends. But how can you track your campaign performance and know how many people actually answered your contest as a result of seeing your ad? How can you re-engage with participants in order to promote your business?

The answer to both these questions lies in the Facebook Pixel. The pixel allows you to track participants so you can assess the effectiveness of your ad campaigns and then target these same participants as a Custom Audience in your next campaigns.

Bulk Import Options for Multiple-Choice Questions

January 11, 2019

When adding a multiple-choice question to a contest, it can be tedious to create each option and type in the different choices. Today we are introducing a new feature to make it easier to import many options at once. When creating a question, look for the "+ Bulk Import" link. When you click that link, a popup opens with a text box where you can type in or paste many options at once.

How to Create a Contest on Your Facebook Page

December 12, 2018

In this tutorial, we explain how to create a contest and publish it on a Facebook page you manage. The whole process only takes a few minutes. Take a look at the video above for the step-by-step tutorial.

First, it is important to understand the difference between a Facebook Page and a personal account. The Page represents a business, community or public figure that interacts with an audience of followers. A personal account is used by you, as an individual. It is your login to get into Facebook.

Receive Email Notifications for New Answers

November 30, 2018

We just added a feature that was long overdue. You can now receive an email notification each time someone answers your contest. You were already receiving notifications through Facebook and now you will get both by default. You can configure how you wish to be notified (email, Facebook or both) from the Advanced Options of the Configuration section of your contest.

Create Polls, Contests and Quizzes from your Enterprise Account

October 24, 2018

Today we have great news for our Enterprise subscribers. When you click the "+ New" button to create a new promotion, you will see a menu asking you to choose how you would like to interact with your audience. You can select one of the following: poll, contest or quiz. This gives you access to all our apps from a single account.

A New Domain Name For Your Contests

July 19, 2018

Today we updated the domain name used for sharing contests to make it even shorter. The domain contest.fbapp.io has been effectively replaced by contest.app.do throughout the app. This shorter URL will be easier to type in a browser's address bar.

How to Edit the Facebook Page Tab Name

May 14, 2018

When you install a Tab on your Facebook Page, it will be named "Contest" by default. It's sometimes useful to rename the tab to better reflect the purpose of your contest. You could for example rename it to "Contact Form" or "Mother's Day Contest". Fortunately, changing a tab's name can easily be done by following these steps:

Changes To The Contest App

April 02, 2018

Following the Facebook privacy stories of last week and the European Union GDPR regulation coming into force next month, we made a few changes to the Contests for Pages app to give participants more explicit control on the information they share with contest creators. Here are the changes you will notice starting this week when creating a contest: