Contest 5 Activation Process from Start-To-Finish.
Publish Contest:
To set up and publish a contest, click the "Contest Menu" on the "Contest Home Page," then click the round green button with a plus sign (+) to open the "Create a Contest" page. An all-in-one comprehensive form allows you to clearly define the contest title, format, detailed description, terms and conditions, awards/prizes, branded promo video/photo/image or file, settings for contest/entries/voting duration, number of entries, paid/free entry, types of votes (paid/free/enter your fee/no voting), number of votes, number of winners, awards/prizes, public/private votes progress, approval of entries/votes, contest location, privacy settings, and save as a draft or publish. Then follow the payment process (if required) to complete the publication of your contest. For details...
Contest Information:
Visit the "Contest Details View" page for complete contest information such as the contest title, contest statistics, description, awards/prizes, promo content, contest/entries/voting duration/countdown, number of winners, awards/prizes, and engagements.
Entry Submission:
To submit an entry, visit the “Contest Details View” page, carefully read the description to understand the requirements. Check the contest duration, entry/voting period and entries limit. Then, click on the "Join" menu to join the contest, agree to the terms and conditions, and click "Submit an Entry." Depending on the contest type, select from your existing content or upload a new one or capture directly from mobile cameras to submit an entry. Title, describe, and preview your entry before submitting it. Depending on the contest owner, you can submit an entry for a fee or for free and can submit one or multiple entries per contest.
Manage Contest:
The "Contest Details View" page is where the contest owner can manage the contest and entries using various features. The owner can apply register services, feature/un-feature, premium/un-premium, ending-soon/un-ending-soon contests. They can also close the contest, switch between public and private voting progress, approve or deny eligible or ineligible entries, embed the contest promo code on their website, invite the audience to the contest, share the contest and entries on social media platforms, and enter news and stories about the contest in the Contest News section.
Audience Voting:
Contest 5 has an advanced voting system designed for audiences to vote for their favorite entries in various ways, depending on the contest creator's configuration. This includes options like free or paid voting, entering a fee to vote and un-vote, or no voting, as well as maximum number of votes per user per contest. To vote, go to the entries gallery, click on an entry, navigate through to view all entries, and vote for your favorite entry.
- Free Voting: Click "vote" on the pop-up screen.
- Paid Voting: Clicking "vote" will take you through the payment process to successfully complete your vote.
- Enter A Fee to Vote: Enter a fee per vote in the pop-up screen, click "vote," and follow the payment process to successfully complete your vote.
- Un-vote: Clicking "un-vote this entry" will remove all your previous votes for the entry at once.
- No Voting: This option has no voting feature.
- Maximum number of votes: Your remaining votes limit is always displayed on the voting pop-up screen. If your vote limit is 1, you can only vote once for 1 entry. If you have multiple votes, you can cast your votes one at a time, many votes at a time, or all votes at once. You can cast all your votes for one entry or for multiple entries, and then complete the payment process each time.
- Unlimited Votes: With unlimited votes, you can only cast one vote at a time and only one vote per entry. You can vote for just one entry or multiple entries or all the entries, but you can only vote for an entry one time.
Audience Judging:
Experts are assigned the responsibility to critically assess entries, using pre-defined criteria. The judges can be updated and notified, and can communicate with each other.
Audience Engagement:
With the in-app social interactive engagement features, participants can create their profiles, post/share creative content on the status feed with text, photos, audio/music, videos, blog posts, forum discussions, etc. They can invite friends, live chat, message, join, follow, and favorite contests. Participants can also like, react, comment (with photos, stickers, or emojis), share, save, or report contests and share contests/entries on other social media platforms.
Winners Selection:
Winners will be selected using either audience votes, judges' scores, or a combination of both audience votes and judges' scores.
