Online Marketing Contest Management

If you’re running a marketing competition, multi-media elements are an important component of your entry submission. Are you overwhelmed with entry campaign materials and merchandise? omniCONTESTS can help!

We have streamlined the contest entry process, and we manage the multi-media needs of marketing contests. With omniCONTESTS, entrants can easily upload their digital multi-media campaign. The system allows any type of file to be uploaded into an entry. Collecting these campaign materials online can save both the entrants and contest organizers a great deal of time, money and effort.

All print materials such as newspapers, magazines, photographs, and drawings can be submitted online, as well as:

• Audio files (for radio advertisements)
• Videos (presentations and case study videos can captivating way for judges to see the merits of your entry!)
• Broadcast advertisements for TV/online

omniCONTESTS manages your multi-media materials. The software automatically creates thumbnails for your JPG/JPEG photos and automatically encodes your videos. When an entrant uploads a video, the system creates the thumbnail and transforms the video to a standard format geared for fast, high quality playback over the Web for judging or for display in a competition gallery. More than 20 video file types are supported, including single video files (e.g., MOV, WMV, MPG, AVI, etc).

For over 15 years, omniCONTESTS has been the premier online awards program management solution for all types of companies and offers an unprecedented level of control over your online marketing awards program and powerful tools to administer your marketing competition. omniCONTESTS is currently being used around the globe to host regional, national and international online marketing contests with entrants uploading audio, video, picture and document files.

Some of the many organizations currently using omniCONTESTS include the American Advertising Federation’s ADDY awards, Direct Marketing Association’s ECHO Awards, Society of Professional Journalists and American Association of Advertising Agencies.  Click here for more on who is using omniCONTESTS.

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Once an entrant has uploaded their multi-media files, he can easily submit and pay for his entries online with a credit card. With omniCONTESTS, entrants pay online in a secure, SSL protected environment. Supported gateways include Authorize.NET, PayPal Website Payments Pro, PayPal Payflow Pro and PayPal Standard. Automatic email receipts and notifications are sent from the system.

The administrator has full access to the entry information and the videos for the marketing contests can be downloaded for other communication and promotional purposes. Judging is easy – set up your judging teams and your judges can begin reviewing and score the print, video and radio campaigns from anywhere. Judges in six continents are watching videos right now using omniCONTESTS! 

At the end of the online marketing contest, you’ll have a rich source of industry information, videos, audios and print campaigns. You can showcase all the print, audio and video campaigns in an online gallery. All entrants, not just winners can benefit from entering the competition.  It is a win-win situation – you are marketing your entrants' products on your site! With omniCONTESTS’ omniGALLERY module, all your contests entries can be showcased in a gallery. You can customize the search, results and detail pages with images and links to other sites and videos, and you can change text to match your organization's site. With an online gallery, you can unlock more opportunities with sponsorship, advertising and subscriptions!

To start accepting entries today, we encourage you to check out our award and contest software features,  schedule a demo and take advantage of our 90-day, no risk trial and satisfaction guarantee. Contact omniCONTESTS today to learn more about our online marketing contest services!