Running a contest on social media can
be a fun way to build followers. There are a variety of platforms to
launch and track contests with ease across multiple social networks.
Here is a list of platforms to run
contests on social media. Run sweepstakes, hashtag contests, quizzes,
prize claims, photo and video contests, and more. Several platforms
offer basic plans for little or no cost.
Hootsuite.
Hootsuite
offers a variety of promotional tools, including contest tools for
Twitter, Instagram, Vine, and Pinterest. Run a photo, video, or essay
contest. Have a quiz, poll, sweepstakes, caption contest, commenting
sweepstakes, or voting gallery.
Price: Premium plans start at $9.99 per month.
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Rafflecopter.
Rafflecopter is a quick
and easy solution to host a giveaway across Facebook, Twitter, and
Pinterest. Select your prize, choose your entry methods, and start
collecting entries. When your giveaway is over, select and announce your
winners with a few clicks of a button. Customize a theme to match your
brand.
Price: Free plan for standard entries. Basic plan is $13 per month.
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Woobox.
Woobox is a popular platform for
promotional social media apps. Woobox features sweepstakes, photo
contests, quizzes, video contests, instant win, pin to win, pick a
winner, leaderboard, prize claim, and more. Woobox even has a brackets
app to pit choices against each other and have users predict the
matchups, score them, and show leaderboards.
Access to all apps is $30 per month.
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Pagemodo.
Pagemodo is a platform for
promoting on Facebook. Pagemodo features photo contests, video and essay
contests, trivia questions, and games. Run a sweepstakes or giveaway
with winners chosen at random or manually. Easily track your
performance. Promote your contests and sweepstakes on Twitter and
LinkedIn.
Price: Basic is $6.25 per month. Pro is $13.25 per month.
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ShortStack.
ShortStack lets you run
Facebook contests with voting restrictions and fraud prevention. Host an
Instagram contest; promote on Twitter. Embed campaigns on your website,
or publish to the web. Run giveaways and video contests. Access
real-time data, including views, traffic sources, number of entries,
shares, and more.
Price: Free plan for up to 5,000 campaign visits per 30 days. Paid plans start at $29 per month.
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AgoraPulse.
AgoraPulse is a social media
management platform with a variety of apps to run and measure social
media promotions. Run free contests —quiz, photo contest, or a
sweepstakes— on your Facebook timeline. Facebook apps include instant
win, personality test, fan vote, coupon app, and more.
Price: Plans start at $29 per month.
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Wishpond.
Wishpond is a lead generation
platform to create landing pages and contests, track leads, automate
email campaigns, and more. Run Facebook sweepstakes, photo contests,
Instagram hashtag contests, and more. Quickly build, publish, and
split-test landing pages.
Price: Plans start at $44 per month.
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Constant Contact.
Constant Contact,
the email service, is also a social media marketing platform. Create a
sweepstakes, coupons, or downloadable content. Easily create a
professional-looking Facebook landing page, then promote it with email
and social media. Track your Facebook promotion with easy-to-read
reporting and stats.
Price: $45 per month.
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Binkd.
Binkd is a social promotions
platform to run a hashtag sweepstakes, refer-a-friend contest, instant
win, coupon app, trivia contest, or enter-to-win sweepstakes. Grow and
engage your audience with a contest or sweepstakes on Facebook,
Instagram, or Pinterest. Run an Instagram contest or a Twitter and Vine
promotion to build your list of followers and grow your social reach.
Price: Plans start at $29 per month.
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Strutta.
Strutta is a social promotion
platform to easily launch a sweepstakes or contest across multiple
social channels, including Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. Use custom
templates and mobile themes. Access the do-it-yourself builder to
customize your design, or get professional design assistance.
Price: Starts at $249 per promotion.
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Votigo.
Votigo is a social marketing
platform with do-it-yourself or full-service solutions. Run sweepstakes,
photo and video contests, hashtag campaigns, polls, quizzes, coupons,
and more. Schedule and track campaigns and posts. Track and moderate
entries. Leverage social Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Pinterest,
YouTube, mobile, and web.
Plans start at $29 per month.
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