This section pretty much covers anything and everything to do with comping. From on-pack promotions through to new sites, win a house giveaways and pay to enter prize draws. We also include a few tips and highlight issues that compers need to be aware of whilst entering online competitions.
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Earlier in the month we asked if it was time to ban automated competition entry services. These services are run by companies that get paid to enter competitions on behalf of people too lazy to
Automated competition entry services are places where people can pay a site to enter competitions on their behalf. The sites “find” competitions and then using scripts automatically generate entries for these people. The entrants don’t
Promoveritas have put out an interesting PR article this weekend entitled “Money for nothing – the rise of the ‘professional comper’ represents a new threat to marketing promotions, warns PromoVeritas”. It tells brands that this
It’s been a while since we dipped a toe into the murky waters of Facebook voting competitions but we thought it was high time to revisit them and see how things are fairing. First a
With Valentine’s Day approaching we were going to do a round up of some the rose, chocolate and champagne related competitions that are currently around, but something more interesting caught the eye… a win a
Twitter competitions have become increasingly popular over the last year or so. Every day, especially Friday, there’s usually a number of giveaways offering prizes ranging in value. To enter an entrant is usually asked to
Twitter competitions, where promoters offer prizes to encourage users to tweet or follow them, have become increasingly popular. In any one day you can expect dozens of RT this message to win or follow us
Despite the many issues that they caused last year voting competitions are still being used by many a promoter. Eurostar, Hostelbookers, Orange Film Club, Joules, Topdeck Travel and Argos are just some of the brands
Many things change in comping, but one thing that doesn’t is that you will always find promoters going for the basic competition entry mechanism of “send us an email to enter”! Whilst for a comper