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McVitie's Chocolate Digestives are celebrating their centenary this year. In 1925 McVitie's launched the Homewheat Chocolate Digestive. That was actually 33 years after...

Yesterday morning (3rd March) we had a message from a Loquax user letting us know that a pay to enter competition site called Jackson Jackpot had announced it was to close...

A few weeks ago we were emailed about a site called Life Made Competitions. Yes it's another pay to enter prize draw site that requires you to spend some money for the...

Over the years we've featured a number of newly launched competition and prize draw businesses here on Loquax. These include those that have dabbled with the win a house...

In 2017 online bingo and gambling operators were contacted by regulators and urged to remove adverts that included images that could appeal to children. The regulators...

After the excruciatingly long 35 weeks of January we're now flying through 2025 already and with all that's going on in the world comping should be a welcome distraction...

Pay to enter prize draw sites, sometimes referred to as raffle sites or simply competition sites, continue to grow. Despite what seems to be an ever increasing saturated...

Heart Radio's popular Make Me A Millionaire promotion is back and that means that one lucky listener is guaranteed to have their life changed. At the start of May someone...

In a previous article we featured a whole bunch of apps that are useful for compers because they often give you the chance to win prizes. In amongst that selection were a...

Way back in 2022 we wrote a blog on how savings could mean prizes. It featured...

Welcome back to another round up of Loquax and online competition news. This week, well around the 7th or 8th, Loquax turned 27 years old (27!!!) which isn't a bad feat...

Way back in 2020 when win a house competitions really started to snowball, a renovated cottage located between the Llyn Peninsula and Snowdonia National Park, North Wales...

Royalux Competitions, a pay to enter prize draw site, has had a ruling against them upheld by Advertising Standards (ASA). During August 2024 they ran a prize draw...

Competitions are a funny business. On one hand there are many brands and promoters who run prize draws and giveaways for a multitude of reasons and on the other hand you...

Happy New Year! We're just 325 days away - at time of writing - from doing Advents all over again. We hope that you found our advent lists useful, including

Pay to enter prize draw sites, often referred to as raffle sites, hit the headlines just before Christmas when BBC News Yorkshire ran an article about Level Up Giveaways...

The good news is that we're through another pile of Advent and 12 Days of Christmas competitions for another year at least. To be fair it's been a mostly smooth affair...

Advent Season is almost upon us and that's a mixed blessing for compers because on one hand there's an abundance of prizes and giveaways but on the other there's a lot of...

Advent competitions are less than a week away and if this year is like previous years then the majority of giveaways will be running on Instagram. However brands running...

If you're a regular on X/Twitter or have been keeping an eye on tech news recently you may have noticed a lot of chatter about moving to Bluesky. Bluesky is a social media...