winners
After two nights of thrilling football action that saw both Liverpool and Tottenham progress to The Champions League Final, Zavvi created even more thrills. Customers woke up on Thursday to...
Running Competitions
Over the years we've tried to help promoters and those who run online competitions by offering hints, tips and advice. Much of this is covered in our How To Run Competitions section but occasionally we highlight interesting issues on the blog. Whilst some of these posts are dated many of the points raised are still valid.
win a house competitions
It's been over a year since the current trend of running win a house competitions started. This means that we're now entering a period where a number of raffles that...
running competitions
We needed to pick some winners for a promotion we recently ran on our Clucky Bingo site and googled "random number generator". We weren't surprised to see that Random.org was top of the pile - at...
running competitions
A couple of years back it's safe to say that one aspect of comping really riled us - automated competition entry services. We pretty much led the way in making compers and promoters aware of this...
running competitions
As well as offering advice to compers, we also like to use our blog to help promoters. This blog aims to give promoters, PRs, siteowners etc who are considering running advent comps some useful...
winners
On our Auto Trader winner blog we suggested that winning picking should be more transparent so a big round of applause to Applause Store who decided to pick their latest competition by video...
running competitions
Over the years we've seen a lot of competitions, contests and prize draws - for the most part they're fine and we're happy to tell our users about them. However more and more we're seeing annoying...
running competitions
You don't write about voting competitions for ages and then you get a couple of blogs coming along within a couple of weeks! This evening we spotted another brand ditching their intended voting...
running competitions
We've not blogged about automated entry services for a while so we thought we'd get back on the bandwagon. We want to make sure compers and promoters are aware that they're still around and that...
running competitions
It's been almost a year since we started blogging about automated competition entries and the effects that they have on online competitions. Over that time we've managed to reveal email accounts...
running competitions
The search is on for Mum of the Year for 2012 and just like boxing there are various ways to get your (or your mum's) hands on the title. Fortunately you don't have to get in the ring to...
running competitions
Christmas Time! Mistletoe and Wine plus the season of goodwill to all men. Unless you happen to be the person in charge of sending out the "you have won an iPad emails" for a gardening company...
running competitions
Earlier this week, Seabrook Crisps announced a brand new competition. It offered daily prizes and a massive £10,000 top prize. However, the £10K was going to go to the person who could refer the...
running competitions
Earlier in the month we asked if it was time to ban automated competition entry...
running competitions
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...
running competitions
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...
running competitions
Over the last five years Battery Force have been running a daily free battery giveaway. However, as of the 18th February 2010 the company have pulled the promotion due to a complaint made about...
running competitions
The Institute of Sales Promotion (ISP) have finally started warning promoters about cheating in online competitions. They have issued advice to companies that run competitions to tighten up their...
running competitions
Every comper hopes for a surprise Lucky Winning Envelope (LWE) dropping through their door each morning, but a different kind of postal surprise revealed itself to a number of compers recently...
running competitions
Not every competition runs smoothly and quite often compers can be left frustrated and bewildered by issues relating to competition mechanics and prize fulfillment. There's little in the way of...
running competitions
So you spend hour after hour entering competitions, visiting sites and finding answers - how would you feel then if the prize was won by someone who'd never even visited the site and didn't even...
running competitions
We often see a number of purchase necessary competitions online. Soon the need to include a no purchase necessary option will be at an end (if it's not already) but a number of sites, for example...
