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Happy New Year 2013 : The Kontest team greeting card

The Kontest team wishes you a Happy New Year 2013! On the last days of 2012 we lived some… supernatural adventures! The end of the world announced on December 21 has released extraordinary creatures that came to spread terror and chaos on Earth. Each team member has fought one of these evil monsters to stop them. Check out our illustrated greeting card now » We tell how we have survived the Apocalypse (and how Jim Rocket saved the world). Needless to say we have been really busy before we got the pleasure to wish you a year full of success in your life. And of course, a lot of success in your Social Marketing campaigns....

Posted by on Jan 14, 2013

5 Facebook Timeline applications to use in addition of Kontest promotions

On Facebook, it’s pretty important to offer regular entertainment to your fanbase. These animations are in fact Facebook applications that everyone can see just by clicking on tabs on your fanpage. They can also take the form of specific operations such as Facebook competitions or contests that you need to promote regularly in order to gather entries. We selected a set of Facebook apps, easy to install on your timeline. A tab will appear on your fanpage allowing your community to use these them easily. Statigram The Statigram application brings together all your picture taken with Instagram in a dedicated tab of your Facebook page. See an exemple Install the Statigram Facebook app Pinvolve Display your Pinterest profile and your content on your Facebook fanpage. See an exemple Install the Pinvolve Facebook app Youtube Tab The video is a very popular media on social networks. Thanks to Youtube Tab, all of your YouTube videos can be viewed easily by the fans of your Facebook page. See an exemple Install the Youtube Tab Facebook app Job Cast JobCast is a free application that lets you add a « recruitment » tab to your Facebook page. See an exemple Install the Job Cast Facebook app Livestream The Livestream application allows your Facebook community to access your live video directly on your fan page. See an exemple Install the Livestream Facebook app This list is not exhaustive, there is a lot of awesome Facebook applications that can help you optimize your fanpage. And of course, for all your promotions on Facebook, you can use Kontest: it allows you to entertain your fanbase with great quizzes, sweepstakes and photo...

Posted by on Juil 13, 2012

The Music Quiz by Kontest in partnership with Deezer.com

We are proud to announce a brand new kind of promotion on Kontest: Introducing the Music Quiz by Kontest. Available now in the Gold plan Kontest official partner of Deezer Deezer, one of the biggest platform in the music streaming market, has opened its API to the world. We jumped at the chance to include it in a whole new kind of sweepstake: the Music Quiz. Kontest has become official partner of the music platform: during several weeks, we worked hand in hand with Deezer’s teams in order to use the catalog of over 15 million tracks within the promotions. Always that simple Creating a Music Quiz is very easy : each question in your quiz comes with a 30 seconds sample of the title you want. Type the name of a tune in the search engine and Kontest will automatically display a list of sample you can add to your blindtest. No worries about copyrights, everything is managed by Deezer ! Music maestro ! Entrants can try to guess the title of a couple of songs, what album they come from or in which movie they are used. The number of possibilities is huge. With the Music Quiz you entertain your community by calling on people’s musical sensitivity. What better way to engage with your fanbase? To see how it works, just try our TV Shows Music Quiz: Allegro presto To create your own Music Quiz, log into the Kontest platform and have fun: it’s fast and easy as usual! The Music Quiz is available in the Gold plan and is 100% compatible with iPhone and iPad, Android smartphones and tablets, any Facebook Fan page or any website thanks to the last HTML5 web...

Posted by on Mai 10, 2012

Redesign of the Kontest admin homepage

We just updated to update the home page of the Kontest platform. Now your fanpages are listed as a mosaic: simply click on one of them to see the competition that you have created. To create a new contest, you have several options: you can click on « Create a contest » at the top of the page or in the last square of the mosaic or visit one of your page and « Add a contest » for this in particular page. The column on the right lists the last posts of our blog so you do not miss any information about Kontest. You can also visit our « Examples » page to get inspired by the creations of our users and customers. We also improved the overall speed of the platform: loadings will be smoother and faster from now. Connect to the Kontest admin to have a look! This update allows us to give you more visibility when managing your competition, and to improve your experience as a user of Kontest. Another update, with more features, is scheduled for later this month. Stay...

Posted by on Mar 19, 2012

Kontest is already fully compatible with Facebook Timeline for brands!

It just happened, Facebook Timeline for brand pages is live. Contest holders, fear not: Kontest is already fully compatible with Facebook Timeline for brands!. As a proof you can check this contest installed on our page on Facebook and see how it is. People who cant to enter contest on your page must click on the « contest » tab at the top of the Timeline. They will be directed to another page in order to see the contest. Timeline will be live for all the pages March 30th, 2012. Visit Facebook to activate it manually. The Kontest team is already working on the contest optimization on Timelines. Firstly, we will adapt their size: they will be 810px wide instead of 520px today. More will come soon, stay...

Posted by on Fév 29, 2012