Kontest at the Social Media London meetup

Hello London! On January 24, 2012 at 7pm, The Green Man pub in London will host a Social Media London meetup. Arnaud Robin, Online Marketing Manager at Kontest, will speak at the event to share the best practices for people who want to hold a contest on the web and social media. He will introduce examples and tips to help you running successful interactive marketing campaigns. We look forward to see you there! For more information, simply visit the meetup...

Posted by Arnaud Robin on Jan 3, 2012

Kontest’s last minute gifts!

Little time has passed since the last version of Kontest and we already add new features to the platform! Shared management of the contests Your life is simpler: multiple users can now edit the same contest. For this, it is only necessary that the users are administrators of the fan page for which the contest was created and have their account Kontest synchronized with their Facebook account on the platform. So if you edit your contest, all the changes will also be applied to the accounts of the members of your team working on the same fanpage. Improved installation system on Facebook It’s now possible to: Choose to install the contest as a landing page (for users who are not already a fan). Choose the name of the contest tab on the fan page. Transfer the contest from a fanpage to another (if you installed it on the wrong fanpage, for example). No more fumbling in your fanpage settings on Facebook, everything is available on the...

Posted by Arnaud Robin on Déc 20, 2011

It’s almost Xmas at Kontest!

Tada! The new version of Kontest is here! We decided to celebrate Christmas before Christmas by offering a lot of new features. Hi Jim! As you can see, we have a brand new website and also a new recruit to our team. Say hello to Jim Rocket! Jimmy does not come from the future and is not the cousin of MacGyver: he is actually our new mascot and will help you to rocket your social marketing: tips on good practice, information on social networks and new technologies, etc.. And of course, Jim will keep you informed about the evolution of our platform and the adventures of the Kontest Team. You will hear about it very soon. Visit our new website! Photo Contest One of the most important feature for this release: the Photo Contest! It is the ideal solution to entertain a community and strengthen its engagement on your website or on your Facebook fanpage. Users can directly upload a photo or image, or participate by using their webcam. Selecting the winners is actually very simple: you can call for votes from the public and/or use the deliberation of a jury to choose the best entry. You can find more details and examples on this page: Photo Contest HTML5 & CSS3: a new design for your contests We redesigned our contests in HTML5 and CSS3: their look is neater while allowing optimal display in most browsers. The use of Responsive Design : The contests are automatically adapted to the terminal you use, from the computer to the smartphones and also the tablets. We want to give you the opportunity to use our contests wherever you want with ease. We’ll explain explain everything in detail in a future post. Hosting...

Posted by Arnaud Robin on Déc 6, 2011

Kontest is fully compatible with HTTPS

From October 1st, 2011, Facebook activate HTTPS by default on its platform. All the applications must be certified to withstand this type of secured connection. The developpers team has worked Kontest on this issue to make the contests 100% compatible with this protocol. And it is enabled now! Did you say HTTPS? Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure (HTTPS) provides encrypted communication and secure identification of a network web server. HTTPS connections are often used for payment transactions on the World Wide Web and for sensitive transactions in corporate information systems. (source :...

Posted by Arnaud Robin on Oct 3, 2011

Say hello to your free contests on Facebook!

Since it has been launched in October 2010, Kontest worked hard to offer an automated platform allowing the SME, advertising agencies and brands to create and deploy contests on Facebook, Web and mobile. We helped a lot of them to manage their community and to carry out efficient marketing campaigns at affordable costs. Here comes a great announcement ! Today, we are pleased to launch our brand new Start offer which is now free and unlimited for everyone ! Before the Start plan was was billed $149, but now, it’s completely free. Kontest is the first service to allow to create and install contests on your Facebook fanpage at no cost! You can now enliven your community regularly without budget constraints and take advantage of advanced features such as visual customization or the famous sharing features. Sylvain and Jacinthe , founders of Kontest: «  After the release of our « Social Lover » version, with a full Facebook optimization, it seemed obvious that the next step should be to maximize the outreach of our platform. We enable everyone to discover the disconcerting ease with which it is possible to create competition on Facebook with Kontest. The switch to free is a strong message that we send to all Community Managers and Marketers who never thought to use our tools dur to the cost.  » Here you can see our different plans: (See our full Pricing page ») What’s new? Every contest produced with the Start plan now has a small widget that displays Kontest recommendations of similar contests. It allows participants to discover other competitions that could please them and it increases the participation on all the contests created with Kontest. The mention « Powered by Kontest » is maintained like the right...

Posted by Arnaud Robin on Juil 12, 2011