You can ask your followers about their award predictions and favorite shows. Run giveaways for themed prizes and discounts. And encourage followers to create and share their own content to win an Emmys giveaway! In this post, you’ll find all the pointers you need for a glamorous Emmys giveaway.

Too rushed to read? Download our instant templates for an Emmys prediction contest, Facebook or Instagram giveaways.

Follow the Emmys with a social media giveaway

Search interest in the Emmys increases a hundredfold during the award ceremony. And that interest is reflected in social media. People will be tweeting, streaming and commenting throughout the awards ceremony.

So why not harness that engagement? Set up a quick Emmys giveaway on Facebook, Instagram, or Twitter. Invite people to comment on one of your posts. Here are some ideas to get you started:

• Ask people for their favorite award category
• Collect opinions about the presenters
• Ask people for their favorite nominee
• Rate the entertainment performances

Then all you have to do is select a random winner with the prize draw tool, and reward them with an attractive prize.

Since the Emmys are awards for TV series, you could offer gifts like DVD box sets, memorabilia of the stars, or merch. If you want to emphasize your brand’s products, ask yourself if you have anything relevant to the theme. For example, a food and drink business could highlight their cinema-ready snacks. A furniture warehouse could boast about how their comfy sofas are perfect for movie marathons!

Predict the Emmys award winners

Another fun option is to make your Emmys giveaway competitive. Use the Predictions tool to ask your followers to predict the winners in each category of nominations. Then award a prize to whoever makes the first correct guess.

This kind of contest takes a bit more time, as users answer more than one question. However, it is a great opportunity to collect the participants’ contact details. Make sure you offer a generous prize for your Emmys promotion, as it’s the best way to attract more attention and participants to your contest. Remember – the prize is the most important incentive for people to take part!

Challenge followers to an Emmys-themed quiz

How well do you know your TV shows? With fan communities springing up on the internet, people love to learn about their favorite shows in obsessive detail – from The Crown to The Handmaid’s Tale, from Bridgerton to The Kominsky Method.

So why not challenge your followers to prove their expertise? Set up a TV trivia quiz about Emmy-nominated shows. Then you can run an Emmys giveaway for all the participants… Or limit it to people who scored full marks.

Run live events during the Emmys award ceremony

All the Emmys giveaways we’ve recommended so far will work equally well before or during the awards ceremony. But what if you want to run a contest that’s specifically tied to Emmys night?

An Instant Win Emmys giveaway is easy to run. And it creates a real buzz among your followers! Taking part is incredibly simple: users just register their data and then click through to find out if they’ve won in real-time.

Set up a list of prizes that are released over a set period of time. This incentivizes followers to keep logging back in throughout the night. Use this contest mode to count down to the awards ceremony, or hand out prizes while the on-screen winners are being announced.

We hope you’ve found these suggestions helpful. And we can’t wait to see the promotions you create! Set up your Easypromos account to get started.

Do you have questions about Emmys giveaways? Our Support Team is ready to assist and inspire!

For players, online betting pools are pretty much the same as traditional, offline ones – just more convenient. But for marketers, the switch to online soccer pools has changed everything.

Online promotional campaigns offer many more advanced features. An online soccer pool can be a sophisticated, social media-first way to build your online reach and reputation.

The idea behind an online soccer pool is simple. Just ask your followers to predict the result of a match or tournament.

You can offer your target audience all kinds of rewards and incentives for taking part, such as discounts, prizes or experiences. Here are some of the benefits you’ll get in return:

• Increase engagement by tapping into users’ passion for soccer. Then keep them hooked with daily campaign updates.
• Give participants a competitive thrill by ranking them in order of who made the most correct predictions. Reward correct guesses on an individual basis, or award one big prize at the end of the tournament or season.
• Collect leads and then maintain them by offering high-quality soccer content.
• Customize the experience to maximize the fun and maintain a consistent brand image. Use photos, branding, texts, open questions, closed questions and drop-down lists.

This year’s Champions League is one for the history books. Try out our Predictions contest for the final – then create your own Champions League sweepstake and prizes!

Get the benefits of an online soccer pool promotion

Now let’s focus on what you can achieve with an online sports promotion.

• Fans spend more time on social media when they’re getting excited for a tournament, watching a match, or sharing post-match analysis with friends. Brands that make the most of these special occasions can get attention and share their campaigns with a bigger audience.
• Relate your content to hot topics. You can encourage followers to like, comment, share and more when you produce content that links to their interests. In marketing language: it helps boost engagement!
• Increase brand awareness. By linking the activity of your brand to big competitions, you’ll achieve top-of-mind awareness. Fans and followers will then associate your brand with the fun and excitement of soccer season.
• Encourage customer loyalty. If you’re active on social media, produce great content, link your brand to high-profile events, and offer desirable rewards, your sports promotion is sure to be a success. Your followers will feel valued, welcomed and rewarded. In other words, the loyalty ratio grows.

7 simple steps for an online soccer pool

So the time has come to set up your online soccer pool. Here are 7 simple steps for a successful campaign:

1. Choose which event to highlight in your promotion. First, come up with a sports marketing calendar to plan campaigns and pick launch dates.
2. Pick a format for your online soccer pool. How many questions will participants answer? Will you use open questions, drop-down lists, autocomplete, or radio buttons?
3. Select the prizes and frequency. Will you offer prizes for every correct guess, or just at the end of the season? Maybe you could incentivize participants with a discount coupon or promotional code.
4. Set up metrics to measure your success. Make sure you keep track of the number of participants, increase in followers on social networks, new leads obtained, interactions and more.
5. Design your app to suit your brand. You can tailor every detail with the Easypromos predictions app. No graphic design or programming skills required!
6. Set down clear rules. Easypromos offers a completely free tool for creating, editing and hosting legal details. This includes terms and conditions, privacy policy and cookie policy.
7. Share the promotion… everywhere! Broadcast your online soccer pool on every social media channel. Consider paying to promote your posts, in order to achieve greater reach, visibility and participation.

Are you ready to make the most of Champions League and Premier League season? Don’t wait a minute longer. Create an account and start designing your online soccer pool for free.

Meanwhile, Armistice Day is celebrated in Europe on November 11th. Armistice Day focuses especially on the First World War, with memorials, processions, wearing poppies and laying wreaths. Most brands do not get involved with Armistice Day at all, out of respect for history.

Mark Veterans Day on social media

Want to share a message for Veterans Day? Social media is the place to start. Post a quick tribute or patriotic image on Facebook, Instagram or X, and show your followers that you care about the holiday.

It’s important to be sensitive when you share a Veterans Day message. Don’t use the #VeteransDay hashtag to spam people with product sales, and try to post a genuine, heartfelt message.

Some brands do choose to run Veterans Day promotions and giveaways. The most popular – and respectful – ideas focus on supporting veteran-owned businesses, veterans’ organizations, or offering special deals as a way to thank veterans.

Take the example above, of a Veterans Day giveaway on Instagram. The brand set out to support veteran-owned businesses by making a bundle of gifts from veteran-owned companies. Then they doubled down: when people commented and tagged a veteran friend, both they and their friend would win the prize.

Because Veterans Day is about recognizing the sacrifice and service of others, you can ask people to be altruistic. We loved this Veterans Day giveaway on Twitter from Buck City Breaks. People were asked to thank veterans – so that the veterans could win a prize.

The brand collected over 60 retweets, likes, and even more replies. People were joining the contest, not for themselves, but as a way to honor the armed forces on Veterans Day.

Sponsor a Veterans Day fundraiser or event

Veterans Day is also an opportunity to be a part of your community. This is particularly important for small retailers and local businesses.

Get involved with local Veterans Day celebrations, events and ceremonies. You could offer to sponsor a fundraiser by donating prizes, refreshments, or event space. Or you could offer acts of service – such as offering free rides for veterans, or encouraging your team to volunteer at a relevant charity.

Share a Veterans Day trivia quiz

Finally, Veterans Day is a chance to remember history. Veterans Day quizzes and trivia contests are popular school activities – but you can share them with your followers and customers, too!

Try creating a Veterans Day quiz about United States history. Or, if you want to focus on modern concerns, run a quiz to raise awareness about veterans’ issues such as mental health, building a career outside the armed forces, and supporting veteran families.

Participants generate content for your brand which can not only build and strengthen the loyalty of your followers through hands-on participation, but also drive sales.

Launch an Instagram Photo/Video Contest with hashtag gallery

One of the best features of Instagram is that photos are easily shared on Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, Tumblr and Foursquare, or even by email, making it an ideal platform to host a photo or video contest where your audience can vote on their favorite entry. Ask participants to take photos with a Memorial Day or summer theme, such as “What Memorial day means to me”. Ask them to post their entry on Instagram or Twitter using an assigned hashtag which you have chosen for the contest. All the photos will be uploaded automatically to your gallery, where they can be viewed, shared and voted on. Pick a prize such as a discount or give-away to incentivize greater sharing and participation.

Use Social Networks to Create A Memorial Day Tribute Page

Invite your audience to upload photos, videos and tweets paying tribute to those who died while serving in the United States’ armed forces, whether it be personal like family, friends or even general. Photos might include pictures of loved ones from the past or present, events or special moments uploaded in real-time using Facebook or Instagram. Twitter is also effective for classifying information by means of a hashtag, and offers the option of adding photos to tweets.

To increase engagement, tie in a sweepstakes offering participants the chance to win a prize, and use the sweepstakes tool to pick a winner. You could also offer an “instant win” to everyone who participates by offering a coupon or a promotional code to participants.

Solve the Memorial Day mystery…

Organize a writing-based contest by using a hashtag to give clues to the riddle, for example “What’s the name of [INSERT TOWN]’s first soldier to die while serving?”. For Facebook, users would give their answer when they access the contest site. In the case of Twitter users, they can enter by sending a tweet containing the hashtag and their answer. The application will automatically import all the text that comes tagged with the hashtag of the contest. It is up to you to select which social networks may be used to enter the contest when you set up the promotion.  However, since this is text-based, participants would not be able to enter this contest via Instagram. Similarly, you can increase engagement by offering an instant win or promotional code for all who participate with a grand prize for the winner.

Thinks to Consider:

1. The power of the hashtag. The hashtag should be chosen carefully because in many cases it will be the common thread and connection between Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. It will allow contestants to enter the contest with their texts, photos and videos and enable you to organize and classify the information in a way that is simple and engaging.

2. Multi-format contest gallery. Present photos, texts and/or videos sent by participants in the gallery.

3. Embed the photo, text or video contest into your webpage. In order to get more visibility for the contest gallery, you can embed the gallery as a widget onto your webpage, blog or microsite, and you can also customize the size of the gallery to fit it into the space available.

Are you ready to get your Memorial Day contest going? Start setting up here.

The focus of this year’s International Day of Peace is to end racism and build peace. Try to come up with creative giveaway ideas for your followers to share writing, photos, and videos. You could think about environmental issues and local community goals, or show how your organization aims to develop sustainably. Let’s take a better look at some International Peace Day giveaway ideas.

International Day of Peace social media giveaways

Social media giveaways are the quickest and easiest promotion brands can launch for their online community members. It’s not just their simplicity that makes them so popular; social media sweepstakes bring a variety of benefits to their organizers, and to be exact, they help them achieve a lot of marketing objectives.

Launch a social media giveaway to give back to your community and celebrate the International Day of Peace with your followers, the way Equal Exchange did.

Simply ask your audience to comment on your giveaway post and raffle an attractive prize, such as a product hamper, product samples, your bestsellers, or recently launched items. Apart from rewarding your followers, you will also boost social media engagement and visibility.

Here’s another example, this time from a hairdressing salon that also participated in the International Day of Peace celebrations. They invited all Instagram followers to like the post, follow the account, and tag two friends in the comments. One lucky winner won $150 worth of hairstyling products!

Apart from giving back to the community, the organizers got to boost brand engagement, as well as generate visibility and increase social media presence.

Looking for quick International Day of Peace giveaway ideas? Run a Peace Day giveaway on Instagram or Facebook! Use our free International Day of Peace giveaway templates and get started instantly.

Collect messages of peace from your followers

The United Nations campaign for peace talks about how everyone can contribute. You can help the cause by raising awareness and uniting your online followers for the International Day of Peace. And you can invite your followers to share their ideas, thoughts, and hopes for the cause.

• Ask followers to share stories, quotes, and ideas with a Writing Contest.
• Use a Photo Contest to share images that make your followers think of peace, inspire them, or illustrate the problems which we face in today’s world.
• If your followers are especially active and creative, invite them to participate in a Video Contest.

If you choose a video contest, you’ll be in good company. In 2018, the United Nations itself ran a video campaign! Contributors shared recordings of themselves reading the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, in a rainbow of different languages.

Open your International Day of Peace contest to all

In any promotional campaign, you want to maximize participation. So it’s important that your followers can take part easily. Share your campaign on all your social networks, including Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.

You can even collect entries for your photo contest or writing competition from Twitter and Instagram. When users post with your chosen hashtag, you can automatically collect the text, photo or video that they’ve shared. Then you can display all the competition entries in a public gallery.

Make sure you choose a hashtag that’s relevant to the International Day of Peace, but still unique. You don’t want your campaign to get mixed up with someone else’s! Discover tips on creating a viral hashtag.

Share, comment, and vote in International Day of Peace contests

Show your followers that you value their opinion, as well as their contributions, by opening up the contest to a vote. When you display entries in the public gallery, you can permit viewers to share, comment, and vote for their favorites.

Once the competition has closed, you can choose a winner by popular vote, invite a jury to decide, or select an entry at random.

Reward followers for celebrating the International Day of Peace

We know from experience that followers are more likely to join your campaign if there’s an attractive prize on offer.

Try to choose something which is relevant to the International Day of Peace, while maintaining a connection with your organization or brand. The prize should be in proportion to the contest, too. Make your followers feel that it’s worth taking part.

One option is to share coupons or promotional codes. You can offer discounts, free gifts, or free shipping. Choose whether you want to reward everyone who takes part, or just a select few. In addition to coupons, you can award a final grand prize at the end of the campaign.

Are you ready to launch your International Day of Peace giveaway or promotion? Don’t worry if something’s still unclear; you can online chat with our Support Team!

The first thing that you should know is your target audience. If you are targeting senior citizens, then you can email them about any ongoing promotions. However, if you are targeting younger people, then using social media platforms like Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, Pinterest and Twitter is a good idea.

Collaborate

You can collaborate with other businesses to give incentives to your customers.  You can split the cost and profits equally with them.

Give Freebies

Everyone loves free stuff. Your main goal should be find something unique and inexpensive, which is associated with Flag Day and your business.

Flag Day Marketing Ideas

• Hang a flag outside your business to let your customers know that you are celebrating National Flag Week.
• You can keep little treats for all the visitors like cupcakes with an American flag on it.
• Host a party and the theme should be around Flag Day.
• Offer discounts to customers on June 14^th.
• If you are in the restaurant business, then you can offer free drinks and desserts for one week. This will surely get you a lot of business.

Social Media Posts

You can create social media posts on all the social media posts to let the people know that you are celebrating Flag Day, and there are a lot of incentives for people who will visit your business during this time.

Offer Discounts and Sales

Who doesn’t want discounts and sales? You can offer buy one get one free offer, or can have 50% discount on specific accounts.

Contests

Contests are another way in which you can get a lot of customers that will help you in expanding your business. Some of the contest ideas include:

• Check out our quiz demo.
• Fancy dress contest.
• Baking contest.

Sweepstakes

Sweepstakes is another way to grab people’s attention. If you want an automatic and random quiz, with a certificate of validity, then go here.

1^st tip: Choose well and you’ll do well

The WHO has been celebrating World No Smoking Day since 1987 with the aims of drawing attention to the health risks associated with tobacco, and promoting effective policies for reducing consumption. The generic hashtag for this day will probably be #WorldNoTobaccoDay, but your mission is to come up with your own hashtag which is related to the theme, but not exactly the same, and which will provide visibility to your campaign.

When choosing and creating a hashtag, you should keep in mind some points which will help you achieve a higher level of viralization, both on Twitter and Instagram.

• The hashtag should be as short as you can possibly make it. In this way, users will be able to type it quickly – speeding up participation – and they will have more characters left for their tweet.
• Easy to remember: Users are going to have to remember it, so it should be simple. Although the hashtag doesn’t distinguish between upper and lowercase letters, we suggest that you use ‘camel case’ in order to separate the letters visually and make them easier to read.

E.g. #mothersday becomes #MothersDay

• Related to the promotion: Include words such as “tobacco”, “nicotine”, “health” or “smoke” to create your hashtag, but also include a word which is indicative of the type of contest you are creating. This will ensure that you create a hashtag that is exclusive to your campaign.

E.g. #SmokelessPhotos, #NoSmokingSweepstake, #GoodbyeCigarettes

• Avoid non-standard characters: The hashtag should not have spaces, accents, or umlauts. These will only make it more difficult for your followers to write it, and also complicate your gathering of final data to find out how often it was used.

2^nd tip: Create a campaign that appeals to people

Smoking is the number-one preventable cause of death on the planet, and it currently kills one in ten adults globally. These are worrying statistics, but it’s always possible to take a more positive approach to the matter.

To viralize your World No Tobacco Day hashtag, organize a photo contest with the more original images being entered into a sweepstake for discount vouchers for spas, free massages and other activities related to health centers.

So how do you motivate your contestants? Very easily – just show them an image or poster of World No Tobacco Day, and encourage them to let their imaginations loose by creating a picture of a world without nicotine.

3^rd tip: The hashtags gallery – your biggest ally

The objectives of 2015 World No Tobacco Day are to raise awareness of the damage that the illicit commercialization of tobacco causes to the health of the population, especially to young people and those on a low income.

Carry out a campaign of awareness via a photo contest, as we have suggested, and combine it with audio-visual material or a text. Enable your followers to participate by supplying phrases, videos or images to your contest.

With the hashtag gallery application you will be able to import all the tweets, photos and videos on Twitter and Instagram which contain the campaign hashtag. You will be able to install the gallery in your website or Facebook Page and viralize your World No Tobacco Day hashtag more effectively.

Make sure you link to the contest

Families Day is a commemorative date which offers the perfect opportunity to carry out a video contest, given that the family is a universal, everyday theme which everyone can contribute something to.

A video contest attracts a large number of followers who are used to creating multimedia material through a variety of social networks. You can enable participation by uploading a video directly (straight to your Dropbox) or inserting a link to a pre-uploaded video on YouTube or Vimeo. You can even include participations via Instagram and Twitter by asking users to upload a video with the hashtag chosen for contest. In this way, you will increase engagement with the public and the contest will have repercussions throughout various channels. Users who have a YouTube channel, or who like to upload videos in Instagram, for example, will be pleased to be able to take part directly from there. If you activate voting in the videos you will see their level of virality grow massively.

Create different categories for participation

A good trick for creating your short film contest for International Families Day is to propose different categories for participation. In this way you can help make it easier for your followers to come up with an idea, as well as awarding prizes to the winners of each category. It’s likely that your customers will want to take part in more than one option in order to have a chance to win the different prizes and so you will obtain a greater number of videos in the contest.

The Easypromos Video Contest application makes it easier for you to segment each category by presenting participating entries in different galleries and encouraging your fans to take part in each one, while showing the videos that other users have already uploaded.

Here are some ideas for possible categories:

Category 1: Introduce us to your family members – and don’t forget the pets!

Category 2: Interview the hero in your family.

Category 3: Dedicate a message to a family member who lives abroad or far away.

Give prizes for sharing

Since we’re taking about Families Day, give away prizes that mums, dads, grandparents and children can enjoy.

We suggest that you offer different types of packs, shared across each category. For example, you could offer tickets to a theme park, museum or cinema. A culinary alternative would be to award a meal for all the family in a restaurant. If you’d rather encourage more physical activities, you can give away guided walking holidays or a visit to a national park.

If you’d like to award a big prize, you could always offer a weekend break in a hotel. There are a whole host of possibilities, as long as they are aimed at the family unit!

Collect all the data

Video is undoubtedly the form of media that generates the most emotion and empathy amongst the public. And with a family-related contest, it won’t be hard to encourage people to take part. This is why we recommend that you make the most of the opportunity to capture new leads.

Videos are usually a form of content that is shared a great deal. This will permit you to disseminate the contest and obtain information about new users. You can ask voters to provide you with their information as a requirement to voting. In this way you can contact them when you launch the following promotion, loyalize them and expand your reach.

Decide how you will select the winners

Select the winner of the Families Day video contest via voting, jury or a random sweepstake. The application itself offers a tool for choosing finalists based on the minimum number of votes obtained (if you don’t want to include all the participants), and selecting the ultimate winner, in a random way. If this form is utilized, the platform will generate a validity certificate to provide transparency to the sweepstake. It’s also possible to publish the winners on a page within the promotion, whether they’ve been selected through a popular vote, internal jury or random sweepstake.

Encourage your followers to publish their most creative and emotive videos. They will work hard to do so in order to win more votes than the rest of their users – or simply to ensure that their video is the most moving, funny or original of them all.

The best guess wins

Making predictions about competitors in a race is something that really appeals to the public, so the option of taking part in a betting pool is not something that customers usually want to miss out on. This means that it is one of the best ways of obtaining a high level of participation from your followers in contests related to MotoGP races.

Here’s an idea:

Suggest a list of the top drivers – those who are most likely to win the race – and invite participants to make their predictions. You can even prepare a sweepstake in which users choose which three pilots they think will reach the podium and order them in first, second and third place. Participants who guess correctly can be entered into a sweepstake to win a great prize – tickets or merchandising products. Users will directly access the pool to make their bets and you will be able to expand your database with the information that you ask them for upon registration. This sort of promotion will greatly boost the engagement and implication of your fans.

Give away a good prize

An appealing prize will always attract the attention of the audience. In this case, the chance of attending a MotoGP race is a highly sought-after prize. Using a sweepstakes, you will be able to offer a prize that will make users want to participate. A raffle is one of the best tools to collect user data because to enter the raffle they first have to fill in the form which you can customize to collect the information you need.

Here’s an idea:

Raffling off tickets and products such as caps and t-shirts with the MotoGP logo is a sure-fire way of attracting participation. Once the period for participating in the promotion is over, the application will offer you a tool to select the winners at random and once the winners are found, it will also generate a certificate of validity to provide transparency to your promotion. A way to gain more participants and leads is to combine with the recruiters contest with which you assign additional participations to those who manage to recruit more friends: the more friends they mobilize, the more chances they’ll have of winning the prize.

Knowledge takes the prize

An effective marketing campaign can provide users with entertainment as well as the chance of winning. For this reason we suggest you organize a quiz where you invite your customers to answer a series of questions, putting their knowledge of the world of professional motorcycling – specifically, MotoGP races – to the test.

Here’s an idea:

This option serves to challenge your followers with a series of questions that you can create and customize by employing various formats, such as open answers, multi-choice, order options or auto completes. You can challenge participants to order drivers from those who have won the least races to those who have won the most, or you can ask them questions about championships from other years, giving them several answers to choose from.

Those who have answered the whole quiz correctly will be entered into a sweepstake for tickets to see a race. If you also want to give away more prizes, you can send a discount coupon for your product or service to all participants, or to the finalists who have not won tickets. This way, your contest will offer more prizes and you will obtain a greater level of participation.