Comments on: Votigo, letting companies use contests to market themselves http://venturebeat.com/2008/01/28/votigo-letting-companies-use-contests-to-market-themselves/ News About Tech, Money and Innovation Wed, 25 Nov 2009 16:28:31 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Votigo Blog » Blog Archive » Votigo in BrandWeek, PromoMagazine, and VentureBeat http://venturebeat.com/2008/01/28/votigo-letting-companies-use-contests-to-market-themselves/comment-page-1/#comment-802600 Votigo Blog » Blog Archive » Votigo in BrandWeek, PromoMagazine, and VentureBeat Tue, 08 Apr 2008 21:18:02 +0000 http://venturebeat.com/2008/01/28/votigo-letting-companies-use-contests-to-market-themselves/#comment-802600 [...] VentureBeat wrote a great article about how Votigo empowers marketers and helps them to better engage their customers through the use of user-generated content, branded social-networking communities, contests and promotions. [...] [...] VentureBeat wrote a great article about how Votigo empowers marketers and helps them to better engage their customers through the use of user-generated content, branded social-networking communities, contests and promotions. [...]

]]> By: Brian Cochran http://venturebeat.com/2008/01/28/votigo-letting-companies-use-contests-to-market-themselves/comment-page-1/#comment-757290 Brian Cochran Mon, 28 Jan 2008 20:00:02 +0000 http://venturebeat.com/2008/01/28/votigo-letting-companies-use-contests-to-market-themselves/#comment-757290 Other players in the space include www.ceehive.com , www.tapatap.com, and bix.yahoo.com. Ceehive focuses more on creative entry contests in areas such as recipes, photography, design and general ideas. Example contests include, "Best Macro Photo" and "Best Valentines Day Recipe". Tapatap and bix seem to focus more on submitting and rating other people's content as well as pop culture contests. Example contests on these sites include "Who's the Hottest Celebrity Over 40" and "Hottest MySpace Friends!" Ceehive is providing a similar service to Fanscape as votigo is to MWW. Other players in the space include http://www.ceehive.com , http://www.tapatap.com, and bix.yahoo.com. Ceehive focuses more on creative entry contests in areas such as recipes, photography, design and general ideas. Example contests include, “Best Macro Photo” and “Best Valentines Day Recipe”.

Tapatap and bix seem to focus more on submitting and rating other people’s content as well as pop culture contests. Example contests on these sites include “Who’s the Hottest Celebrity Over 40″ and “Hottest MySpace Friends!”

Ceehive is providing a similar service to Fanscape as votigo is to MWW.

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