Real votes for video-submission contests — short-film festivals, brand UGC video challenges, music-video and dance-clip contests, film-school audience awards — from $7.99/100 with free pre-order analysis.
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Every vote is a real human on a residential or mobile IP — indistinguishable from an organic voter. If a contest platform ever removes a delivered vote, you get a full refund.
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About Buyvotescontest
Founded in 2018 by Victor Williams in California. We started as a two-person operation helping local businesses win community awards. Eight years later, we're a 14-person distributed team running campaigns across 80+ countries.
We don't take political work. We don't take government contracts. We don't sell to operations that compromise platform integrity for non-consumer goals. Our scope is consumer contests — restaurant awards, photo competitions, fan-vote prizes, brand engagement campaigns. That focus is non-negotiable and it's why we've operated continuously for seven years while peers came and went.
Free pre-order analysis of the video-contest poll mechanic — paste the contest URL and we map the voting rules inside 60 minutes
Residential and mobile IPs per vote — never datacenter, never VPN
Pacing matched to how video audiences vote, with a heavy post-share evening surge
Multi-vote-per-day delivery when the video poll allows a daily allowance
Deadline-aware pacing for festival audience awards and brand-challenge finales
Refund if the video-contest mechanic turns out to be undeliverable after analysis
Handles email-gated, account-creation, and social-login video polls via our email and sign-up infrastructure
Founder-reviewed fulfilment on launch-tier orders over 1,000 votes
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About Video contest votes
Video contest votes win the audience side of any contest where the entry is a video — a short-film festival's audience award, a brand's user-generated video challenge, a music-video or dance-clip competition, a film-school showcase's people's-choice round, or a creator platform's themed video contest. Filmmakers, creators, and small brands come to us mid-competition with a single URL and a video that needs real votes the popularity-vote counter actually keeps. The entrant usually does not know which engine sits behind the vote page, and that rarely matters. What matters is the contest-vote mechanic: how the poll de-duplicates voters, whether an account, email, or social login is required, whether a daily allowance applies, when the round closes, and how the organiser screens the final stretch. We treat the mechanic — not the platform name — as the unit of work. Paste the URL, we analyse the video poll for free, then deliver real votes from residential and mobile IPs from $7.99 per 100. If the mechanic is undeliverable, you pay nothing. For contests outside the video niche, our generic buy contest votes page covers the rest.
Why Video contest votes matter for your contest
Audience awards carry outsized weight in video contests because video is a sharing-driven medium. A short-film festival may hand its jury prize to a panel, then award a separate "Audience Award" on a public vote — and that audience slot drives distribution, festival programming interest, and the creator's reel credibility far more than people expect. Brand UGC challenges live or die on the vote count entirely, since the prize and the feature both go to the most-voted clip. Video contests reward reach over craft: a polished short from an unknown filmmaker can lose the audience vote to a fun phone clip from a creator with a big following. A vote push closes that gap. Video contests run on whatever the organiser deployed — a festival's custom submission-and-vote platform (FilmFreeway-style), a brand's UGC challenge platform, a creator-site's built-in voting widget, a hand-coded festival microsite. Platform-specific vote shops reject these orders because the poll is not on their one named platform.
Our page exists for these polls. Daily voting allowance? We pace across the round. Account or email signup per vote, near-universal on festival and brand video platforms? We provision verified accounts and inboxes. Region-locked eligibility for a national festival? We restrict the IP pool to qualifying countries. The pre-order analysis maps the rules first, then we quote. Video contests carry hard deadlines: a festival audience-award vote that arrives after the screening block closes cannot win, so the analysis factors the close time into the recommended pacing mode — even-pace for multi-week festival voting with a small leader gap, last-48h push for the visible momentum a brand challenge's finale rewards, daily-anchor for polls with a one-vote-per-day cap.
How we deliver Video contest votes
Delivery on the video page runs through a five-stage workflow built around the deadline timing that separates a festival audience vote from an ordinary engagement poll. Total elapsed time is 1 to 72 hours depending on the mechanic and the pacing you choose.
Stage one is URL submission and goal definition — you send the video poll URL, the close date, your current vote count, and the leader's count if visible. No payment yet. Stage two is mechanic fingerprinting. We open the URL, identify the voting engine, document the per-IP and per-day caps, note any CAPTCHA, account-creation, email, or social-login gate, and check whether multi-vote-per-day is permitted. This takes 30–60 minutes. Stage three is the capability quote. We tell you whether we can deliver, the per-vote price (most video polls price at $0.06–$0.08, with surcharges for the account, email, or social-login gates that are common here), the delivery window, and which pacing mode suits your deadline. Stage four runs after you pay — votes dispatch in paced waves matching how video audiences vote, which surges in the evening hours after a clip is shared and clusters on weekends. Stage five is real-time monitoring so we catch any mid-round rule change, such as the organiser tightening fraud thresholds when a clip goes viral, and adapt the delivery pacing before votes get invalidated. Most video orders under 1,000 votes complete in 6–24 hours on even-pace or last-48h push; daily-anchor orders stretch across the full round tail. You get the exact ETA in stage three.
How we avoid platform detection
Video contests run tighter fraud screening than most niches, and that shapes our delivery stack. Festival platforms and brand UGC challenge tools frequently gate each vote behind an account or social login precisely to make ballot-stuffing harder, so the analysis maps that gate first and we provision the matching sign-up or email layer. A no-prize film-school showcase poll gets our standard residential pool; a brand challenge with a cash prize and a reputation-API-backed platform gets the higher-trust pool with stricter ASN mixing and daily-rate caps.
Across the video-contest work we have run, the delivered-and-counted rate stays high on named festival and brand engines and noticeably lower — though still workable — on the custom-coded festival microsites we accept after analysis. The analysis step protects that gap — it screens out polls with mechanics we cannot reliably win, such as ticket-holder-only voting tied to a physical screening, mandatory phone verification, or jury-only rounds dressed up as public votes. The detection profile that matters most is the visible counter curve. Video audiences vote in recognisable rhythms: a poll spikes in the two to four hours after a creator shares the clip to their followers, then clusters in evenings and across weekends when people watch and share video. Our pacing mirrors these curves by default, so the counter rises the way a genuine share-driven surge would, and we override on request when your specific poll's organic shape differs.
Legal scope and terms
Buying video contest votes for creator and brand competitions is legal in every major jurisdiction we serve. Short-film audience awards, brand UGC video challenges, music-video and dance-clip contests, and film-school people's-choice rounds are promotional, artistic, and community engagement vehicles, not regulated processes. Audience voting is a recognised format for driving video sharing and reach, and an "audience award" slot is a marketing and programming device, not a ballot of legal consequence.
We do not deliver votes for political elections, government referendums, shareholder proxies, union elections, professional licensing votes, board elections, or any vote of legal or fiduciary consequence, and a video theme does not change that line. We screen every order for use-case before delivery, and an off-scope order is declined and refunded.
One note specific to video contests: a meaningful share of professional film festivals and sponsored brand challenges write anti-vote-buying language into their rules, because the audience award can carry real distribution value. Read your contest's rules before ordering. If you spot that clause, tell us in chat — we have a working sense of which video archetypes most often carry it (professional film festivals, brand challenges with cash prizes, industry-award audience rounds) versus which almost never do (film-school showcases, community creator challenges, local music-video competitions).
Getting started in two minutes
Getting started takes about five minutes. Paste the video poll URL into the order form or send it via live chat. Tell us the close date, your current vote count, and the leader's count if you can see it. Within 60 minutes our ops team replies with one of three answers: yes, the mechanic is deliverable, here is the price, ETA, and recommended pacing mode; yes but with a surcharge for the account, email, or social-login gate that video polls so often use, here is the adjusted quote; or no, this mechanic is outside scope, no charge. Pay only after you have seen the video-specific quote. You then get a dashboard link to track delivery in real time, and mid-order changes — push the daily anchor, switch to last-48h, add votes, narrow geography to a national festival's region — are handled on chat at no extra cost. Launch-period orders over 1,000 votes get founder-reviewed fulfilment; see the founder profile for context. Because most video contests gate each vote behind an account or social login, our sign-up vote and email-vote stacks are usually part of the quote, and contests that route voting through a social share use the same account infrastructure as our Facebook contest votes.
Common Video contest votes use cases
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Filmmaker in a short-film festival audience award
A filmmaker in Los Angeles submitted a short to a regional film festival whose "Audience Award" runs a two-week online vote on the festival's submission platform, gated behind a free account and capped at one vote per account. The leader is roughly 600 votes ahead. We fingerprint the platform (account-gated, no daily cap), explain the 65% sign-up surcharge, quote $189 for 1,500 votes with account-verified delivery from US residential IPs, and run even-pace with a last-48h push across the two-week window, concentrating in the evening share-and-watch hours.
For: Independent filmmakers, short-film directors, festival entrants
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Creator in a brand UGC video challenge
A creator in São Paulo entered a 30-second clip in a beverage brand's UGC video challenge hosted on the brand's challenge platform, where the most-voted clip wins the prize and a feature. Email-verified voting, no daily cap, one-week window. We analyse the platform, quote $109.99 for 2,000 votes with email-verified delivery from Brazilian and broader Latin American residential IPs, and run a last-48h push, peaking in the early-evening hours when the creator's audience is online and sharing.
For: Video creators, UGC challenge entrants, brand-challenge participants
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Musician in an online music-video competition
An independent musician in Manchester entered a music-video competition run on a creator site with a built-in voting widget, click-only with hCaptcha and a one-vote-per-IP-per-day cap over a 10-day window. They are 400 votes behind. We confirm hCaptcha is solvable on our standard stack at base price, quote $59.99 for 1,000 votes on daily-anchor pacing across the remaining days, and deliver from UK and European residential IPs concentrated in the evening listening-and-watching window.
For: Independent musicians, music-video creators, band promoters
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Film student in a school showcase people's-choice round
A film student in Toronto entered a thesis short in their school's annual showcase, whose people's-choice award runs a click-only web poll with no account requirement that closes the night of the screening. They are 150 votes behind mid-evening. We fingerprint the microsite, confirm same-evening push pacing fits the close time, quote $17.99 for 250 votes paced across the open window, and deliver from Canadian residential and mobile IPs concentrated in the post-screening surge to mirror the genuine audience spike.
For: Film students, school-showcase entrants, student filmmakers
5
Dance crew splitting votes across two clip entries
A dance crew in Seoul entered one routine in the "choreography" bracket and a second in the "best crew" bracket of the same online dance-clip contest. They want 700 votes on the crew entry and 300 on the choreography entry. We confirm the poll allows the same voter across categories, run a batch order with separate sub-pools to avoid IP overlap, quote $59.99 for 1,000 votes total, and deliver each entry on its own pacing schedule from Korean and South-East Asian residential IPs across the contest window.
Send us your video poll URL plus close date and current vote counts
No payment yet. Paste the video poll URL into the order form notes, send it via live chat, or email support. Include the close date, your current vote count, and the leader's count if visible. The close date drives our pacing recommendation, which matters most for festival audience blocks and challenge finales.
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Wait for our free video-poll analysis (under 60 minutes)
Our ops team opens the URL, identifies the voting engine, documents per-IP and per-day caps, notes any CAPTCHA, account-creation, email, or social-login gate, and confirms whether multi-vote-per-day is permitted. Analysis returns within 60 minutes in business hours, 4 hours overnight.
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Review the capability quote and recommended pacing mode
We reply with one of three answers: deliverable with a price, ETA, and pacing mode (even-pace, last-48h push, or daily-anchor); deliverable with a surcharge for the account, email, or social-login gate; or out of scope with no charge. If your festival's rules carry an anti-vote-buying clause, we flag the disqualification risk here.
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Accept the quote and pay (cards, PayPal, crypto)
Pay by credit card, PayPal, or cryptocurrency. Payment is requested only after you've seen the video-specific quote. Your order enters the delivery queue the moment payment confirms.
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Monitor delivery via the live dashboard and adjust pacing if needed
You get an email with a live-progress dashboard. Most polls complete inside the quoted 1–72 hour window, with daily-anchor pacing stretching across the round tail. Mid-order changes — push the daily anchor, switch to last-48h, add votes, narrow geography — are handled on chat at no cost.
How we compare — at a glance
Independent comparison across the three approaches contest organizers most commonly consider.
Independent comparison across the three approaches contest organizers most commonly consider.
Feature
Buyvotescontest
DIY scripts
Random competitor
IP type
Real residential / mobile
Data center (flagged)
Mixed, often unclear
Detection rate
Under 0.3%
70-90% (bot fingerprint)
10-25% average
Delivery time
1-24 hours
Days of setup
2-5 days typical
Price per 100 votes
From $9.99
Free + your time
$15-80
Refund / refill
7-day guarantee
None
Rarely honored
Support
24/7 live chat
None
Email only
Buyvotescontest.com vs cheap bot services
Us
Free pre-order analysis of the video-contest poll mechanic before you pay a cent
Covers short-film audience awards, brand UGC challenges, music-video and dance-clip contests, and film-school polls
Three pacing modes (even-pace, last-48h push, daily-anchor) chosen per video poll
Account, email, and social-login gates handled, since most video contests require a login to vote
Residential and mobile IPs only, never datacenter, never VPN
Refund if your video-contest mechanic turns out to be undeliverable
Founder-reviewed launch-tier fulfilment for orders over 1,000 votes
Honest disclosure of disqualification risk on professional festivals and brand challenges before you pay
When NOT to buy — walk away if the "video contest" is really a political, governmental, or otherwise regulated ballot (those we turn down outright), if the festival's rules void entrants who buy votes and its programmers hand-check the audience tally before awarding, or if the trophy is too minor to be worth the outlay; the pre-order analysis will say so plainly rather than take the order
Cheap alternatives
Platform-specific vote shops reject the order because your video poll isn't on their one named platform
Single-platform providers cover only Facebook or only YouTube, useless for a festival submission platform
Vote-for-vote creator groups are slow, unreliable, and frequently get the participants banned
Click-farm services use datacenter IPs that fail festival-platform and brand-tool reputation checks
Most cheap providers can't handle the account or social-login gate that video contests require
No refund when the video-contest mechanic turns out to be unsupported
No disclosure of disqualification risk on professional festivals and brand challenges
Generic multi-day ETAs that ignore a festival audience-award block closing on a fixed date
Why buy online contest votes from us
24/7 support
Live chat in Telegram and email — answers within minutes, any timezone.
100% confidential
No public records, no leaks. Anonymous, encrypted communications.
Fast & reliable
Most orders delivered within hours. Pace tuned for natural-looking growth.
7+ years of experience
Selling votes since 2018. Refined workflow that gets you the result every time.
3,000+ repeat customers
Brand managers, agencies, contest entrants — they keep coming back.
Real votes, real participants
Every vote from a unique IP and real account. No bots, no hollow traffic.
Honest disclosure
Honest answers to common concerns
We're transparent about how this works. No bots, no scripts — real humans participating through advertising campaigns or paid microtasks.
Are these real people voting, or bots?
Real people. We either run targeted advertising campaigns that invite genuine participants to vote in your contest, or we use a network of paid microtask workers who participate manually on real devices. Every vote is a real human action on a real residential or mobile IP. No automation, no headless browsers, no script farms.
How can you guarantee detection rates this low?
Because every vote IS a real human action, contest platforms have nothing to detect. Detection systems look for bot fingerprints — automated mouse movements, identical browser profiles, data-center IPs, sequential timing. Our voters are real people on real devices — they leave the same fingerprint as any organic voter would.
What happens if the contest organizer notices a surge?
Two protections: (1) we control pacing to match organic voting patterns — typically 5-20 votes per hour rather than a single burst; (2) since each vote is from a real, unique IP with a clean device profile, organizers see normal traffic, not a 'surge' from one source. Across 320,000+ delivered votes since 2020, fewer than 0.3% have been challenged.
Is this legal?
Buying contest votes is not illegal in any jurisdiction we operate in. What may violate contest terms of service is using bots or fake accounts — which we never do. Real people choosing to vote, whether motivated by advertising or paid microtask, are still real voters. See our per-country legality summary below.
What if my contest URL requires email verification or account signup?
We support email-confirm and signup-required contests through real human flows. Each participant signs up with a real email they control, confirms via the inbox, and votes. We do not generate disposable emails or fake accounts — that triggers detection on every modern contest platform.
Can I see proof of delivery?
Yes. Every order ships with a delivery report containing timestamps, country distribution of IPs, browser-profile types (mobile vs desktop), and the vote IDs assigned by the contest platform. You can spot-check any vote against the public contest leaderboard.
Is buying contest votes legal?
Per-country summary of the legal status of buying contest votes. Informational only — consult local counsel for specific cases.
Informational only — not legal advice. Verify with local counsel for specific cases.
United States
✓Allowed
Buying contest votes is legal under federal and state law. Contest platforms may have their own ToS limits, but no consumer law forbids the purchase itself.
United Kingdom
✓Allowed
Legal in the UK. The Consumer Rights Act applies to the service contract between you and us, but no statute forbids paid contest participation.
Germany
!Caution
Legal but contest-specific ToS may apply. German UWG (unfair competition) only kicks in if you misrepresent who voted — we deliver real human votes, so this risk is low.
France
✓Allowed
Legal in France. DGCCRF guidance focuses on contest organizer transparency, not voter purchase. No consumer law forbids the purchase.
Brazil
✓Allowed
Legal under Brazilian commercial law. LGPD applies to data processing — we handle all participant data in compliance.
India
✓Allowed
Legal in India. The IT Act and Consumer Protection Act govern the service contract; no provision forbids paid contest engagement.
Indonesia
✓Allowed
Legal. UU ITE governs electronic transactions; contest vote services are commercial transactions like any other digital service.
UAE / Gulf
!Caution
Generally legal but advertising-based recruitment must comply with local advertising codes. We adjust campaign style for the region.
15 answers covering legality, delivery, quality, pricing and platform specifics.
Legality & scope
Is buying video contest votes legal?
Yes, for the creator and brand competitions we serve — short-film audience awards, brand UGC video challenges, music-video and dance-clip contests, and film-school people's-choice rounds. These are promotional, artistic, and community engagement vehicles, not regulated processes. We explicitly do not deliver votes for political elections, government referendums, shareholder proxies, union elections, or any vote of regulated or fiduciary consequence. Every order is screened for use-case before delivery; off-scope orders are declined and refunded.
Will I be disqualified for buying video votes?
It depends on your contest's rules, which we read in the analysis. Film-school showcases and community creator challenges usually have no anti-vote-buying clause. A meaningful share of professional film festivals and sponsored brand challenges do, because the audience award carries distribution value. We can't control an organiser's decision. If your rules carry that clause, tell us in chat and we'll explain the risk profile and usually recommend a lower-volume order with daily-anchor pacing that produces a less visible counter spike.
Process & delivery
Can you boost a video poll with a one-vote-per-day limit?
Yes. Daily-allowance video polls are common on festival platforms, and the pacing mode is daily-anchor. We deliver your purchased count across the remaining poll days, with each pooled voter casting one vote per day from a different residential IP and returning the next day, exactly as a dedicated supporter would. A 1,000-vote order over a 7-day festival vote dispatches roughly 143 votes a day from 143 distinct IPs. Daily-anchor pacing is in the base price; no surcharge.
How do you time votes around a festival audience-award deadline?
We use even-pace through the bulk of the voting window and a last-48h push as the screening block or challenge finale approaches. Steady delivery keeps your counter rising so it reads as organic share-driven voting, and the final push secures the visible momentum that matters when other entrants and their audiences check the standings. Send the URL early so we pace across the full window rather than compress everything into the last days.
How many video votes do I need to win the audience award?
Target the current leader's count plus a 20–30% buffer, minus the organic votes you already hold; our free analysis works out the exact number once you send the URL and the visible counts. A small film-school showcase or local music-video poll often needs only 300–800 votes, while a national festival audience award or a big brand challenge can need 3,000-plus. The honest limit: if the poll hides its running totals, we estimate from entrant count and the video archetype's typical winning threshold, so the buffer is a calibrated judgement rather than an exact figure.
How fast are video contest votes delivered?
Delivery runs 1–72 hours depending on the mechanic and pacing mode. Most orders under 1,000 votes on even-pace or last-48h push finish in 6–24 hours, while daily-anchor pacing for a per-IP-per-day-capped poll stretches across the full round tail — a 7-day festival vote on daily-anchor takes 7 days, because that is what organic daily voting looks like. We never compress below the natural-uptake threshold, because a same-day flood on a deadline video poll produces exactly the counter spike organisers screen for in the final stretch.
Service quality
How safe is buying votes for my video entry?
Safety tracks the poll mechanic and the organiser's enforcement posture, both mapped in the pre-order analysis. For typical creator and film-school video polls with no anti-vote-buying clause, the great majority of delivered votes stay counted and disqualification incidents are rare. For professional festivals and brand challenges with explicit clauses we recommend lower-volume orders. We never use datacenter IPs, never use VPN endpoints, never use scripted bot patterns — every vote comes from a residential or mobile IP with a <a href="/glossary/browser-fingerprint/">browser fingerprint</a> matching an authentic user session.
Pricing & payment
Most video contests make you log in to vote — can you handle that?
Yes, and this is the norm for video contests rather than the exception. Account-gated, email-verified, and social-login video polls are deliverable through our <a href="/buy-signup-votes/">sign-up vote</a> and <a href="/buy-email-votes/">email-vote</a> infrastructure — each vote includes the registration or login, any confirmation click, and the vote submission. The surcharge is typically 50–80% over the base rate, reflecting the per-vote cost of provisioning real accounts and inboxes. We give you the exact surcharge in the pre-order analysis before you pay.
How does pricing work for video contest votes?
Base pricing is $7.99 per 100 votes, scaling down to $674.99 per 20,000 (58% off the per-vote base rate). The rare click-only video poll with IP-only de-duplication prices at base. Polls with standard CAPTCHA add roughly 20–30%. The account, email, or social-login gates that most video contests use add 50–80%. Full bespoke account-creation flows are quoted individually. The pre-order analysis gives you the exact surcharge for your specific poll before payment. No hidden fees after.
What payment methods do you accept?
All major cards and PayPal, plus crypto — Bitcoin, both USDT chains (TRC-20 and ERC-20), Ether, and the other mainstream coins through our gateway. Orders above $200 can settle by bank transfer. You are only asked to pay once the pre-order analysis confirms your specific video poll is deliverable, and any package can be paid <a href="/buy-votes-with-paypal/">with PayPal</a>.
What is the refund policy?
Full refund, no fine print, if the video-contest mechanic turns out to be undeliverable after our analysis cleared it. If we identify undeliverability during analysis before you pay, you pay nothing at all. If the organiser disqualifies your entry for bought votes, the refund covers undelivered votes only — we can't refund delivered votes after disqualification, but we will not charge for additional planned waves once we hear about it.
Platform specifics
What kinds of video contests do you cover?
We cover four main archetypes. First, short-film and festival audience awards — the public vote that runs alongside a jury prize at film festivals and showcases. Second, brand UGC video challenges where a brand runs a public vote on the most-voted user clip. Third, music-video, dance-clip, and skit competitions hosted on creator platforms or event microsites. Fourth, film-school and student audience awards. Anything outside these we analyse case-by-case in the free pre-order step, and a general non-video contest is better served by our <a href="/buy-contest-votes/">generic contest votes</a> page.
My video contest is on YouTube, Facebook, or another named platform — what then?
Where the vote lives on a named platform we have a dedicated page tuned to its anti-fraud quirks and per-platform pricing. See <a href="/buy-youtube-community-poll-votes/">YouTube community poll votes</a>, <a href="/buy-facebook-votes/">Facebook contest votes</a>, or <a href="/buy-woobox-votes/">Woobox votes</a>. This video page is for festival platforms, brand UGC challenge tools, creator-site widgets, and any video vote where you don't know which engine powers it. Same pool, same operators, same refund guarantee — we just analyse the video mechanic first.
Targeting & customisation
Can you match votes to a festival's country or a brand's market?
Yes. We restrict the residential IP pool to a festival's country or a brand challenge's target market when the poll has geographic eligibility rules or when matching geography keeps the counter curve organic. A national film festival's audience award gets votes from that country's residential and mobile IPs; a global brand challenge gets a distribution matching the brand's audience. Specify the target geography in chat or let the analysis recommend one.
Custom orders
Can I split votes across multiple video entries or categories?
Yes. Multi-category video contests — separate "documentary", "animation", and "music-video" brackets, or two clips you've entered in different challenges — are handled as a batch order with separate vote pools per entry at no markup. You tell us how many votes go to each entry and we deliver against each with its own pacing schedule. The analysis confirms whether the same voter may vote across categories and whether we need separate sub-pools to avoid IP-level overlap.
Terminology — quick definitions
Niche-specific terms used on this page. Each links to a fuller definition in our glossary.
Privacy-focused CAPTCHA alternative from Cloudflare. Uses cryptographic challenge tokens instead of image puzzles. Becoming the standard for contest platforms in 2025-2026.
A real consumer-grade internet address assigned by an ISP to a household. Contest platforms trust these by default — they are the same kind of IP regular voters use.
A vote removed by the contest platform after delivery. Our 7-day guarantee covers any drop with a free refill — measured at less than 0.3% of all votes delivered.
The time distribution of incoming votes across a campaign window. Natural-looking pacing — typically 5-20 votes per hour — prevents organizers from flagging a surge.
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