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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
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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
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About Video contest votes
Video contests split the judging work between a selection committee and a public audience, and the audience vote is where reach beats craft. Filmmakers, creators, musicians, and dance crews arrive mid-competition with a single URL — a regional film festival's audience-award ballot, a brand UGC challenge hosted on the brand's own platform, a music-video competition embedded on a creator site, a film-school showcase's people's-choice form — and they need the vote counter to move. The jury deliberates in private; the popularity-vote counter is fully public and fully contestable. We make it move.
What drives delivery is the contest-vote mechanic underneath the video gallery: how the platform de-duplicates voters, whether it requires a social login or email confirmation, whether a viewer can vote once per day or once ever per account, whether embed-player engagement feeds the vote tally separately from a standalone ballot button, and how the organiser screens the final-hour count before the award announcement. The platform name matters less than its gate design. Paste the URL, we map the mechanic at no charge, then deliver real votes from residential and mobile IPs starting at $7.99 per 100. If the mechanic is undeliverable, you owe nothing. For competitions outside the video category, our broader buy contest votes hub covers the rest.
Why Video contest votes matter for your contest
Audience awards in video competitions carry weight that goes beyond the prize itself. A short-film festival that gives its jury award to one film and its audience award to another treats both as programming credentials — distributors, curators, and press releases cite the audience award separately. Brand UGC challenges are built entirely around vote counts; the prize, the feature placement, and the brand's own social posts all go to the most-voted clip, making the vote number a direct commercial outcome for the creator.
Video contests have a reach asymmetry that is steeper than almost any other format. A polished short film from an unknown filmmaker at a small festival competes on the same ballot as a clip from a creator whose YouTube channel has millions of subscribers. That creator's audience clicks the vote link the day the creator posts it, and the filmmaker has no equivalent lever unless they find another source of count. View-count systems complicate this further: some platforms blend Vimeo or YouTube embed view counts into their audience-vote ranking, making it ambiguous whether the counter reflects direct ballot submissions, passive video views, or a weighted combination. Our pre-order analysis maps that mechanic precisely — if the poll counts embed views, we note it; if it counts only form submissions, we deliver accordingly.
Video length and format rules also shape the voting structure. A 15-second UGC clip on a brand challenge platform attracts a different audience pattern than a 12-minute short film at a regional festival. Shorter clips spread faster on mobile and generate evening vote surges from share cascades; longer-form entries cluster votes on weekend afternoons when viewers have time to watch before deciding. Regional film competitions add geography eligibility — a festival limited to North American entrants restricts valid voters to North American IPs. Our service handles all of these variations because we treat each video poll as its own mechanic rather than a fixed template.
How we deliver Video contest votes
Video audiences vote in a distinctive pattern that separates them from recipe or craftsmanship poll audiences. The initial surge happens within two to four hours after a creator or filmmaker shares the vote link to their followers, typically on social platforms where short-form video lives. A second cluster arrives on evenings and weekends when people have time to watch a submission and then click through to vote. Festival audience awards accumulate votes slowly over a multi-week window and then spike in the final 48 hours when entrants make their last push. Brand challenge finales compress into shorter windows — sometimes 72 hours — with the brand amplifying their own post to drive traffic.
Delivery runs five stages. Stage one is URL and goal submission: you send the video poll link, the screening-block or challenge close date, your current count, and the leader's count if visible. Stage two is mechanic analysis: we open the URL, identify the voting engine, determine whether the vote gate is social login, email confirmation, or IP-only, note any embed-view component, check for CAPTCHA, and document per-account and per-day limits. Thirty to sixty minutes. Stage three is the capability quote — deliverable at the base rate (most video polls price at $0.06–$0.08), deliverable with the 50–80% account or email-gate surcharge that most festival and brand platforms require, or outside scope. Stage four is dispatch: votes release in waves calibrated to the video-sharing evening surge pattern for the entry's genre and platform. A music-video poll peaks in evening listening hours; a film-school showcase vote concentrates in the post-screening window; a brand clip challenge runs heaviest in the 72-hour finale when shares and mentions peak. Stage five is live monitoring so we can adapt the delivery pacing if the organiser adjusts rate limits when a clip goes viral or a brand ramps up promotional traffic to their platform.
How we avoid platform detection
Video contest platforms run tighter fraud screening than most other contest types, because audience awards carry real distribution value and brand UGC prizes come with sponsorship budgets attached. Festival submission platforms — tools purpose-built for short-film competitions — gate every vote behind at minimum a free account registration, and some require a verified email or a social-platform OAuth login. This is the norm here, not the exception.
The analysis step determines which gate the video poll uses and routes the order to the matching delivery layer. A no-prize film-school showcase running on a simple web form gets our standard residential pool; a national brand challenge with a cash prize and a reputation-API-backed platform gets the higher-trust pool with controlled ASN mixing, tighter daily caps, and IPs whose behaviour profiles match the expected viewer geography. The account and sign-up or email infrastructure sits inside every video order where the poll gate requires it.
We screen out mechanics we cannot reliably win: ticket-holder voting tied to physical screening attendance, mandatory phone verification against a real carrier number, or jury-exclusive rounds that invite public submissions without counting them. The visible counter shape is the detection profile that matters most for everything else — video polls spike after share events and cluster in evenings, so our pacing reproduces that rhythm rather than distributing votes uniformly around the clock.
Legal scope and terms
Short-film audience awards, brand UGC challenges, music-video and dance-clip contests, and film-school people's-choice rounds are promotional, artistic, and community formats. Buying votes for them is legal in every jurisdiction we serve. We do not deliver for political elections, government referendums, or any vote carrying legal or fiduciary consequence — a video theme does not shift that boundary.
One point specific to video competitions: professional film festivals and brand challenges with cash prizes or distribution-deal prizes more commonly include anti-vote-buying clauses than film-school showcases or community creator contests do, because the audience award carries actual commercial value. Read your contest rules before ordering. If your festival's rules contain that clause, let us know in chat — we can describe the risk profile and typically suggest a conservative volume and pacing approach.
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 or screening-block end time, your current vote count, and the leader's count if visible. Within 60 minutes our ops team replies with one of three outcomes: deliverable at the quoted price and pacing mode; deliverable with a surcharge for the account, email, or social-login gate that most video platforms require; or out of scope, no charge. Pay only after you have seen the video-specific quote.
You then get a live-dashboard link to track delivery in real time. Mid-order changes — switching to last-48h push as a festival deadline approaches, narrowing geography to a national festival's eligible countries, adding votes when you see the leader extend their lead, splitting the order across two entries in separate brackets — are handled on chat at no extra cost. 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. Launch-period orders over 1,000 votes get founder-reviewed fulfilment; see the founder profile.
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 sign-up surcharge, quote for account-verified delivery from US residential IPs, and run even-pace with a last-48h push across the two-week window, concentrating traffic in the evening share-and-watch hours when film audiences browse their festival feeds.
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 dedicated challenge platform, where the most-voted clip wins the prize and a feature on the brand's channel. Email-verified voting, no daily cap, one-week window. We analyse the embed-player setup to confirm the counter reflects ballot submissions not view plays, quote for email-verified delivery from Brazilian and broader Latin American residential IPs, and push heavily in the 72-hour finale when the brand amplifies the contest across their own social accounts.
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 voting widget using 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 at base price, set up daily-anchor pacing across the remaining days, and deliver from UK and European residential IPs concentrated in the evening listening-and-sharing window — the hours when music fans are most likely to watch a clip and follow a vote link.
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, and deliver from Canadian residential and mobile IPs timed to the post-screening surge — the two-hour window when audience members share the vote link while the films are still fresh in memory.
For: Film students, school-showcase entrants, student filmmakers
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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 or screening-block end time, your current vote count, and the leader's count if visible. Note whether the platform embeds the video in the voting page — that detail speeds up the mechanic analysis.
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Wait for our free video-poll analysis (under 60 minutes)
Our ops team opens the URL, identifies the voting engine, checks whether the counter reflects ballot submissions or embed views, documents per-account and per-day caps, and maps the login gate type — social OAuth, email confirmation, or IP-only. 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 outcomes: deliverable at the quoted price with a pacing mode suited to your festival deadline or challenge window; deliverable with a surcharge for the account, email, or social-login gate; or outside scope at no charge. Disqualification risk on professional festivals or brand challenges is flagged explicitly 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
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Most orders delivered within hours. Pace tuned for natural-looking growth.
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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.
16 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 challenges, and music-video or dance-clip contests are promotional and artistic formats, not regulated processes. We do not deliver for political elections, government referendums, shareholder proxies, union elections, or any vote carrying legal or fiduciary consequence. Every order is screened against those categories before delivery; orders outside scope 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
Some platforms count video views alongside votes — does that affect delivery?
It depends on whether the vote counter you are competing on reflects ballot submissions, embed views, or a weighted mix. Our analysis step maps this explicitly — we check whether the number displayed on the leaderboard is driven by a separate vote button, by Vimeo or YouTube embed plays, or by a blended score. If the mechanic counts only explicit ballot submissions, we deliver votes through that gate. If it blends in view counts, we note the split and quote only for the ballot-submission component, because passive video views from residential IPs are a different service and are quoted separately on request.
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?
For multi-week festival voting windows we use even-pace delivery through the bulk of the period, then shift to a last-48h push as the screening block or jury announcement date approaches. Steady delivery through the main window keeps your counter rising at a rate that mirrors organic share-driven traffic; the final concentrated push closes the gap with the leader during the period when other entrants also push their audiences, so your entry gains momentum visibly. Send the URL as early as possible — compressing weeks of delivery into the final three days produces the unnatural spike shape organisers look for in closing audits.
How many video votes do I need to win the audience award?
The target is the current leader's count plus a 20–30% buffer, minus your existing organic votes. Our free analysis calculates this once you share the poll URL and the visible counts. A film-school showcase or local music-video competition often needs 300–800 votes. A national festival audience award or a well-promoted brand UGC challenge with broad social amplification can need 3,000 or more. When the organiser hides running totals, we estimate from entrant count and the typical threshold for that video contest archetype.
How fast are video contest votes delivered?
The delivery window is 1–72 hours and depends on both the poll mechanic and your chosen pacing mode. A film-school showcase with a simple IP-only form on even-pace typically finishes in 6–24 hours. A brand UGC challenge on last-48h push finishes within that window too. Daily-anchor pacing for a per-IP-per-day festival audience award takes as many days as remain in the voting tail — a 7-day festival vote on daily-anchor runs 7 days, because that is exactly what an organic supporter voting daily looks like. We never compress delivery below that natural threshold, because a same-day flood is precisely the counter spike that a closing-audit screen for in a festival audience-award window.
Service quality
How safe is buying votes for my video entry?
The main variables are the voting mechanic and the organiser's enforcement posture, which the free pre-order analysis maps before you commit. For film-school showcases, independent music-video competitions, and community creator challenges that carry no anti-vote-buying clause in their rules, the large majority of delivered votes stay counted and disqualification is uncommon. Professional film festivals and sponsored brand challenges with cash prizes more commonly include such a clause — for those we recommend lower-volume orders and conservative daily-anchor pacing that produces a less visible counter spike. Every vote is cast from a residential or mobile IP with an authentic <a href="/glossary/browser-fingerprint/">browser fingerprint</a> — no datacenter IPs, no VPN endpoints, no scripted bot patterns.
Pricing & payment
Most video contests make you log in to vote — can you handle that?
Yes, and it is the standard rather than the exception for video competitions. Festival submission platforms gate every vote behind a free account registration or OAuth social login because they want to associate each ballot with an identifiable person. Brand UGC platforms typically require email verification to prevent bulk stuffing from anonymous visitors. We provision real accounts and inboxes for both gates through our <a href="/buy-signup-votes/">sign-up vote</a> and <a href="/buy-email-votes/">email-vote</a> stacks — each vote includes the registration or login, any confirmation step, and the ballot submission. The surcharge is typically 50–80% over the base rate, quoted before you pay.
How does pricing work for video contest votes?
Video contest votes start at $7.99 per 100 and fall to $674.99 for 20,000 — roughly 58% off the per-vote base rate at the top tier. A click-only IP-only form is base rate, but those are uncommon in video competitions. Standard CAPTCHA on a music-video or dance-clip poll adds roughly 20–30%. The account, email, or social-login gate that most festival and brand-challenge platforms require adds 50–80% — this is the norm here, not an exception. Full bespoke flows with phone verification or document upload are quoted case by case. The free pre-order analysis gives you the exact surcharge for your specific video platform before any payment.
How can I pay for video contest votes?
Visa, MasterCard, Amex, and PayPal all work through the standard checkout — you can also pay <a href="/buy-votes-with-paypal/">with PayPal</a> directly. Crypto is accepted too: Bitcoin, Ethereum, and USDT on both TRC-20 and ERC-20. Orders above $200 can settle by bank transfer. Payment only comes up after the free pre-order analysis has confirmed your specific video contest poll is deliverable, so you never pay before knowing whether the mechanic can be fulfilled.
What is the refund policy for video contest votes?
If our analysis cleared your video poll as deliverable but the platform mechanic blocks delivery once we begin — say, the festival platform tightened its gate or the brand challenge closed earlier than listed — you receive a full refund with no deductions. When the problem surfaces during the analysis before you have paid anything, you owe nothing. If an organiser disqualifies your entry after votes are already in flight, the refund covers the undelivered portion only — cast votes cannot be reversed — but we immediately halt all remaining delivery waves and do not bill for them.
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 eligible country or a brand challenge's target geography when the poll has regional eligibility rules or when geographic matching keeps the counter curve looking 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 that reflects the brand's actual audience footprint. Specify the target geography in chat or let the analysis recommend the appropriate pool.
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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