41NBC Best Costume Contest: How Voting Works & How to Win

41NBC runs Best Costume for Macon, and it is brand new

41NBC organizes the Best Costume contest through its own account on the Second Street voting platform, at 41nbc.secondstreetapp.com, for Macon, Georgia. Entrants submit a costume photo and the public votes for a favorite, the same shape 41NBC uses for several other promotions it runs on the same account.

The ballot page lists no category roster and no per-supporter limit as of September 2026; confirm on the live ballot each cycle, since neither question is settled by anything published so far.

How the ballot is filed on Second Street

Behind the public page, Best Costume is registered as promotion type UGCVoting/UGCVotingPhoto under 41NBC's own Second Street account, organization ID 415553. That same account carries 167 promotions in total, from sweepstakes to surveys to nomination ballots, so Best Costume is one program among many the station runs on a single platform contract rather than a stand-alone build.

The distinction matters for anyone comparing this contest with 41NBC's other campaigns: a photo vote like Best Costume is decided by public votes, while a sweepstakes such as 41NBC'S Value Club or a survey such as VCA 2026 Winners Form Fill is decided by drawing or by response, not by ballot count. Confirm on the live ballot each cycle before assuming any of 41NBC's non-voting promotions works the same way Best Costume does.

One confirmed edition, open right now

Best Costume has exactly one confirmed listing: the window running September 1 through September 29, 2026. Nothing published shows the contest existing before this year, so there is no earlier season to compare it against and no multi-year pattern to lean on when guessing at what happens after September 29.

This is the first confirmed edition; whether it returns next year is not yet published; confirm on the live ballot each cycle. A contestant deciding whether to enter is weighing a program with no history behind it yet, not a fixture with several past winners already established.

That does not make the current window any less real. The vote is open today, the same as any other Second Street ballot, and having no history yet cuts both ways: no past pattern to lean on, but also none working against a first-time entrant.

Other Georgia public-vote programs, unconnected to this one

41NBC's own Second Street account runs well beyond Best Costume. A 41NBC'S Value Club sweepstakes has stood open since October 23, 2020 and runs through December 31, 2026. A 2026 Q4 $15,000 Sweepstakes is scheduled November 2 through December 9, 2026, and a VCA 2026 Winners Form Fill survey runs April 2 through December 1, 2026. Earlier in the year the station also ran Graduation Nation 2026, a photo gallery open May 12 through September 1, 2026; a 2026 Great Grocery Give Away $5,000 Sweepstakes, open July 27 through August 26, 2026; a Back to School Family Summer Staycation 2026 sweepstakes, open July 1 through August 12, 2026; and Give Your School A Scholarship 2026, a nomination-and-voting ballot that ran the same July 1 through August 12, 2026 window. None of these seven promotions is the Best Costume photo vote, and none of them shares its category list, its schedule or its result.

Beyond 41NBC, Georgia carries several other public-vote "best of" programs run by entirely separate publishers. Best of Middle Georgia, Best of Atlanta, Best of Augusta, Best of Cobb, Best of Forsyth and the Athens Community's Choice Awards each run their own schedule, with no shared category list or shared result with 41NBC's Best Costume contest.

What an entrant should actually do during this window

With the window open now through September 29, 2026, the practical move is entering while it is live rather than waiting on a second edition that has not been announced. 41nbc.secondstreetapp.com is the only place that would show an extension or a change to that closing date.

Real friends, family and neighbors asked more than once, spread out over the weeks the window stays open, are what actually move a photo up a public leaderboard. 41nbc.secondstreetapp.com does not state how many times a single supporter may return to the ballot, so confirm on the live ballot each cycle before promising a Macon voter a specific number.

Winning is 41NBC's call once its own process ends; entering is the only part within a contestant's control. is buying votes legal explains the line between ordinary outreach and paid manipulation, worth reading before a first-time entrant in this brand-new Macon contest spends real effort chasing votes.