Best Friends Brew Photo Contest: How Voting Works & How to Win

What the Best Friends Brew Photo Contest is and who runs it

Built around a question the organizer prints on its own ballot, is your fur-baby the face of Best Friends Brew, this program turns pet photos into a community fundraiser. Supporters enter a favorite photo of a dog or a cat, and the community then votes those entries up through a public ballot. It is framed as a chance to raise a glass and a paw for the community's beloved pets, and the organizer describes the whole exercise as a fundraiser for its shelter work.

The organizer is the Etowah Valley Humane Society, an animal welfare organization whose contest page carries the postal address 36 Ladd's Mountain Road, Cartersville, GA 30120. That places the program in Cartersville, Georgia, in the state's northwestern region. The ballot itself is hosted on GoGo Photo Contest, a dedicated contest platform, at the address gogophotocontest.com/evhsbestfriendsbrew. The platform's footer carries a 2026 copyright line for GGPC, LLC, which is the company behind the hosting.

The page's own navigation shows how the fundraiser is organized: a Participate area, a View Entries gallery, a How to Participate explainer, Contest Rules, a Prizes section, and an About Us link back to the society. Brand phrases printed on the page include Best Friends Brew, Best Friends Brew Launch Party, Best Friends Calendar, and a Top Dog reference, which together suggest the contest feeds calendar and branded material, though the full category structure is not summarized on the ballot itself.

The dated record: editions, the November window, and what is not printed

Two editions of the Best Friends Brew Photo Contest are confirmed, in 2025 and 2026. The 2025 cycle carries the fullest dated detail, because the organizer printed its contest period directly on the ballot. The Submission Period started at noon, 12:00 PM Eastern Time, on Saturday, November 1, 2025, and ran until 8:00 PM Eastern Time on Sunday, November 30, 2025. The Voting Period started at noon Eastern on the same opening day, so entry and voting ran side by side across the whole month rather than in separate rounds.

That November anchoring is the program's clearest rhythm. The organizer's own copy for the 2025 cycle reads that nominations and voting open November 1 through November 30, 2025, and the page's masthead language, "it's time once again to raise a glass," signals a returning event rather than a debut. The 2026 edition is confirmed as live on the same ballot address, and two confirmed years are what establish the program's annual rhythm instead of a single-run fundraiser.

Several facts sit outside the printed material. The organizer has not printed the present cycle's window dates in the ballot text summarized here, so the November 2025 dates are the anchor and the present dates should be confirmed on the live ballot each cycle. No per-supporter vote rule, no eligibility terms, and no platform round dates beyond the contest period appear in the ballot text either. The ballot's Contest Rules section is the organizer's own home for those terms, and it is the first place a careful supporter should look before planning a voting push.

How a supporter votes today on the Etowah Valley ballot

Voting happens as a straightforward public poll on GoGo Photo Contest at the evhsbestfriendsbrew address. Anyone backing a specific dog or cat starts there, where the page states the contest status in Eastern Time at the top. During the submission window, the supporter uploads a favorite pet photo; entry carries no fee, per the organizer, so cost is not a barrier to putting a dog or cat into the running.

Once an entry exists, the View Entries gallery is where support happens. Visitors browse the photos, pick the pet they want on the Best Friends Calendar, and vote. Because the 2025 contest period ran submission and voting together from noon Eastern on November 1 through 8:00 PM Eastern on November 30, a new supporter could enter and vote in the same visit throughout the month. The page also carries a Sign In link, which points to an account path for participants, though which actions require it is not spelled out in the ballot text.

Two practical notes follow from the printed material. First, the ballot's timing is stated in Eastern Time, so supporters outside the Cartersville area should convert the closing hour before planning a final-day push. Second, no daily return rule and no per-person vote limit appear in the ballot text the organizer publishes, so the frequency question is one the live page answers directly. The Contest Rules and How to Participate links on the page are the organizer's own statements, and reading them before a push is the safest route for any supporter backing a Cartersville pet.

How this ballot sits beside its Georgia neighbours

Georgia carries a busy public-vote calendar, and this page's sibling programs show the range. The Athens Community's Choice Awards and Best of Atlanta are city-scale reader choice ballots, while Best of Cobb, Best of Forsyth, Best of Augusta and Best of Middle Georgia cover their own regions under media publishers. All are best-of verticals, but none of them is a pet photo fundraiser.

That is what makes the Best Friends Brew Photo Contest different on three axes. The organizer is a humane society, not a magazine or news outlet, so the ballot's purpose is fundraising for shelter work rather than ranking local businesses. The subject matter is dogs and cats rather than restaurants, shops and services, which changes who rallies: pet owners and animal lovers rather than the general shopping public. And the host is GoGo Photo Contest, a dedicated contest platform, rather than a publisher's own voting system, which shapes how the ballot looks and how its rules are presented.

The market position also differs. The Cartersville area does not have a large media-publisher best-of program among this page's siblings, so the Etowah Valley Humane Society's fundraiser is the closest thing to a community-wide public vote anchored to that corner of northwestern Georgia. Its November window also sets it apart in the calendar, since several of the publisher-run ballots across the state run on different seasonal schedules. Anyone deciding where to spend effort should treat this as a niche, passionate audience rather than a broad business-ranking crowd.

Strengthening support for a Best Friends Brew entry

Support in this fundraiser flows through the public vote on the GoGo Photo Contest ballot, so the practical work is reach. An entrant's best assets are the entry link from the View Entries gallery and a personal story: a dog or cat photo with a story travels further in Cartersville community groups, church bulletins and workplace chats than a bare link. Entry costs nothing, which makes asking for support an easy ask, since nobody you approach has to pay anything to vote.

Timing matters because the 2025 window ran the full month of November, opening at noon Eastern on the first and closing at 8:00 PM Eastern on the thirtieth. A month-long ballot rewards steady sharing over a single burst, and the closing hour in Eastern Time is the moment to remind supporters about. Where the organizer stands on outside help, automated voting or vote purchasing is stated in its Contest Rules section, and reading that page before any push is the responsible step. For general tactics on public ballots, see our votes guide, and for the service side, award vote purchasing is explained separately.