Now Oceanfirst Banks Sing The Jingle Contest: How Voting Works & How to Win

Who runs the Sing The Jingle Contest and who votes in it

The OceanFirst Bank Sing The Jingle Contest belongs to WJLK-FM, a commercial radio station broadcasting at 94.3 FM in New Jersey under the brand 94.3 The Point. The station styles itself The Jersey Shore's Hit Music Channel and is licensed to Asbury Park, which places the contest squarely in the Shore radio market. The ballot is not farmed out to a polling service; it is published at 943thepoint.com, on a page titled VOTE NOW: OceanFirst Bank's Sing The Jingle Contest.

The shape of the promotion is a sponsor tie-in. OceanFirst Bank supplies the jingle, listeners supply the performances, and the station supplies the audience. Contestants film themselves singing the bank's new jingle and submit the video through a form on the station's site. Once the submission window closes, judges at the station narrow the field, and the finalists go to a public vote where listeners pick their favorite video. That two-stage design, entry then listener vote, is what separates this from the station's simpler giveaways.

The people who decide the outcome are ordinary listeners, not a panel. Anyone who can reach the ballot page can make a selection, subject to the printed limit of 1 vote per IP address. For a finalist, that means the campaign is a radio-audience campaign: the votes come from people who already listen to The Point, follow the station's social feeds, or have a personal stake in one of the singers.

The dated record for the OceanFirst Bank jingle vote

The contest has a long footprint on the station's site. Confirmed editions run in 2018, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026, six separate years in which the ballot page existed and carried the vote. The stretch between 2018 and 2022 is a gap rather than a continuous annual run in the confirmed list, so the promotion is best described as recurring with a break, not unbroken since launch.

The fullest dated picture comes from the 2017 cycle. Submissions of jingle videos had to be received no later than 11:59 PM EST on Sunday, June 25th. Judges then narrowed the field before letting listeners vote for their favorite video starting the week of June 26th. The ballot page itself carried the closing line: voting ends Sunday, July 2nd at midnight. That gives a complete arc, entry deadline, voting start and voting close, all anchored to late June and early July.

What the station has not put in front of readers is the rest of the rulebook. The ballot page prints no category roster, no eligibility terms and no statement of how the per-IP limit resets; confirm on the live ballot each cycle. The same applies to the prize: the page frames the vote as choosing the winner without naming what the winner receives.

For planning purposes, the pattern worth watching is the season. The one fully dated cycle ran in late June, which fits a summer promotion slot on a Shore music station. Whether later editions kept that June anchoring is a detail each year's own ballot page settles.

How a supporter votes in the jingle contest today

The mechanic is deliberately simple, which is typical of a radio station running a listener vote on its own site. A supporter opens the page titled VOTE NOW: OceanFirst Bank's Sing The Jingle Contest on 943thepoint.com. The page opens by announcing that the submissions are in and it is time to vote for the winner of the OceanFirst Bank Sing The Jingle contest. Below that, a section headed Ready To Vote? Make Your Selection Below presents the finalists the judges advanced.

The supporter picks a favorite and submits the selection. There is no described login, no fee and no tiered ballot; the one printed constraint is that the page allows 1 vote per IP address. That single line carries real weight for anyone campaigning: an entire household, office or campus sharing one connection shares one vote, so support has to be spread across genuinely different networks, different phones on cellular data, home connections, workplaces, to add up.

Timing matters as much as reach. In the confirmed cycle the window ran from the week of June 26th to Sunday, July 2nd at midnight, a span of days rather than weeks. A finalist who waits for the final evening compresses every supporter into the same narrow stretch, and anyone who misses the midnight close simply has no vote counted.

Because the ballot is published at 943thepoint.com, the address a supporter types is the station's contest page, not a third-party poll. Bookmarking the exact page during the live window is the simplest way to return to the right ballot.

How this ballot sits beside other New Jersey vote programs

New Jersey has a crowded field of public-vote programs, and the Sing The Jingle Contest is the odd one out among them. The state's best-of ballots are dominated by publications and regional titles: the Asbury Park Press Readers' Choice run by the Gannett paper in the same Shore market, the Best of Jersey Shore Contest, Best of New Jersey, the Best of Bergen Community's Choice Awards, the Bergen & Morris Top Dentists health-and-smile ballot, and the Jersey Bites Monmouth County Readers' Choice food ballot. Each of those asks readers to sort businesses into categories and vote per category.

This contest instead asks one question about one creative work: which video performs OceanFirst Bank's jingle best. That gives it a different campaign shape. A Readers' Choice finalist rallies customers who already use the business; a jingle finalist rallies listeners, friends and family behind a person on camera. The support base is personal rather than commercial, and the vote window is a short summer sprint rather than a long seasonal ballot.

The host is different too. The sibling programs run on publication platforms with their own voting infrastructure, while this vote is published directly at 943thepoint.com, the station's domain. A supporter moving between these ballots therefore deals with a different page layout and a different rule set each time, and the per-IP limit printed on the jingle ballot should not be assumed to match the rules on any of the six neighbors.

Building support for a jingle finalist without tripping the rules

A jingle finalist's honest advantage is a ready-made audience: radio listeners. The station promotes its own contests on air and on its site, so a finalist who encourages friends to listen to The Point during the voting week and then cast their selection is working with the grain of the promotion rather than against it. Sharing the exact ballot link, the 943thepoint.com vote page, removes every step between a supporter's goodwill and a counted vote.

The printed per-IP rule is the constraint to design around honestly. Because the ballot allows 1 vote per IP address, asking every member of a household to vote from one shared computer wastes three of the four chances; asking each person to vote from their own phone on cellular data respects the rule and multiplies real support. Remind people once, then remind them again before the midnight close, since a short window punishes anyone who means to vote and forgets.

The organizer's position on outside help does not appear on the ballot page, so no assumption should be made in either direction. The general reference on getting more votes online covers outreach tactics that work for short-window public votes, and the service overview at award-vote support explains what paid help is in principle. Whatever route a finalist takes, the votes that count are the ones the ballot accepts under its own printed limit.