Preston Hollow Advocate Best Of: How Voting Works & How to Win

What is the Preston Hollow Advocate Best Of and who stands behind it?

The Preston Hollow Advocate Best Of is a reader-driven business honors program run by the Preston Hollow Advocate, the Advocate Media magazine serving the Preston Hollow neighborhood of Dallas, Texas. The format follows the pattern readers know from the magazine's broader Best Of brand: a slate of local categories, a public round of voting, and a published ranking of champions and runners-up once the round is settled.

The program runs on the magazine's own website rather than on an external polling service. The address carrying the program right now is https://prestonhollow.advocatemag.com/best-of-2026-winners/, which serves the results listing for the 2026 edition. The page sits under the Advocate Magazine masthead, whose copyright line appears in the footer of the site.

Scope is the detail that separates this program from a citywide honor roll. The Preston Hollow edition concentrates on merchants, services and family resources around that neighborhood, so the slate leans toward the kinds of businesses a local household actually uses: salons, spas, chiropractors, camps and similar lines. The 2026 listing bears that out, naming a day spa, a men's salon, a chiropractic clinic and a summer camp operator among its winners.

The table below gathers the identifying details a reader or a nominated business needs up front.

Which editions have run, and when does the season land?

Editions of the Preston Hollow Advocate Best Of are documented for 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026, and the program reads as an annual fixture on that evidence. Nothing in the magazine's published material points to a skipped year inside that stretch, and the 2026 cycle produced a full results page under the headline Best of 2026 Winners, introduced with the line "Here are your Best Of 2026 winners!".

The active stretch of the program's year falls between June and August, which is where nomination and voting activity has landed in recent cycles. What the Advocate has never printed is a pair of firm calendar dates for those rounds; confirm on the live ballot each cycle.

Gaps sit beside the calendar as well. The magazine announces categories as results go up rather than posting a complete roster in advance, its pages carry no written cap on repeat participation and no eligibility text, and no separate round schedule for this ballot appears on any outside promotion listing.

The sampled outcomes below come straight from the 2026 listing.

How does a supporter actually cast a vote in this program?

The Advocate describes its own method on the results page: the Best Of Advocate nominees were chosen by Advocate Media staff and readers, and those nominees were then voted on by the public, with the winner in each line being the nominee holding the highest number of votes. The count settles the outcome; no panel revisits it afterwards.

Because the program runs on the magazine's own domain, the supporter's path stays short. While a round is open, the ballot sits in the Advocate's Best Of area, where each category presents its nominee slate. A reader moves to the line they care about, selects the nominee they back, and submits, and the totals accumulated across the round decide the placings.

The address linked throughout this page currently delivers the 2026 results rather than a live form, which is the usual state of a cycle after it has been decided. The same Best Of area of the site is where the active ballot appears whenever a round is open, so a supporter arriving between cycles can still study the layout, the category shapes and the depth of each slate before the next window begins.

Placings below the top of a line matter to the businesses on the slate. Several 2026 categories publish a runner-up and a third-place finisher next to the champion, which turns the finished listing into a ranked picture of local favor rather than a single-name announcement.

How does the Preston Hollow ballot sit beside its Texas neighbours?

Six companion programmes share the Texas reader-ballot space with the Preston Hollow edition, each anchored to its own city and publisher. The Best of Austin Readers Poll covers Austin, the Best of Dallas Readers' Choice competes for the same metropolitan readership as the Advocate's neighborhood ballot, and the Best of El Paso, Best of Houston and Best of San Antonio carry the biggest urban electorates in the state. Fort Worth has its own entry in the Fort Worth Magazine Best of Fort Worth.

Each of those ballots speaks for a whole city or a large metro. The Preston Hollow program speaks for a neighborhood, which changes the arithmetic of winning: the electorate is the Advocate's own readership concentrated around a compact retail and services base, so a strong showing depends on standing with a tight community rather than carrying a sprawling urban vote.

That scale difference also shapes how a campaign plans. A business with reach across Dallas may find the citywide Readers' Choice ballot the larger prize, while a shop whose loyalty lives within the neighborhood's routine spending habits can compete harder on the Advocate's slate than its size would suggest. Campaigns weighing several of these award-style Texas ballots at once can compare the formats on the award votes overview.

What works when a nominated business wants stronger support in this poll?

The decisive arithmetic in the Preston Hollow Advocate Best Of is blunt: the line goes to the highest total, so width of support beats intensity of support. A campaign that reaches every regular customer, every neighbor and every community group it touches will outperform a smaller circle that votes enthusiastically but votes alone.

Groundwork matters before the ballot even appears, because nominees enter through Advocate Media's staff and reader suggestions. A business already familiar to the magazine's audience starts the round with name recognition that the ballot itself rewards, so visibility in the Advocate's coverage and in neighborhood conversation is worth building year-round.

For tactics that translate to any public ballot, including reminder systems, counter signage and timing the push across the June-to-August stretch, the practical walkthrough lives at get more votes online. Pair it with the Advocate's own round instructions, since whatever cadence the magazine enforces is printed on that round's ballot page.