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Buy Zomato Restaurant Awards India Votes

Get real Zomato app votes for your restaurant's award nomination — India-city-targeted, account-safe pacing. 100 votes from $6.99.

Organizer: Zomato Running: 2018–present Audience: 1.13 crore (11.3M) votes cast in 2024 across 140+ cities Cycle: annual
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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.

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Timeline you should expect

Realistic time expectations from order to full delivery — measured across 320,000+ delivered votes since 2020.

  1. Order confirmed

    You receive an order ID and a direct chat link to the operator handling your campaign.

  2. First votes appear

    Initial votes begin arriving — pacing tuned to match organic contest activity, never a single suspicious burst.

  3. 50% delivered

    Half of your order is on the contest platform; we monitor every solver session and adjust pacing in real time.

  4. Full delivery

    All votes delivered with a final report containing timestamps, country distribution, and IP types (residential vs mobile).

  5. Monitoring window

    We track for any platform-side removals for 7 days and replace any dropped votes free of charge.

About Zomato Restaurant Awards India votes

The Zomato Restaurant Awards are the largest customer-driven restaurant recognition programme in India, drawing over 1.13 crore votes across 140 cities in the 2024 edition alone. If your restaurant is nominated, your final position is decided almost entirely by how many registered Zomato users vote for you in your category — which means building that count is a real competitive task. This page explains how paid Zomato award votes work, how we deliver them safely against Zomato's spam-detection layer, and what a sensible campaign looks like for a restaurant that wants to finish at the top of its category. Packages start at 100 votes for $6.99.

About the Zomato Restaurant Awards India votes contest

Zomato launched its restaurant awards programme in 2018 to let actual customers — not food critics or panels — decide who deserves recognition. The model is pure app-based democracy: any registered Zomato user can open the awards section, choose their city, and vote for their favourite restaurants across a sprawling set of categories. In 2024 the programme spanned roughly 96 Ordering and Delivery categories and around 61 Dining categories, covering everything from best biryani delivery in Lucknow to best fine-dining experience in Bengaluru. Nominations are drawn from restaurants already active on the platform, and voting is open for a limited window each year — typically a few weeks — before Zomato tallies results by highest vote count per category. The scale is remarkable: 11,000+ restaurants nominated, users voting from Guwahati to Kochi, with one particularly committed voter casting ballots across 31 cities. That breadth is also why a well-targeted campaign matters: your competition isn't one restaurant, it's a citywide leaderboard.

Why Zomato Restaurant Awards India votes matter for your contest

Zomato's award badge is not a minor decoration. Winning restaurants display it prominently on their listing, and the platform historically promotes winners through curated collections and push notifications to users in that city. For a restaurant in a competitive category — say best North Indian in Delhi-NCR or best cafe in Koramangala — the difference between first place and fourth place is often a few hundred votes spread across a multi-week window. The organic vote pattern for Zomato awards reflects the app's own demographics: heavy in the 25-40 urban demographic, concentrated in Tier-1 cities but with real Tier-2 participation from cities like Jaipur, Indore, Chandigarh and Coimbatore. A campaign that looks authentic in this context uses real, city-matched accounts, arrives gradually over the voting period, and never creates a same-day spike that contrasts with the steady organic baseline your restaurant's own loyal customers are already generating.

How we deliver Zomato Restaurant Awards India votes

Once you share your nomination URL and category, we identify which city-category leaderboard your restaurant sits on and confirm the current vote count baseline. We then source votes from a pool of verified, aged Zomato app accounts with real usage history — order histories, reviews, saved restaurants — so they pass Zomato's behavioural spam checks. Delivery is staged across the voting window in daily waves calibrated to your campaign size: a 500-vote order might run over 5-7 days; a 5,000-vote campaign is spread across the full remaining window. We support both Ordering and Delivery category campaigns and Dining category campaigns, and we can split an order across multiple category nominations if your restaurant is entered in more than one. City targeting is specific: a Mumbai restaurant gets Mumbai-registered accounts, not a pan-India mix that looks geographically implausible to Zomato's systems.

How we avoid platform detection

Zomato has explicitly stated that its awards system detects and nullifies spam and fraudulent votes before tallying. The platform is looking for two main signals: account quality (new, inactive, or thin accounts that were created purely to vote) and behavioural anomalies (a flood of votes arriving in minutes, identical device fingerprints, accounts with no prior engagement on the platform). Generic vote providers fail both tests — they use freshly created accounts with no order history, and they deliver in bulk bursts. Our approach inverts this: every account in our pool has real usage depth, delivery arrives in daily increments matching the contest's organic rhythm, and no single account profile dominates an order. The result is a vote curve that sits inside the statistical distribution Zomato expects to see for a popular restaurant running an active campaign with its own customer base.

What is the best voting strategy for Zomato Restaurant Awards India votes?

The most durable Zomato awards campaigns combine three channels: encouraging existing customers to vote through in-store reminders and social posts, running a paid campaign to establish a lead early, and maintaining that lead through the tail of the voting window. Starting early matters because Zomato's leaderboard is visible to anyone watching the category — a restaurant that leads for most of the voting period creates a self-reinforcing effect where organic voters follow the perceived frontrunner. For category margins, aim to finish 20-40% ahead of the nearest competitor in your city sub-category rather than building an implausible 10× lead. If your restaurant is nominated in both an Ordering and a Dining category, treat them as two separate campaigns with separate vote counts — the audiences and baselines differ meaningfully between the two.

Legal scope and terms

Zomato Restaurant Awards is a consumer-driven commercial promotion run by a private company, not a regulated election or government process. We do not offer votes for political, governmental, or regulated ballots. As with any platform's terms of service, you should review Zomato's rules before ordering and treat your compliance determination as your own responsibility. We deliver votes that pass Zomato's stated fraud detection; we do not guarantee any specific outcome, and we do not interpret the platform's terms for individual cases.

Getting started in two minutes

The order process takes about two minutes. Paste your Zomato nomination or awards page URL into the order form or live chat, choose your vote package, and specify your city, category (Ordering or Dining), and any contest deadline. After payment your order joins the delivery queue — most campaigns begin within 60 minutes. If your restaurant is nominated in multiple cities or categories, note that in the order form and we structure separate delivery streams for each.

Common reasons to buy Zomato Restaurant Awards India votes

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Dominate the Best Biryani Delivery category in Hyderabad

A biryani-specialist restaurant in Hyderabad is nominated in the Ordering and Delivery category but trails two competitors mid-window. We deploy Hyderabad-registered accounts in a paced daily campaign that closes the gap and builds a steady lead before voting ends, while the restaurant simultaneously runs an in-store "vote for us" card with each order.

For: QSR and delivery-focused restaurants

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Secure a Dining Experience win for a Bengaluru fine-dining venue

An upscale restaurant in Koramangala has strong offline reviews but limited app engagement. We supplement the organic Zomato voter base with aged, Bengaluru-city accounts to lift the Dining Experience vote count to a category-winning level before the awards close.

For: Fine-dining and upscale restaurant owners

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Win Best New Restaurant in a Tier-1 city

A restaurant that opened in the past year is nominated for Best New Restaurant in Mumbai but lacks the established customer base older competitors have built. A targeted early campaign creates visible momentum on the leaderboard and draws in additional organic voters.

For: New restaurant operators

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Protect a lead against a competitor surge in Delhi-NCR

A cafe chain leading its category in Delhi sees a rival close the gap in the final week. We deploy a top-up campaign paced over the remaining days to maintain a safe margin without producing an unnatural same-day spike.

For: Multi-outlet restaurant chains

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Boost a cuisine-specific sub-category win in a Tier-2 city

A South Indian restaurant in Coimbatore is nominated in a cuisine-specific category with strong local competition. We source votes from Coimbatore-registered Zomato accounts to match the geographic profile judges expect in that city-category.

For: Regional cuisine restaurants in Tier-2 cities

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Run a dual Ordering and Dining category campaign

A mid-range restaurant in Pune is nominated in both a Delivery and a Dining category. We structure two separate delivery streams with different account pools so neither campaign overlaps or triggers anomaly flags in the other.

For: Restaurants with both dine-in and delivery nominations

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First-time nominee building baseline visibility

A year-old cloud kitchen newly listed on Zomato gets its first award nomination but has no established voter base yet. A modest starter campaign ensures the listing doesn't sit at zero while competitors accumulate organic votes from loyal regulars.

For: Cloud kitchens and ghost restaurants

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Franchise owner coordinating votes across multiple city nominations

A franchise with locations in Chennai, Bengaluru, and Hyderabad wants category wins in all three cities. We build city-segmented delivery for each location using locally registered accounts, keeping each city campaign geographically coherent.

For: Restaurant franchises and multi-city chains

How to buy Zomato Restaurant Awards India votes in 5 steps

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    Confirm your restaurant's nomination and category

    Open the Zomato awards section in the app or zomato.com/awards and locate your restaurant's nomination. Note the exact category name (e.g. "Best for Delivery — North Indian, Delhi") and the current vote count so we can set a realistic target. Send us the nomination URL.

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    Choose your vote count and specify your city

    Select a package from 100 to 20,000 votes. In the order notes, include your city and whether the nomination is in an Ordering/Delivery category or a Dining category — the account pools and pacing differ between the two.

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    Set your delivery timeline

    Tell us your voting deadline. We default to spreading delivery evenly across the remaining window; if you need a faster ramp to overtake a competitor, request an accelerated curve and we will adjust while keeping daily increments within organic bounds.

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    Complete payment

    Pay by card, PayPal, or cryptocurrency. Your order enters the delivery queue immediately on payment confirmation, and you receive dashboard access to track progress in real time.

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    Track and request top-ups as needed

    Monitor your live dashboard. If a competitor surges or you want to add votes before the window closes, order a top-up at any time — it joins the active delivery stream seamlessly. Any votes removed by Zomato's filters within 7 days are replaced under our make-good guarantee.

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  • Aged, active Zomato app accounts with real order history — not freshly created throwaway profiles
  • City-matched account pools so votes come from the right city for your nomination
  • Separate campaign streams for Ordering and Dining category nominations
  • Daily paced delivery calibrated to Zomato's spam-detection behaviour
  • Live dashboard + 7-day make-good guarantee on any filtered votes

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  • Generic bot accounts with no Zomato usage history, flagged immediately by spam filters
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  • Single-burst delivery creating an obvious spike against an organic baseline
  • No category awareness — same approach for delivery and dining regardless of mechanic
  • No recourse when Zomato nullifies the votes before the tally

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What customers say about buying Zomato Restaurant Awards India votes

4.7 / 5 · based on 79 reviews
"Our Bengaluru cafe was mid-table in the Dining Experience category. Ordered 1,000 votes with city targeting and watched the dashboard climb steadily over a week. We finished first in the category — the badge is now on our listing and we've seen a measurable uptick in new customer saves. "
Bengaluru, India ·
"We were nominated in two categories — one delivery, one dining. They ran separate streams for each and explained why the account pools needed to differ. Both campaigns delivered cleanly inside Zomato's window. Exactly what we needed. "
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"Support was quick to set up. Delivery took a couple of extra days at the start because they were pacing carefully around Zomato's filters — slower than I expected but they explained the reason and it did finish on time. Would use again. "
Delhi, India ·
"First-year cloud kitchen with no loyal voter base yet. A 500-vote campaign got us off zero quickly and actual customers started voting organically once we had some visible momentum. The biryani delivery category was very competitive in Chennai — we still placed top three. "
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"Running four franchise locations across Hyderabad and Pune. They handled city-segmented campaigns for each with zero crossover. Every location got a relevant, geographically believable vote profile. Renewed for the next awards cycle already. "
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"A competitor closed the gap in the last week and I panicked. Ordered a top-up and they added it to the active stream that afternoon without any spike. Held our lead to the end. Live chat was genuinely helpful throughout. "
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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.

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FAQ — buying Zomato Restaurant Awards India votes

26 answers covering legality, delivery, quality, pricing and platform specifics.

Legality & scope

Will Zomato's fraud detection catch paid votes?
Zomato filters for low-quality signals: new accounts with no app history, identical device fingerprints, and burst-delivery patterns. The accounts we use have established Zomato usage history — order records, saved restaurants, prior reviews — and delivery is spread in daily increments, not a single dump. We cannot claim zero risk, and we do not guarantee that every vote survives the tally — which is why we offer a 7-day make-good on any filtered votes.
Is buying votes for Zomato Restaurant Awards safe for my restaurant listing?
The risk to your listing comes from Zomato nullifying votes and — in extreme cases — applying a penalty to the nominated restaurant. Our approach is designed to stay below that threshold: aged accounts, city-matched profiles, and gradual pacing all reduce detection risk. We do not guarantee zero risk, but our removal rate is low. Review Zomato's awards terms before ordering and treat your compliance decision as your own.
Do you need my Zomato restaurant account credentials?
Never. We only need the public-facing URL of your nomination page (or your restaurant's Zomato listing and the category you are nominated in). You should never share your Zomato partner account login with any third party.
Is my restaurant's involvement kept confidential?
Yes. We do not share restaurant names, nomination URLs, or order details. The only thing Zomato sees is votes from ordinary registered accounts in your city — indistinguishable from customers your campaign might have reached through Instagram or in-store reminders.

Process & delivery

Can I buy votes for Zomato Restaurant Awards?
Yes. We deliver votes for the Zomato Restaurant Awards from a pool of real, aged Zomato app accounts with genuine usage history. Packages start at 100 votes for $6.99 and go up to 20,000. All delivery is city-matched to your nomination and paced to avoid triggering Zomato's spam filters.
How quickly can you start my Zomato awards campaign?
Most campaigns begin within 60 minutes of payment confirmation. If you have a tight contest deadline — say three days remaining — tell us and we prioritise your order and compress the delivery schedule as much as spam-safe pacing allows.
What if I need votes for both an Ordering and a Dining nomination?
We run them as two separate campaigns with distinct account pools. The user profiles that make sense for voting in a delivery category differ from those for a dine-in category; mixing them would produce an incoherent account profile. When you order, list both nominations and we structure the delivery streams independently.
How does paced delivery work for a multi-week voting window?
We divide your total vote count across the remaining voting days in uneven daily waves — not a flat identical rate — because organic customer voting is naturally lumpy (higher on weekends, lower mid-week). A 2,000-vote campaign over 14 days might deliver 120 votes on Monday, 180 on Friday, 90 on Tuesday, and so on. This irregular but steady curve is harder to distinguish from genuine customer voting than a mechanical equal-daily split.
Can I add more votes after an order is already running?
Yes. A top-up order is placed the same way as the original and joins the active delivery stream for your nomination. We adjust daily pacing to accommodate the additional volume without creating an anomalous spike on the day the top-up activates.
What happens if Zomato changes the voting rules mid-cycle?
If Zomato modifies its awards mechanic — changes the URL structure, adjusts category boundaries, or extends the window — while your order is running, message us on live chat. We pause delivery, assess the change, and adjust the plan at no extra cost before resuming.
Do you work with cloud kitchens and delivery-only restaurants?
Yes. Cloud kitchens are typically nominated in Ordering and Delivery categories — best cuisine type for delivery, best value for delivery — rather than Dining categories, and our account pool supports those categories fully. Delivery-only nominations sometimes have smaller organic voter bases than dine-in venues, which is exactly where a starter campaign has the most impact.

Service quality

Do you guarantee a win in the Zomato Restaurant Awards?
No. We guarantee real, paced, city-matched votes delivered to your nomination and a 7-day make-good on any filtered votes. Winning depends on how many votes your competitors accumulate — a fact outside anyone's control. What we can do is ensure your restaurant reaches a competitive position so the outcome is not decided by a vote-count gap you could have closed.
What is your refund policy if I am not satisfied?
If we fail to deliver the ordered votes within the campaign window, or if delivered votes are removed by Zomato within 7 days of delivery, we will re-deliver the affected votes or offer a partial refund proportional to the shortfall. We do not refund based on contest outcome — our service is votes delivered, not wins guaranteed.

Pricing & payment

How much do Zomato award votes cost?
Pricing starts at $6.99 for 100 votes and the per-vote rate drops as volume rises: 1,000 votes is $44.99, 5,000 is $179.99, and 20,000 is $549.99. All packages include city-matched account targeting, paced delivery, and the 7-day make-good guarantee. There are no extra fees for Dining vs Ordering categories or for Tier-2 city targeting.
What payment methods do you accept?
Visa, Mastercard, American Express, PayPal, and major cryptocurrencies including Bitcoin and USDT. Card and PayPal payments are SSL-secured; crypto orders confirm after one blockchain confirmation. All prices are shown in USD.

Platform specifics

How does Zomato count votes in the Restaurant Awards?
Zomato's awards run entirely through the app. Registered users open the awards section, select their city, and vote for nominated restaurants in each category. The winner in each city-category is the restaurant with the highest tally of legitimate votes at the close of the voting window. Zomato explicitly runs spam and fraud detection to nullify duplicate or bot-generated votes before the final count — so raw submissions and confirmed votes can differ. The mechanic is one registered-account vote per category, not one per IP, which is why our delivery uses real Zomato accounts rather than IP rotation.
How is voting on Zomato different from an IP-based vote contest?
Most website voting contests cap at one vote per IP address per day. Zomato awards are account-based — each vote is tied to a registered Zomato user account, not an IP. This means IP rotation alone cannot generate valid votes; the accounts must have real Zomato app history to pass the platform's validation layer. This is a stricter mechanism, which is why our service uses aged, active accounts rather than simple IP proxies.
What categories does the Zomato Restaurant Awards cover?
The 2024 edition included approximately 96 Ordering and Delivery categories and 61 Dining categories, spanning cuisine types (biryani, South Indian, Chinese, fast food, desserts) and experience types (best new restaurant, best value, best ambience, best cafe) within specific cities. We support all active categories — tell us your exact category name when you order so we can set delivery pacing to match its competitive profile.
What is the vote cap per account in Zomato awards?
Each registered Zomato account can vote per category — typically one vote per category per account for the duration of the voting window. Unlike daily-reset IP caps, once an account has voted in a given city-category it cannot vote again in that category. This is why order size is an absolute count of unique accounts rather than a daily rate, and why account-pool depth matters for large campaigns.
How does the Zomato awards voting window work — does it reset daily?
The voting window is a fixed period, typically a few weeks, after which Zomato tallies final counts. The window does not reset daily — unlike per-IP-per-day contests, this is a single vote per account per category for the entire window. This means you can launch a campaign on day one or day fifteen, but accounts used earlier in the window cannot vote again in the same category.
How does the Zomato awards result affect my restaurant listing?
Winning restaurants receive an award badge displayed on their Zomato listing for the award year. Zomato has historically featured winners in curated in-app collections and targeted push notifications to users in the winning city, giving winners a meaningful boost in discoverability. For a restaurant in a competitive city-category, the visibility gain from a Zomato award badge is a material commercial advantage.

Targeting & customisation

Why does city targeting matter for Zomato awards?
Zomato awards are city-specific — your restaurant competes within its own city-category leaderboard, not a national one. A Mumbai restaurant nominated in Best Cafe should receive votes from Mumbai-registered accounts, because Zomato's system can cross-reference account location signals against voting patterns. A flood of accounts from Jaipur voting for a Mumbai nomination is exactly the kind of geographic anomaly that spam detection flags. Our account pools are segmented by city so votes originate from the right geography.
Can I run campaigns for multiple city nominations at once?
Yes. If your restaurant has nominations in more than one city, we create separate delivery streams for each city using locally registered accounts. Orders can be placed together or staggered — whichever fits your timeline. Multi-city pricing is just the sum of individual city campaigns; there is no bulk discount beyond the standard volume tiers.
What cities does your Zomato account pool cover?
Our pool covers all major Tier-1 cities (Mumbai, Delhi-NCR, Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Chennai, Pune, Kolkata, Ahmedabad) and a wide range of Tier-2 cities including Jaipur, Indore, Lucknow, Chandigarh, Coimbatore, Surat, and Kochi, among others. If your city is not listed, contact us on live chat before ordering — we can assess availability for less common locations.

Custom orders

Can a restaurant group use this service to run simultaneous campaigns across a whole brand portfolio?
Yes. Restaurant groups and franchise operators managing ten or more locations can set up a portfolio campaign where each branch gets its own city-specific delivery stream, tracked on separate dashboard entries. We batch the ordering and invoicing so your marketing team deals with a single purchase rather than dozens of individual orders. Contact us on live chat with your list of nomination URLs and cities before placing the order, and we will structure the campaign architecture before you commit.
Can I use a Zomato Restaurant Awards win in advertising and marketing materials?
Yes, and many of our restaurant clients do exactly that. A Zomato-issued award badge and the associated category win are your restaurant's intellectual property to use in menus, social media, storefront signage, and press materials. The award carries strong recognition in urban Indian markets because Zomato's user base overlaps directly with the demographic your diners come from. We can issue a campaign completion summary on request if you need documentation of the vote count for any marketing or franchise compliance purpose.

Terminology — quick definitions

Niche-specific terms used on this page. Each links to a fuller definition in our glossary.

reCAPTCHA v3
Google's score-based invisible CAPTCHA. Assigns each session a risk score from 0.0 (bot) to 1.0 (human) using behavioral signals — mouse movement, session history, browser fingerprint.
Cloudflare Turnstile
Privacy-focused CAPTCHA alternative from Cloudflare. Uses cryptographic challenge tokens instead of image puzzles. Becoming the standard for contest platforms in 2025-2026.
Residential IP
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.
Mobile IP
IP allocated by a mobile carrier (4G/5G). Highest trust rating with platforms — rotates naturally, hardest to flag as bot activity.
Vote drop
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.
Pacing pattern
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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