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Create photo contests
with PollUnit

Easily create and run your own online photo contest. It doesn't matter whether you want to provide a selection of photos for voting or first collect the photos of your photographers.

Running a photo contest is a fabulous way to authentically engage your customers, build brand awareness, inspire people or to just have a good time with your colleagues. For small photo competitions you can even use our tool for free.

Run photo contests with these features:

Run a photo contest

Vote for photos

After the photos have been uploaded to our photo contest software, we will automatically create a gallery, thumbnails and a preview for you.

In our online photo gallery your participants can view pictures and vote for them. Besides our star rating you can also choose other voting types like dot voting or simple upvoting.

Different voting types

»Love«, »like« or rate photos:
The PollUnit voting types

Decide how emotional your participants can vote. Upvote features include simple yes/no checkboxes, a thumbs up to say »like« and the ability to give hearts »love« to photos.

If a simple upvote isn't enough, you can use star rating or dot voting to rate photos on configurable scales.

Photo Lightbox

Review, comment and rate photos in full screen

Whether wiping on your smartphone or using your mouse and keyboard: in the Lightbox you can navigate through your photos quickly and easily.

Review, rate, and comment on photos in our high resolution full screen mode. This makes PollUnit the ideal photo feedback software - not only for camera and photo clubs. You decide which functions are enabled in your photo contest.

Judge in categories

Rate photos in categories

Optional voting categories help to specify judging criteria. Categories such as technique, image composition, image message, motif, etc. help to evaluate and rate images more objectively. Thus, a fairer judgment can be formed during the analysis in the photo review.

Winners can be chosen for each category. For an overall winner, the individual ratings of the categories can be combined.

Evaluation

Evaluate photo contest

Our photo contest platform offers numerous functions to evaluate and monitor your competitions. This includes the possibility to export the collected information as CSV or Excel.

Evaluation
Photo competition settings

Run GDPR-compliant photo competitions

As creator of a photo competition you decide whether and which information your participants have to provide. Participants are photographers who upload their photos or voters who rate the photos. For each of these groups you can make your own settings.

If you collect personal data, you can inform the persons concerned in your own privacy policy. Optionally, you can call up users for confirmation with the help of Single and Double Opt-In.

You can also clarify rights of use, prices etc. with your own terms and conditions.

Alternative photo voting

Alternative to the photo competition

Beside the photo contest you can also create a simple image voting with PollUnit. This type focuses on the opinions of your participants. In a tabular view you and your participants can see the distribution of votes - ideal for prioritizing graphics or finding the most popular logo.

Compared to the photo competition, only a small number of photos can be included.

More about image polls

No installation nor registration necessary

Participation is possible from any device such as PC, laptop, smartphone or tablet - without installing a photo challenge app nor registering.

Become more creative with photo challenges

Organize online photography challenges and push your participants with daily tasks to try out new ideas and techniques. With our »clone« function you can use existing challenges as template and create your next online photography challenge with just a few clicks.

Create photo contest:
It's that simple

  1. Configure your photo contest
  2. Invite photographers to submit their photos
  3. Let your participants rate the photos
  4. Evaluate your photo contest and choose the winner

Try it now for free!

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Frequently Asked Questions

What image formats can be uploaded?

All common image formats can be uploaded to your photo contest. This includes for example files with the extension jp...

What are the correct security and access settings for my photo contest?

PollUnit allows you to configure your competition according to your needs. Regarding security, fraud and access contr...

How can I split a photo contest into an uploading and voting phase?

If you want to run a photo contest over a long period of time, such as several months, it may be useful to split the ...

How can I hide the votes and ratings?

Yes, you can configure your PollUnit according to your needs and determine the visibility of different information yo...

How can i ask photographers for captions and other information?

PollUnit offers you different possibilities to request any information. The caption, which can optionally be hidden, ...

How to run a photo contest?

With the PollUnit Wizard you can create your contest in a few minutes. A click on »Create PollUnit« opens the dialog ...

Does PollUnit get usage rights on the uploaded photos? What happens with the pictures after the competition?

No, PollUnit does not receive any rights of use for the photos! We are a service provider for photo contests. Therefo...

How do I create a Halloween Photo Contest?

Creating a Halloween-themed photo contest is easy as a breeze! Click »Create PollUnit« and choose »Photo Contest«. No...

How can I use PollUnit as photo club / camera club software?

The PollUnit poll maker is generic tool to generate various types of votings and surveys. This includes image votings...

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