Powerful contest management software

Submittable is online contest software for launching and managing competitions to boost your brand and increase your reach.

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Create beautiful, branded forms, collect entries—including all kinds of UGC—for contests, and facilitate judging with online contest management. Submittable is also an ideal photo contest software and video contest solution.

Launch quickly

Stand out with modern, intuitive entry forms you can build in minutes. Accept any file type and view submissions right in your browser.

Easily review and report

Oversee internal judging or public voting with tools that automate and streamline the review process. Access and share key data at any time.

Gather assets and nurture growth

Power brand promotion and expansion by collecting great content, driving engagement, fueling sales, and capturing leads.

Drive participation and build excitement

Increase participation in your contests with modern, user-friendly entry forms. Highlight important guidelines on your custom landing page and automate communication to encourage engagement throughout the campaign.

Responsive, sharable entry forms

Create branded, mobile-responsive online contest forms quickly. Customize your submission portal and connect it with your organization’s social media accounts.

Prominent guidelines

Clear rules and regulations are vital for online contests. Include guidelines and policies, require specific fields to ensure completion, and add an agreement to contest terms within your form.

Streamlined communication

Email templates and bulk updates simplify communication with entrants, who can track the status of their contest entry at any time. Create custom messages to notify winners, decline entrants, or request more information from hundreds of participants in a single step.

Drive participation and build excitement

Responsive, sharable entry forms

Create branded, mobile-responsive online contest forms quickly. Customize your submission portal and connect it with your organization’s social media accounts.

Prominent guidelines

Clear rules and regulations are vital for online contests. Include guidelines and policies, require specific fields to ensure completion, and add an agreement to contest terms within your form.

Streamlined communication

Eliminate tedious and manual administrative tasks—Submittable’s platform can be customized to streamline contests of all kinds, from large corporate campaigns with public voting and major prizes, to interactive monthly contests focused on gaining social media followers.

Centralized contest management

Improve submission collection and campaign administration—oversee your entire contest cycle from within a single account.

Powerful organization tools

Apply labels automatically based on contestant response and filter submissions, with the ability to rank and review entries based on numeric score.

Workflow and data automation

Automate repetitive tasks like team assignments and access live reporting data for key campaign metrics anytime.

Customize the review process

Save time as you pick winners—facilitate an efficient judging process, with private and public gallery options flexible enough for every review process, no matter how involved. For image-based competitions, Submittable’s software for photo contests dramatically streamlines review.

Gallery display

Build a gorgeous public-facing display for photos and video with Submittable’s Gallery feature. Enable public voting or maintain internal assessment with multiple custom options.

Flexible review

Keep assessment simple or build custom review forms that include numeric scoring or qualitative feedback. Manage multiple review stages, including those that don’t require review, like a hold bucket.

Collaborative and secure processes

Facilitate teamwork among judges for your contests with tools that foster communication and collaboration. Coordinate anonymous review and control which information judges can access with five role-based team permission levels.

Customize the review process

Gallery display

Build a gorgeous public-facing display for photos and video with Submittable’s Gallery feature. Enable public voting or maintain internal assessment with multiple custom options.

Flexible review

Collaborative and secure processes

Enjoy top-notch support

Submittable provides unparalleled technical assistance for your contestants, judges, and team, with live chat, email, and phone options, as well as personalized onboarding.

"Submittable was the perfect contest platform. From accepting videos and business plans, to communicating with students and teachers, to managing judges and conducting a public vote... the software was easy to learn and the staff were wonderfully supportive and always available."

One Montana, Youth Entrepreneurs

Submittable’s online contest software is built to boost your organization’s image, bolster marketing, draw out campaign insights, and streamline budgeting. Using a solution for photo contests or video contest software is the perfect way to drive growth.

Unique content

Collect entries and curate quality content, including UGC, from potential brand-ambassadors and talented influencers.

Powerful Integrations

Submittable offers hundreds of integrations with your favorite applications and tools, including CMS software.

Customization

Elect a custom API and choose custom branding services, including Custom CSS, Custom URL, and White Labeling.

Vital data

Track, measure, and share important contest and contestant data easily with Submittable’s reporting tools.

Revenue potential

Collect entry fees with integrated payment features and include the sale of products and services on your contest form.

Award management

Track the disbursement of award money, manage payment installments, and message contest winners about funding in bulk.

Secure, reliable, accessible

Submittable is built on a modern cloud infrastructure with privacy and security features designed to ensure the safety of your data.

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