We just added a feature that was long overdue. You can now receive an email notification each time someone answers your contest. You were already receiving notifications through Facebook and now you will get both by default. You can configure how you wish to be notified (email, Facebook or both) from the Advanced Options of the Configuration section of your contest.
Today we have great news for our Enterprise subscribers. When you click the "+ New" button to create a new promotion, you will see a menu asking you to choose how you would like to interact with your audience. You can select one of the following: poll, contest or quiz. This gives you access to all our apps from a single account.
Today we updated the domain name used for sharing contests to make it even shorter. The domain contest.fbapp.io has been effectively replaced by contest.app.do throughout the app. This shorter URL will be easier to type in a browser's address bar.
When you install a Tab on your Facebook Page, it will be named "Contest" by default. It's sometimes useful to rename the tab to better reflect the purpose of your contest. You could for example rename it to "Contact Form" or "Mother's Day Contest". Fortunately, changing a tab's name can easily be done by following these steps:
Following the Facebook privacy stories of last week and the European Union GDPR regulation coming into force next month, we made a few changes to the Contests for Pages app to give participants more explicit control on the information they share with contest creators. Here are the changes you will notice starting this week when creating a contest:
Hemos recibido muchos correos preguntando por el uso de los datos que reunimos de Facebook, esto es debido a las noticias recientes sobre el uso de información personal que hacen personas externas a esta red social. Con este artículo esperamos clarificar la manera en que nuestras aplicaciones garantizan la protección de su información confidencial.
En primer lugar, nosotros operamos mediante un modelo de negocios con base en las subscripciones. En otras palabras, las subscripciones pagas a nuestros servicios generan nuestras ganancias. No lucramos con publicidad ni con la venta de la información que nuestra aplicación recolecta. Nuestra compañía no opera de ese modo y nuestra Política de Privacidad y Términos de Uso lo establecen claramente.
If you run a popular voting contest where the stakes are high, chances are some people might try to cheat to increase their odds of winning. At its core, the internet is an anonymous protocol so there's no easy way to verify voters identity.
Today we're happy to announce that you can connect your Contests for Pages account to Zapier. But wait! What is Zapier and how does it work, you ask? Here's the definition from Zapier's own website: