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Woobox now makes it incredibly simple to run a Photo Contest that integrates with Instagram posts.  You choose a specific hashtag, and photos posted with that hashtag will automatically be entered into your Photo Contest!
WARHEADS® just ran a campaign utilizing the Instagram entry functionality, with the hashtag #showusyourcubes to promote their new Sour Chewy Cubes candy.  As you can see from the contest screenshot below, this encouraged a lot of creativity from WARHEADS fans, which resulted in more fan interaction with the contest, and some very fun submissions!

How does it work?
The Woobox Photo Contest application will automatically monitor Instagram for posts with your hashtag, and import entrant photos into the submissions dashboard, where you’ll have the chance to review and …

We’re pleased to announce the newest app in the Woobox lineup — Photo Contests! Now Woobox users can run promotions where participants submit photos for entry, vote on submitted photos, and share with friends to gain more exposure and get votes!

You control the submission and voting periods for the contest, and have the option of running the two individually or simultaneously. You’ll also be able to choose whether photo entries are approved automatically, or choose to manually approve each entry before it is available for participants to view and vote on.
Entrants can submit captions with their photo, which will be displayed with the photo in the Vote Page gallery. Each photo entry has a unique shareable link …

There’s a great new offer type available now for Woobox users! The Instant Win app allows you to run a promotion where participants enter to win a prize, and find out immediately if they’ve won.
You set the odds of winning, retry interval, the total number of winners, and (of course) the prize. As with the other Woobox apps, you can create a campaign for Facebook and/or Twitter, meaning you can choose to limit your Instant Win offer to fans and followers, and limit wins or attempts to one per user. All participant information is available to you at all times as two downloadable spreadsheets (CSV file format) separated into Winners and Non-Winners, which contain all the information collected for …

Woobox just launched a free Pinterest Tab App to showcase your Pinterest boards and pins on your Facebook page, just as they look on the actual Pinterest site!
If you’re an avid Pinterest user like myself, I’m sure you have no trouble imagining how excited we are about launching this app. Here’s a link to install a new Pinterest Tab, and it only takes a minute: http://woobox.com/pinterest/install

Over the past few months, there have been a number of blog posts with instructions for how to add a Pinterest tab to your page.  While some of them worked to an extent (albeit not as aesthetically pleasing as the ‘real’ Pinterest), most recently, those methods have stopped working altogether. Whether or not you noticed, …

Have you read the Google+ page promotion policies yet?  Here they are: http://www.google.com/intl/en/+/policy/pagescontestpolicy.html
The first line of the policy reads: You may not run contests, sweepstakes, offers, coupons or other such promotions (“Promotion”) directly on your Google+ Page. What does that really mean?  What is directly on the page?
Google helps clarify in the next sentence:  You may display a link on your Google+ Page to a separate site where your Promotion is hosted … Great. That’s exactly what Woobox does, host your promotions.   Since there is no Google+ equivalent (yet) to a Facebook tab, and no way to actually build a page app for Google pages, the policy language is probably temporary.   It’s hard to imagine Google won’t change …