VKontakte sweepstakes have become one of the most popular ways to promote communities. Managers organize various competitions and offer various rewards. To ensure that the selection of the winner is fair and open, you can use special online services. The program for conducting a drawing on VKontakte will do everything for you, and fair results are guaranteed.. Guarantees during VK competitions are especially important when drawing large prizes.
It is precisely such programs that will be discussed in today’s material. We will tell you about the most popular of them, as well as how to use them.
What are the purposes for which VK sweepstakes are used?
VK giveaways are a unique and effective way to promote the community. In most cases, group leaders conduct them only to increase the number of subscribers.
Anyone wishing to take part in the competition must subscribe and repost an entry that advertises the competition itself, explains the terms of participation and when the winner will be determined. Due to the fact that the conditions are easy to fulfill, many people subscribe and repost (advertise your community).
Another goal pursued by the organizers of such events is to increase interest in the public and revitalize it.
Audience involvement in the life of the community is an equally important aspect of promotion. After all, all managers want to have not just a large, but an active, interested and lively audience.
VKontakte giveaways have two main problems that public organizers and administrators face:
- Retaining the audience after summing up the results and determining the winner; Most contest participants sign up just for the chance to win a prize. And as a result, after the winner is announced, they unsubscribe from the public. To solve this problem, you need to regularly hold draws. For example, once every 1-2 months. The possibility of repeated participation will retain the bulk of people.
- The process of summing up the results and determining the winner. Many of the participants in the drawing may accuse you of rigging the results, say that the winner was not chosen fairly, and so on. To avoid this, we suggest you use programs to determine the winner.
It is about such programs that we will tell you further.
We also recommend reading the article “Competitions in VK groups: how to conduct them and what benefits to gain?”
Search people
Of the known methods for searching for people on VKontakte, two methods can be distinguished.
FindFace
Allows you to search VK profiles by a person’s image. It is enough to install any user’s photo on the Findface.ru website and find his profile on VK. You can start your search either from a PC or from an Android or iOS mobile system.
Using image search from Google and Yandex
Popular search engines provide an excellent opportunity to use the photo search function as a chance to find a person on the Internet. Just go to one of these search engines, open the “Pictures” section and enter a link to the image or add it directly from your search device. In a couple of seconds, all similar photos or people in the photos will appear in the search results; all you have to do is check them.
Programs for drawings
The main requirements for services to determine winners are randomization of selection. That is, you need to select absolutely randomly one or several (if there are several prizes) people from the list of participants.
Let's look at the 5 most popular services that can do this.
RandomPromo
One of the most popular ways to determine the winner of a competition is completely random. The service will automatically select one or more users from those who have subscribed/reposted.
The service creates a separate page for each competition. Anyone can go to it and make sure that the draw is fair.
Here you can determine the winner, both on a specified date and time, and instantly at any time.
How to run a competition using RandomPromo VKontakte:
- Go to the website https://randompromo.ru
- We find a form to determine the winner.
- Insert a link to the post, indicate the quantity and conditions. If we want to determine the winner at the appointed time, then we fill out the second form indicating the date and time.
- Click on the “Hold a competition” button.
- Next, we are shown a message from the service with a link to the competition page. Let's move along it.
- Let's look at the winner.
If you used delayed selection of the winner, he will appear at the appointed time.
Concurzilla
Another service that helps you honestly and transparently select one or more people from the list of participants in the drawing.
Konkursilla is an honest and independent site that does not cooperate with any VK group or public.
You are not required to provide any authorization or personal information. The service remembers the settings, which is convenient for subsequent competitions.
To ensure that you are trusted on the VKontakte network when holding competitions, use the Konkurzila service. The fact is that here the result of the drawing is determined by the random method.
If the service is completely independent, then it can be trusted to conduct expensive draws.
In order for everyone to trust you after the competition, it is important to share the link to the results of the drawing with the participants. This is important to prove to everyone that you personally did not choose anything there. If you value group safety, convenience and variability, then your choice is Konkursila.
How to use:
- Go to the website //konkurzilla.ru
- Enter the link to the competition and the number of winners.
- We select the criteria: from those who liked or from those who reposted.
- We check the box if we want to check participants' subscription to our group.
- Click “Define Winners”.
Ready! After a few seconds, the site will randomly show the user who won the prize.
Random.app
This is an application within the VKontakte social network. It works on the same principle: it randomly determines the winner of the drawing among those who reposted or liked the post. Here you can also randomly find a person from the full list of community members.
The convenience of the application lies in the fact that it is located inside the social network. To use it, you do not need to leave its borders.
How to use Random.app and conduct a VK prize draw:
- On VKontakte, go to the “Games” section.
- Enter “Random.app” in the search and launch the application.
- Next, select a user filter (liked, shared with friends, or all group users).
- Enter the link of the entry with the competition or the link of the public.
- Enter the number of participants.
- Click "Next".
- Next you will see all participants. To find out the winner, click the corresponding button.
After completing the actions, you will see the person (people) who won your drawing.
SocialStats.ru
This online project is intended for those who want to get to know the most active person in the community.
If you are holding a competition for the most active participant, then with this service you will not need to keep count and monitor each user. SocialState will do everything for you in seconds.
This software can analyze the following:
- the wall;
- Photo albums;
- Video recordings;
- Groups and popularity of publics;
- Friends;
- Personal correspondence.
For competitions, as a rule, the wall is analyzed. This will allow you to see which users liked, reposted and commented the most. Based on the data received, the winner is determined.
How to use:
- Go to the website //socialstats.ru
- Select Wall Statistics.
- Allow access.
- Select a group or public.
- Choose from which date and until what date to conduct the analysis.
- Click the "Let's Go" button.
- Wait for the result.
The longer the period you specify, the longer the analysis will take. At the end of the procedure, the service will show you the most active users. You can select one of the criteria and see the TOP most involved.
RandStuff
This is an easy-to-use site that has all the functionality necessary for drawings. Just like previous programs, RundStuff can select one or more people from the list of participants completely randomly. If you want to keep things fair, use RandStuff.
A special feature of the service is that here you can choose a winner from a specific city. This can be done either now or at a specified time.
How to use:
- Go to the website https://randstuff.ru/vkwin/
To find the winner, simply click the “Select” button.
- Provide a link to the post.
- Enter the city (if necessary).
- Select selection criterion.
- Specify the number of people and click “Select”.
After the actions taken, you will see the result.
Tips: how to win the repost competition
We decided to share useful information with you: how to win a repost competition on VK - tricks and subtleties that every participant should know about:
- Be sure to pin the post to your wall (after sharing it) - this will make it easier for authors to find it;
- If you have more pages, participate from all of them (yes, we mean fake accounts);
- If you repost from different accounts, make sure that this does not happen at the same time;
- Agree with your friends - let them repost too, and if someone wins, split the winnings.
We recommend all the sites listed in the article - they are safe, correct, and help determine the winner completely objectively. Feel free to choose one of them and don’t be afraid to get into trouble - most importantly, choose the client who most fully takes into account the parameters and features of your draw.
Advantages and disadvantages
If you hold competitions and sweepstakes on VKontakte, the audience will grow.
Let's look at the pros and cons of such programs.
The advantages include:
- Honesty and transparency of choice.
- Security – most services do not require authorization or any personal data.
- Ease of use. In just a couple of clicks you can find out who won the prize.
- For free.
- Ability to select people based on different criteria (like, repost, community member).
There are no significant disadvantages to such services. They are intended only to simplify the work of competition organizers without demanding anything in return.
The only drawback is the fact that now a lot of similar programs have appeared and scammers have begun to use it. To avoid becoming a victim of account theft, do not leave any data if the program asks you to do so. Better yet, just use the sites described above. They are time-tested and absolutely safe.
How to choose the right service?
As you can see, there are a lot of applications and services for summing up and they are all great. How to choose a random winner on VKontakte, what to look for when selecting a generator?
- Try to determine the appropriate application based on the conditions of your competition. There are services that only count reposts, others add likes to them, etc.;
- Please note whether it is possible to start video recording directly on the portal;
- Does it matter to you whether you need to give an app access to your page?
- What is the audience of participants? Some services check whether those who repost are your subscribers.
- Do you need a delayed start option?
Substitution of a picture
A funny and unexpected prank on a friend. You can also prank a guy. The joke will be more fun with girls.
- A post with a touching picture is posted on the wall (must be open to everyone).
- Wait for the recipient to leave a comment no later than one day after the post was published. You can edit a post within 24 hours of publication.
- Change the picture to a photo of erotic or other content that causes shock.
- Under the shock content there will be a comment from the person being played out, characterizing the cute picture.
- Wait for your girlfriend or boyfriend to see the changes and react.
It is important to choose the right picture that will be used as a draw. It should not be offensive to a person.
Replacing page code
You can effectively and easily prank a VK friend by changing the content of the page code.
To do this you will need:
- Go to your friend's VK page.
- Select what will be changed (for example, the name).
- Right-click on the selected element. Select the “examine element” option.
- The web development tool window will open. Find the desired value in the command line, click to reveal the element code, change it (write a different name).
- Click Enter and close the web development window.
- Several elements can be changed. Depends on the imagination of the one who is playing. Try to make it look believable. If your friend doesn't immediately realize it's a prank, it will be more fun.
- After everything that needs to be changed has been changed, take a screenshot (Prt Scr key, F12 key on some computers. You can use programs that take screenshots).
- Edit the image in Paint.
- Send a message to a friend with a photo of the screenshot.
- An easy and hilarious joke is ready!
You can prank several friends at the same time by sending them such photos. You can send screenshots of several friends’ pages with altered pages to one friend so that he believes in the plausibility of the joke.
