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Set up a Fan's Choice Photo mechanism

Fan's Choice Photo mechanic game campaign

Updated over 2 months ago

Description

Create a photo gallery and invite your participants to vote for their favourite photo. Players can also comment on the photos displayed. At the end of the game, reward players' commitment by drawing lots among all the participants.

💡 Tip: if you'd rather organise a photo competition where participants can submit their own photos, we also recommend the ‘Photo Contest’ mechanic.

Test this mechanism and download the documentation (assets, psd templates, renderings).

Configuration steps

Fan's Choice Photo consists of the following sections:

  • Settings: to determine the general parameters of your campaign.

  • Home screen: to import the legal documentation for your game (rules, privacy policy, etc.) and set the parameters for the home page.

  • Registration form: to choose the fields for your form and set its design parameters.

  • Concept: to define the parameters of the game and its design, export the entries and manage the monitoring of your campaign (moderation, prize draws, etc.). This article will focus on this section in particular.

  • Publication: to activate and distribute your campaign to your audience.

To see the different options available for each section, we recommend that you read the articles associated with them.

Design

Before getting started, we recommend that you read this article, which explains the basics of creating graphics on Socialshaker: Creating the graphics for your campaign. As with all the other mechanics, you can choose between using the templates provided or importing your own template.

If you choose the latter option, you will need to create the following elements for this mechanic:

  • Campaign background (1920x1080px recommended).

  • Desktop home page background (810x700px recommended) and Mobile home page background (480×710px recommended).

  • Desktop (810x700px recommended) and Mobile (480×710px recommended) form page background.

  • Photo Gallery background (810x700px recommended) - no Mobile image for this background, it will be resized automatically.

  • Background for the ‘Media View Page’ (810x700px recommended) - no Mobile image for this background, it will be resized automatically.

  • Upload images - media image (690x460px recommended)

Note that you can use the campaign background as the default background for all pages on Mobile by checking the appropriate box:


Concept

Gallery page appearance

In this section, you define the background image for the gallery:

You are then invited to customise the rendering of the editorial content, the voting and comments icons, and finally the ‘show more’ button.

Media view page appearance

As with the previous part of the gallery theme, here you can customise the layout of the page and the editorial content of the ‘Media View Page’. In this section, you can also customise the rendering of comments and the ‘gallery’ and ‘submit’ buttons:

Uploading pictures

Here you are invited to upload the media images that appear in the gallery (690x460px recommended):

Below is a list of your media. By clicking on the ‘Actions’ button associated with a media item, you can delete or modify the image:

General settings

This module allows you to hide the number of votes and/or limit the number of votes to one per user for the entire competition:

Limits

By default, each participant can play as much as they want on the campaign. To set up game limits, click on "Limit type ’ and choose one of the following options:

  • limit by day

  • limit by campaign

  • limit by IP

You must then enter a number corresponding to the desired limit - don't forget to change it in the text that will be displayed to the participant if they reach this limit.

You can also limit the maximum number of participants in a Fan's Choice Photo campaign. Set this number in the "Limit on total entries ’ field - you can also change the text that will be displayed to all participants who try to play after this limit has been reached.

✍️ Note: the text page displayed when a limit is reached will use the colour codes of your Menu (defined background colour + white text).

Random drawing

The draw is used to determine the winners of your game campaign. To find out how to draw prizes and what criteria are taken into account, we recommend that you read this article.

Data export

You can export different types of file containing participation data:

  • Participants export: includes the data of all the participants in your campaign. You'll find this either in the ‘Participant list “ module in the ”Mechanics’ section, or via the ‘Export and Tracking “ option of the ”Actions’ button for your campaign in the Dashboard.

  • Newsletter participants export: includes only the data of subscribers to your newsletter if you have activated this field on the form. You'll find this via the ‘Export and Tracking “ option of your campaign's ”Actions’ button in the Dashboard.

  • Voters export: includes only the data of participants who voted on your campaign and the photo(s) they voted for. You'll find this export in the ‘Voters list “ module in the ”Mechanics’ section.

  • Comments export: includes only the details of participants who have left a comment on your campaign and the photo(s) they commented on. You will find this export in the ‘Comments list “ module in the ”Mechanics’ section.

Q&A

Can I delete published votes or comments?

It is not possible to delete votes or comments on a Fan's Choice Photo campaign.

Can we create a Fan's Choice Photo campaign on which we can upload both photos and videos?

This configuration is not possible at the moment.

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