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:
À la lumière des récents développements impliquant l'utilisation par un tierce parti de données personnelles sur Facebook, nous avons reçu un nombre important de courriels concernant les renseignements que nous collectons. Dans cet article, nous voulons clarifier comment nos applications assurent la protection de vos données personnelles.
Premièrement, nous opérons selon un modèle de revenus basé sur les abonnements. Plus simplement, cela signifie que nous générons un profit sur les ventes d'abonnements à nos services. Nous n'affichons pas de publicité et nous ne vendons pas les données collectées par l'entremise de nos applications. Ce n'est pas la façon dont nous opérons notre entreprise, comme cela a toujours été indiqué clairement dans notre Politique de Vie Privée et nos Termes d'Utilisation.
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: