Turn your Coolest Thing Made In competition into an experience people actively participate in, encouraging visitors to return, vote, and follow the contest through each stage.
Give your audience an active role in choosing the winner, helping create a stronger connection between the competition, participating businesses, and the people following it.
Give participating products and businesses greater visibility by presenting them in a structured competition that helps audiences discover, compare, and support them.
Run a complete Coolest Thing Made In competition through multiple voting rounds, from the opening matchups to the final. The contest builder supports structured elimination formats that keep the competition easy to follow as products advance toward the winning title.
Create clear product-versus-product matchups that let visitors compare entries and vote for their favorite. This format makes a Coolest Thing Made In contest more interactive while giving every participating product a visible place in the competition.
Automatically advance the winning product from each matchup into the next round based on voting results. You can also manage rounds, matchups, dates, and progression manually when your competition requires more control.
Set start and end dates for voting rounds, control how often visitors can vote, and decide whether repeat voting is allowed. Built-in validation options can help reduce duplicate votes and support a fairer Coolest Thing Made In voting process.
Choose whether vote counts or percentages are shown live, after someone votes, after a round ends, or kept hidden. When the competition is complete, the final winner can be highlighted with a dedicated champion view and custom winner message.
Choose the layout that best fits your Coolest Thing Made In competition, including a classic bracket or 2-area and 4-area bracket layouts. This makes it easier to organize larger contests, separate groups or regions, and present the competition in a clear structure from the opening round through the final.
Protect the integrity of your Coolest Thing Made In competition with voting validation and participation controls. You can configure the contest so each user can vote only once, helping reduce duplicate voting and create a fairer, more reliable public voting process.
Showcase each competing product with an image, name, description, website, video, and other supporting details. Detailed product profiles help visitors understand what they are voting for and give participating makers or businesses more exposure throughout the contest.
Require visitors to register before voting and collect information such as names and email addresses as part of the competition. This can help turn a Coolest Thing Made In contest into both an engagement campaign and an audience-building opportunity.
Add competition rules, prize details, participant information, rankings, and other supporting content directly alongside the contest. Keeping this information together makes it easier for voters and participants to understand how the Coolest Thing Made In competition works.
Customize colors, fonts, backgrounds, layouts, product cards, voting buttons, and other visual elements to match the competition's branding. Advanced styling options and custom CSS provide additional control for organizations that need a more tailored contest experience.
The Coolest Thing Made In Contest Builder is designed to work smoothly across desktop, tablet, and mobile devices. Visitors can browse matchups, view product details, and vote from virtually any screen size.
Add your Coolest Thing Made In competition to virtually any website without coding or complex setup. Publish the contest directly on your site so visitors can participate, vote, and follow the competition without leaving your website.
A Coolest Thing Made In Contest Builder is a tool for creating and running public voting competitions where products compete through multiple rounds until a final winner is selected. It helps organizers manage participants, matchups, voting, round schedules, results, and the final winner from one place.
Start by adding the products or companies that will participate, then organize them into the competition structure and voting rounds. You can define the matchups, set voting dates, configure voting rules, customize the design, and publish the competition on your website.
Yes. You can create a classic elimination bracket as well as 2-area and 4-area bracket layouts for larger Coolest Thing Made In competitions. Products advance through each round until the final matchup determines the winner.
Yes. Visitors can vote directly in each product matchup and follow the Coolest Thing Made In competition as it progresses. Voting can be configured for individual matchups, rounds, or the wider competition depending on how you want the contest to work.
Yes. The contest builder includes voting validation and participation controls that can help limit users to one vote and reduce duplicate voting. You can also configure repeat-voting rules and other voting restrictions based on the needs of your competition.
Yes. Winning products can automatically move into the next round based on voting results. This makes it easier to run a multi-round Coolest Thing Made In contest without manually rebuilding the bracket after every voting stage.
Yes. You can set start and end dates for voting rounds so each stage of the competition opens and closes according to your campaign schedule. This is useful for running quarterfinals, semifinals, finals, or other custom voting stages over time.
Yes. Voting results can be displayed live, shown only after someone votes, revealed after the round finishes, or hidden completely. This gives organizers control over how much information voters can see during the Coolest Thing Made In competition.
Yes. Each competing product can include an image, name, description, website, video, and other supporting information. This helps voters learn more about each entry before choosing which product should advance.
Yes. You can require voters to register before participating and collect details such as their name and email address. This can help turn a Coolest Thing Made In competition into an audience-building and lead-generation campaign as well as a voting experience.
Yes. You can publish contest rules, prize information, participant details, rankings, and other important competition information alongside the voting experience. This helps make the contest easier to understand for both voters and participants.
Yes. You can customize colors, fonts, backgrounds, layouts, participant displays, voting buttons, and other design elements to match your organization or campaign branding. Advanced styling options are also available for more customized competition designs.
Yes. You can add the finished competition to virtually any website without building the voting system yourself. Visitors can view the products, vote in matchups, follow each round, and see the winner directly on your website.
Yes. The competition is designed to work across desktop, tablet, and mobile devices. This allows visitors to browse participating products and vote from the device they prefer.
The builder can be used by organizations, business groups, industry associations, publishers, event organizers, and other groups that want to run a public product competition. It is especially useful for campaigns designed to showcase products, promote participating businesses, increase community engagement, and select a winner through public voting.
