Category Archives: Newspaper Contests & Promotions

Odds On Promotions has dozens of attention–grabbing newspaper contests and promotions to help you drive traffic, engage your readers, capture more newspaper advertising dollars, maximize sponsorship and event opportunities, and ultimately, increase circulation.

Number Match Promotion Valued at $50K Insured at Boat Show

Participating in a large event, such as a trade show? Why not incentivize attendees to visit your booth by insuring a grand prize number match promotion with Odds On Promotions, like this Florida boat dealer did at their local boat show!

Here’s exactly how it worked: the client’s local newspaper printed 10,000 inserts for distribution in the Sunday paper prior to the boat show. Each insert contained a unique 6-digit number. Readers who attended the boat show would present their newspaper insert and use Odds On’s handheld verification unit to enter in their 6-digit number. If the number they entered ended up matching Odds On’s preselected 6-digit number, then that lucky attendee would have scored $50,000… compliments of Odds On Promotions!

While unfortunately, no one managed to guess the lucky number, traffic was still increased to the boat show and the promotion generated much excitement among attendees!

Other than a number match promotion, what else can I insure at my event?

Aside from our number match promotion, there are plenty of other contests which can be insured at any trade show or event! Whether it’s one of our stock Video Scratch & Win promotions (or a custom one of your own!) or one of our many Lucky Envelopes contests available, we have a promotion for you! Have a promotion idea of your own? Feel free to share it with us — we’ll help you price it out and insure it!

Interested in insuring a number match promotion at your next big event? Give Odds On a call today at 888-827-2249 for a free, no-obligation quote… or email us for more information!

Media Promotion: Tune-In, Trade Up Thursdays

Looking to capture a new auto dealer client this Spring? Here’s a media promotion that will drive “trade-ins” and tune-ins: “Tune-in, Trade Up Thursdays!”

Each Thursday you’ll announce the “dealership of the day” giving your audience members the chance to WIN a new car with every “trade-in” at your live appearance with an Odometer Match promotion.

When customers stop by to strike a deal, they will get to enter the last few digits of their odometer reading into Odds On’s number verification unit. If the odometer reading matches the preselected number, your listener will drive home in a new car, and Odds On will pay full retail.

A variety of entry and verification methods are available to suit any budget! Give us a call at 888-827-2249 for a free, no-obligation quote or email us for more information!

Media Promotion Ideas for the Months of February and March

Need some quick media promotion ideas? Are your Super Sunday plans in place? All ready for the madness that is March Men’s Basketball? Need a last minute promotion for President’s Day, Mardi Gras, or St. Pat’s? Odds On has got you covered!

Check out these super easy last minute media promotion ideas for February and March, or give us a call today at 888-827-2249, and we’ll help you custom-design a contest to suit your client, budget and sales objectives. Simply click the name of the contest below to request more information via email!

Mardi Gras Millions
Need a last minute idea for a restaurant or bar this February? How about giving someone the chance to be a Mardi Gras Millionaire? Odds On will send you a set of 40 Lucky Envelopes, each holding a strand of colored beads worth different prizes (e.g. purple beads for $250, green beads for $500 and gold beads for $10,000). Your lucky contestant will select and open envelopes until they find five matching strands of beads, winning the indicated prize.

Easy Money March
A favorite among our media promotion ideas! Choose from our stock or customizable Easy Money cards and distribute cards at your next live appearance to increase traffic, sales and excitement. Fans simply scratch off a predetermined number of squares, revealing different symbols. When they unveil a winning combination of symbols, Odds On will be there to pay for the prize!

Scoreboard Payoff
Looking for a fast, easy and rewarding way to make everyone feel like a winner during basketball season? Look no further than Scoreboard Payoff pull tab cards. Simply select any two basketball games and distribute the cards prior to tip-off. Players then pull off the card’s tabs to reveal a set of numbers for both games. If the last digit of each teams’ scores match both halves of the two games, they’ll score $25,000. Match any three of four scores, and the lucky card holder will win $1,000. Both prizes paid for by Odds On Promotions.

Newspaper Promotion Insured in Mid-Atlantic

Are you in the newspaper industry? Looking for a great newspaper promotion to help increase readership and drive traffic to sponsor locations in the process? Then you’ll definitely appreciate this holiday promotion that a newspaper company in the Mid-Atlantic insured with Odds On Promotions…

How This Holiday Newspaper Promotion Worked…

In the month of December, each Sunday, Tuesday and Thursday’s newspaper contained an insert which featured 6 extravagant holiday gifts. Readers were directed to put the 6 holiday gifts in the order of their choice and drop it off at one of six participating local sponsor locations, for a chance to win $50,000 in prizes!

At the conclusion of the entry period, the newspaper randomly selected one list from each of the six sponsor locations to see if any of the reader’s had placed their items in the same order as Odds On’s preselected winning order. While none of the selected entries featured the winning order, the promotion drove valuable foot-traffic during the holiday shopping season while allowing the newspaper to showcase selected sponsors and their merchandise.

Interested in insuring a Lucky List promotion, or learning more about any of Odds On’s giant prize newspaper promotions? Email or give us a call today at 888-827-2249!

Basketball Bracket Promotion That Nets Results!

Like the idea of offering your audience a $1,000,000 basketball promotion, but don’t want to manage a bunch of paper?

Banish those bracket forms and eliminate the hassle of hand-tallying, while increasing traffic to your store, website and/or next live appearance with Championship Challenge, Odds On Promotions‘ turnkey online basketball bracket promotion for radio stations, TV stations, newspapers, retailers and casinos.

Talk about easy! You’ll select an attention-grabbing prize – up to $1,000,000 – and invite your audience to your website to register for a chance to win.

Once on your website, contestants will click a link to the custom contest page that’s branded for your business and make their picks. If a lucky fan predicts a winning number of games, they’ll score up to $1,000,000 and Odds On Promotions will write the check!

According to Chris Gardiner, Northeast & Midwest Business Development Manager with Odds On Promotions, “This promotion has been very effective for a number of radio stations. Not only does it provide a variety of advertising and sponsorship opportunities including title sponsor, banner and video advertising on the game site, as well as consolation prize sponsorships, but it is a fun way to engage the audience; listeners can challenge and interact with each other as well as play against on-air talent.”

Brent Kelly, Odds On’s Southwest Business Development Manager sees Championship Challenge as a unique, “hands-free” way for casinos to run a basketball bracket promotion, “Many casinos love the concept of a bracket promotion but don’t want the hassel of managing the brackets … with this contest, no manual management is needed. What’s more, casinos can qualify players in the days leading up to the Big Dance, distributing a special access code at their player’s club booth, giving even the smallest of properties a great way to ‘pay’ for this ‘off-property’ contest!”

Evelyn Golding, Odds On’s Southeastern Business Development Manager notes, “For me the big bonus is what I like to call the ‘Sweet 16 Second Chance’. This feature gives both radio stations and casinos the option of adding a second contest covering the last four rounds of play. This is not only a great way to get contestants that may have missed the first round engaged, it gives all participants a second chance to win big.”

Ready to learn more? Email us at oopinfo@oddsonpromotions.com to access our demo site and/or request a free, no-obligation quote!

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