Category Archives: Radio/TV & Newspaper Contests

Odds On Promotions offers radio, television, and newspaper contests to engage your listeners, viewers, and readers.

Radio Station & Sponsor Run Promotions At Grocery Stores

Work for a TV or Radio Station? Be sure to take notes on this fabulous promotion, insured by a radio station in the Southeast, that teamed up with a beverage sponsor to run a Lucky Envelopes promotion at various grocery stores!

Here’s exactly how it worked: Over the span of a month, a member of the beverage sponsor’s “prize patrol” was sent to multiple stores with the goal of locating shoppers with a specific brand of beverage in their cart.  The first shopper who met the criteria that was spotted by the “prize patrol” was automatically selected to participate in a Lucky Envelopes promotion!

The lucky shopper selected at each store location got to select three envelopes, each of which had an insert that held various numbers, out of a total of 15.  If the 3 inserts within added up to 100 – the station’s call number, they could instantly become a $10,000 winner… and Odds On Promotions will be there to pay for prize!

Fun idea: If you plan on stealing this promotion idea, be sure to contact Odds On Promotions! We can create a custom gameboard in any shape (i.e. soda can, beer bottle, chip bag) which will display your envelopes in the most “attention-grabbing” manner possible!

In addition to giving shoppers the chance to win the big bucks, the radio station also gave away free prizes to shoppers including grocery store gift cards, iTunes gift cards, performing arts center gift cards, concert tickets… and even a 3 day/2 night stay at a local bed & breakfast!

Interested pitching this promotion to your favorite sponsor? We’ll be happy to help you craft a few concepts for you! Just give Odds On a call at 888-827-2249 for a free, no-obligation quote and additional information/suggestions!  You can also email us at any time!

Dealership Celebrates NFL Opening Day with 4 Promos

Looking to kick off the start of the NFL (or CFL) season in style this year?

Whether you’re a retailer looking to increase sales or a media company looking to boost TSL & CUME, you’re sure to pick up some pointers from this promotion in which a Canadian car dealership is teaming up with a local restaurant to insure four great promotions at their location through Odds On Promotions, come Opening Day!

The first three promotions being insured that day are Return for Riches promotions.  If a member of any of the three receiving teams returns the opening or second half kick-off for a touchdown, then a lucky patron customer will win a $25,000 vehicle, courtesy of the client’s dealership and paid for by Odds On!

The fourth and final promotion is a  Video Scratch & Win promotion, where each end every customer will have a chance to participate!  Customers simply select 6 areas on the touchscreen and attempt to find 6 matching football symbols.  6 out of 6 symbols will land them $50,000!  Smaller auxiliary prizes will also be awarded to customers who find fewer symbols.

Ready to insure your own football promotions in celebration of NFL Opening Day?  Give one of our marketing specialists a call today at 888-827-2249… or shoot us an email!  All of our quotes are free and no obligation.

TX Radio Group Insures $10K Dice Drop Promotion

dice drop promotion - hot air balloonAttention radio stations!
Looking to increase awareness? Want to increase excitement among your listeners?
Here’s an idea worth stealing idea from a Texas radio group that’s combining balloons, jumbo dice and giant prizes into one headline-grabbing promotion.

At an upcoming live appearance (aka remote) a lucky fan will be chosen via raffle and will get the opportunity to drop 2 dice from a (get ready for it) … hot air balloon!

That’s right: the chosen contestant will be rolling two 16″ dice from 30 feet in the air.  If both dice drop to the ground with the radio station’s logo landing face-up, they’ll win $10,000… paid for by Odds On Promotions! We love this dice drop promotion, as it goes to show that you can drop a variety of other objects other than your standard golf ball.

dice drop promotionSurely you’re wondering what other items can be ‘dropped’ and in what other fashion.  How about Odds On’s golf ball drop promotion?  Golf ball drop promotions are typically held using a helicopter, but we encourage our clients to think outside the box and let us know of any other ideas they have in mind.  Whether it’s a hot air balloon, hook-and-ladder, cherry picker, crane or otherwise… we can insure it!

Another alternative would be a G.I. Joe Parachute Drop promotion; a unique promotion where numbered G.I. Joe dolls with parachutes are sold and dropped en masse.  Drop the dolls from the roof of a building or local bridge,  then set up a target landing point on the ground.  If the preselected lucky G.I. Joe doll lands within the target area, your contestant goes home with the prize… again, compliments of Odds On!

Keep in mind – anything can technically be dropped, whether it’s a rubber duck, miniature NERF football, a beach ball dropped into a body of water, or even turkeys (just make sure they’re not live ones!) … you name it, we can do it!

Interested in a dice drop promotion of your own? Need more ideas on “drops?”  Give us a call today at 888-827-2249 or email us!  Let us know if you have anything unique in mind, or if you’d like us to help you custom tailor a “drop” promotion that’s best suited to your business/event!

Media Company Insures $100,000 TV Lotto Promotion

Radio and TV stations: are you ready to increase viewership/listenership?  Arizona-based media company is currently running a TV Lotto promotion, where viewers of a particular station will get the chance to win $100,000!  Here’s how:

Viewers who tune in to the station will visit 1 of 3 participating sponsor locations to pick up a scratch card.  The scratch card will reveal a list of 6 unique TV show/local sponsor names.

On the specified on-air draw date for the TV Lotto promotion displayed at the bottom of their card, each viewer will be instructed to view in and see if the 6 TV show/sponsor names’ corresponding numbers match what’s aired on the screen that day.  If so, they’re an instant $100,000 winner… just for showing up and tuning in!

And here’s a fun spin-off that Odds On Promotions can insure as well: a text-to-win promotion!

Rather than having your audience visit to a remote location to pick up cards, they can receive a text message displaying the itemized list instead!  The text message will also instruct you when to tune in to see if the numbers on your list match your texted numbers.

Be sure to advertise on-air, online via your company’s website and at remotes to get the most out of the promotion… and increase your chances at having a winner!  Going to end up with more participants than you initially thought and insured for?  No problem!  Give us a call and we can add additional attempts to your contract!

For more information on this promotion, or for a free, no-obligation quote, call us today at 888-827-2249 to speak to a marketing specialist.  You can also email us with any questions!

Idaho Radio Group Insures $30K Golf Promotion

golf promotion - golf ballIf you’re looking for a golf promotion, you’re absolutely going to love this innovative contest that comes to us from a radio group out of Idaho.  Chances are that you’re even going to want to steal this idea for yourself after reading about it!

In order to increase listenership, a western radio group will be qualifying contestants each week prior to the promotion date.  These contestants will need to fly a golf ball into one of many floating rings that are set at various distances in order to participate in the promotion.  Now, surely you’re wondering what the final insured promotion consists of…

The first 10 contestants who were able to fly their ball into a ring will be heading to the local golf course where the promotion is being held, and will attempt to drive a floating golf ball into a 2-foot floating ring!  If the golf ball falls within the ring/circle, then that contestant will be the brand new owner of a truck valued at a whopping $30,000… paid for by Odds On Promotions!

This promotion is a great one to pair up with a hole-in-one, putting contest or million dollar shoot-out insurance policy from our sister company, Hole In One International!

Of course a golf course isn’t the only place you run this promotion!  You can run a “hole in one” or putting contest anywhere from your banquet halls, your tradeshow, or your showroom floor!  Why you can even give folks the chance to sink one in your outfield or on the basketball court. Yep, we can insure your future golf promotion any time, anywhere!

Be sure to give us a call at 888-827-2249 for a free, no-obligation quote on any/all of the golf promotions Odds On has to offer… or email us for more information, or even if you have a unique golf promotion idea of your own!  If there’s a risk involved and no guaranteed winner, we can insure it without a problem!

P.S.  Play it safe out there — and make the most of a small space —  by using a Cayman ball!