Votigo.com - Customized video and photo contests

Votigo is a site that allows individuals and groups, such as companies, bands, organizations, or friends to create and customize their own video or photo contests. Users can create, vote, or simply participate within the site, and they can choose the prizes. Videos can be imported from YouTube, Photobucket and MySpace Video. The site provides an embeddable widget for MySpace, Piczo, hi5 and the rest that encourages site visitors to vote directly from the widget.

“Votigo.com is a social contest platform. We offer a place where users can compete, vote, create and share entertaining contests. Why contests? We think they"re fun. With the proliferation of online photos, videos and audio we wanted to build a platform to allow users to leverage their digital media in a fun and entertaining way. Whether you are a budding musician, comedian, video buff, photographer, or you just want something fun to do online we"ve got the site for you.

Photographers, actors, film-makers, models, and graphic designers alike can use this site to get exposure. It is set-up in a way that it will appeal to anyone who happens upon it, and it should motivate people to contribute as much as possible since it is free and unlimited.

The internet has been flooded with sites that allow voting and sharing. Putting it in the format of a contest is a nice idea, but users may opt to stick with sites like YouTube or community sharing sites that already exist.