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Question to the experts in Contests on Facebook! NEW (7 posts)

Topic tags: contests, Facebook TOS

ilan amit said
11 months, 3 weeks ago:
I am planning to run contest for 2 brands together. Each brand have their own fan page, and the contest will start in each one tab (with a fan gate screen), and entering the contest will lead to one canvass page.
I want to add a rule that before the user will direct him to the canvass page, it will verify that the user Like also the other fan page (of the other brand), and if not display for him a Like button.
Will I breach Facebook TOS?
Reading the promotions guidelines @ http://www.facebook.com/page_guidelines.php#promotionsguidelinesIn section Eiii it’s writing “You must not … other than liking a Page ..”
It doesn’t say which page and if it can be more than one page …
What do you think? How can I get an official answer from Facebook about this?
Thanks, Ilan
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Lukas Pleva said
11 months, 3 weeks ago:
@ilanamit,
For ANY sort of a promotion like this, you need to use a 3rd party app so that you don’t violate the Facebook TOS.
I know for a fact that Woobox has a setting where you can require the user to like OTHER pages in order to enter, i.e. exactly what you’re talking about.
Long story short, what you want to do is both technically feasible and allowed, as long as you use an external application like Woobox. Hope that helps!
- Lukas
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ilan amit said
11 months, 3 weeks ago:
Thanks @lukaspleva , I am planning to use 3rd party application .. but is this allowed?
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Lukas Pleva said
11 months, 3 weeks ago:
@ilanamit,
Yes. I just read through FB’s promotion guidelines again just to be sure, and nothing in there that says it wouldn’t be allowed. Plus. WooBox is a big and reputable company, and their apps have this feature, so I wouldn’t be too worried.
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ilan amit said
11 months, 3 weeks ago:
thanks a lot .. I am looking at WooBox now.
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Andrea Vahl said
11 months, 3 weeks ago:
Yes, I think you are ok with this requirement @ilanamit I would just make sure you make it clear to the people entering so they don’t get confused about the requirements
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Alexandra Potora said
11 months, 3 weeks ago:
@ilanamit @lukaspleva I’m using Woobox as well, and I’ve had only good experiences so far. Tiny glitch tonight, but nothing major.
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