Built for student media. Ready for much more.
Contest Engine was built for scholastic media competitions, but any organization that collects creative work, evaluates submissions, and recognizes excellence can make it their own.
Scholastic media programs & student media events
Contest Engine was built for journalism, broadcasting, filmmaking, photography, and multimedia competitions. Whether you're running a single classroom challenge or a national convention with thousands of entries, the workflow stays simple.
- Flexible divisions based on grade level, age, experience, or any criteria you choose
- Privacy-friendly submissions with simple access codes: no participant accounts or email addresses required
- Anonymous judging by educators or industry professionals from anywhere
- Awards-ready results with winner showcases built for ceremonies, websites, and social media
Built for more than student media.
Contest Engine was built in scholastic media, but the same platform powers creative competitions, awards programs, and content challenges across education, nonprofits, sports, and business.
Community media organizations
Run recurring video competitions for your public-access community station. Youth media programs and community storytelling initiatives can collect user-generated content using one platform for submissions, evaluation, recognition, and showcase.
Film festivals
Use the platform branding tools for a custom participant portal. Collect and own your festival entries, rights-cleared. Organize public event screenings. Manage your judges. Publish results without the cost and complexity of enterprise festival software.
Colleges & universities
Support student media within the school or local community. Support academic departments, campus organizations, and scholarship programs with professional competition tools. Provide a fun way to activate the creators on campus.
Athletics & sports organizations
Collect fan-generated and athlete-created content for sponsored challenges, NIL initiatives, season campaigns, and community engagement.
Brands & creator programs
Turn your audience into storytellers with branded content challenges, ambassador programs, and user-generated media campaigns.
Foundations & associations
Run scholarship competitions, recognition programs, and media awards with transparent judging, meaningful feedback, and defensible results.
Don't see your exact contest? Ask anyway.
If you're collecting media, and someone needs to review it, Contest Engine can probably do the job.