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Prize Images In Your Rafflecopter Giveaways

on April 16, 2012
by Greg Goodson

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Please Read: With the introduction of the new Rafflecopter premium widget features, this blog post is no longer relevant. We’ve added a feature that makes it really easy to add images to your giveaways that we think you’ll love! Unfortunately, that means the title bar will no longer able to accept HTML, and in turn, the prize image hack below will no longer work. Thanks for your understanding!

That doesn’t mean you cannot get prize images in your giveaway though – check out the new features!

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Happy Monday from Rafflecopter HQs :) You might have seen several folks place images in the ‘prize’ field of their Rafflecopter giveaways. While this isn’t something that we’ve called out when creating a widget, we thought we’d write a quick blog post on how you might be able to do this yourself.

First… Several Examples

Check out several blog posts we’ve written in the last several weeks for the Rafflecopter Brand Showcase. Recently, we’ve added some images to the ‘Add A Prize’ field of the giveaway… scroll down to the bottom of the posts to find the giveaway widgets:

Brand Showcase: CrazyDog T-Shirts

Brand Showcase: 365AlphabetPhotography

Sweet – How Can I Do That?

It’s pretty easy, actually. All you have to do is 1) host the photo on the web and 2) place an image HTML tag in the title of the giveaway after your title.

To get the CrazyDog logo in the example above to look like that, here is the text we had to write in the title of the giveaway:

 

…which would look like this when entering it into the title when editing the giveaway:

Cool – Help Me Understand What You Did!

The three pieces that we included in the ‘Add A Prize’ field above is 1) the original prize title (Winners Receive $25 Gift Certificates to CrazyDog T-Shirts), followed by 2) several line break tags ‘<br><br>‘ which give me several spaces between the title and the image, and finally 3) an image tag with the URL to the location where the image is hosted (<img src=”yourimageURLlocationhere.jpg”>)

We strongly recommend that the image you place inside the widget is less than 300 pixels wide.

Will This Work For Entry Options? Terms & Conditions?

Nope… placing an image in the widget will only work in the ‘Add A Prize’ field. The ‘Add An Option’ and ‘Terms & Conditions’ fields use markdown and won’t support the HTML needed to place an image in the field.

Will There Be An Easier Way To Do This In The Future?

That’s not out of the question! We’re always looking for ways to improve Rafflecopter’s functionality. This is a great workaround for those who really want to include an image in  their widget, but if a lot of folks start using this, there’s always a possibility we’ll help to make this task easier.

You’ll be introduced to some new Rafflecopter features and add-ons, but if you have any ideas or suggestions, feel free to contact us at ‘support@rafflecopter.com‘.

 

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Greg Goodson

Greg Goodson is the cofounder of Rafflecopter. 25x ultramarathoner, bluegrass guitarist, & weather enthusiast. Owner of one doge.

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  • Nica

    Perfect! Thank u!

  • Angie

    this is a really helpful addition! thanks :)

  • Diane W

    Awesome!

  • Judi Jamieson

    Cant wait to try it!!!  Thank you!!!

    Judi

  • ORGANICMOMMYTODAY

     LOVE IT!!!!

  • Kathleen Garber

    Cool thanks!

  • Justin Germino

    Thanks for this tip, I am now using it to put the images in my contests for my iPad Giveaway 
    http://www.dragonblogger.com/ipad-3-giveaway/  and SSD Drive Giveaway 
    http://www.dragonblogger.com/kingston-ssdnow-review-giveaway/

  • Crystal M

    Awesome! Thank you so much for letting us know we could add images!

  • Henrietta

    Thank you! I have always wanted to put an image inside the widget :)

  • Christine Powell Gomez

    Thanks for the tip…I started a new rafflecopter giveaway just so I could add a photo…LOL!

  • Victoria’s Voice

    Thank you!  This is great!

  • Anastasia Borisyuk

    Great, thanks!

  • Mk

    I love this and can hardly wait to try it on my next giveaway! Applause for Rafflecopter!

  • FabulousWon

    worked for me, thanks

  • Wendy

    Love this! Thank you for the code and it worked so well! A picture is worth so much!

  • Cheryl Free

    Thanks for the tip!  There’s nothing hard about it ;)

  • Susie B. Homemaker

    THANK YOU for this! You know I’ve been itching to know. lol Can’t wait to jazz up my rafflecopter giveaway widgets now.  :)

  • Lori

    Done! Easy enoughe for non-coder to do. Cool, thanks.

  • Beatriz Gosmin

    I love Rafflecopter <3

    Bia | http://www.livroseatitudes.com.br
     

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  • TreeThugger

    thanks for the tip! never even tried to insert html and look at this- it works!

  • AK Stout

    I used a 330px wide image and it fit inside the box in the editor – and it looks like the actual size of the basic widget is roughly 400px wide – yes? 

    • Greg Goodson

      yup – that’s pretty much correct. we recommend less than 300px wide image, but if 330px looks ok to you, you’re good to go :) 

      and yes, the Rafflecopter widget is about 400px wide. thanks!

  • Phil

    I did this instead: PRIZE NAME

  • Mary

    can i edit the font style and size in my prize title?

    • Rafflecopter

      nope – this is something that cannot be edited :o

  • Heather Flaherty

    Question NEW to rafflecopter! I love the idea though, I just want to make sure before my Giveaway goes live that.. I have a list of about 6 items in a prize package I listed separately.. Will rafflecopter only choose one winner or will it choose one winner for each prize I listed?

    • Rafflecopter

      Hey Heather! We’ve gotten quite a few emails like yours in the last several weeks. Here’s the last one we received:

      “A small item still on my wish-list. I’d love the ability to publish winners, but match them up to the specific prize. I usually giveaway a batch of different items on each contest and if I use your publish winners list, then people get confused as to what they won as it doesn’t link to the prize. They all think they won the Grand Prize, because they were on the list!”

      Making the winner selection process for multiple winners/prizes is something on our list of things to do. For now, I would recommend selecting the winners and award the first prize to the first winner selected and verified, the 2nd prize to the 2nd winner, and so on. But you’re able to have as many prizes and as many winners as you’d like :)

      Let me know if that helps!

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  • Denise Glazier

    Awesome post! Thanks for sharing!

  • Sarah (from MaeGal)

    Yay! Thank you, love this feature.

  • julia antoine

    Can you make a change in your giveaway?

  • Dave

    I added to facebook as a test but cannot remove the demo raffle it has been removed in my giveaways but still shows on facebook any ideas?

    • Rafflecopter

      hey Dave – can you email us at support@rafflecopter.com? thanks!

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  • Jason

    No Longer works?

    http://www.facebook.com/plantraco/app_228910107186452

  • TerriL787

    HELP……when I try to enter a giveaway on Rafflecopter it starts loading, but it never loads, it just keeps spinning. Can you tell me what is wrong? Thanks!

  • kj2876

    Where do you get your raffle prizes for the giveaway? Maybe I am missing something here…

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