Looking for a voting platform that handles serious scale, generates real revenue, and gives your audience a premium experience? Here's why Choicely is the platform event organizers, broadcasters, and contest producers trust.
If you're evaluating voting platforms, you already know you need more than a polling widget. A voting platform built for high-stakes contests and audience-driven events needs to:
Choicely is built around all of these requirements. Here's the case.
If you're running a contest, awards event, TV show vote, or any kind of audience-driven competition, Choicely gives you a platform built specifically for it: a native mobile app, paid voting built in, security at scale, and a full suite of contest management tools. It works for anything from a small community vote starting at $25/month to a global audience of millions.
Choicely is built for voting events at any scale. Whether you're running a local awards contest or a global fan vote with participants from 200+ countries, the platform holds up. Most voting tools are optimized for one end of that range: either simple polls, or enterprise deployments. Choicely does both.
Choicely's infrastructure runs on Google Cloud and has handled some of the most demanding voting events in the world. The Miss Universe app reached 3+ million downloads in its first 5 weeks, with fans from over 200 countries casting votes: the largest fan vote in Miss Universe history. The system has never crashed under load.
The largest fan vote in Miss Universe history was powered by Choicely's voting platform
Free voting drives participation. Paid voting drives revenue.
Choicely supports both, and the combination is where most of the commercial opportunity sits. Organizations using paid voting can offer:
When RÚV, Iceland's national broadcaster, added premium paid votes on top of their traditional SMS and phone votes through the Choicely app, the national Eurovision qualifier vote counts reached an all-time high in Iceland's history. More participation, a new revenue channel, and a better audience experience from the same platform.
For events and contests that already have engaged audiences, paid voting is one of the fastest ways to turn that engagement into direct revenue. The audience is already invested in the outcome; they just need a simple, trusted way to put money behind their support.
Paid voting can be a significant revenue stream for an event
Most voting platforms give you a web form or an embeddable widget. Choicely gives you a full native iOS and Android app with voting at the center.
The difference matters. A dedicated app:
Web voting is available with Choicely as a supporting channel, but the app is where the real engagement happens.
The People's Choice Greece app, which ran live audience voting during a TV show on Skai TV, reached over 100,000 users in just a few episodes and became the #1 free app in the Greek App Store after its premiere.
People's Choice TV show voting was an immediate hit in Greece
Not every voting contest works the same way. Choicely supports a full range of formats:
Love Island used Choicely for voting that was scripted directly into the show: a live elimination vote announced on Friday night, open for one hour from 9pm, with results revealed to contestants the same night at 10:30pm. That's a level of live precision most voting platforms can't support.
Love Island app for the Czech & Slovak edition of the reality TV show
For any contest where the result matters, and especially for any event with paid votes, security is non-negotiable.
Choicely's voting platform includes:
Inyi Yruma, Project Director of VP Choice Awards, the most followed and engaged awards event in the Philippines, said: "Our collaboration with Choicely ensures that every vote is counted fairly and securely. This is a major step toward a more credible and sustainable voting system."
Kaius Meskanen, CEO of Choicely: "We have been dealing with different kinds of cybersecurity threats over the years, but our system has never crashed. The technology we use ensures that the voting results remain untampered and completely trustworthy."
VP Choice Awards mobile voting is Powered by Choicely. VP Choice is the largest voting contest in the Philippines.
Choicely gives contest organizers control over the entire contest experience, not just the vote itself:
Choicely is a voting app platform that allows its users to manage their voting contest in real time
Choicely's voting platform works for organizations of any size. The self-service tier starts at $25/month, making it a practical option for a local awards event, a community contest, or an influencer running a fan vote: no large budget required.
For larger events, Choicely's Enterprise service has powered voting contests with millions of participants across dozens of countries. The same platform serves both, and grows with you.
Different types of voting providers solve different problems. Here's how the main categories compare.
Simple web-based voting tools
Event platform voting add-ons
Custom-built voting systems
Choicely self-service, from $25/month
Choicely app development service, custom pricing
Whatever the size of your event, both Choicely options give you a native voting app your organization controls without depending on a third party every time you need to make a change.
Whether you're building your first voting app or replacing a system that hasn't kept up with your audience.
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