A plain-English guide to contest voting in the Netherlands and Israel
Contest vocabulary looks similar across borders yet seldom means the same thing. Take the organiser's official rules as the baseline and test each term against them.
Gewinnspielratgeber is an English-language guide to public-vote contests in the Netherlands and Israel. It covers the vocabulary organisers favour, the way to read an official rule, the platforms that host the voting, and the handling of fake votes. Other countries get a mention only when a comparison helps.
- Reading a contest's official rules in Israel: a checklist
- A working checklist for reading contest rules in Israel: eligibility, vote counting, deadlines, and how to confirm the organiser behind a public vote is real.
- Contest and voting terms used in Israel
- Contest terms in Israel explained in plain words: public votes, prize draws, skill contests, verification and permits, using the wording organisers and regulators publish.
- Online contests and public votes in Israel
- A factual guide to online contests in Israel: which public votes run, the voting limits organisers publish, the consumer law behind them, and how fake votes are handled.
- Business and consumer awards with public voting in the Netherlands
- A reference to awards with public voting in the Netherlands: which organisers run them, when the voting windows open and close, and what the published rules allow.
- Annual public-vote contests in the Netherlands
- Which annual online contests in the Netherlands run on public votes, which organisers stage them, when voting opens and what happens after the voting window closes.
- Restaurant, food and hospitality best-of votes in the Netherlands
- The best restaurant votes in the Netherlands come from three kinds of organiser. This page lists the contests, their voting windows and the rules behind them.
- Gaming, esports and creator awards with public voting in the Netherlands
- Esports awards with voting in the Netherlands split the decision between a community vote, a jury and an advisory council. Here is how each organiser counts.
- Reading a contest's official rules in the Netherlands: a checklist
- A checklist for reading contest rules in the Netherlands: eligibility, licence status, vote screening, voting windows, and the checks that show an organiser is real.
- Contest and voting terms used in the Netherlands
- Contest terms in the Netherlands, explained from the Gedragscode promotionele kansspelen, the Wet op de kansspelen and the voting rules organisers publish.
- Online contests and public votes in the Netherlands
- A plain guide to online contests in the Netherlands: who runs the big public votes, which rules bind organisers, and how fake votes are handled.
- Newspaper, radio and magazine readers' polls in the Netherlands
- How readers choice polls in the Netherlands work: voting windows, one-vote rules, how publishers count and check online votes, and who lands on a best-of list.
- How organisers in the Netherlands set entry rules and eligibility
- Contest organisers in the Netherlands publish their own entry rules, limit votes mechanically and disqualify entries that break the stated conditions. Here is how those rules work.
- Data protection, age limits and prize reporting for contest entries in the Netherlands
- What contest data protection in the Netherlands requires: specific consent, parental permission for minors, and how the Belastingdienst treats prizes won through online entries.
- Prize competition rules and regulators in the Netherlands
- Who supervises contests and prize draws, which code binds a promoter, when a licence is needed and what follows from a breach, stated plainly.
- Sports fan votes and awards in the Netherlands: who runs them and how the votes are counted
- Which sports fan awards in the Netherlands run online, who organises them, when the ballot opens and how each vote is counted, from the organisers' own pages.
- Voting and entry platforms used in the Netherlands: what their terms say
- A reference page on voting platforms in the Netherlands: which tools organisers use, how their terms treat duplicate votes, and what gets logged.
- TV, music and fan polls in the Netherlands: how the votes are counted
- TV polls in the Netherlands count free online votes, SMS texts with per-finalist codes and app votes. This explainer covers counting, vote limits, costs and result checks on broadcaster pages.
What this guide does not cover
The guide steers clear of elections and parties, never advises on getting past an organiser's checks, and gives no ruling on any contest result.
Ask the guide about a contest rule
Supply the details below. Answers come from the organiser's published rules, and the guide admits it when a rule gives none.
Send your question to [email protected], and add:
- the name of the contest and the organiser's website
- the rule or clause you want explained
- the country the contest runs in, the Netherlands, Israel or another
- the date voting closes, if you know it