Take entries, run your juries and open a verified public vote on one platform, under your own brand. Reveal the winner live on stream, with an audit trail you can show sponsors, entrants and your board.
Entries come in through one tool, judges score in another and fans vote in a third. Every hand-off adds manual work, a chance for mistakes and a question someone can raise about the result.
Required fields, file types and payment are checked before an entry can be submitted.
Judges must play a set share of each entry before the platform accepts their score.
Email or SMS verification, vote limits and fraud flags you review before results go public.
Every action is written to a tamper-evident audit log you can export and verify.
Each product works on its own. Together they share one database, so entries go from submission to judging to the public vote without exports or re-keying.
A branded portal that asks each entrant only the questions that apply to their category, checks answers as they type and takes payment in the same flow.
Run as many rounds and panels as your show needs. Judges get a clear listening room. You get live progress and results you can defend.
| # | Entry | Score | Judges | Advance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Northern Static | 89.3 | 3 | yes |
| 2 | Paper Lanterns | 84.0 | 3 | yes |
| 3 | Saltwater Hymn | 81.5 | 3 | yes |
| 4 | Glass Coast | 76.2 | 2 | hold |
Give fans a branded voting page that's easy to share, with verification built in, then reveal the result live on your stream or broadcast.
Add the overlay as a browser source in OBS or vMix. The bars update live as verified votes arrive. When you're ready, start the reveal from the control panel: the suspense builds, then the winner card appears on screen.
The platform enforces the rules on its own servers, not just on screen, and keeps a record of everything that happens.
Every admin action, ballot save and status change is chained to the record before it with a SHA-256 hash. Editing or deleting history breaks the chain, and you can check it with one click.
Listening requirements, judge assignments, conflict-of-interest recusals and ballot completeness are all checked on the server. A modified browser can't get around them. Recused entries are left out of the tally automatically.
Verified identities, normalised emails so one inbox can't vote as several people, IP caps, bot traps and timing checks. Suspicious votes are held for your review instead of being rejected, so attackers don't learn what triggered the check.
Voter emails, phone numbers and IP addresses are stored as salted hashes in the voting data, never as plain text. Entry media is only streamed to the entrant, your staff and the judges assigned to it.
Entries, results, ballots with play history, anonymised vote logs and the full audit trail all export to CSV for your auditor, accountant or board.
Run it in our managed cloud, or self-host it on your own infrastructure. There's no third-party database and no lock-in, and your entrant and fan data stays with you.
Music, film, creative and industry awards that have outgrown form tools and spreadsheets but don't want an enterprise contract.
Run a fan vote or a creator competition under your brand, with verification and analytics on which channels drive engagement.
Bring the audience into the show with a public vote that holds up on air and a reveal your production team controls.
| Form tool + spreadsheets | Enterprise awards vendors | The A-Side Awards Platform | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Entries, judging and fan vote in one place | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Conditional, per-category entry forms | Partial | ✓ | ✓ |
| Member, early-bird, bulk and coupon pricing | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Listening requirements enforced before scoring | — | Varies | ✓ |
| Ranked choice with instant-runoff breakdown | — | Varies | ✓ |
| Verified fan voting with fraud review | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Broadcast overlay with live reveal | — | Add-on | ✓ |
| Tamper-evident audit log | — | Varies | ✓ |
| Self-hosting option | — | — | ✓ |
| Live in weeks, priced per show | ✓ | — | ✓ |
Pay a flat fee per show, or pay a smaller setup fee and share 8% of entry revenue. No per-seat fees for judges or staff.
Enter your expected entries and average entry fee.
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Most shows are configured in a few days: branding, categories, entry form and pricing. We usually plan two to three weeks from kickoff to opening entries, including a test run with your team.
Yes. Each product works on its own. Plenty of organisers start with Liner Notes and add judging or a fan vote later. Because everything shares one database, adding a product never means migrating data.
You do. Entrants pay by card through Manifest Financial, our payments partner, and your entry revenue is paid out to your bank account. On the flat-fee model you keep 100% of entry fees. On the revenue-share model, 8% is deducted before payout. Card processing fees are passed through at cost on both models.
If you expect a lot of entry revenue, the flat fee usually costs less overall. If you're launching a new award or aren't sure how many entries you'll get, the low setup fee plus 8% means less money up front, and you only pay more if the show does well. Try the calculator in the pricing section, or ask us on your demo call.
Voters verify by email or SMS code before voting. Email addresses are normalised so one inbox can't vote as many people. Disposable email domains are blocked. Votes over an IP cap, cast too fast or caught by bot traps are flagged for your review rather than counted. Results only include votes you've accepted.
The listening room records how much of each entry a judge played. You set a minimum share per round, and the server refuses a score until it's met. The ballot export includes each judge's play history next to their scores.
Yes, on the Broadcast plan. The platform is a single Node.js application with its own embedded database, so there are no third-party database services to sign up for. Your IT team can run it on your own servers.
Yes. The judging room, entry portal and voting pages all work on phones, and judges can use keyboard shortcuts on desktop.
Tell us about your awards and we'll walk you through all three products set up for a show like yours.
Want to look around first? Open the live demo. Every account uses the password password123; for example, sign in as admin@tfcawards.test.
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Entries, judging, fan vote and the winner reveal, all on one platform.