TXT Voting

Text Voting

For any musician looking to build a successful career, fan interaction is a vital element in achieving this. 

Here at Exposure Music Awards we encourage all of our nominated artists to interact with their fans and participate in text voting. Yes, it does also bring in some revenue for us (around 50p per vote). We use this income to help keep the registration fee and ticket prices as low as possible.

For 2012 there will be two categories where fan text voting will be judged.

“Best Live fan vote”. The artists chosen to compete for the title of “Exposure Music Awards Best Live 2012”, by performing at the grand final in October, will be invited to participate in fan text voting. Each artist will be given their own unique number for fans to use when voting. Best Live fan vote will be its own category and the winner announced at the grand final. Text voting will be open in early August and close on the awards night itself, after all live artists have performed.  This is an additional category to the judged event on the day of the grand finals, when all performers in the Best Live category will be judged on their performance on the day by our panel of industry experts.

“Fan vote for best Nominees”.  This is the only chance for Nominees to play at the grand final if they haven’t entered the Best Live category. Nominees will be announced at the start of August and our industry judges will get down to the serious business of choosing the winners of various music categories. While this process is underway all Nominated Artists will be given the chance to enter into fan text voting, with the three winning artists being invited to play at the grand final in October. Each nominee will be given their own unique number for fans to use when voting. Text voting will commence in early August and close in mid September giving winners around four weeks to prepare for their performance at the awards. Please note that artists chosen to play at the grand final through the best nominee vote, will not be part of the best live judged contest held on the day, but will purely be playing to showcase their talents to an audience of several hundred fans and industry professionals.

Text Voting for 2012 will commence in early August. Please do not text vote until your are informed by email that lines are open, as your vote will not count and you may be charged for your text.

Below are the details of last years voting. This is here purely for general information as to how it works. Terms will be updated prior to voting commencing for 2012.

Text Voting Terms and Conditions

How to text
To vote for your favourite artist, simply text Exposure (space) then the artist’s unique short code name from the list below, to XXXXX

For example to vote for
Alonestar text Exposure xxxx to XXXXX (Text will cost £1.00 plus your standard network charge)
Young Kato  text Exposure xxxx to XXXXX (Text will cost £1.00 plus your standard network charge)
Please remember to include a space between Exposure and the artist’s short code name otherwise we will not be able to use your vote. All artist’s short codes must contain four digits.

To find artist short codes and results, please see below or check out our Facebook page or our website, www.exposuremusicawards.org under the text voting section.

Why should I text Vote?
The text vote was set up for fans to express their support for an artist. This way, even if a fan is not able to attend the grand finals to be held at Cargo, London on October 16th 2011, their voice can still be heard in support of their favourite artist. 
Here are the unique artist codes
Alonestar
Nukchorris
Disclosure
Purgatory Shift
The London Undaground
Peter Appleyard
The Burning Crows
Cats and Criminlas
One Dead Ninja
Xander and the Peace Pirates
Arbitors
The Dirty Tricks, now called Young Kato

Exposure Music Awards Terms and Conditions for text voting:

1. Voting is only open to residents of the United Kingdom. Voting signifies acceptance of these Terms and Conditions.
2. Voting is available each day, starting from 00.01 am on August 26th 2011 until the end of the last set of those competing for best live, at the Exposure Music Awards grand final, to be held on October 16th 2011, or 7pm on that day, whichever is later. Please be aware voting times may vary or change. Any change to the final date for voting will be announced on our web site at www.exposuremusicawards.org
   Text votes will be counted at 7pm (or the end of the last set of those competing for best live, if later) on October 16th 2011 via direct online checking.
   Text votes cast after the vote has been counted will not be registered but may still be charged for, in accordance with these terms and conditions. Please be aware voting times may change.
3. Each text vote cast will cost 1 pound (£1.00) plus your service provider’s standard text message rate.
4. You must be 16 years or over to use this service.
5. You may only vote 30 times within a 24hr period. Each 24 hour period runs from 00.00 to 23.59.
6. You may vote as many times as you like, however we urge you to text vote responsibly and advise you to set yourself a limit on how many times you will vote.
7. Exposure Music Awards reserves the right to discount votes, if it has reasonable grounds to suspect that fraudulent bulk votes have been cast
8. Exposure Music Awards may suspend, withdraw or re-set voting at its sole discretion.
9. Please ask permission from the bill payer before voting and text carefully. All charges will be deducted from your available credit time if you are a pre pay customer or will appear on your monthly statement if you pay monthly.
10. Exposure Music Awards does not accept any responsibility for any network congestion, technical failure or other problem in any telephone line, network, system, provider or otherwise which results in any text not being properly recorded or received.
11. If an artist drops out of the finals, any text votes cast for that artist will not be counted, but may still be charged for, in accordance with these terms and conditions.
12. There will be no refunds given on text votes cast if an artist drops out of the grand final.
13. To the extent permitted by law, Exposure Music Awards excludes all warranties (whether expressed or implied), representations and its liability regarding this voting mechanism.
14. The voting details of this competition may only be carried in official advertising produced by Exposure Music Awards.  Any unofficial advertising of the text numbers or trigger will be considered a breach of the terms and conditions of the competition and may result in disqualification of the parties concerned.

If you need to get in touch with us, please email us at info@exposuremusicawards.org or call us on 0845 257 6889
TO ALL ARTISTS TAKING PART IN THE EXPOSURE MUSIC AWARDS GRAND FINALS
Here are the details of how to advertise for the Premium Voting. If you do not exactly follow these guidelines you will be disqualified from the competition and be liable to a PhonePayPlus (premium rate regulators) fine should there be any investigations.
Voting details for all fans.

The unique artist keyword for yourselves is xxxx
Text     Exposure xxxx to XXXXX ( txt cost £1 + std ntwk charges)
Remember to leave a space between Exposure and xxxx.

Votes cost £1 plus your standard message rate. You must be 16 or over to use this service. Please ensure you have the bill payer’s permission before voting.  Please note you may not enter this service more than 30 times per day. Service is provided by Tourdates Special Projects UK Ltd, CF 24 3DL.  Vote lines will close at 19.00 (7pm) on 16th October 2011. If you vote after the deadline your vote will not be counted and you may still be charged.

For help please email info@exposuremusicawards.org or call 0845 257 6889. Full Terms and Conditions can be found at www.exposuremusicawards.org