Votes is a mechanic of audience participation that allows your users to distribute a number of votes among the different options for answering a question.
To learn how to create Mechanics, click here.
1. Setting up your Votes Mechanic
Take into account the maximum number of answers a mechanic supports:
Poll, Scoring, Votes and Story: Up to 100 answers.
Facebook Live: Up to 4 answers. This is a Facebook limit.
Before going into this setup process, please read what Flowics do to prevent deceptive practices like trolling and bots.
(1) It is a good practice naming your mechanic so that you and your teammates can identify it for later use or reviewing metrics.
(2) Use this field to type your question.
(3) Enter the answers to your question. Next to each answer you can add an image or embeds, switch between one of these using the media type buttons.
The question (2) and answer (3) text fields have a 60-characters limit.
(4) Add a Web image to use for web/mobile app integrations. Max size 3MB.
(5) Enable Show Broadcast settings so you can add a Broadcast image that you can use for integrations through your graphics insertion system or cloud-based graphics using Flowics.
(6) Add a Broadcast Image. Max size 5MB
(7) Enable it to mark an answer as correct. Use it for trivia.
(8) Set the number of votes you will allow each user to distribute. You can even make your users use or not all of the votes to distribute in order to participate by enabling using all votes is mandatory.
(9) When working with multiple votes, click here to add a new vote.
2. Other Settings
Restrict the number of times a user can submit their votes and these counts as valid votes. To do this use the Allowed Votes setting.
Filter the counting of the votes picking a geographical location using the Allowed Countries option.
Edit Producer votes where you can inject votes to your options, this way you can control the mechanic's results.
3. Web Integration
It is a requirement to create a Page with a Story widget for web rendering so that your users can participate in the Votes mechanic by submitting their votes.
Use our Script code or oEmbed (if you have the support) to embed the page in your digital properties.
4. Broadcast Integration
For integration with Graphics systems to display results on air, you can use a Mechanic Middleware Source.
For Live Streaming integrations with Desktop-based or Cloud production tools, encoders and switchers, you can create Cloud Graphics with a Story Widget and a Mechanic Provider.