Photography Competitions Management Platform
Showcase exceptional photography with a seamless contest experience
Elevate your photography competition with our award-winning management platform that delights entrants, impresses judges, and saves you hundreds of hours on administration.
No annual lock ins, Unlimited testing
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Save everyone time
A simple, beautiful platform to make everyone’s life easier.
Competition Organizers
Save days on admin from the moment you draft your call, to announcing your final selection.
Using Zealous took away 80% of my workload.
Sue Ecclestone
Holly Bush Emerging Woman Painter Prize
Photographers
Get more entries with clear applicant journeys, keeping track of progress in real-time.
I’ve done many online applications and yours has been the best experience.
Nicola Schauerman
Artist
Judges
Simplify the process of evaluating visual submissions and keep track of progress at each step.
Zealous is the best competition scoring platform I’ve used. Couldn’t have been easier
Andrew Miller
Cultural Consultant, Broadcaster & Disability Champion
Grow your photography contest
- Spend less time on admin. Automate your entire process with one submission manager
- View real-time progress on your dashboard
- Create a branded page. No coding required
- Gather fees directly with secure bank level security payments
- Automate emails to photographers & judges
- Customise your application form & selection process
- Fair and flexible monthly or annual packages
- Secure, scalable infrastructure,
- GDPR compliant.
Very impressed, we increased our submissions by 50%
Sophie Smyth
Society for the Environment
Get more visual entries
- Delight photographers with a streamlined process
- No limits on uploads (images, videos, 3D models, etc.)
- Seamlessly collect fees, manage payments and raise invoices
- Let photographers save submissions as draft
- Lock submissions as they are made, or allow for edits up to the deadline
- Seamless invoicing & secure payments through Stripe
- Convert drafts with automatic reminder emails
- Save applicants time, with project reuse
Zealous is remarkable. A promotional profile that easily allows submission to competitions.
Elizabeth Mizon
Filmmaker
Effortless judging of visual work
- Delight judges with a visually striking interface that’s quick and easy to understand.
- Allow judges to process submissions in their own time securely
- Zoom on image functionality for detailed evaluation of photography
- Customise scoring criteria and weights specifically for photography
- Choose winners across multiple rounds
- Score on the go, from any location, on any device, no app download needed
- Quick scoring with automatic navigation
- Simple judge assignment through categories and manual assignment
- Remove bias with anonymous judging
- Grow your audiences with public voting
Judges found scoring on Zealous very straightforward with no explaining or support required.
Akua Obeng-Frimpong
Arts Development Officer (Cambridge City Council)
Select exceptional photography with ease
- Powerful search, sort and filter functions and bulk processing simplify even the largest photography competitions.
- View related entries by the same photographers quickly
- Publish round results online at the touch of a button
- Unlock entries for editing to clean up entries before they are published
- All entry information in one place for quick decision making
- Directly contact photographers at anytime
- Environmentally friendly paperless process
By appointing Zealous we have saved days’ worth of time which has allowed us to expand the size and scope of our prizes to the benefit of all those involved.
Georgina Angus
Sovereign Art Foundation (Prize Manager)
Fair pricing
- No annual contacts. Choose to pay monthly if you want.
- No limits on programmes, judges, or uploaded files.
- No hidden charges for setting up or onboarding.
- No lock-ins. Download your data and cancel your subscription once your competition is over.
- Risk-free. Get your first submissions for free.
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Worth every single penny.
Fikri Hakimi
UM STEM Centre
