Start free · your first competition is on us · 12 mechanics + Promotion Studio
For brands

Trade prizes
for emails.
Watch sales follow.

CompetitionMax turns curious browsers into marketing-consented email subscribers — then turns those subscribers into customers who've already engaged, opted in, and told you what they want.

10×
more email signups than a popup
100%
marketing-consented, GDPR-clean
<10 min
from idea to live competition
0
developer time required
Why brands run them

Popups beg for attention.
Competitions earn it.

A discount popup interrupts a shopper. A competition invites them in. The difference shows up everywhere — signup rate, open rate, purchase rate, lifetime value.

List growth

Add thousands of warm emails — in a weekend.

A pop-up converts at 2–4% on a good day. A live competition with a prize people actually want converts at 20–40%. Same traffic, ten times the list.

Warmer than warm

Shoppers who play with your brand buy from your brand.

Every entrant gives you their email, picks a prize tier, and engages with your story before they ever see a product. That's not a lead — that's a pre-sold customer.

Built-in virality

Referral mechanics that print new entrants.

Bake share-for-bonus-entries into every campaign. Each entrant becomes a marketing channel — without you paying for the impression.

Repeatable revenue

Turn a one-off launch into a loyalty engine.

Stack mechanics across a launch: sweepstake at the top of funnel, spin-the-wheel at checkout, leaderboard for repeat purchases. One audience, multiple touchpoints, compounding LTV.

Promotion, built in

Design the ads without a designer.

The built-in Promotion Studio turns your competition into on-brand creative — describe it, drop in a product photo, and get 50 ready-to-post ads. No agency, no Canva, no waiting.

Plays brands run on us

Same toolkit.
Wildly different outcomes.

01

Pre-launch hype

Build a waitlist for a drop. Reward early signups with bonus entries. Launch day, you've got thousands of warm buyers — not strangers.

02

List CPR

Stale Klaviyo list? Run a competition. Watch your active subscriber count snap back. Re-engage cold contacts without burning sender reputation.

03

Cart-recovery alternative

Spin-the-wheel at checkout. Discount codes feel like a gift instead of a desperation move. Conversion lifts. Margins don't tank.

04

Always-on UGC

Photo + caption contests generate a steady stream of customer-generated content. Ad-ready, social-ready, free.

The math, plainly

A grand on prizes.
Ten grand in pipeline.

Hand out one $500 prize. Drive 3,000 entrants through paid and organic. You walk away with 3,000 emails that opted in specifically to hear from you about your products — at a CPL the rest of your ad stack can't touch. Then your Klaviyo flow does the rest.

Worked example
Prize value
$500
Ad spend driving traffic
$500
Visitors
6,000
Entry conversion rate
30%
Marketing-consented emails
1,800
Cost per consented lead
$0.56
Post-comp Klaviyo conversion @ 3%
54 orders
Avg order value × orders
$80 × 54 = $4,320

Illustrative — your numbers depend on traffic, prize fit, and offer. The point: the economics work even with cautious assumptions.

Your first one's on us

Build the list.
Then the sales.

One free competition to start. Pick a mechanic, set a prize, share the link — we'll handle the rest, including the legal-and-GDPR fine print.