Text 2 Vote for KidzAid Battle of the High School Bands

KidzAid is a non-profit organization dedicated to the assistance of children who live their lives in the face of unusual adversity.  Last night, May 25th, they had their first annual Battle of (best of Fairfield County) High School Bands.  KidzAid chose Kona's Text 2 Vote solution to provide a fun and interactive mobile voting solution for the audience participants (over 900).  The results were outstanding with over 350+ voters comprising 40% of participants who voted for one of the 9 bands in the Battle.

It was fun checking the votes during the contest as each new act performed.  We would like to congratulate Baio Paco who won the Text 2 Vote contest. 

The great part of this solution was not only the cool and real-time Text 2 Vote solution that the audience, high schoolers, could use to participate but the fact that it brought a excitement to the contest on the level of an American Idol where not only could the audience immediately participate, how many high schoolers do you know on a Friday not that does not have a mobile phone, but also gave the sense of something bigger to the 9 bands participating they themselves (and we suspect they did) could vote for themselves as well.

Again, we thank KidzAid, Stephen Bradley, for allowing us to provide our services to their Battle of the High School Bands.