What does the voting stage involve?
An online form will be hosted on timeout.com/lovelosangeles from March 6 to April 10, 2018 where people can vote for their favorite venue or business in their city/neighborhood. Not every venue that’s voted for is guaranteed to be counted—we reserve the right of discretion, if we think a vote is inappropriate, or insincere. Once we have counted all of the votes the winners and runners up will be finalised, notified and announced!
How do I vote?
You’ll need to head to timeout.com/lovelosangeles in order to vote.
Do I need to create an account to vote?
If you are a regular Time Out user, you can use your normal login on timeout.com to vote. If you do not have an account, you’ll need to create one, which takes one minute and is free.
I pressed the wrong button, can you reset my vote?
You can vote as many venues as you like, but you cannot un-submit votes, so please select carefully.
Can I vote via email or phone?
No. All votes must come via the timeout.com/lovelosangeles website from a logged-in user.
I’m a local venue, can I vote for myself/can my customers vote for me?
Absolutely. Voting is open until April 10, 2018. Remember to encourage your customers to vote for you too!
Can I vote in multiple categories?
Yes, you can vote in all of the available categories.
My venue isn’t listed. Can we add it?
Yes you can! Go to timeout.com/getlistedlosangeles, from there you can submit your details.
Some of the details about our venue are wrong.
If you’re concerned that the name or location of your venue is incorrect, please contact us by emailing timeout.com/getlistedlosangeles.
I think my venue/a venue I know is in the wrong category.
Unfortunately, the category is set and cannot be changed. If you’re a hybrid category—for example an art gallery and cafe, most of the time you’ll be listed in your more dominant category.
Can you send me some posters/a promotional pack?
We’ve already sent out our promotional packs and are unable to resend. However, if you’d like to download a poster and print it yourself, head to timeout.com/lovelosangeles/poster.
I need a logo or an image to use on social media.
Head to timeout.com/lovelosangeles/badge to download a “Vote” logo.
How can we promote our venue to help us win?
To boost your chances of winning, it’s a good idea to tell your customers, friends and family to vote and help spread the word. This is because both stages rely on quantity of votes. Here are our top tips:
1. Use the free assets provided at timeout.com/lovelosangeles/badge and timeout.com/lovelosangeles/poster Use them anywhere you can – shop windows, on tables, on your website – anywhere you think it’ll grab attention.
2. Tell all your customers
Your customers love you and will want to support you and your local area. So tell them! Use the posters and be sure to ask them in person if they’ve voted yet.
3. Use social media
We recommend you use social media to encourage your customers to vote for you. You can use our Instagram-sized asset to encourage votes – make sure you include the url timeout.com/lovelosangeles wherever you post. You can also tag posts with #timeoutla but remember, you need the votes via the timeout.com/lovelosangeles page not just mentions on social media.
4. Be original and get creative
Last year many of the winning venues got creative with their promotional tactics. Make sure you use all the assets available to you and if you have wacky ideas that you think will help – go for it (as long as it’s legal). Do not buy votes or pay a company to do this for you, our software is rather good at detecting these and any suspected fraudsters will be disqualified (sorry for the tough love).
5. Stick up your poster
We’ve sent you a poster, so put it up in the window of your venue! Get the word out and people voting even when they’re not heading inside.
Can I get featured on Time Out/get someone to come and review?
Although the Love City campaign is run and hosted by Time Out, we are unable to accommodate requests to send a Time Out reviewer down to your venue. All of our editorial reviews are done anonymously and similarly, you cannot buy into our editorial content, including articles. If you’d like to find out ways that you can promote your venue better on Time Out, contact advertising@timeout.com.
I’d like to add some photos/content to my listing on Time Out
If you’d like to add a photo to your listing on Time Out, you’ll need to claim your page (you can do this at timeout.com/getlistedlosangeles). You can have one photo on your page for free, which should be a reasonably good quality image of the interior/exterior of your venue and in a landscape format. Please do not submit logos or flyers.
Can I find out how many votes I received?
We don’t release the total number of votes received per venue during the campaign.
Does the ‘love it’ count on my venue page correspond to the number of votes I’ve received?
No, it doesn’t.
