Kyoso is a white-label platform, built from the ground up to handle high-volume photo competitions and awards.
We don’t run our own photo competitions, and we don’t force customers to use our website, signup system or branding.
We don’t funnel revenue through our systems or accounts, and we don't require our users to sign up for an annual service.
What we do is help our customers get the most from every stage of their Awards programme.
From planning to the final stages of judging, we're here to help you.
During onboarding, we:
When the call is open:
Once the call is over:
In its second year, Portrait of Britain attracted over 13,000 submissions, from which 200 were chosen for publication in a book and 100 were shown on JC Deceaux screens across the UK.
The Association of Photographers Awards incorporate categories for students and members, as well as open calls, with the winning images displayed in One Canada Square, London.
The The Royal Photographic Society's International Photography Exhibition is the longest-running exhibition of its kind in the world. Kyoso also powered the RPS's Science Photographer of the Year.
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If your competition platform struggles under heavy demand, entries and revenue will be lost. Developed as a truly stateless web application, Kyoso is built to absorb demand - any award can be scaled from one shared server up to more than a dozen high-performance ones if required.
Our infrastructure is deployed on the industry-standard Amazon AWS via Heroku Enterprise, so our servers and database backend is supported by a 24/7/365 operations team.
Every Kyoso entry system is set up for the customer's specific needs, so we don't have a one-size-fits-all price. As an indication, though: our per-month running costs start at £400, with custom setup charged at £750/day - so a simple three-month Awards could cost less than £2,000 in total.
If you'd like more information, or to check out a live demo of the system in action, please drop us a line via the form on the right and we'll get in touch.
