Have a few spare minutes and fancy the chance of winning massive prizes for free? A holiday? Cash? A car? Luxury goods? There are a multitude of free entry competitions available online, however in the UK many of the biggest prizes come from TV competitions such as those on ITV, Channel 4, the BBC and Channel 5. In many cases you can bypass the expensive premium rate numbers and enter online for free.
The Top 5 ITV Competitions You Should Enter Every Week…
1. This Morning Competition
Number one because of the huge prizes regularly on offer. We’ve seen prizes worth in excess of £120,000! This Morning is one of the UKs longest standing TV shows, kicking off in 1988 with Richard and Judy. The show runs late morning midweek from around 10am. Competitions and prize draws are weekly but sometimes span several weeks. In most cases you can enter six times for free.
2. Lorraine and Daybreak Competition
These two midweek morning shows join forces to bring you yet more fantastic prizes. Again, they usually run weekly and allow six entries per phone number. Calling or texting your entry will cost around £1.50 however you can enter free using the itv.com competitions entry page.
3. Loose Women Competition
We’re starting to see a trend here with daytime TV! Another weekly or fortnightly competition that usually attracts a smaller price than Daybreak or This Morning. Prizes are often £15,000 cash, a car or a holiday.
4. Dickinson’s Real Deal Competition
On a little later in the day, this competition is attractive as no one knows what the prize will be until David announces the auction and it’s result. Prizes are usually daily and range from around £2,000-£10,000. Occasionally a week-long accumulator prize is ran, with the prize pot sometimes topping £20,000. At various times of year the Real Deal show and comp also runs on a Sunday. Three entries are permitted per phone number.
5. Britain’s Got Talent Competition
This was a toss-up between BGT and X Factor; the viewer prizes are great, and the TV shows are entertaining. The BGT competition is just one of several seasonal competitions that run on ITV. Others include I’m A Celebrity, The Cube, Millionaire and Dancing on Ice. These are prime time shows on Saturday and Sunday nights, often with repeats throughout the week.
How To Enter TV Competitions For Free?
The format for most TV comps is a simple, multiple choice question with 3 possible answers (sometimes they run “prize draws” which have no question to answer). The catch is that the question is only announced on the TV show – you have to watch the TV show to get the question and often the premium rate numbers are the most obvious methods of entry. However there is usually an free option to enter online and http://itvcompetitions.com is a site that posts the questions daily as they are announced on their website and Twitter. This means you can quickly and easily enter these competitions for free, even if you miss watching the TV show!
How Much Money Can You Save?
There are several TV shows that have competitions you can enter each week – more than 5, however if we take entering the 5 ITV Competitions above the maximum number of allowed times per phone number in a week as an example you will see you can save significant money by entering online;
- Daybreak competition : £6.16
- This Morning competition : £6.16
- Loose Women competition : £6.16
- Real Deal competition : £18.48 (6 competitions in a week)
- BGT competition : £6.16
Yep – that’s a lotta savings; £43.12
(NOTE: The above assumes you are entering from a BT landline using the same number for each entry)
So head on over to the ITV competitions site and get entering; you might just win a whopping prize!
