A global advertising and spectator contest for performing in a large arena venue or large gathering of spectators, comprising:
- an advertisement accompanied by a contest invitation in association with a spectator event for a sponsor to display;
- a network, including data transmission and storage mechanisms, for contest contestants located within a electronically geofenced perimeter of said spectator event to electronically submit affection-demonstrating digital images for contest participation, said affection-demonstrating digital images comprising at least one still image selected from a personal photograph, a family photograph, and a pet photograph portraying demonstrations of kissing, hugging, or otherwise conveying personal affection between at least two individuals or pets;
- a plurality of spectators of said spectator event, becoming contest participants and entering said contest, by generating a digital image utilizing a camera, a cellular phone with a built-in camera, a scanner, or a kiosk and electronically submitting said affection-demonstrating digital images representing demonstrations of kissing, hugging, or otherwise conveying personal affection between at least two individuals or pets, as well as participant information, to said network, for contest participation, said digital images being electronically submitted utilizing an MMS message or an internet connection, said digital images being stored on contest servers;
- a selectable subset of said affection-demonstrating digital images from spectators located within said electronically geofenced perimeter of said spectator event as candidates for entry into a voting stage of said contest;
- broadcasting electronics and video systems for broadcasting said selected subset of said affection-demonstrating digital images to a global of community of spectators both located at the spectator event and watching the spectator event via a media outlet;
- an invitation system for inviting all spectators of the spectator event to vote for at least one of said affection-demonstrating digital images from said selected subset of said affection-demonstrating digital images and communicating a vote to a contest server;
- electronic vote receiving instructions and circuitry for electronically receiving and tallying said votes from all said spectators within a predetermined time limit and prior to the end of the spectator event;
- electronic data encryption instructions and circuitry for electronically encrypting said affection-demonstrating digital images and contestant information, utilizing software provided on said contest participants' computer or mobile devices or upon receipt of said affection-demonstrating digital images by a server of said contest provider, to form a plurality of information capsules comprising a plurality of affection-demonstrating digital images, each said affection-demonstrating digital images corresponding to an individual entrant of said contest;
- data entry instructions and circuitry for entering said plurality of affection-demonstrating digital images into an electronic batch of a plurality of affection-demonstrating digital image entrants;
- selection instructions and circuitry for selecting an affection-demonstrating digital image from said electronic batch of said plurality of affection-demonstrating digital images and designating such selected affection-demonstrating digital image as a winning entry of said contest according to the selected affection-demonstrating digital image having received the most votes from all spectators both within the spectator event geofenced perimeter and outside the spectator event geofenced perimeter;
- decrypting instruction and circuitry for decrypting said digital image and contestant information and identifying a single winner of said contest by using said digital image and said contestant information;
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- wherein because said winning digital is accomplished electronically by submitting said digital images via said MMS message or said internet connection, new digital images can be initiated and completed in compressed time periods associated with the duration for said spectator event.