You made something good.
Almost nobody saw it.
Here's a stage.
TubeRaker runs video competitions you can actually enter. Submit a YouTube video you already made, get watched by people who showed up on purpose, and get scored by judges against criteria published before you entered.
Judges decide the result — not whoever can rally the biggest group chat.
- Free to enter. A contest can't even go live with an entry fee.
- Your video stays yours. You submit a link, never a file.
- One YouTube link. Plus a title and a description. That's the entry.
Welcome back, there
Pick up where you left off, or go find your next competition.
Five steps. Link to result.
No agent, no gatekeeper, no audition tape mailed into a void. Here is the whole thing, start to finish.
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Pick a competition
Browse what's open. Each contest page lists its rules, its deadline, its prizes and the exact criteria judges will score you on.
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Enter
Paste your YouTube link, add a title and a description, tick the rules. You can save a draft and finish later.
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Get watched
Your entry appears on the competition's public page beside everyone else's. People arrive to watch entries — that's the entire reason they're there.
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Get judged
Judges score your entry criterion by criterion. When a contest has a panel, every judge's scores are averaged into one result.
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Results publish
The organizer publishes the official ranking. Your entry is highlighted on it, so you can see exactly where you finished.
An upload competes with everything.
An entry competes with a field.
Posting is a lottery ticket. A competition is a room with a door, a running order, and someone at the front actually watching.
An audience that came to watch
On your channel you fight a feed for three seconds of attention. On a competition page, people are already there to watch entries and pick a favourite.
Judges who watch the whole thing
Not a scroll-past. Judges are assigned to the contest and score your entry against criteria the host published before entries opened.
A result you can't buy
Public votes carry no weight in the final ranking. Judges decide. A vote brigade cannot move you up or push anyone down.
A record that follows you
Every entry and placement stays on your contestant profile. A portfolio made of results instead of a link in a bio.
The views stay on your channel
You submit a link, not a file. The video lives on your channel the whole time, so views, comments and subscribers land where they should.
You stay in control of your entry
Edit it any time while submissions are open. Withdraw it any time before the contest ends. No emailing an organizer to beg.
You can read the rubric before you spend a weekend editing.
Every contest publishes its judging criteria — the name, the weight and the maximum score for each one — on its public page. They're locked before the contest opens for entries.
This is TubeRaker's default rubric. Hosts can replace it with their own — whatever they choose is what you'll see on the contest page.
Originality and creative vision
Technical execution and skill
How well it fits the contest theme
Overall impression and memorability
Judges decide the result
Public voting is there so an audience can watch and cheer. It carries zero weight in the final ranking, and a contest cannot launch configured any other way. Nobody buys a trophy here.
A panel, when there is one
Contests can run a full judging panel, and when they do, every judge's scores are averaged — so one bad mood isn't your whole result. Smaller contests may run with a single judge.
What you get back
When the organizer publishes results you see the official ranking with your entry highlighted, plus your final score if that organizer chose to disclose scores. If your entry is rejected during review, you're told the reason.
Being straight with you
Judges write comments as they score, but those notes go to the organizer — they are not shared with contestants today. You'll get your placement and your score, not a written critique. We'd rather say so up front than let you expect one.
Nobody gets to vote for themselves forty times.
Public votes don't decide the winner — but they're still the scoreboard the room is watching, so they're defended. Voting is capped per account, duplicate votes are rejected outright, and automated checks watch for the obvious tricks.
Those reports go to the organizer and platform admins. Combined with judge-decided results, it means the thing you're actually worried about — losing to someone who gamed it — can't decide the outcome.
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One vote per account, per entry
Enforced in the database, not just the interface. Voting twice isn't possible.
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IP clustering
A pile of votes from one address gets caught and blocked.
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Velocity checks
Rapid-fire voting is rate-limited and blocked in real time.
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Device and new-account flags
Repeat devices and throwaway accounts are flagged for the organizer to review.
One page that says: here's what I entered, here's how it went.
The profile is the thing you build once and keep. Every competition you enter adds to it — the entries, their status, and where you placed.
- Your entries in one place — every competition, with its review status.
- Deadlines you're working against — open any entry to see the contest's next date.
- Placements you can point at — a finish is a fact, and it stays.
- Drafts that wait for you — start an entry, come back, finish it.
Takes a minute. You can set it up before you've picked a competition.
Your name here
Contestant · your channel
Entries
Competition name
Judging in progress
Competition name
Results published
Your next entry goes here
Layout illustration. No real contestant data shown.
Three fields and a link. Not a portfolio submission.
There's no file to upload and no forms to print. This is the whole entry form.
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Your YouTube link
A normal watch link, a Short, a live replay or a youtu.be link. It's checked as you paste it.
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A title
What you're calling this entry.
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A description
A few lines about what you made. Optional tags if you want them.
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Three boxes to tick
You accept the contest rules, confirm you have the rights to what's in the video, and confirm you meet that contest's eligibility requirements.
Not ready? Save it as a draft and come back — your draft is stored on your account, not just in that browser.
If it plays on camera, it competes.
Hosts set their own categories, so what's open changes week to week. But a talent show is a talent show — this is the sort of thing that shows up on the bill.
Don't guess — go look at the bill. The list shows what's accepting entries and when it closes.
The things you're actually wondering.
Does it cost anything to enter?
No. Entering is free, and it isn't just a default we set — a competition cannot go live on TubeRaker with a non-zero entry fee. There is no payment step anywhere in the entry flow.
Do I hand over the rights to my video?
You submit a YouTube link, so the video never leaves your channel and you keep ownership of it. TubeRaker takes only the limited licence it needs to run the service. Individual competitions set their own rules, though, so read a contest's rules before you enter it.
Can I enter a video I've already posted?
As far as TubeRaker is concerned, yes — an entry is a link to a video on your channel. Some competitions require original or previously unpublished work, so check that contest's rules.
Do I need a big channel?
TubeRaker doesn't filter entries by subscriber count, and judges score the video against the published criteria — not your channel size. Hosts write their own eligibility rules, so a specific contest could ask for something different.
Can I enter more than one competition?
Yes — enter as many different competitions as you like. Within a single competition, most hosts allow one entry per person, though they can raise that limit.
Can I change or pull my entry after I submit it?
You can edit your entry any time while submissions are still open, and you can withdraw it any time before the competition ends. Withdrawing is permanent — there's no way to put it back.
Who's allowed to enter?
Each competition sets its own eligibility rules — age, location, student status, whatever the host needs — and you confirm you meet them when you submit. TubeRaker itself does not verify your age or where you live, so the responsibility to read those rules is yours.
What stops someone spamming votes to win?
Two things. Voting is capped per account, duplicates are rejected, and automated checks block IP clusters and rapid-fire voting while flagging repeat devices and throwaway accounts. More importantly, public votes carry no weight in the final ranking at all — judges decide it. Spamming votes cannot buy a placement.
Will I find out why I placed where I did?
Partly, and we'd rather be clear about the limit. You'll see the published ranking with your entry highlighted, and your final score if the organizer chose to disclose scores. Judges' written comments currently go to the organizer only — they are not shared with contestants.
Something not answered here? Head to the Help Center.
Your next video deserves a fair shot.
Set up your contestant profile, then go see which competitions are taking entries. The video is already made.