2012 BET Awards Introduces First Ever Interactive Mobile Voting App

The 2012 Black Entertainment Television (BET) Awards are barely 5 days away and Kenya’s very own Camp Mulla are in contention for an award in the International Artiste: Africa Category.

Click here to read more about Camp Mulla’s BET nomination

Well, the organizers of the awards ceremony have made this another special first as the awards will feature a mobile application that will incorporate a series of interactive features for celebrities and fans alike. There are games on the application which allow the audience to vote for their nominees as well as predict the order of performers on the night.

One game lets its users vote with the slide of a finger, by shooting disks into a moving goal. Basically, the more disks a user makes in 15 seconds, the more votes he or she will tally for a specific nominee. The high scorers for each nominee will have their Twitter avatars and handles featured in the game’s top-left corner for all users to see, tied to what developers term as people loving fame.

The other game is titled the Line-Up, and is a fantasy sports-style game in which users can predict the order of the award show’s performers, compare their lists with either friends and celebrities and find out if they’ve won prizes.

Click here to find out more about voting for Camp Mulla for the BET Awards

To cap it all off, both games allow players to share their scores and line-ups social networks such as Facebook and Twitter. It would be interesting to see how Kenyan awards organizers could incorporate such cutting-edge interactive technology for future galas in the country.