Run a live poll
halfway through

Almost every event has a slump somewhere in the middle. The welcome buzz has worn off, the main moment has not started and people drift to their phones anyway.

Look at your run of show and mark that stretch. That is your poll slot. A vote in the first ten minutes competes with hellos. A vote at the end competes with coats. The middle has nothing to compete with.

Have the poll written and ready in the album before doors open, so launching it is one announcement, not a scramble backstage.

Fewer options mean faster decisions and a closer race. Two makes it a showdown. Three gives room for one slightly silly choice, which is often the one that wins.

Make every option one you are happy to act on. Nothing kills a poll faster than the host visibly ignoring the winner.

Keep the wording short enough to read at a glance on a phone held at arm’s length in a dark venue. Three or four words per option is plenty.

Launch it with one short announcement: what the vote is, where to find it (the same QR they used for photos) and when it closes. Five minutes is a good window. Long enough to vote, short enough to feel urgent.

Give a one-minute warning, then close it. Read out the result like a sports commentator. Then do the thing, right away, while everyone is still looking.

That moment of “we voted and it happened” is what people remember and what they photograph. Expect a little burst of uploads straight afterwards.

The poll did its job on the spot, but the answers are still worth something after. They tell you what your guests cared about, in their own taps, which beats a guess in a meeting.

MyWrap turns poll and question answers into a clear read on what landed and what did not. Look at it alongside your other questions when you shape the next one.

If the vote was close, say so in the recap message. “Option B won by four votes” makes people feel they were part of something, because they were.