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2026 Best of Butler County Journal-News

Best of Butler County

Best of Butler County is our annual reader’s choice contest of the Journal-News. Each year, we ask the community to tell us why they think are the best people, places and services that make Butler County a great place to live, work and play.
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2026 winners have been announced!

Winners are announced in a printed special section and sent in a special email send.
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Downloadables for Businesses

  • Use your business assets to promote nominations & voting with our logo
  • Use clear, simple, call-to-action messaging on your platforms: “Nominate us for Best Pizza in Journal-News Best of Butler County!”
  • Include this on your business website’s homepage, and make sure to link to nominations / voting on Journal-News.com
  • Include this in your business newsletter, and link to nominations / voting on Journal-News.com

  • Social networks to leverage include: Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, LinkedIn.
  • Use clear, simple, call-to-action language: “Nominate us for Best Pizza in Journal-News Best of Butler County!”
  • Make sure you’re also sharing and promoting the Journal-News.com nomination / voting links to drive people to nominate and vote for you

TIPS:

  • Don’t treat it as “one and done,” because not everyone will see it the first time! Share often.
  • Strategically message customers more than once on social media (for example, to kick off nominations, to kick off voting, and last chance to nominate / last chance to vote)
  • Use different messaging for nomination and voting phases to clarify that these are different objectives

Use for nominations January 19 – January 30

Click on the images below to download them.

Use for finalists February 23 – March 13

Click on the images below to download them.

Nominations:

NOMINATE US for us to be a Journal-News Best of Butler County (enter the category you want to be in here)! Go to https://bit.ly/bestofbutlercounty to nominate us today!

Include a social media shareable graphic you can find below

Voting:

VOTE for us as a Journal-News Best of Butler County (enter what category you’re in here) at https://bit.ly/bestofbutlercounty/. You can vote once a day to choose us as your favorite (restaurant, bar, salon, etc. - put your business type here)

Include a social media shareable graphic you can find below

Have Questions?

Looking for more information on how to be a sponsor of Best Butler County or other advertising opportunities? Fill out the form and we will get back with you.
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