Of the various roles we don in our life, the most adorable stage in which everybody seems cute is that of a baby.. Dimpled cheeks and wrists, huge eyes in a face edged with wisps of hair, an angelic smile that can turn into a tantrum and back in a jiffy are all experiences that we would have experienced (and indulged in) many a time. It would be a wonderful thing to frame the antics of our little bundle of joy. Such memorable photos don’t just fill our hearts; they might have the potential to fill our pockets too!

Baby photo contests are organized, mostly by modeling agencies on the hunt for baby models or an assortment of companies (mostly involved in baby products) as an innovative strategy to rope in customers. There is long-term marketing involved, as the companies launching the concept of photo contests foster an ensuing business relation with the families. One of the many gains of the companies includes attractive baby photos for their advertisements and a target audience to spread their products among.

The baby photo contests held by various organizations like Kodak, Huggies, etc provide many benefits to the baby who’s adorned with the title of the ‘cutest child’, like a huge prize amount for educational investment, free subscription to baby products and the likes. There is even a possibility that the baby photo contests may land a career in modeling for our kids, as these are judged by top photographers and talent pros. The great American photo contest, for example, an online contest for baby pictures, offers enticing deals to winners such as a Government bond in lieu of which the winners may obtain as much as 14000 dollars in cash, toward educational funding of the child. The contests have different rules with respect to the copyrights of the photos. Some advertising agencies like those with the great American photo contest or thecutekid.com’s ‘fame and fortune’ baby photo contest insist on retaining copyrights of the baby pictures and may use them in further advertising. The parents of the winners receive only the prize amount and additional perks like a vacation, a 10,000 dollar amount of investment in accordance with the 529 plan to provide educational savings for the baby. There are also a few agencies whose purpose is to find baby models for advertising and offer modeling remuneration.

With such enticing offers, we must turn into shutterbugs capturing the many frames of our baby, one of which may prove to be fortuitous!