Contests run by magazines in Ukraine: which ones reward entries and votes
Contests run by magazines in Ukraine include reader votes and client votes, and the published notices checked for this page name Focus magazine and TOP-100 magazine. Focus ran a four-week reader poll for its Top 50 Ukrainian bloggers in 2024, closing at 23:59 on 14 October. Its Top-25 banks rating opened a reader poll on 1 June 2026, with results due on 15 June. TOP-100 magazine and the Delo.ua portal ran the TopFinance 2025 rating of the best banks of Ukraine, which PrivatBank reported was decided by client voting. None of these notices explains how individual tallies are added together.
Rechecked on 22 October 2026.
Which reader polls and ratings the notices name
Focus magazine is the one publisher the checked notices name twice. Its Top 50 Ukrainian bloggers poll of 2024 ran four weeks and closed at 23:59 on 14 October. Its banks rating then opened a reader poll on 1 June 2026, with results due on 15 June. Two polls from one publisher inside two years show that the format is not a one-off, although two notices cannot show how many more there were. Anyone checking a magazine's record has to look past these notices to see the full run of its contests.
TOP-100 magazine is the second organiser the notices name, through the TopFinance 2025 rating of the best banks of Ukraine. The rating was run together with the Delo.ua portal, which the notice names beside it. Its result rests on client voting rather than on a reader poll, so the group that decides it is defined by the rating and not by the magazine's readership. A reader comparing the two needs to keep that difference in view.
The three notices give a short list of magazine-run contests, and each entry has an organiser, a form of voting and a year. What the list cannot give is a census of every magazine in the country, and this page does not try to build one. A longer list would need more notices, read one by one, with each organiser named in the same plain way.
- Focus magazine is the one publisher the checked notices name twice.
- Its 2024 bloggers poll ran four weeks and closed at 23:59.
- Its banks rating opened a reader poll on 1 June 2026.
- TOP-100 magazine ran the TopFinance 2025 rating with the Delo.ua portal.
- The list of magazine-run contests here covers only the notices checked.
How a reader poll becomes a published result
A reader poll becomes a result only when the organiser closes the count and reports it. Focus's two polls both carried a date: a 23:59 close on 14 October 2024 for the bloggers, and a results date of 15 June 2026 for the banks rating. A closing time and a results date fix when the count stops and when the outcome is announced. They fix nothing about how the count itself is carried out, and a reader who wants that step has to look for it in the organiser's own material.
Client voting differs in one respect that matters to a reader. In the TopFinance rating the votes came from clients, and PrivatBank's report gives that as the basis of the outcome. A reader who wants to check such a result has to ask the organiser who was in the voting group and how the answers were added up, because the report names the basis and stops short of the method. Both questions go to the organiser, not to the bank that reported the result.
Check the closing time printed in the notice, the date the results are promised, and where the final figures are published. The Focus notices give the first two. The third is in none of the notices checked for this page, so it stays open for the organiser to answer.
- A reader poll becomes a result only when the organiser closes the count.
- A closing time and a results date fix when the count stops and when the outcome is announced.
- Neither date says how individual tallies are added together.
- The TopFinance result is reported as the outcome of client voting.
- Ask the organiser who was in the voting group and how answers were added.
Reader polls and client votes answer different questions
A reader poll asks an audience of readers to pick entries from a list. The notices describe it by that audience and do not say who is allowed to take part, so this page leaves that question to the organiser. The result tells a reader what the magazine's audience chose, and nothing wider.
A client vote asks the customers of a business to judge it, which is a narrower group than an open readership. The TopFinance rating was decided that way, as PrivatBank reported. The distinction matters because the group that does the choosing sets what the result means, and that group is defined by the rating, not by the magazine's readers. A result from a client group cannot stand in for a result from readers.
Both kinds of vote come down to counting choices, and the notices checked for this page describe no panel of judges for these contests. A result from either form therefore reflects the choices the notice describes and nothing more. Read the organiser's rules to learn whether a panel took part at any stage.
- A reader poll asks an audience of readers to pick entries from a list.
- A client vote asks a narrower group, the customers of a business, to judge.
- The TopFinance rating used client voting, as PrivatBank reported.
- The checked notices describe no panel of judges for these contests.
- A result from either form reflects the choices the notice describes and nothing more.
What the organiser decides and what no notice settles
The organiser decides the voting window, the count, the eligibility rules and the result, and the notice is the place where those decisions are written down. The three notices checked here give dates for two contests and a basis for the third. They leave the count, the eligibility rules and the handling of disputes unwritten, which is a gap in the notices and not proof that no decision was made.
A platform decides a different set of questions, such as how a poll is recorded on its own service. The checked notices describe no platform check on polls, and this page does not invent one. A reader who runs into a platform limit has to read that platform's own rules, because an organiser's notice does not replace them. Keeping the two sets of rules apart stops a reader from taking a platform answer for a contest answer.
No notice can say how these contests will end, which bank will head the next TopFinance rating, or whether the next Focus poll will copy the last one's format. Those questions belong to the organiser, and a reader who wants an answer has to ask the organiser directly. The written notice is the only document a reader can point to when asking.
- The organiser decides the window, the count, the eligibility rules and the result.
- The checked notices give dates for two contests and a basis for the third.
- A platform decides how a poll is recorded on its own service.
- No checked notice describes a platform check on polls.
- The next edition of any of these contests is outside what the notices cover.
Rules that apply
This page was checked against three published notices: Focus magazine's 2024 reader poll for its Top 50 Ukrainian bloggers, its 2026 reader poll for the Top-25 banks rating, and PrivatBank's report on the TopFinance 2025 rating. The sources were reviewed on 22 October 2026, and that is the date this page carries as its last check. No magazine's own rules document was read, so no clause from one is quoted or summarised here, and the three notices are the whole of what the page relies on.
What we decline
This page does not name a winner of any magazine contest, because none of the three notices names one. It does not describe a count, and it cannot say whether any reader poll was run fairly, a judgement that belongs to the organiser and not to a guide. Eligibility, prizes, disqualification and appeals are set in each organiser's own rules, which this page has not read. No platform check on polls is described here, and no reader should treat this list as complete.
Questions and answers
Which magazines in Ukraine run public-vote contests?
Focus magazine and TOP-100 magazine are the two named in the notices checked for this page. Focus ran a four-week reader poll for its Top 50 Ukrainian bloggers in 2024 and another for its Top-25 banks rating, which opened on 1 June 2026. TOP-100 magazine ran the TopFinance 2025 rating of the best banks of Ukraine with the Delo.ua portal, and that rating was decided by client voting rather than an open reader poll. The notices name no other magazine, so this list stops at those three contests.
How do magazines in Ukraine count votes?
The notices checked for this page do not describe the count for any of these contests. They give the basis of each result: a reader poll for the two Focus polls and client voting for the TopFinance rating. Nothing in them says how individual tallies are added together, so the method has to come from the organiser's own rules or its published results.
When does voting open in contests run by magazines in Ukraine?
Each contest sets its own window, and the notices checked here give dates for two of the three. The 2024 Top 50 bloggers poll ran four weeks and closed at 23:59 on 14 October 2024. The Top-25 banks reader poll opened on 1 June 2026, with results due on 15 June 2026. PrivatBank's report on the TopFinance 2025 rating gives no voting dates, so that window is not stated here.
Can anyone in Ukraine vote in contests run by magazines?
No. The notices checked for this page do not say who is allowed to take part in any of these contests, so no general rule can be given. The Focus notices describe reader polls and stop there. The TopFinance rating used client voting, and PrivatBank's report does not say which clients were asked or whether living in Ukraine mattered. Read the eligibility clause in the organiser's rules before taking part.
What rules do magazines in Ukraine publish for their contests?
The notices checked for this page quote no magazine's rules document, so no clause from one is summarised here. What they give is an organiser, a stated basis for the result and, for two contests, dates. The clauses on eligibility, prizes, disqualification and the handling of results sit in each organiser's own rules, and a reader needs to open those carefully before joining any of these contests.
Where do magazines in Ukraine announce results?
The only results date in the notices checked here belongs to the Focus banks rating: 15 June 2026. The 2024 bloggers poll closed at 23:59 on 14 October 2024, which is a closing time and not an announcement date. PrivatBank reported the outcome of the TopFinance 2025 rating on its own website, so that report is the published record for that result.