Design Contest 2026, Round 2: Submissions

Reminder: only those who secured 🥈2nd or 🥉3rd places in Round 1 will be able to submit their work.

ContestBot will begin accepting your submissions during the next 24 hours – you will be able to submit your work by 23:59 Dubai Time on May 18th, 2026.

Similar to Round 1, your submission must include:
– A link to either a private or public channel, with all relevant media posted for each feature you propose improvements for. You are kindly advised to not reuse your old channels.
– A .zip archive with your static mockups (.png) and animated demos (if applicable).

Note: Your channel may stay private until the deadline. Make sure you assign it a username after the deadline. We will discard private channels from the evaluation.

🏆 Digital Freedom Contest

Prize Fund: $200,000
Deadline: July 15, 23:59 Dubai time
Results: August 2026

📱 Telegram is launching its most ambitious contest for content creators.

The Task
Create a viral video about digital freedom, post it on one of these platforms — TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, Snapchat Spotlights or X — and get 10,000+ authentic views.

Requirements and Conditions
– You must use at least some ideas and footage from Pavel Durov's speech;
– You may add any other media and ideas to promote digital freedom;
– You may submit multiple videos across multiple platforms.
– You may use any language and any tools to create your video.

Evaluation Criteria

Videos we deem low-quality or suspect of having generated non-organic views will be excluded. All other qualifying videos will be eligible for a share of the prize fund.

Submissions
We will publish instructions on how to submit links to your videos on July 6 in this channel.

Good luck! 🤞