Naples Daily News Community's Choice Awards: How Voting Works & How to Win

The community that this ballot actually asks to show up

A "Community's Choice" name is a promise about who decides, not just a label. Naples Daily News hands the actual choosing to Naples's own readers and customers, twice confirmed so far: an edition in 2024, and the most recent one, listed on the platform as the 2025 Community's Choice Awards Showcase, running its voting window from April 4 through April 28, 2025.

Naples Daily News runs this ballot directly on its own Second Street market at naplesnews.gannettcontests.com, not through a separate contractor's branded site. Past the confirmed April window, the specifics dry up: which categories apply, whether any per-voter limit exists, and when a third edition might open all stay unaddressed in what's public today.

A community ballot only two editions deep hasn't had time to settle into a fixed pattern the way some longer-running Second Street markets have. Confirm on the live ballot each cycle for anything past the dates above.

One community's ballot among several separate Florida publishers

Florida carries more than one "best of" or "community's choice" ballot, and not one of them shares a judging process with another. Naples Daily News answers only to its own Collier County readers, not to a statewide or regional board.

Why the similar names are worth double-checking

CommunityVotes Boynton Beach sounds close enough to "Community's Choice" to confuse a quick search, yet it runs on a different southeast-coast network entirely, with no results tie to Naples. A strong turnout here carries zero weight on any of the six programs above, and the reverse holds too, so the confirmed naplesnews.gannettcontests.com address is worth bookmarking directly.

Naples sits at the center of a wider Collier County community

Naples anchors Collier County on Florida's Gulf Coast, and the newspaper's own coverage reaches well beyond the city's downtown into the towns that share its everyday commercial life.

Community's Choice draws its votes from inside Collier County rather than a wider multi-county region, and nothing published extends that reach any further. A Naples-area business competes for those same county-wide readers day to day, not against a statewide or multi-market audience the ballot has never claimed.

Community's Choice never spells out an exact boundary on its own account beyond naming Naples and the county around it. A business chasing votes should still care about that reach, since a click on the ballot link rarely comes only from inside Naples's own city limits.

Turning a community's actual votes into real momentum

A ballot named for its community works only if that community actually shows up to cast a vote, not just to read about the nomination. With two confirmed editions behind it, Naples Daily News has already shown this isn't a single-season experiment, which makes it worth treating the April window seriously rather than as an afterthought.

A two-edition ballot moves the same way a decade-old one does: genuine Naples-area supporters, contacted in person and asked more than a single time, rather than one late rush before April 28. Second Street's fraud screening covers every market the platform hosts, and getting flagged this early would undercut a ballot before it ever built a longer reputation to draw on.

Being nominated is one thing; the actual outcome stays entirely Naples Daily News's own call once its process wraps up. is buying votes legal separates a legitimate campaign from a risky one, and award-vote campaign planning walks through the mechanics of a readers'-choice format exactly like this one.