20 Reasons to Run Instagram Giveaways with Easypromos

(Please note, that the Basic and Basic PRO plans offer different functionalities for Instagram giveaways. Compare the two plans to learn which one is the right one for you!)

So here we go: 20 reasons why Instagram giveaways with Easypromos are the best option for your brand.

Get support

We’re always ready to help. Visit our library of tutorials that will guide you through creating Instagram giveaways with Easypromos. You can contact us via email at support@easypromosapp.com or contact us via our live chat where our live chat team will assist you in real-time!

Import all comments from your giveaway post

Your users value trust, but you’re concerned about efficiency, too. Easypromos has access to the full Facebook API. So when you run Instagram giveaways with Easypromos, the platform is able to import all comments and all users from your chosen posts. Many alternative giveaway platforms don’t have the full Facebook API, which means they can only run contests for the first 150 commenters.

Here’s another way to save time, without cutting corners. Announce the winners of your Instagram giveaways with a thrilling animated video and sound effects. The Easypromos platform automatically generates the video in vertical and horizontal formats. You can then personalize it and download it to share with your social media followers.

You can also publish a Winners’ Page with all the details of the prizes, winners, and certificate of validity. Serve up a link for winners to claim their prizes and share their contact details. In addition, the winners can claim their prize directly from the Winners’ Page.

Get a unique Certificate of Validity for each giveaway

This is one of the most important points: trust. Participants in a giveaway usually want to know how the winner was selected, and they may well ask for proof. Whenever you run an Easypromos giveaway, you’ll receive a certificate that outlines the selection method, the winners, and the alternate winners. It’s a secure document that can be publicly shared but never edited.

Manage winners and choose alternates for extra transparency

It happens more often than you think: you can’t contact the giveaway winner, or it turns out they’re not eligible for the prize. So Easypromos automatically selects alternate winners. Then you can replace and manage winners with just a few clicks. And you decide how many alternate winners you want to choose!

This tool allows you to replace the winners in a transparent way where you state why you give the prize to the alternate winners, for example because you haven’t heard back from them.

Claim your prize

If you just have one or two winners, you can easily contact them with an Instagram DM. But what if you’re running a larger competition? Contacting 30 winners might be a tricky task… Use the Claim Your Prize tool to create a page where winners accept their reward and leave their contact details. It will facilitate the whole prize shipping process! You can download all the information for your records, too.

The random system was validated by a notary

Easypromos uses a randomized tool to select winners in an Instagram giveaway. But you don’t just have to take our word for it! The Easypromos tools have been witnessed and certified by a notary. So you have a legal guarantee that the tool works randomly, and the results cannot be tampered with.

Run a test before conducting the official giveaway

Test your Instagram giveaways with Easypromos until you’re completely confident. You’ll be able to preview the design and check the giveaway is operational, before you open it up to your followers.

Filter participants

Make sure that your Instagram giveaways with Easypromos are under your control. You can filter by:

Number of comments
Specific hashtags used
Number of mentions

You can also exclude participants based on:

Users that participate with more than one comments
User blacklist
Former winners
Frequent participants
Participation after a certain date
Minimum number of mentions
Minimum number of commented posts
Maximum number of hashtags
Participants with more than one hashtag

Pull comments from sponsored posts and ads

You can include comments from promoted posts in your Instagram giveaways with Easypromos. Find out how.

Giveaways with influencers and collaborators

You can run Instagram giveaways with influencers, content creators, or like-minded brands. The Easypromos Instagram Giveaway app allows you to choose a winner from among users that commented on posts on different accounts, for example, yours and the collaborating influencer’s. All you have to do is generate a link that the collaborator must click on and choose the giveaway post. No need to share passwords – security at its finest!

Choose a winner from multiple posts

You can include comments from up to 10 different posts in your Instagram giveaways in Easypromos. You can even require users to comment on all the different posts in order to take part. If you want to add sponsored posts to your giveaway or more than 10 publications you will need the Multi-Network Giveaway app. (Note that the option of adding multiple posts to your Instagram giveaway is not available in your first free sweepstakes.)

With the latest Easypromos update, you can run a single giveaway to bring users together from Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube. You can even include posts from multiple social media profiles. You will need the Multi-Network Giveaway app.

Download participants’ data

One of the great benefits of a giveaway is getting a list of participants. When you run Instagram giveaways with Easypromos, you can collect this data – and more. Download an Excel or CSV file which includes participants’ names, Instagram usernames, and even their competition comments. This is especially useful if a judge or jury is going to select the competition winners.

Use design templates

The first step in creating an Instagram giveaway is to publish a post on your profile. Use this to announce the contest, describe the prize, and explain how your followers can take part. We’ve created a library of free templates for you to use – including posts for seasonal holidays and special events.

Terms and conditions templates

You can access the Easypromos template for terms and conditions from your account. Use the free app to edit the legal template with your brand’s details.

Direct link to terms and conditions

Of course, those terms and conditions must be accessible to everyone who joins your Instagram giveaway. Use Easypromos to create a webpage to host the legal details, and share a short link on social media.

Tips, ideas, and advice for running your giveaway

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Your first giveaway is free

Your first giveaway is free! So you can discover just how easy and effective it is to run Instagram giveaways with Easypromos. However, to enjoy the full range of benefits – including repeat giveaways, downloadable data, and promoted posts – you’ll have to sign up for one of our plans.

Easypromos guarantees transparency

One of our greatest strengths is our reputation. After more than ten years of experience, and thousands of Instagram giveaways, Easypromos has become a leading authority for social media giveaways. Organizing a promotion with our platform will give your campaigns credibility and reach.