Instagram Giveaway

Instagram's promotion policy does not prohibit setting the requirement of following the profile in order to participate in a giveaway so you can ask for it. But, no external app can check if the participants are followers. So you should check this manually after picking the winners and manage it with the alternate winners. Learn how to obtain and manage alternate winners.

If you want to run a transparent and reliable giveaway that enters all the participants that have commented on your Instagram post, you need to use a tool that retrieves all the comments and is able to select a winner randomly. Discover the most important aspects to keep in mind when selecting a winner picker tool.

In the text of the Instagram giveaway post, it's important to specify the prize, the entry period, how to participate and how the winner is picked and announced. It should be attractive and well structured and should be accompanied by a nice image that shows the prize on offer. You can check this article with recommendations on how to write the giveaway post and get a draft text.

Yes, but without guarantees. Instagram doesn't allow to retrieve Stories automatically even if they mention the brand and part of the information disappears after 24 hours. If you want to make the most of the potential of the Instagram Stories, we recommend several actions that will work for you and won't create excessive manual work for you.

Yes, of course. The ideal is to create a giveaway where the prize is one of your brand's products because this way, the users that become followers during a giveaway are from your target audience. Here you can discover how a brand achieved the highest engagement ever and many new followers thanks to comments giveaways on Instagram.

Collaboration giveaways where more than one Instagram profile unite to launch a giveaway together for their communities are very common. To do this, the ideal is that both accounts publish a giveaway post and obtain interaction through comments, mentions, etc. To add the participants from both posts, there are tools that allow you to connect both accounts and import the comments from several posts, adding them all together into one single giveaway. Learn how to pick a winner transparently from a collab giveaway.

No. If it's a giveaway among the users that comment on the post on your profile, no data is collected. The apps only work with public information from the social network. If you want to run a giveaway on Instagram and at the same time collect the participants' contact data, you should opt for an app with registration form and share it on Instagram.

Instagram offers many ways of presenting a product (posts on feed, Stories, Instagram TV - IGTV). The graphic and audiovisual options available on Instagram makes it a good network to disseminate content that generates engagement, and so increases the exposure of the product. Giveaways based on comments on a post on the brand's profile is one of the easiest and most cost-effective ways of promoting a product on Instagram. 

The Instagram Giveaway application is available for traditional Instagram posts, carousels, videos, and Reels. Run a giveaway for all the users that comment on one or various posts. Find out more about running giveaways on Instagram Reels.

The Easypromos Instagram Giveaway app allows you to include comments from up to 10 organic posts. You can also connect collaborating accounts if the giveaway was published on their profiles too. However, if you created more than 10 posts you can still use our Multi-Network Giveaway app, which allows you to add up to 25 posts in one single giveaway. Please note that you will need the Multi-Network Giveaway app if you want to import comments from sponsored posts.