How can my brand benefit from a summer campaign if it’s not travel or holiday oriented?

Summer is associated with leisure and increased consumption, which creates opportunities across sectors. You can reward purchases with discount codes, collect user-generated content through contests, or launch summer giveaways to increase engagement.

Can I use my summer campaign to generate leads or collect data?

Yes. As third-party cookies become less relevant, zero-party data collection is increasingly important. During summer, users are more receptive to interactive and entertaining experiences. Offering a chance to win a prize encourages them to share their data. The Easypromos customizable registration form allows you to define the fields you need and build your own database for future campaigns.

What are the best ideas for a summer promotion?

There are different approaches depending on your objectives. Social media giveaways help increase engagement, gamified campaigns entertain users and support lead generation, and photo or video contests provide user-generated content. If your goal is to increase sales, you can distribute discounts and coupons to encourage repeat purchases.

Summer promotions

Get your summer promotion up and running and take advantage of the seasonal vacation mindset. Social media activity increases during the summer, as people share moments from their holidays, adventures, and family gatherings. This creates a clear opportunity for your brand: organize summer promotions such as photo contests, giveaways, and branded mini-games to connect with your audience, generate leads, build customer loyalty, and collect user-generated content (UGC).

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Summer promotion and giveaways on social media
Engage your audience with summer giveaways. Invite users to participate through your social media channels to increase engagement with your brand. Reward participation with prizes to build trust and customer loyalty.
- If your goal is to collect leads, an Entry Form Giveaway is a practical solution. The promotion works as a microsite with its own URL, which you can share on your social media profiles, website, e-commerce, or blog. You can customize the registration form to collect the data you need.
- With the Instagram summer giveaway template, your promotion is ready to launch in minutes. It is simple to set up and designed to drive participation.
- If your audience is more active on Facebook, you can launch a giveaway using a ready-made template and ask participants to comment or answer a question in your post to enter.
Promote your tourist destination with a summer campaign
Promote your destinations and tourism products with interactive summer campaigns. Use games, contests, and gamified experiences to generate leads, engage your audience, and collect user-generated content.
- If you operate in the travel and tourism sector, visit our tourism marketing hub for ideas, tips, and resources for your digital campaigns.
- If your audience consists of travel enthusiasts, explore examples of how to promote a trip using digital promotions to segment users based on their travel preferences.
- If your audience needs an extra incentive, create a puzzle to showcase key tourist spots in your region and offer a prize to encourage participation.
Summer promotions for hospitality, leisure, and travel-related businesses
Here are ideas and resources to promote accommodations, outdoor activities, and tourist destinations. Digital promotions help increase visibility and support occupancy goals during the summer season.
- Summer promotions offer a clear opportunity to connect with your audience. Use quizzes to turn social media followers into contacts. Offer discount codes to users who answer correctly or run a final prize draw among participants.
- Launch a quiz with timer to convert social media followers into contacts. To encourage participation, offer discounts to users who answer correctly or run a final prize draw among participants.
- Generate interest with a digital Scratch & Win. Distribute products or merchandise to stay top of mind during the summer and use registration forms to segment your audience for future campaigns.
- Social media offers strong opportunities for restaurants, bars, and hotels to reach potential customers. Use summer campaigns such as giveaways to drive traffic to your posts, profiles, and website. Here are some promotion ideas for restaurants.
- Resorts, campsites, water parks, and other seasonal businesses benefit from interactive summer promotions, such as Hidden Objects games. These dynamics help reach customers and prompt them to plan their vacations.
How to Promote Summer Events and Festivals
With good weather come outdoor concerts, festivals, and sports competitions. You can promote these events online with interactive campaigns. Create games, contests, and giveaways to raise awareness and distribute tickets, discounts, and branded items.
- Music festivals are one of the highlights of summer and work well with interactive promotions to increase visibility. Explore ideas for promoting a music festival and running a ticket giveaway to generate reach and participation.
- Photo and video contests are effective formats to feature participants and collect user-generated content. You can create a photo contest for a trip or event, or a video contest to promote musical groups.
- Tournaments and sports competitions gain visibility during the summer. If you organize or sponsor a tournament, you can use interactive dynamics such as prediction or starting line-up games to increase engagement.
- Create a virtual countdown to summer by launching a new game each day and offering prizes or giveaways. This type of promotion encourages users to return daily and increases engagement.
- Increase brand visibility and promote tourist attractions with a Tourism Tournament bracket. Let participants vote for their preferred destinations or connect the dynamic to popular summer sports competitions.
Summer Promotions based on instant prizes, rewards, and coupons
Summer is a strong moment to activate reward-based campaigns. Offering direct prizes helps reinforce loyalty and drive participation. You can distribute prizes, discounts, coupons, products, or experiences. Setting a limited validity period for coupons or codes helps increase short-term sales.
- To increase sales and visibility during the summer, you can create a prize wheel to attract participation and distribute discounts or prizes. Users can participate via their mobile devices or at the point of sale. You can also set up a tablet in-store to allow customers to spin the wheel and win a prize.
- Launch a summer promotion where customers upload and validate purchase receipts to enter a draw or receive a prize. This approach helps increase sales and drive visits to your physical store or e-commerce.
- Learn how the waterpark Aqua Park attracted new customers and grew its email database through a coupon distribution campaign prior to its summer opening.
Promote family activities with online summer campaigns
Summer break and school holidays can be a demanding period for parents, who need to plan activities and organize their time. Offering kid-friendly summer promotions is a practical way to connect with families and strengthen brand perception.
- You can use social media to launch an online drawing contest and keep children engaged with your brand during the summer.
- After summer, the return to routine often includes back-to-school campaigns. You can extend your strategy with actions focused on this period.
- If you want to engage your audience with online games, explore the different formats available in the Easypromos digital engagement platform.
- Seasonal products such as sunscreen and skincare reach peak demand in summer. You can connect with your audience through summer promotions focused on beauty, travel, and outdoor activities. Offer product giveaways or distribute coupons in exchange for completing a survey to reinforce trust and participation.