How To Use An Instagram Giveaway Picker To Choose Winners

Instagram comment contests are an effective and cost-efficient way to boost engagement and directly communicate with your audience.

All you need to do to get your contest up and running is make an Instagram post to announce your contest, let users know how they can enter, and of course showcase what they can win.

There are a ton of possibilities when you run comment contests. You can ask your audience to answer questions, respond to prompts, share ideas, offer feedback, tag friends or even just comment a simple word or phrase.

If you're running an Instagram comment contest where winners are manually chosen on the merit of their comment then picking a winner is simple, but most of the time you'll want to pick a comment by random selection to find your winner.

One of the best tools available for choosing random winners from Instagram comments is Gleam's Instagram Comment Picker tool.

Gleam's Instagram Comment Picker is perfect for drawing winners privately, or publicly on a live stream thanks to our fun and engaging interface. Plus, it isn’t time consuming and doesn’t require lots of effort.

Our single-use tool allows you to draw winners from any Instagram post. There's no need to sign up for a Gleam account. If you have an Instagram Business or Creator account, you're ready to start drawing winners from your comments. You can easily select any public post you wish to draw from, enter specific filters to only draw from valid entries, and select the number of winners you wish to draw.

Don't have enough comments? Don't fret, you can start running Instagram giveaways even with a small follower count. We have plenty of Instagram marketing advice for you to follow, and you can draw winners for free for any Instagram post with 200 comments and below.

And for brands who are already using Instagram Giveaways as their bread and butter strategy, signing up for a paid Gleam Competitions plan gives you unlimited access to the Instagram Comment Picker template, where you can run as many winner draws as you like.

Comment Picker also offers a handy Instagram Random Comment Picker tool. All you need to do is log in, enter the URL of your post and pick a random giveaway winner.

Or if you have an exported list of all the @usernames you can use our Random Username Picker to put them all into a list and just generate the winner.

Random Name Picker is available for free with a Gleam account, all you have to do is create a Gleam account before you can access the free tool.

While this tool is great for quickly picking a random comment it gives you very little control over your contest. If you want to run a comment contest that suits your needs and maximises the value you get from it there are far better options.

Want to combine your IG Comment to Enter contest with a larger audience, and incentivise more actions on multiple platforms? Then you should try Gleam Competitions.

Using the Instagram Comment Import action, you can automatically collect and track Instagram comments alongside your regular Gleam Competition campaign.

This gives you the following benefits:

• Filter submissions by #hashtags or keywords to ensure that commenters are following your contest guidelines, no more checking one by one.
• Set the entry interval to determine how many times a commenter can enter. You can set this to single, unlimited, hourly, daily or weekly entries.
• Get an entry report automatically rather than tracking with spreadsheets.
• Run the winner draw whenever you wish, cast a re-draw if necessary (failed to contact winner, invalid entry, etc).
• Run unlimited Instagram Giveaways with your Gleam Competitions subscription.

With Gleam you can create and customise contests and giveaways that are perfectly tailored to your needs and will help you drive growth on Instagram and beyond.

Photo contests are a brilliant way to engage your fans, expand your reach and drive the creation of highly valuable user-generated content, and Instagram is the best place to run them.

With Gleam you can run photo contests that automatically import photos from #hashtags and @mentions, or you can directly accept submissions into our contest widget.

With Gleam you can create powerful contests and giveaways and drive traffic to them from Instagram and all your other social channels. You can use these contests to drive all the actions that are meaningful to you including:

• Instagram and Facebook visits
• Twitter follows, tweets and retweets
• Email subscriptions
• Social referrals
• Photo submissions
• Much more

Take a look at this demo to see what your own contest could look like:

All you need to is add a link to your contest in your Instagram bio, promote it in your posts and stories and start driving meaningful user action.