Import Actions

Import actions enter people into your Competition from an outside source, with no need to visit your widget. For example, you can run a contest where people enter by posting with your #hashtag, or by commenting on one of your Facebook posts.

They work alongside your normal actions, so you can combine entries from the widget with entries imported from social networks.

Import photos, videos and Reels that were posted to Instagram with your #hashtags (on the Business Plan & above).

• Importing Account: the Instagram Business account that runs the import
• Hashtags: Require any imports posts with any of your hashtags, Require all only imports posts with all of them
• Entry Interval: Single imports one post per person. Change it to Hourly, Daily, Weekly or Unlimited to import more

We import posts from the last 24 hours: 500 on the first run, then up to 1,250 every hour.

You can import Photos, Videos, or Reels from Instagram posts that @mention your Instagram Business profile. This action type is now preferred to use over #hashtags if you want to see the entrants @username and timestamps without having to click through to Instagram.

Instagram @mention imports also allow you to filter imports by designated hashtags or words. This allows you to limit the media you accept to those tagged with a @mention and a #hashtag or word.

Adding a #hashtag filter to @mention imports makes it easier to import campaign specific submissions. This is now the optimal approach to running hashtag contests on Instagram.

Available on the following plans: Business and Premium

You can import top level comments from any of your public Instagram posts from your Business page, this allows you to draw winners from comment driven contests. When you import comments you will be able to see the entrants @username and timestamps without having to click through to Instagram.

Instagram comment imports also allow you to filter comments by designated hashtags or words. This allows you to limit the comments you accept into your campaign to those containing a specific #hashtag or word.

Adding a #hashtag or word filter to comment imports is a great way to ensure that entrants are following your comment contest guidelines.

Available on the following plans: Business and Premium

You can import comments on a specific public Facebook post or photo.

Facebook Comment imports allow you to filter comments by media type and restrict the comments you accept to:

• Comments With Media (photos & videos)
• Text Comments
• All Comments

Facebook comment imports also allow you to filter comments by designated hashtags or words. This allows you to limit the comments you accept into your campaign to those containing a specific #hashtag or word. This is a great way to ensure that entrants are following your guidelines.

Available on the following plans: Business and Premium

You can import images or videos on Facebook that mentions a specific Facebook page you manage.

Available on the following plans: Business and Premium

• This action also has the ability to further filter Posts that only use specific #hashtags

You can import images and videos from Tumblr that have been tagged with specific #hashtags.

Available on the following plans: Business and Premium

You can import videos from YouTube that have been tagged with specific #hashtags.

Available on the following plans: Business and Premium

• Require Any: This will import any images or videos using the specified #hashtags
• Require All: This will only import images or videos that contain all of the specified #hashtags

You can import comments from your YouTube videos into your campaigns.

YouTube comment imports also allow you to filter comments by designated hashtags or words. This allows you to limit the comments you accept into your campaign to those containing a specific #hashtag or word. This is a great way to ensure that entrants are following your guidelines.

Available on the following plans: Business and Premium

We check for new entries every hour. Entries are sorted by when they were posted, so they line up in your Actions list at the time they happened, not when we imported them.

Imports start from your Competition's start date. When you add an import, we look back to the start date and import up to 500 entries.

We do an initial pull of recent posts as soon as you add the import. Be careful if your #hashtag is popular or has a typo, because you could end up with thousands of entries before your contest starts. If that happens, use Archive on the Winners tab to archive entries from before your start date.

Facebook Comment imports let you filter by media type, so you can accept:

• Comments with media only (photos and videos)
• Text comments only
• All comments

We only get an imported entrant's username, so you'll need to contact winners on the network they entered from (for example, a Facebook or Instagram message, or a post on your profile).

To collect email addresses as well, ask entrants to submit their posts through your widget with Submit Media instead.