Gleam Updates

Social Auth Improvements

Reliability upgrades to contestant auth including popup-safe flows, improved account state handling, and enhanced session management.

Contestant authentication on your campaigns is now more reliable đŸ„ł

We’ve rolled out improvements to the contestant authentication flow that reduce overall auth-related errors from around 10% to under 1%.

Because the contestant experience matters, this release focuses on removing common points of friction and making sign-in behave more predictably across different browsers and account states.

What’s improved

  • Fewer blocked auth windows: We’ve reduced failures caused by browser popup and auth window restrictions, with safer fallbacks that keep contestants moving.
  • Better handling of unusual account states: Clearer detection and handling for accounts that are suspended or in abnormal statuses, so contestants aren’t left stuck in a confusing loop.
  • Smarter session management: Improved session validation and recovery to prevent silent timeouts and reduce “try again” scenarios during entry.

Why it matters

  • Better conversion rates on Actions with Auth
  • Less friction and fewer retries = less frustration for your users
  • More consistent behavior across devices and browsers

This update is live for all campaigns!

Hide Winners For Live Draws

Hide winner details during live draws or streams. Mask names and contact info while you draw, verify, and contact winners in Gleam.

You can now hide winner information during your winner draws.

When enabled, we blur winner names, emails and location information so you can draw winners on Live Streams, when screen sharing or in front of a live audience without accidentally exposing entrants information to the world.

How it works

  • Toggle Hide winner details on the winners tab to hide any existing winners
  • When drawing new winners you can toggle Hide Winners to automatically blue them as you draw
  • Toggle Hide Winners at any time to reveal the information you need to verify & contact your winners!

Happy drawing 🏆

Quick Draws: Pending and Drawn Tab

You’ll now see a new Pending and Drawn tab when using the Instagram Comment Picker.

This update means you can refresh the page without losing an active draw.

If a draw is still in progress, it will appear under Pending, and once it’s finished you’ll find it under Drawn.

These two tabs make it easier to access draws that are still running and revisit ones you’ve already completed.

Pending item modal displayed inside the Instagram Comment Picker interface
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Pre-Fill Default Social Media Accounts

Pre-Fill Social Media Account Links in your Gleam Campaigns, you can find this under Site Settings.
pre-fill default social media accounts in your Gleam campaigns

You can now save default social media account details on your Gleam site. When you use a social media entry method in any campaign, Gleam will remember your default account and automatically pre-fill those values. Save time on your campaign setup by filling them up in advance.

Users with existing campaigns, this has already been done for you. We pre-filled them for you based on the last social media action that you used in a campaign 😎

You can find default settings in Site > Settings > Default Social Profiles. You can change them anytime.

Quick Draws: Participation Limit Filter

You can now filter for participation on our Instagram Comment Picker tool using the participation limit filter.

Some times you might want to enforce a participation limit per user on an Instagram giveaway. Use this filter to limit the number of times a user can leave comments to count towards their chances of winning. When the filter is disabled, every comment that is entered from the same user stands a chance to be drawn as the winner. When you set a limit, only that number of entries are considered towards the winning draw.

This can help prevent spam entries from the same user.

Participation Limit filter in Gleam Instagram Comment Picker Tool
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