What is the Difference Between Entries and Actions?
Inside your Competition's page you will find an Entries / Actions tab that shows you how many Entries and Actions your Competition has received.
Actions are the steps entrants take in Gleam campaigns to earn entries or unlock rewards — subscribing, visiting, following, answering questions. Most are auto-verified, a few need manual checking. Click to expand for the full breakdown.
Actions refer to the total amount of times an entry method has been completed in your Competition.
For example, Twitter Follow, Subscribe to an Email are actions that can be completed in exchange for entries.
Gleam Competitions support 90+ entry methods across email, social, video, gaming, and custom actions. Most are verified automatically — a handful need manual winner verification due to platform API limits. Click to expand for the full list.
When an action is completed, users will receive 1 or more entries depending on the value of the Worth # entries field in your Competition setup.
Entries are essentially "Chances to Win". Entries refer to the total number of chances your entrants have to win in your Competiiton.
When an entrant completes an action that is worth 5 entries, it means they completed 1 action, and received 5 entries/chances to win.
Let's say your Competition has a single Twitter Follow action worth 5 entries. When 100 users complete the action, your Competition would receive 100 actions, and 100 x 5 = 500 entries.
Under the Entries / Actions tab, you will find details about every individual action that has been completed in your Competition.
These details are:
- Who: This shows who completed the action, along with the information the user has agreed to share with you.
- Action: The action, or entry method completed by the user.
- Details: Any information submitted by the user via the User Details form or for that specific action. This could be a Tweet URL, @profile handle, photos, videos or Custom Field values.
- Where: The location of the user
- When: The time of entry. This shows in your local time, which can be configured in User Settings.
- Worth: The number of entries an action is worth, which can be configured during Competition setup.
- Status: Actions can have 3 statuses - Valid, Invalid and Winner.
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