What Are the Advantages of Drawing a Winner Live vs Offline?
Drawing a winner live helps build trust, increase transparency, and generate engagement, unlike offline draws which lack visibility. Expand this FAQ to learn the full benefits of live winner selection.
There is a clear advantage to drawing giveaway winners live rather than doing it offline and announcing later. When you run a live draw using Gleam’s Live Draw Competitions Template, you publicly showcase the entire selection process using a visual spinning wheel — boosting transparency and fairness.
Here’s how live draws compare to offline:
Live Draws:
- Public-facing and recordable
- Increases viewer trust
- Creates real-time excitement
- Ideal for livestreams, screencasts, or social media
- Offline Draws:
- No visibility into how the winner is selected
- Can lead to skepticism or low engagement
- Misses the opportunity to create buzz
If your goal is to build social proof and keep your audience actively involved, a live draw is the best method. You can even livestream or post the video to Instagram, Facebook, or YouTube to further increase reach.