Discord Giveaway Rules

Running a giveaway on Discord is a fantastic way to drive traffic and promote your Discord server.

It's a great way to build excitement around your channel and drive meaningful engagement with your audience.

Unlike Twitter or Instagram, Discord doesn’t have strict, formal giveaway rules. Instead, you need to follow general gambling laws, community guidelines, and standard social media rules. Finding all the details can take some digging, but we’ve done the work for you.

When you run a giveaway on Discord, you must clearly state the eligibility requirements of your campaign, for example:

• Age requirements
• Entry requirements (e.g. how people enter)
• The duration of the giveaway
• Geographical restrictions
• Anybody who cannot enter (e.g. employees and their families).

When determining the entry requirements of your giveaway, try to encourage meaningful actions such as joining, boosting, or unlocking a role in your Discord server.

Just make sure you're avoiding false engagement such as:

• Incentivising Server raids
• Encouraging engagement in return for a financial reward
• Letting people create fake or bot accounts to enter the giveaway.

All entries and activities in your giveaway must comply with Discord's Community Guidelines.

This includes things like only encouraging respectful behaviour, disqualifying entries with inappropriate or illegal content, and not allowing spam or misuse of Discord.

Make sure entries also respect third-party rights, like copyrights, and prioritise user safety and privacy. Be clear in your rules that breaking these guidelines could result in disqualification.

If your giveaway is monetised, like being sponsored, you need to be 18+, follow Discord's Monetisation Policy, and have two-factor authentication enabled.

Failing to stick to these rules could result in penalties, so make sure everything’s set up properly.

When you run a promotional giveaway on Discord or any other platform, it's important to make sure you are complying with relevant local laws.

For more information on contest and giveaway laws in the US, you can read our helpful guide right here.

The most important laws you'll need to follow are No Purchase Necessary laws, which dictate that you cannot require entrants to make a purchase or provide other forms of consideration without offering a free alternate method of entry.

You need to be careful about ensuring data privacy and any personal or sensitive information you collect is not publicly displayed, like email addresses or phone numbers.

You also must gain the explicit consent of entrants if you want to use content they submit for your marketing purposes.

When running a contest or giveaway on Discord, you must clearly state how the winner will be drawn.

It is a good idea to use an automated tool like a 3rd party software such as Gleam, or a Discord giveaway bot to ensure a fair process, when you select manually, it isn't truly random.

Some popuar giveaway bots for discord are GiveawayBot, MEE6, and Dyno.

Similarly to using a platform like Geam, giveaway bots help ensure compliance by automating fair, random winner selection, preventing spam or fake entries, and keeping the process transparent.

It's also a good idea to clearly state the odds of winning and that a purchase will not increase the chances of winning.

There are also some guidelines you'll need to follow when choosing your prize to give away:

• You must not give away or promote tobacco, alcohol, or other regulated items.
• You should provide clear prize details including approximate retail value, location restrictions, and any additional costs the winner may incur e.g. taxes.

When you run a prize promotion such as a contest, giveaway or sweepstakes on Discord, it's important to provide entrants with terms and conditions they can read through.

To keep things simple, you can use the Discord Master Sweepstakes rules as a template to create clear, concise, and thorough terms and conditions.

Anytime you create terms and conditions for a giveaway, it's a good idea to include the following:

• A liability release to protect yourself and your team.
• A statement allowing you to disqualify entrants if necessary (e.g., for rule violations).
• A disclaimer stating that Discord is not affiliated with, responsible for, or involved in the giveaway. This mainly just prevents confusion and ensures participants direct any queries to you.
• Information about the winner selection process, including how the winer will be notified and the timeframe they need to claim their prize within.

To make your life easier, we’ve created a ready-to-use template that generates terms and conditions compliant with Discord’s rules, saving you time and effort.

Gleam simplifies everything from setup to winner selection with tools for fair, transparent draws, customised entry methods, and a dedicated hosted landing page for you to promote your campaign.

You’ll boost engagement, stay compliant with privacy laws, and run a smooth, hassle-free giveaway while you can focus on the fun parts.

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