Grow Your Audience With Social Media

Learn how to use social platforms to grow your audience, increase engagement, and promote your campaigns. Explore practical guides for running giveaways, working with influencers, building communities, and getting more from platforms like Instagram, YouTube, Reddit, Threads, Telegram, and more.

How to Create a Social Media Contest (Step by Step)

Run a social media contest step by step, from goal and prize to entry actions, rules, promotion, picking a winner and follow-up.

Eduardo Cabrera · 7 min read

How To Run A Tumblr Giveaway With Gleam

Run a Tumblr giveaway that feels native to the platform. Learn how to set up entry actions, track entries and pick winners fairly.

Charlotte is on the Marketing team at Gleam.
Charlotte · 3 min read

How To Run a Threads Giveaway With Gleam

Run a Threads giveaway with Gleam's Competitions app. Learn how to drive entries, collect proof of entry and stay within Meta's rules.

Charlotte is on the Marketing team at Gleam.
Charlotte · 2 min read

How to Run a Reddit Giveaway With Gleam

Reddit has strict rules and sceptical communities. Learn how to run a creative, rule-compliant Reddit giveaway that builds trust.

Charlotte is on the Marketing team at Gleam.
Charlotte · 2 min read

How to Grow and Engage Your Audience With a Telegram Channel

Build a Telegram channel your fans stick with. Content ideas, growth tactics and how to use giveaways to keep people engaged.

Charlotte is on the Marketing team at Gleam.
Charlotte · 2 min read

5 Steps To Running A YouTube Giveaway With Gleam

A 5-step guide to running a YouTube giveaway with Gleam, from picking entry Actions YouTube allows to drawing winners fairly.

Charlotte is on the Marketing team at Gleam.
Charlotte · 2 min read
Master the art of running a successful YouTube giveaway to engage and grow your audience.

How To Run a YouTube Giveaway

Run a YouTube giveaway step by step. Learn YouTube's giveaway rules, how to pick a winner and how to get the best results.

Charlotte is on the Marketing team at Gleam.
Charlotte · 3 min read

How To Run a Scavenger Hunt with Gleam

Hide clues and secret codes for people to hunt down, then reward the ones who find them. Here's how to run a scavenger hunt in Gleam.

Charlotte is on the Marketing team at Gleam.
Charlotte · 2 min read

How to Grow Your YouTube Channel with Gleam

Learn how to run giveaway campaigns and collect user-generated content to promote and grow your YouTube channel with Gleam.

Charlotte is on the Marketing team at Gleam.
Charlotte · 3 min read

How To Grow On Instagram With Gleam

Grow your Instagram account with Gleam. Learn the giveaway and Rewards strategies that bring in new followers.

Charlotte is on the Marketing team at Gleam.
Charlotte · 3 min read

How To Promote a Fitness Business With Gleam

Promote your fitness business with awesome giveaways, rewards, user-generated content, and more!

Charlotte is on the Marketing team at Gleam.
Charlotte · 6 min read

How To Run An Instagram Photo Contest With Gleam

Run an Instagram photo contest with a Gleam template. Learn how to collect photo entries and show the best ones in a Gallery.

Charlotte is on the Marketing team at Gleam.
Charlotte · 6 min read

How to Run a Facebook Timeline Contest

Run a contest on your Facebook timeline. Learn how to set it up, collect entries from comments and pick a winner fairly.

Stuart McKeown · 1 min read

How To Get More Followers On X

Learn how Gleam can help you get more followers on Twitter / X with this simple guide.

Ahron is Product Manager at Gleam.
Ahron Burstin · 1 min read

How To Run A Twitter / X Contest

Run a Twitter / X contest that grows your following. Learn how to set it up in Gleam, from entry actions to picking a winner.

Ahron is Product Manager at Gleam.
Ahron Burstin · 6 min read

How to Run a Pinterest Contest

Get your hands on this simple guide to help you run a successful Pinterest contest. Get started in just 5 minutes.

Charlotte is on the Marketing team at Gleam.
Charlotte · 17 min read

How to Run Instagram Contests

How to run an Instagram contest: the rules, entry actions, contest ideas, and picking a winner fairly with Gleam.

Ahron is Product Manager at Gleam.
Ahron Burstin · 6 min read

How to Partner With Influencers To Run Campaigns

Partner with influencers to put your brand in front of a new audience. Learn how to run Gleam campaigns with them.

Stuart McKeown · 3 min read

How to Promote Your YouTube Contest

Learn everything you need to know about promoting your YouTube contests with our helpful guide.

Charlotte is on the Marketing team at Gleam.
Charlotte · 4 min read

How to Promote Your Contest on Twitter

Learn everything you need to know about promoting a contest or giveaway on Twitter with our helpful guide.

Charlotte is on the Marketing team at Gleam.
Charlotte · 7 min read

How Do I Promote My Instagram Giveaway?

How to promote an Instagram contest or giveaway: bio links, Stories, cross-channel promotion, and driving more entries with Gleam.

Stuart McKeown · 7 min read

How to Promote Your Contest on Facebook

Learn everything you need to know about promoting a contest or giveaway on Facebook with our helpful guide.

Ahron is Product Manager at Gleam.
Ahron Burstin · 7 min read

How To Get More Facebook Likes With Gleam

Want more likes on your Facebook Page? Learn how to use Gleam giveaways to bring more people to your Page.

Stuart McKeown · 2 min read

How to Run a Facebook Contest

Learn everything you need to know about running a successful Facebook contest or giveaway with this helpful guide.

Ahron is Product Manager at Gleam.
Ahron Burstin · 2 min read

Creating A Refer A Friend Reward With Gleam

Use a Gleam Reward to get people to refer friends who can redeem it too. The setup is tricky, so here's how to configure it.

Stuart McKeown · 6 min read

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