Import Actions Launched

For some time now we've allowed you to import #hashtags via the Select actions for Facebook/Twitter & Instagram. We've long felt like this was an awkward way to do things and have longed to improve this for quite some time.

Well, that time has come!

Import sources are designed to allow you to bring data into your campaign from external sources, we all know how difficult it can be to manage a campaign when you're collecting data or asking users to do something that doesn't involve the Gleam widget directly.

Today, we're super excited to launch Import Actions as a completely new and separate Action type which you'll see when setting up a Competition.

Here's what's new + what's changed:

• Select Actions are no longer used to setup Imports (yay!)
• Imports currently only support Images or Videos
• You can now import from Facebook Comments, Facebook Posts to Page, Instagram #hashtags, Instagram Locations, Tumblr #hashtags, Twitter #hashtags & YouTube #hashtags
• A number of the sources allow you to filter imports that only contain certain #hashtags
• Facebook Import Sources now require authenication (due to API changes), if you were using this previously you'll need to setup this action again
• Business plans will pull up to 500 historical imports then up to 250 per hour
• Premium plans will pull up to 1000 historical imports then up to 250 per hour
• Imports will respect the Start + End dates of your campaign
• You can setup a campaign to only import from an Import source (without the need to use the widget at all)
• Higher level plans can connect multiple campaigns to a Gallery
• We've got more import sources in the works 👋