Gleam Integration Updates

You can now sign up for a free account with Gleam using your Google account.

The Instagram Basic Display API by Meta has been deprecated in December 2024, which means personal Instagram accounts are no longer supported via the official API.

We are unfortunately no longer able to support the following actions:

• Submit Media > Instagram action
• Instagram > Select a Photo actions
• Social media account verification for contestants via Instagram login

We understand that these changes deeply affect customers who are running Instagram photo contests. We are currently experimenting with how you can continue running photo contest campaigns on Instagram. In the meantime, we apologise for the inconvenience.

You can now use Gleam campaigns to grow your newsletter audience on Beehiiv.

Our new integration allows you to seamlessly send Competitions, Rewards, or Capture users to Beehiiv so you can focus on growing your publication.

The Beehiiv integration is available on all Pro plans.

Following the deprecation of Facebook Pages Custom Tab API, we will no longer be able to support installing Competition campaigns or Gallery campaigns on a Facebook tab.

As an alternative, you can continue to link Competition campaigns on Facebook using your hosted landing page or host it on your own website to own your traffic.

YouTube has made updates to its Community Guidelines and is now enforcing them via Strikes on creators who link out to certain sites via their video descriptions.

One of the guidelines updates sits under Spam, deceptive practices & scams policies:

Incentivization Spam: Content that sells engagement metrics such as views, likes, comments, or any other metric on YouTube. This also includes content where the only purpose is to boost subscribers, views, or other metrics (e.g., “sub4sub” content).

Based on this update you are no longer allowed to link to a Gleam campaign that asks users to Subscribe, Comment or perform any other action that boosts metrics on YouTube.

We've contacted YouTube for more clarification on these policies before we make changes to the platform, we do feel this update (& enforcement) causes a number of problems for Creators (and YouTube):

• Creators will no longer have a precise & legal way of drawing winners for giveaways
• The Community Guideline & Contest rules conflict with each other (are Creators still allowed to ask for subs on giveaways that don't link externally, if so how can they fairly draw a winner?)
• Creators may get a Community Guideline strike for campaigns in descriptions that already exist
• These rules only appear to be enforced inside YouTube, there's nothing preventing a Creator running their campaign on Twitter and ignoring YouTube completely
• Gleam campaigns will mostly consist of ways to enter that don't involve YouTube anymore
• Creators will no longer be sending traffic to their YouTube video externally from campaigns
• It will be much harder to partner with other creators or brands and run giveaways

For now we recommend that you remove any Actions that incentivize users to perform an action on YouTube if you are linking to a Gleam campaign from your YouTube descriptions - until we have more clarity on what is & isn't allowed.

We're currently working on changes to bring campaigns into compliance & will send out an email to all Creators once they are ready to roll out.

Once that happens we'll try to roll out more features for Creators to continue running compliant & legal campaigns on YouTube.

Our new Custom Field Sync feature now supports ActiveCampaign.

Our new Custom Field Sync feature now supports Campaign Monitor and Klaviyo.

Our new Custom Field Sync feature now supports AWeber (and more providers on the way) 🕺

We no longer allow you to use Amazon Associates links in campaigns, you must link directly to the products without these tags.

We've added a new email provider for you to play with :)

We've rolled out the BETA of our Zapier integration. This will allow you to sync data from Gleam to any of Zapiers supported providers.

We now support users that use Drip as their email provider of choice. You can tag users from Gleam and send them straight into your Drip automations from any of our apps.

Both of these Integrations are available on Pro and above.

We've launched another integration with Benchmark Email.

We've launched another two new integrations with email providers.

This integration will replace EmailDirect (which has now been phased out).

On November 17th, Instagram made changes to their API Policy to disallow direct incentivization of actions in 3rd party apps.

From 1st June the Instagram Follow action and Instagram Like action will no longer be available inside Gleam.

• Instagram Follow will be replaced with an Instagram Visit action
• If you have existing Follow actions in your campaign they will automatically be updated to Visit actions
• If you have existing Like actions in your campaign they will automatically be updated to View actions

We have recently been approved by Pinterest to directly use their API, this means we need to ensure our actions are compliant with their policies.

From 1st June the Pinterest Follow action, Pin Image and Pin from Board actions will no longer be available inside Gleam.

• Pinterest Follow will be replaced with a Pinterest Visit action
• Pinterest Pin actions will be removed, this option will be available via the Viral Share action now
• There will be 4 new actions introduced: Pinterest Entry, Visit on Pinterest, Select a Pin, Create a Board

We've just launched an integration with two highly requested email providers.

We've added support for 6 new email providers, they work will all campaign types.

We've added MailerLite to our list of supported email providers. Works on all campaigns including Competitions, Rewards and Captures.

New email provider added: Silverpop

Silverpop will work will all existing apps, including Capture.

New CRM provider added: Highrise

Highrise will work will all existing apps, including Capture.

New email provider added: Sendy

Sendy will work will all existing apps, including Capture.

New email provider added: ExactTarget

ExactTarget will work will all existing apps, including Capture.

New email provider added: iContact

iContact will work will all existing apps, including Capture.

You can now tag your emails in Vero from Gleam campaigns.

We're continuing to roll out more support for email providers:

• Bronto
• Emma
• HubSpot
• Klaviyo
• Unbounce
• Zoho

We've added a number of new supported email providers (with more on the way):

• GetResponse
• Infusionsoft
• Mad Mimi
• Salesforce

Today we have released an integration for FullScreen creators to use the Gleam platform for competitions within YouTube.

Another integration added, you can now instantly send users from contests to any Campaign Monitor list that you want!

Today we launched our official integration with Shopify, you can install Gleam from within your store admin & start building your business with action based marketing :)

You can now connect your Bit.ly account to Gleam, this means that we will use your Bit.ly account to shorten all viral referral links that we create. This will also work if you have completely custom branded Bit.ly links.