March 4, 2025

Follow on Shop Action

We’re excited to introduce a brand-new way to grow your Shop following and boost engagement in your Competitions & Rewards campaigns - the Follow on Shop action!

The Follow on Shop action is avaliable on the Pro plan and above, and allows you to reward users for following your Shop. This is a powerful way for you build a loyal audience, increase visibility, and keep your brand top of mind.

Check out how you can supercharge your campaign:

  • Stack Actions for Greater Impact – Combine Follow on Shop with actions like Visit a Store or Make a Purchase to drive deeper engagement.
  • Boost Brand Loyalty – Use Follow on Shop as part of a tiered rewards system, offering bigger rewards to users who complete other high-value actions.
  • Send Gleam Leads to Shopify – Since Shop is powered by Shopify, you can use our integration to sync leads directly to your Shopify store, making it easier to retarget engaged users and grow your customer base.

Ready to take your Shop presence to the next level?

  Start Shop Campaign
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December 17, 2024

New Bluesky Actions

We're super excited to announce 5 powerful new Bluesky actions for your Competitions & Rewards: Like on Bluesky, Follow on Bluesky, Repost on Bluesky, Post on Bluesky, and Reply on Bluesky. These features unlock exciting opportunities to deepen engagement, grow your following, boost interaction, and reward your dedicated fans.

  • Like on Bluesky: Drive quick engagement by rewarding users for liking your post. A simple action that helps boost visibility and interaction.

  • Follow on Bluesky: Grow your audience by rewarding users for following you. This is an awesome way to build a loyal, engaged community on Bluesky.

  • Repost on Bluesky: Spread the word by encouraging users to repost your content. This is a super effective way of amplifying your reach and getting your campaign seen by more people.

  • Post on Bluesky: Asking users to post about your campaign is a fantastic way to generate organic buzz and increase brand awareness.

  • Reply on Bluesky: Start the conversation and incentivise users to reply to your posts. This is a great way of increasing interaction and keeping your content in the spotlight.

Here are some ideas on how you can take your Bluesky campaigns to the next level:

  • Stack Actions for Greater Engagement: Combine actions like Follow, Repost, and Reply to reward users for deeper interaction. For example, users can earn entries for following your account and replying to a specific post.

  • Encourage User-Generated Content: Encourage users to Post or Reply with unique content about your brand or campaign. This helps generate authentic buzz and reach new audiences.

  • Tiered Rewards for Engagement: Assign higher entry values to actions that drive more impact. For instance, reposting might earn more entries than simply liking a post, motivating users to go the extra mile.

Ready to take your Bluesky community to the next level?

Use our Bluesky Giveaway template to get started:

  Start Bluesky Campaign

September 30, 2024

Phone Number Verification + Twilio Integration

We're thrilled to announce a powerful new integration with Twilio, the industry-leading cloud communications platform. This integration unlocks exciting possibilities for your Gleam campaigns, as we release this integration with a new phone number verification feature.

Now, you can require contestants to verify their phone numbers before entering your Gleam campaign, ensuring:

  • Reduced fraud and abuse: Eliminate invalid entries and protect your campaigns from malicious activity.

  • New ways to reach your audience: Reach your real target audience with marketing campaigns, ensuring your messages reach the right people at the right time.

  • Unlock an effective marketing channel: Utilize verified phone numbers to send personalized SMS notifications and reminders, keeping participants informed and engaged throughout your competition.

With Twilio, you can now connect with your Gleam audience in a more meaningful way, allowing you to unlock a new marketing channel and to strengthen user data integrity.

The Twilio integration and phone number verification features are available for Gleam Competitions & Rewards on the Business plan and above.

September 5, 2024

New Gleam Subscriber Action

We're thrilled to introduce the new Gleam Subscriber Action, a new entry method to incentivize contestants to enter your campaigns and subscribe to future ones.

Running contest & giveaway promotions consistently is one of the best ways we know to grow your subscribers and to snowball your promotion efforts. For instance, here at Gleam we run promotions all year round and offer lots of exciting prizes to capture new audiences.

With the Gleam Subscriber Action, you can incentivize participants to subscribe to your Gleam Subscribers list in exchange for additional entries on your current campaign.

Gleam Verified Giveaways

The Gleam Subscribers list is a pool of all your participants who are already primed and excited to hear about your future campaigns, not to mention readily available to give your promotions a boost.

The Gleam Subscriber Action is available on the Free plan and above, and to utilise your Gleam Subscribers list, you'll need a Business plan to send out promotion emails.

August 15, 2024

Create entries via our Post API

Unlock new levels of automation and integration with our latest API updates!

We're excited to release new POST methods for our apps, allowing developers to streamline entry creation for Gleam via API:

With our new POST API, you can effortlessly gamify user actions in your app, automating entries without manual spreadsheets or complex workflows. Create new custom actions outside of Gleam's widgets and seamlessly integrate Gleam with your apps, websites, and systems. Add entries in real-time as users interact with your platform, ensuring a seamless experience that keeps both your app and Gleam in sync.

The Gleam API is available on Premium plans.

Want to start integrating but don't know where to start? Here are some ideas we have for our customers:

  • E-Commerce: Automatically create Competition or Reward entries when customers make a purchase.

  • Loyalty Programs: Automatically award Competition entries for customer actions like referrals or reviews.

  • Mobile Apps: Trigger Reward entries based on in-app actions or achievements.

  • Events: Create Capture entries automatically when attendees complete certain actions, like RSVPing or checking in.