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.

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.

July 23, 2024

New Timed Bonus Action

We're excited to announce our new Timed Bonus Action actions for your Competitions.

The Timed Bonus Action allows you to award exclusive bonus entries to users who enter your campaign during a designated time period. This is an outstanding way to create a sense on urgency and drive more visitors to your contests and giveaways.

You can even require users to complete other actions to unlock your timed bonus entries, increasing engagement and boosting campaign entries.

Ready to take your giveaways to the next level?

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May 23, 2024

Improved Phone Number Field for User Details Form

We have improved the phone number field to allow users to pick their country code using a dropdown. You no longer need to validate the field using regex, and we'll pre-select the country code based on the user's location.

Phone number field in user details form for Gleam Competitions

May 20, 2024

New Discord Actions

We're thrilled to announce 2 powerful new Discord actions for your Competitions & Rewards: Discord Server Boost and Discord Server Role. These features unlock exciting possibilities for deeper community engagement and rewarding your most dedicated members.

  • Discord Server Boost: Motivate your community to Boost your server by rewarding them with Competition entries! This incentivizes members to come together and unlock performance boost and new features, which directly translates to a more vibrant community.
  • Discord Server Role: Recognize and reward your loyal supporters! Grant Competition entries to users with specific server roles. This allows you to create exclusive experiences for dedicated members and incentivize them to participate in specific server activities, such as verifying their identity, becoming a paid customer, becoming an affiliate, etc.

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

  • Multiple Server Rewards: Run Competitions where users can earn entries for joining multiple Discord servers you manage. This can be a great strategy for organizations with various sub-communities.
  • Create Entry Tiers with Roles: Assign different entry weights to different Discord server roles. For example, moderator roles might unlock more entries compared to standard roles.

Ready to take your Discord community to the next level?

Use our Discord Giveaway template to get started:

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