Gleam Apps Reviews

Social Networking Consumer Survey, Contest and Advertising Software

Comments: Typically, in my experience, one sees an advertisement, saying “Please press the link to Enter”. Upon entering Gleam gathers the users name, demographics and primary email. The Gleam software uses the “win a drawing” technique by permitting users to accumulate more new points/entries towards the Companies Prize Product and seamlessly cuts directly through to the users Social Media Aps such as Instagram, Facebook and Twitter. I have never won anything through a Gleam facilitated competition, so whether or not they ever have a prize is unknown by me.

Pros:

Gleam software is used by many online companies who seek to promote their service, industry or items. Typically, in my experience, one sees an advertisement, saying “Please press the link to Enter”. Upon entering Gleam gathers the users name, demographics and primary email. The Gleam software uses the “win a drawing” technique by permitting users to accumulate more new points/entries towards the Companies Prize Product and seamlessly cuts directly through to the users Social Media Aps such as Instagram, Facebook and Twitter. It navigates the user towards prize points while exposing itself as having a reputable product.

Cons:

Gleam is often not enjoyable, as it can often lead the user back to the beginning, not counting the accumulated points and causing the user to redo each step of the entry process again.

The quickest way to launch a contest

Comments: Gleam is great for what we've used it for, which has been competition entries and email address capture.

Pros:

It's very easy to set up and deploy and has a wide range of different entry mechanisms and different types of functionality.

Cons:

There is VERY little you can do to disguise that this is a Gleam app and everything you do tends to look the same. It's not necessarily a bad thing but if you are looking for deep customisation of the look and feel, this may not be for you. There may be ways to do it by modifying style sheets or javascript but if you're looking to make changes in a high level user interface, you are limited to images, colours and icons.

Widely Used but Needs Improvement

Comments: I like Gleam but there are many giveaway app options now.

Pros:

The system is initially very easy to use and understand. It's easy to also quickly create a new giveaway.

Cons:

The thing I like the least is their non-requirement of an official rules page. There are many organizations that are creating phony giveaways without any official rules info or pages. Gleam needs to require some basic official rules info such as company name and contact. Not requiring this info makes their app a potential haven for con artists.

Fantastic support, even on weekends

Comments: Support helped me set it up, and continued holding my hand once it went live

Pros:

I like how responsive support is, even on weekends.

Cons:

Too many choices. It can be very confusing.

Been using this for many years and can't think of anything better for this job

Comments: I'm Serkan and I have been hosting giveaways in the gaming industry for about 5 years now (most notably video games and Gift Cards) - very early into my ventures, I've come across Gleam.io and used it while working with dozens of influencers, communities and different companies to grow various website user bases and social media accounts effectively using giveaways. Shortly after, I founded vLoot.io and Gleam.io has been the backbone of our website ever since as all of our on-site giveaways run using their giveaway tool. For the last few years, I've been using their Pro plan for the Gleam Competitions and the Gleam Rewards feature and I'm more than happy with the different campaign entry methods and possibilities that this tier gives me access to. In late 2021, I joined their small Beta Tester Discord Server where several Staff members were active when it came to listening to your feedback/questions and helping you accordingly. I've reported performance related issues and visual problems here in the past and had a developer get back to me who fixed the issue within a reasonable time frame - their official support channels satisfied me as well in the two instances where I contacted them in all these years. One of my favorite experiences with Gleam was actually when their [sensitive content hidden] manually looked into an issue that I was facing with fake accounts entering my giveaways and manually sorted out a solution to resolve this problem for me. There are no real issues I've had with Gleam aside from the few mentioned brief performance or visual bugs that get resolved quickly and I can confidently recommend you to make use of their service if you would like to commercially run giveaways and reward campaigns as there's no better tool out there as of right now. For non-profit companies or smaller businesses/influencers, their free tier should do a good job when it comes to giving you a taste of what Gleam campaigns are capable of.

Pros:

It does the job so much better than any competitor, offers me great tools to get creative with, good analytics and settings and a fantastic support team.

Cons:

Sometimes I ran into minor bugs that were fixed quickly however - aside from that, I assume that the pricing may be too expensive for their paid plans if you are a non profit/a small influencer but aside from that I can't really think of anything remotely negative.

The Premium Option

Comments: Giveaways and competitions. It is a wonderful application to use, however we opted for another service due to the high cost. Since we don't do competitions and giveaways regularly the cost outweighed the benefit in the short term

Pros:

It is a well known platform, trusted by a ton of users on the internet and has essentially become a brand name when it comes to online giveaways, competitions etc.

Cons:

However great the platform is, is comes at a price and is a pretty expensive solutions should you opt for the subscription.

Easy Contests and Giveaways

Comments: I have entered many giveaways and contests through Gleam very easily (haven't own anything though). The interface is very simple and easy to understand, and it shows you how many entries you have earned out of how many are possible on the top. Overall very efficient software for giveaways and contests.

Pros:

This software allows you to enter into contests and giveaways by collecting entries. It has a list of tasks with the number of entries you will earn for completing beside each one. Once you click on and complete a task, it is checked off and your entries are added together on the top.

Cons:

What I liked least is that most of the tasks for the giveaways I have entered through this software involve signing up for newsletters and liking and following certain pages on social media. This leads to a lot of spam and cluttered news feeds. This isn't really a problem with the software though, except for the fact that it does what it is supposed to do. Another thing is that every contest I have entered looks exactly the same, it seems there isn't much customization available.

Love it!

Comments: Best site ever for making comps ect! Amazing so easy to use and integrate, super helpful with customer service 100% recommend!!

Pros:

Best site ever for making comps ect! Amazing so easy to use and integrate, super helpful with customer service 100% recommend!!

Cons:

None. Absolutely loved it super easy and simple to use

Giveaways on Gleam

Pros:

Gleam is a great way to host giveaways on blogs. They offer a lot of different types of entries that I hadn't thought of plus I can create my own entry option.

Cons:

I wish I could add more entries with the free option.

Great, but very expensive

Pros:

I like the variety of its features and tons of integrations, as well as language support and flexibility when creating different types of contests.

Cons:

The value for money is low, and there are other options with the same capabilities, similar UX/UI for much less price per month.

Ubiquitous Software for Giveaways That Is Frustrating to Use

Comments: I use Gleam regularly because I tend to enter a few free giveaways each week. However, I loathe the process that Gleam puts me through in order to complete the giveaway.

Pros:

What I like about this software from an enduser’s experience is that it collects my data, stores it, and allows me to use it in my next user experience. I also like that it helps me to enter giveaways and sends me to all of the merchant Web sites with ease.

Cons:

What I like least is that with giveaways, the software sends me to merchant sites to like or follow their social media pages with no clear or simple way back to the software site to finish entering the giveaway. This process is tedious and frustrating for that reason.

Customer service VERY responsive

Pros:

Easy to set up sweepstakes, when needed fast answers customer service was amazing.

Cons:

Some things could be better explained for planned actions - ex secret code must be published independently

Great App for Give Aways

Comments: I enjoy the Gleam App and recommend it.

Pros:

What I enjoy most about Gleam is how effective it is for give aways. It allows for users to link to, follow, and subscribe to multiple give-away sponsors, track entries, and more.

Cons:

What I like least is that when using Gleam through third party apps like IG and Facebook, the app will open new browser windows in order to send you to sponsor Web sites, but, then, does not offer the clearest way back to the actual browser for the give-away. This is not a terrible thing, and, perhaps, unavoidable.

Great experience that [sensitive content hidden] help to deal with the issue.

Pros:

It's easy to set up. And could link to lots of site

Cons:

There is less and less function that it's not conveniect sometimes

Best Giveaway Site

Pros:

I can choose the options I want on the site, which has control over all social media channels. I can direct people not only to a single social media channel but to multiple social media accounts. I think this is the most important feature.

Cons:

İt is very expensive if you live in Turkey. 1 dolar = 27 TL

Quality and confidence

Pros:

All the features I wanted were ready to use and pretty streamlined.

Cons:

Pricey if using infrequently. I used it less than monthly and it was hard to justify.

Una app de sorteos para capatar audiencia

Comments: Realizar sorteos es algo que a formado parte de las estrategias de marketing para captar nuevos leads, y en este sentido Gleam Apps ha sido la herramienta perfecta para poder tener todo organizado y controlodo en solo unos pocos pasos, evitando el dolor de cabeza de tener que llevar todo manualmente.

Pros:

Uno de los puntos mas sobresalientes de Gleam Apps es el increible alcance que puede tener sus campañas a travez de las redes sociales , esto ha sido crucial y los resultados son excelentes, ademas de que es sencillo de configurar.

Cons:

no tengo quejas sobre gleam apps, sin embargo algo que podria mejorar es la presentacion del creativo para los sorteos , la cual es muy simple y no tan vistosa

Una herramienta dinamica para captar leads

Comments: Gleam es una herramienta que me a permitido generar de forma muy rapida concursos y sorteos para captar leads en mis estrategias de marketing. Es muy versatil , facil de usar y los resultados a nivel de coversion son exponenciales, da muy buenos resultados.

Pros:

Una de las cosas que mas me gusta de Gleam es la cantidad de opciones que ofrece para que los participantes puedan entrar en los sorteos, incluso varias plantillas incluyen algunas funciones que no estan disponibles en laversion gratuita y que se pueden aprovechar perfectamente.

Cons:

La principal desventaja que he encontrado en Gleam es que a pesar de contar con muchas funciones que podemos utilizar, muchas de estas no son del todo personaliszables como por ejemplo los formularios. Este es un apartado en que pueden mejorar.