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Gleam Competitions
What it is
Gleam Competitions is software for running online contests intended to drive engagement and sales. Campaign formats include giveaways, sweepstakes, photo contests, raffles, and user-generated-content campaigns. Organizers can award entries for email subscriptions, social activity, comments, shares, hashtags, uploads, quizzes, coupon codes, and other actions across networks including Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, Twitch, and Spotify. Winners may be selected randomly, through an entries leaderboard, or by hand. Competitions can be embedded on websites, blogs, Shopify, Linktree, landing pages, or overlays. Tools include fraud detection, CAPTCHA, custom forms and CSS, first-party data collection, voting, moderation, reporting, and support for more than 25 languages. The Free plan costs nothing and allows unlimited campaigns and entries, with up to 10 winners per campaign, one repeat action, and one team member. Paid plans include Hobby at $29 a month, Pro at $59 a month, Business at $179 a month, and Premium at $499 a month. Zapier is available on Pro and above and currently requires a Subscribe to Newsletter action.
For and against
For
- Supports multiple contest and campaign formats.
- Winners can be random, leaderboard-based, or hand-picked.
- Campaigns can be embedded across several site types.
- Includes voting, moderation, analytics, and reporting.
- Free plan allows unlimited campaigns and entries.
Against
- Free plan allows 10 winners per campaign.
- Free plan includes one team member.
- Zapier requires Pro or above.
- Zapier currently requires a Subscribe to Newsletter action.
The verdict
Gleam Competitions combines contest creation, entry actions, winner selection, and campaign tools. The Free plan has winner and team-member limits, while paid options range from $29 to $499 a month.
Who it suits
Gleam Competitions may suit bloggers, online stores, agencies, marketing managers, and publishers running online contests. Its plan limits may matter to organizers needing more winners, prizes, or team members.
Plans and prices
Free
unlimited campaigns · 20+ entry types · up to 10 winners · winner contact data
Read 15 Oct 2026 · g2.com
Hobby
unlimited campaigns · full entry data · up to 25 winners annually (15 monthly) · up to 5 prizes annually (4 monthly)
Read 15 Oct 2026 · g2.com
Pro (Competitions)
email and CRM integrations · up to 100 winners annually (50 monthly) · up to 20 prizes annually (10 monthly) · viral sharing
Read 15 Oct 2026 · g2.com
Business (Competitions)
remove Gleam branding · team seats · custom CSS and fields · HTML emails
Read 15 Oct 2026 · g2.com
Premium
webhooks · custom SMTP · beta API access · whitelabel social apps
Read 15 Oct 2026 · g2.com
Pro
50 winners · 10 prizes · repeat action limit 5 · manual winners
Read 30 Sep 2026 · gleam.io
Pro
100 winners · 20 prizes · repeat action limit 10 · manual winners
Read 30 Sep 2026 · gleam.io
Business
250 winners · 25 prizes · 3 team members · custom CSS
Read 30 Sep 2026 · gleam.io
Business
500 winners · 50 prizes · 6 team members · custom CSS
Read 30 Sep 2026 · gleam.io
On the record
- Audience
- Gleam describes Competitions as suitable for bloggers, online stores, agencies, marketing managers and publishers.gleam.io · read 30 Sep 2026
- Campaign customization
- Campaigns support custom colors, themes, images, elements, CSS and white-labeling depending on plan.gleam.io · read 15 Oct 2026
- Company
- Gleam is an independent Australian SaaS company based in Melbourne with a fully remote team.gleam.io · read 30 Sep 2026
- Custom actions
- Custom actions let administrators define entry tasks and verify them by confirmation, questions, regular expressions or tracking.gleam.io · read 15 Oct 2026
- Deployment options
- Campaigns can be embedded on websites, blogs, Shopify, Linktree, landing pages and overlays, or hosted on a Gleam landing page.gleam.io · read 15 Oct 2026
- Documentation coverage
- The help center includes setup, installation, reporting, post-campaign winner draws, quick draws, entries and integrations sections.gleam.io · read 15 Oct 2026
- Email-list growth
- Entry forms can collect leads and synchronize them with an email list.gleam.io · read 15 Oct 2026
- Encryption
- Gleam states that data at rest uses AES-256 encryption and data in transit uses TLS 1.2, with passwords hashed using BCrypt.gleam.io · read 30 Sep 2026
- Features
- The product includes fraud detection, smart CAPTCHA, first-party data collection, custom forms, custom CSS and 25+ languages.gleam.io · read 30 Sep 2026
- Fraud controls
- The product advertises automatic monitoring and detection of suspicious campaign activity.gleam.io · read 15 Oct 2026
- Infrastructure
- The platform is hosted on Amazon Web Services with daily snapshots, multiple Oregon availability zones and disaster recovery systems in Ohio.gleam.io · read 30 Sep 2026
- Installation
- Competitions can be embedded on websites, contest landing pages, blogs, Shopify, Linktree or overlays.gleam.io · read 30 Sep 2026
- Integrations
- Gleam lists more than 100 integrations, including Mailchimp, Klaviyo, HubSpot, Shopify, Zapier, Salesforce, Discord, TikTok and YouTube.gleam.io · read 15 Oct 2026
- JavaScript tracking API
- Business plans can use a JavaScript tracking script to unlock custom actions after conversions on an external site.gleam.io · read 15 Oct 2026
- Languages
- Gleam says competitions can be translated into more than 25 languages.gleam.io · read 15 Oct 2026
- Limit: account and billing complaints
- Trustpilot reviews include complaints about unexpected account deletion and difficulty finding unsubscribe controls.trustpilot.com · read 15 Oct 2026
- Limit: analytics
- A G2 reviewer said the basic giveaway metrics lacked deeper tracking and analytics.g2.com · read 15 Oct 2026
- Limit: contest abuse
- A G2 reviewer said users could manipulate entries without completing the required tasks.g2.com · read 15 Oct 2026
