Engage your audience and grow your reach with a Halloween Giveaway.
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Halloween Contest Template
Engage your audience and grow your reach with a Halloween Giveaway.
This template makes it easy to run a Halloween contest that drives participation, generates leads, and increases excitement around your seasonal promotions.
Halloween, celebrated every year on October 31st, is one of the best times to capture attention with a themed giveaway. By running a Halloween competition, you can encourage participants to subscribe to your mailing list, follow your social media, visit your website, or share your campaign with friends in exchange for entries.
A sweepstakes adds extra holiday fun while providing you with valuable data and engagement. It’s also flexible—you can choose which actions are most valuable to your business, from boosting followers to driving traffic.
Make sure to include official rules and a clear winner notification process in your contest post. Transparency builds trust with participants and ensures compliance with sweepstakes requirements.
What This Template Does
- Captures leads with Subscribe Actions to build your email list
- Promotes traffic to landing pages with Visit Actions
- Expands reach with Facebook Visit Actions, Instagram Visit Actions, and X Follow Actions
- Rewards attention with Secret Code Actions to gamify participation
- Amplifies growth with Viral Share Actions for referrals
- Provides extra motivation with Bonus Entry Actions and Loyalty Actions
Benefits of This Template
- Boosts engagement and reach across multiple social media platforms
- Helps you generate leads and gather participant email addresses
- Increases brand awareness during a high-energy seasonal event
- Provides flexibility to incentivise the actions that matter most to your business
- Builds long-term loyalty with bonus and loyalty rewards
Who Should Use It
- E-commerce brands promoting Halloween costumes or themed products
- Retailers looking to run a Halloween competition to grow social followers
- Businesses wanting to increase traffic to seasonal landing pages
- Marketers aiming to collect leads while offering a fun, interactive Halloween giveaway
Integration Support
- Subscribe Actions to collect participant emails
- Visit Actions to send traffic to your website
- Facebook Visit Actions and Instagram Visit Actions for social growth
- X Follow Actions to build visibility on X
- Secret Code Actions to gamify sweepstakes
- Viral Share Actions to expand reach through referrals
- Bonus Entry Actions and Loyalty Actions to reward participants
Official Gleam Resources
- Giveaway Ideas Blog Post – Creative inspiration for running seasonal contests.
- Prize Ideas Blog Post – Suggestions for prizes including vouchers, bundles, and themed rewards.
- Competition Installation Guide – Step-by-step instructions for installing or embedding your contest.
Frequently Asked Questions
Combine the Halloween Costume Contest Template with the Upload Action to collect photos and display them in a gallery. Click to learn how it works.
Prizes like candy bundles, costumes, spooky decor, or event tickets make Halloween giveaways exciting. Click for more ideas.
Promote your Halloween giveaway with festive visuals, influencer partnerships, and social media campaigns. Click for a step-by-step guide.
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How to Set Up Your Halloween Sweepstakes
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Select the Halloween Sweepstakes Giveaway Template in your Gleam dashboard
➡ Open the template here -
Define your prize (e.g., themed bundles, Halloween costumes, or vouchers) and outline official rules
➡ See our prize ideas for inspiration -
Configure Subscribe Actions to collect participant email addresses
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Add Visit Actions to direct participants to seasonal landing pages
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Drive social engagement with Facebook Visits, Instagram Visits, and X Follows
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Gamify your campaign with Secret Code Actions and incentivise sharing with Viral Share Actions
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Reward active participants with Bonus Entry Actions and Loyalty Actions
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Run a random drawing to pick a winner and notify them clearly according to your contest rules