Engage your audience and grow your YouTube channel with a fun and impactful YouTube Giveaway.
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YouTube Giveaway Template
Engage your audience and grow your YouTube channel with a fun and impactful YouTube Giveaway.
This template makes it easy for YouTubers to incentivise actions that drive growth, boost engagement, and keep viewers coming back for more content.
Running a YouTube giveaway is one of the best ways to grow YouTube traffic, promote your content across multiple social media platforms, and reward loyal subscribers. By offering exciting prizes, you can encourage fans to visit your channel, engage on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram, share your giveaway with friends, and even hunt for secret entry codes hidden in your videos.
With Gleam's Secret Code Actions you can hide codes inside your videos to reward loyal fans who pay close attention to your content. This drives higher watch time and encourages ongoing engagement with your channel.
What This Template Does
- Drives traffic to your channel with YouTube Visit Actions
- Builds cross-platform engagement through Facebook Visit Actions, Instagram Visit Actions, and X Follow Actions
- Encourages sharing with Viral Share Actions to amplify reach
- Rewards loyal viewers with Secret Code Actions hidden in your videos
- Adds gamification with Bonus Entry Actions and Loyalty Actions
- Captures leads with Giveaway List Subscription Actions
- Provides monetisation support via Patreon Visit Actions
Benefits of This Template
- Helps creators grow YouTube traffic with targeted entry actions
- Increases watch time by incentivising fans to look for codes in video descriptions or titles
- Promotes your YouTube content across multiple social media platforms
- Improves visibility in search results by boosting engagement signals that matter for YouTube’s algorithms
- Strengthens your marketing strategy by combining giveaways with lead generation and social proof
- Builds long-term loyalty by rewarding consistent viewers and subscribers
Who Should Use It
- YouTubers looking to grow YouTube channel subscribers quickly
- Creators seeking new ways to engage audiences with giveaways
- Brands wanting to promote YouTube videos as part of a content marketing strategy
- Marketers tying giveaways into SEO-friendly campaigns for YouTube search results
- Influencers who want to encourage viewers to share videos, engage on social media, and grow their community
Integration Support
- YouTube Integrations to boost visits and video engagement
- Facebook Visit Actions to expand visibility
- Instagram Visit Actions to increase reach
- X Integrations to build followers and encourage reposts
- Patreon Visit Actions for monetisation and fan support
Official Gleam Resources
- YouTube Channel Growth Blog Post – Strategies to grow subscribers and boost your channel.
- YouTube Guide – A step-by-step guide to optimising your YouTube marketing strategy.
- YouTube Rules Blog Post – Stay compliant with platform policies when running promotions.
- YouTube Giveaway Ideas Blog Post – Creative ideas to promote giveaways and grow your channel.
- Competition Installation Guide – Instructions for embedding or hosting your giveaway campaign.
Frequently Asked Questions
YouTube contests must follow platform policies, including disclosing official rules, offering free entry, and clearly stating YouTube is not affiliated with the promotion.
A compliant YouTube giveaway requires free entry, clear rules, and fair winner selection. Tools like Gleam help automate compliance and remove risk.
Use the YouTube subscribe link anywhere you want to increase subscribers—like in video descriptions, pinned comments, social bios, email footers, and contest CTAs.
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How to Set Up Your YouTube Giveaway
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Select the YouTube Giveaway Template in your Gleam dashboard
➡ Open the template here -
Define your prize and ensure it’s relevant to your target audience (e.g., gadgets, exclusive merch, or content-related bundles)
➡ See our prize ideas for inspiration -
Add essential actions such as YouTube Visits for channel traffic and Subscribe Actions for email leads
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Include Secret Code Actions hidden in your video descriptions or titles to increase watch time
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Promote cross-platform engagement with Facebook Visits, Instagram Visits, and X Follows or Retweets
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Incentivise viral growth by adding Viral Share Actions for referrals
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Reward loyalty with Bonus Entries and Loyalty Actions to keep fans returning
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Launch your campaign, share it on social media, and promote it in your video descriptions, community posts, and email newsletters
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Engage your audience and grow your YouTube channel with a fun and impactful YouTube Giveaway.