Why run a Halloween giveaway on social media?
A quick Halloween giveaway on social media is fun for your followers – but what’s in it for you?
Most people now research, review, and recommend purchases online. In fact, social media is one of the most effective tools for generating sales leads! So your online presence is vitally important. But as social media algorithms get smarter, the trick isn’t just increasing your follower count – you need to create meaningful engagement and interactions, too. And this is where Halloween social media giveaways come into play.
We know that social media users love rewards. Creating a link between your brand and Halloween will bring about engagement, interactions, and visibility on Facebook, Instagram, and/or X.
Here are our favorite Halloween giveaway ideas for social media that will activate your audience and drive sales… without breaking the bank. Take a look!
Halloween giveaway ideas for Instagram: generate engagement with comment contests
Comment contests and competitions are extremely popular on Instagram. With its focus on visual content, Instagram is the perfect channel for a hair-raising Halloween giveaway.
Unlike on Facebook, you can encourage your followers to follow your page and tag their friends. So a Halloween Instagram giveaway is a powerful method of reaching new people and making your posts more visible. Just don’t overdo it! We recommend setting a limit of 3-5 tags per follower so that your giveaway doesn’t get taken over by spam.
Here’s a great example of how to clearly show off the prizes involved in your giveaway. Once again, the brand in question didn’t have a direct connection to Halloween. But they dressed up this bundle of prizes with some Halloween décor. Then followers were asked to comment and tag two friends. These requirements not only grew the brand’s following but also improved its social media presence.
Do you need more Halloween giveaway ideas? No problem, here comes another one! The next example shows you how an influencer teamed up with two other brands to run an Instagram Halloween giveaway. The requirements were super easy, as participants were only asked to follow the organizing account and tag friends and family.
It was a great way to increase the social media following of both brands and improve product awareness.
Use our free Instagram Halloween giveaway template to create an instant comment-based giveaway.
Halloween Giveaway on Instagram Stories
As much as the build-up to Halloween may span for several days, its peak is concentrated on ons single day, October 31. The ephemeral nature of Instagram Stories match this kind of campaign perfectly. The good news? With Easypromos it is now possible to run 100% legit, trustworthy, and fully automated Isntagram Stories giveaways!
There are two possible participation dynamics for your Instagram Giveaway:
- Ask participants to reply to a Story posted by your brand. You can add a specific #hashtag for your giveaway to facilitate filtering participations and selecting only those related to your giveaway.
- Ask participants to post a Story on their profiles mentioning your brand. It’s important to keep in mind that participants’ accounts must be set to public for you to be able to later collect them and pick a winner.
Once you’ve decided on either of the participation dynamics, just state the participation requirements clearly and post a photo or reel on your feed to promote your giveaway.
Check out these ideas on how to boost your Halloween sales.
Creative Halloween giveaway ideas for Facebook
Facebook continues to be the social network with the biggest global reach. So perhaps it’s not surprising that Halloween Facebook giveaways are popular and effective!
Start with a simple Facebook giveaway for your Halloween raffle and ask your audience to enter your Halloween giveaway by commenting on the promotional post. Take a look at the first example from Sign Up Genius. They asked Facebook users to enter the Halloween giveaway by naming their favorite Halloween candy in the comment section.
Ask your followers to comment with their ideas, opinions, or answers to open-ended questions, which encourage real conversations and as a result, boost engagement. Then you can run a random prize draw for everyone who participates, like in the following example of a Facebook Halloween giveaway from Redring at Home.
Although the brand didn’t have a direct connection with Halloween, they teamed up with cosmetics brand Lush to offer some spooky treats. And they chose a competition question that tested their followers’ expertise in scary films – the Halloween classic!
Teaming up with another brand to run a Halloween giveaway can be a great way to boost your brand! It’s a perfect way to grow off of each other’s audience and reach new customers. Two organizing brands can offer a more attractive prize to attract even more participants!
Here’s another idea for a Halloween raffle on social media – and you can collect user-generated content at the same time. Instead of commenting with text, ask your followers to share Halloween photos in the comments.
We like this fun example from a pizza chain. They joined in the party with a Halloween costume contest. Followers had the chance to win a free meal – and the brand kicked off the competition with a human-sized pizza outfit. It was a witty way to showcase their brand and boost engagement at the same time.
Here’s another Halloween giveaway idea for Facebook. If you’re not looking to convert followers into leads you can launch a quiz-style Halloween giveaway the way Cooking Diary did. They asked participants to guess where the “odd pumpkin” was. It generated competitiveness, boosted engagement, and reinforced brand recall.
Have you found your favorite Halloween giveaway idea already? You can use our Facebook Halloween giveaway template to launch your own comment-to-win promotion in seconds!
Multi-Network Giveaway
Picking the social media platform to run your giveaway is key to its success. So, knowing your audience as you surely do, it will be clear to you whether to run your giveaway on Instagram or Facebook. But what if your follower base stretches across both platforms? Well, we’ve got just the right tool so you can run a single giveaway on both networks. With the Multi-Network giveaway app, simply post your giveaway on both Instagram and Facebook as you would with a single network giveaway. When it’s time to pick the winners, you will be able to collect all participants into a single prize draw from your Easypromos account control panel.
Take a look at the example above, where Halloween Costumes launched a collaborative giveaway with Kellogg’s waffle brand Eggo. To participate, users simply had to comment on the post how they liked to have their Eggo waffles for the chance to win a costume. Oh, and did we mention that Easypromos also makes it possible to importa participants from organic and promoted posts, as well as from collaborating brand’s profiles into a single random prize draw?
Halloween giveaway ideas for X
If you opt for a Twitter giveaway, you can ask followers to retweet, reply, or mention your brand to participate. Let’s take a look at some Halloween giveaway ideas that might help you get started with your promotion.
A college society ran a simple retweets giveaway. If followers shared the tweet on their timeline, they could win two free tickets to a Halloween show.
This giveaway had two effects; first, it rewarded active followers. Second, it spread the word about the event and encouraged more people to buy tickets.
Once your audience is comfortable with basic giveaways, you can move on to replies, mentions, and hashtags. Here’s an example of a more advanced Halloween giveaway idea for Twitter.
In this case, the brand wanted to give away some cute Halloween cupcakes. In order to win, their followers had to respond to the giveaway with Halloween-themed photos.
They shared photos using the Halloween campaign hashtag, to make sure that all the competition entries could be collected together. And the replies included a @mention of the brand – resulting in free publicity online.
Collect sales leads with your Halloween social media giveaway
One thing is sure – comment giveaways on social media don’t generate new sales leads. However, there is a simple solution that can help you convert social media followers into sales leads. Sounds tempting, doesn’t it?
All you have to do is launch a Halloween Entry Form Giveaway and encourage your followers to register their contact details for a chance to win freebies, product samples, product bundles, or shopping vouchers! Before we show you an example of a Halloween giveaway with a registration form, let us tell you one thing… Some users might not be keen to share their email address with your brand – but if you don’t ask for too much information (phone numbers are a big turn-off for us!) and offer an attractive prize in return, they’ll be more than happy to fill out your form and enter your Halloween promotion!
Remember to share the Halloween giveaway link on your social media channels for better dissemination. Use organic posts, Stories, and Facebook Ads to reach more users and drive them to your giveaway. You can even share a link to your Halloween giveaway on your website – anonymous visitors won’t be anonymous anymore!
Tips for a successful Halloween giveaway on social media
Here’s some advice to make your Halloween giveaway on social media the best it can be:
- Explain the contest clearly. Tell your followers exactly what they have to do! Every promotion should include terms and conditions, too. Use the Easypromos tool to share legal content, either in your giveaway post or in a follow-up post.
- With that being said, make sure you follow social media rules. Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram are all cracking down on bad actors. If you ignore their platform rules, you risk having your account suspended. When you use the Easypromos apps, you can be confident that your giveaway is within the platform guidelines.
- Make the most of the Halloween theme. Add photos, videos, and even emoji to make your giveaway post stand out.
- Motivate participants with a prize. Choose something that suits your brand and the season. Remember, it should be in proportion to the contest! For example, if you want followers to share original photos or videos, make sure the prize is worth their while.
We hope you found at least one Halloween giveaway idea that you like! Don’t hesitate to contact our Support Team if you need help or assistance!
