Gleam: Run Competitions on Your WordPress Blog
An amazing solution to run competitions on your blog using combinations of social actions.
The facts
- Rating
- 3★ from 4
- Active installs
- 200+
- Price
- Free
- Last updated
- 23 May 2018
- Added
- Apr 2014
- Requires WP
- 3.0
- Tested up to
- WP 4.9.31
- Downloads
- 11,244
Our analysis
AI-assistedGleam is a WordPress plugin designed to help you run competitions and giveaways on your blog. It allows you to use social media actions as entries, supporting platforms like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and more. To use this plugin, you need to sign up with Gleam and create a competition before embedding it in your posts.
This plugin is suitable for bloggers and website owners looking to engage their audience through contests and giveaways. It provides a straightforward way to incorporate social media interactions into your competitions.
Best for: Bloggers and website owners wanting to engage users through competitions.
What it does well
- ✓Supports various social media platforms for entries
- ✓Designed specifically for running competitions and giveaways
- ✓Free to use from the WordPress.org directory
Where it falls short
- •Requires sign-up on Gleam to create competitions
- •Limited information available about features and performance
- •Last updated in May 2018, which may affect compatibility
Verdict
Gleam offers a basic solution for running competitions on your WordPress site, but its reliance on external sign-up and lack of recent updates may be limiting.
From the developer
stuartmck's own description of Gleam: Run Competitions on Your WordPress Blog, lightly tidied.
Add a Gleam to your site next time you a running a giveaway or competition. Gleam is a simple, yet powerful solution that helps you use social actions for entries. We support various networks such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest, Youtube, Twitch and many more.
If you want to see how a brand is using Gleam to grow their business read our Beardbrand Case Study.
IMPORTANT: In order to use this plugin you must first visit Gleam, sign up, and create a competition before you can embed it in a post. Installing this plugin without signing up means you’ll be displaying nothing in your post.
If you have any technical or sales questions you can contact our support team here: https://gleam.io/contact