Giveaway Ideas

The hard part of a giveaway usually isn’t picking a winner — it’s convincing everyone who didn’t win that the draw was fair. SpinForFree keeps a timestamped record of every spin and can publish proof a prize was paid, so you don’t have to just ask people to trust you. Some formats it works well for:

Social media follower giveaways

Turn on public entries so people can submit their own name and handle without you copying comments by hand, then approve the ones that actually followed the rules before they hit the wheel.

Livestream and Twitch/YouTube draws

Open the wheel in stream mode for a clean, full-screen view with no site chrome — add it to OBS as a browser source and trigger the spin from a second screen or your phone while you keep talking to chat.

In-store or event raffles

Collect entries at a booth or till, add them in bulk, and project the spin on a screen at the event so the draw happens in front of the people who entered instead of “backstage.”

Newsletter or email-list incentives

Import subscriber names as entries and run the draw publicly on a schedule — weekly or monthly — so the incentive to sign up is backed by a visible, repeated track record rather than a one-off promise.

Tiered entries with weighting

If some entries should count for more — someone who shared the post, referred a friend, or bought more raffle tickets — give them a higher weight instead of stacking duplicate entries. The slice sizes are drawn to scale, so anyone can see the actual odds rather than take your word for how many entries someone had.

Excluding repeat winners

Turn on elimination mode for a giveaway series so the same person can’t take every prize in a row — each winner drops off the wheel until you reset it for the next round.

Publishing proof

Log what each winner actually received on the wheel’s winners page, and publish the receipt if you want a public record. A visible name, prize and date answers the “did anyone really win?” question before it gets asked.

Getting started

See the how-to guide for the full setup, or create a free account to run your first draw.