How to draw a winner from facebook comments
Facebook Comment Picker for Business pages
What is Facebook Comment Picker?
Facebook Comment Picker is a free online winner generator that can be used for any promotion, sweepstakes, contest or raffles on Facebook for Business pages.
We provide options for filtering out comments based on the number of tagged friends, comments from the same user, likes on the post or a specific text.
How can I use Facebook Comment Picker Business?
Login with your Facebook account, allow the correct permissions, enter the raffle options and choose the Facebook post and start your raffle. With this new version of the Facebook Comment Picker it's not needed to enter the url anymore. Yes, it's that easy to use.
Do you have any suggestions, tips or feedback for our tool? Please don't hesitate to send us a message on Facebook or Instagram.
Save Results of Pick a Winner
After a draw it's possible to store the results. If you click the button we will save the results and create a unique url for you. This unique url can be used for sharing and will show the winner of the raffle, link to the comment and comment of the user. The results are available for at least one month and will be removed after.
Update: If you use one of the share buttons, we will create automatically a unique URL for you with the results of the contest.
Facebook Giveaway Rules
What giveaway rules are not allowed by Facebook and which are required by Facebook to run a contest or promotion.
You can read it in our blog about Facebook Giveaway Rules.
Facebook Comment Picker Options
After selecting your FB page you can select options for your contest. We will explain those options below.
Minimum amount of friends tagged
If you select this option a comment should have a minimum number of friends mentioned before it's included in the raffle. You can choose up to 10 friends mentioned. By default, it's not required to have a friend mentioned.Advertisement
Include comment replies
If you enable this option comment replies are included in the comments.
By default, comment replies are excluded in the contest.
Filter duplicate users
If this filter is enabled it will filter out multiple comments made by one user. A user is defined by a user ID that we get from Facebook.
User should have liked the post
If this filter is selected, we will get all likes and reactions on your post. We will filter out users that didn't give a like on your post based on the user ID. This option is useful when your giveaway rules are that the user should like and comment on your posts in order to win.
Filter comments based on a specific text
If you enable this filter an extra text field will appear where you can enter a specific text, hashtag or answer. A comment should have this text included before it's included in the contest.
Add extra entries
You can add extra entries by selecting the option "Add extra entries". You will see a textarea where you can add names of the extra entries. These extra entries are not connected to the commenters and will be added to the total amount of comments.
You can add each entry by a newline or separated by comma. You can use this option to add participants who liked your page or who shared the posts or signed up for your newsletter.
Exclude or blacklist users
You can exclude user by selecting the option "Exclude / blacklist users". You will see a textarea where you can add names of the users you want to exclude from the contest. You can add each name by a newline or separated by comma. This option can also be useful if you want to exclude previous winners from winning again. You should enter the name that is displayed on the Facebook profile of the user.
Remove winner from list after draw
Select this option if you plan to pick multiple winners, but don't want 1 winner to win multiple times. If this option is enabled, we will immediately remove a winner from the list of possible winners after a draw.
Video: Facebook Comment Picker
Learn how to use our Facebook Random Comment Picker tool by watching our how-to video.
Frequently Asked Questions
You can find answers of frequently asked questions about our tool in the list below. Is your specific question not in the list? Please send us a message via Facebook or Instagram.
Our products and services are totally free without any limits. You can pay us by sharing our tool with all your friends and colleagues.
We need FB login and the permissions "Read content posted on the Page" and "Read user content on your Page" to have access to all FB posts and the comments of your post. We don't have permission to post anything on your behalf on your FB page.
Yes, we added support for multiple Facebook posts of one page. If you select multiple Facebook posts for your giveaway it might take longer to load all the comments, keep that in mind.
We don't have permissions from FB to get comments from any personal profiles due privacy reasons. We suggest you to get the names manually and use our Random Name Picker.
You can use the Facebook Group Comment Picker to pick a winner from public or public Facebook groups.
All posts that are public available without any restrictions should be shown in the post overview. Make sure you have the correct permission and that you give us the correct permissions in the FB login to show all the posts. If it's still not working, please send us a message on Facebook, and we will help you out.
If you are sure that your giveaway post has comments, make sure you have given us the correct permissions and that you have selected the correct filters.
Make sure you don't use any adblocker or privacy badger. These could block the Facebook script that is loading the Login button. In some cases the browser is blocking the Facebook script via Do not track option. Please enable Do Not Track (DNT) in the browser settings if you don't see the login button.
Facebook Comment Picker is fair to use, and we don't have influence on any raffle. We can't and will never manipulate the outcome of the raffles. No, we can't help you win a raffle, it's 100% random, so please don't ask us to select you as the winner.
We are using the Javascript method Math.random() to select the random winner.
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Instagram Comment Picker - Free Giveaway Winner Picker
What is Instagram Comment Picker?
Instagram Comment Picker is a free tool to pick a random winner for an Instagram giveaway, contest, sweepstake or promotion. The giveaway winner picker will get all comments from the selected Instagram photo or video, filter the comments based on the giveaway settings and select a random winner.
This tool can only be used if you connect your Instagram business or creator account to a Facebook business page and can't be used for personal Instagram accounts. Learn how to convert your personal Instagram account to a business account.
Save results of Instagram Winner Picker
After a draw, it's possible to store the results of your Instagram raffle. If you click the copy unique link button or one of the social share buttons, we will automatically save the results and create a unique URL for you.
This unique URL can be used to share the winner on social media to your followers to prove it's done in a fair way.
Which information do we store in the unique URL?
- Winner of the Instagram giveaway.
- Link to the Instagram profile of the winner.
- Comment of the winner.
- Date of the raffle.
- Number of comments.
Example of the results of your Instagram giveaway if you create a unique link:
Best free tool to select winner Instagram giveaway
We think our free Instagram Giveaway tool is the best way to pick a winner on Instagram. Why is our tool better than others?
- 100% free without limits.
- No signup or registration required.
- Multiple settings to include replies, minimum amount of mentions in comments, filter on text or hashtag.
- You can add extra entries or blacklist users.
- Select a winner from multiple Instagram giveaway posts.
- Great support via Facebook and Instagram.
- Create a unique URL with the results of your Instagram contest.
Do you think we can make it even better? We are always open for suggestions to improve our giveaway tool.Advertisement
Instagram Contest Rules
What are the Instagram Contest Rules for running a giveaway or promotion on Instagram? Which Instagram giveaway rules are (not) allowed and which are required?
Read all Instagram promotion guidelines in our blog about the Instagram Contest Rules.
Settings Instagram giveaway tool
All settings and filter of the Instagram giveaway tool are explained below.
Minimum amount of @mentions in one comment
If you select this option a single comment of a user should have a minimum number of friends mentioned before it's included in the raffle. You can choose up to 10 friends mentioned. By default, it's not required to have a friend mentioned.
Filter comments with the same mentions
This filter will be visible after you select a minimum of 1 or more mentions in one comment. If you enable it, we will filter the comments which are using the same mentions.
The comments with the same mentions will not be counted as entries, only the first appearance is counted.
Include comment replies
If you enable this option, comment replies are included in the comments. By default, comment replies are excluded from the contest.
Filter duplicate users
If you enable this filter, we filter multiple comments made by one user. Only one comment per user is counted as entry. A user is defined by a unique user ID. This option gives each user the same chance to win.
Filter comments based on a specific text
If you enable this filter an extra text field will appear where you can enter a specific text, hashtag or answer. A comment should have this text included before it's included in the contest.
Extra entries
You can add extra entries by selecting the option "Add extra entries". You will see a textarea where you can add names of the extra entries. The extra entries are not connected to the comments and will be added to the total amount of comments.
You can add each entry by a newline or separated by comma.
Exclude or blacklist users
You can exclude user by selecting the option "Exclude / blacklist users". You will see a textarea where you can add usernames of the users you want to exclude from the contest. You can add each Instagram username by a newline or separated by comma with or without @.
This option can also be useful if you want to exclude previous winners from winning again. You should enter the username and not the name of the person, e.g. @commentpicker instead of Comment Picker.
Remove winner from list after draw
If you want to pick multiple winners without picker the same winner twice, you should enable this filter. If this option is enabled, we will immediately remove the winner from the list of possible winners after the raffle.
How do I convert my personal Instagram profile to a business account?
- Open your Instagram app.
- Select the Instagram profile to switch in a business account.
- Click on the profile photo in the upper right corner.
- Click on the hamburger button (with the three lines).
- Click on settings in the right bottom corner.
- Scroll down to the option Switch to business Profile.
- Click Continue until you see Connect your Facebook Page.
- Select the Facebook page you want to connect to your Instagram business profile or create a new Facebook page.
- Enter your Facebook page login information if needed.
You now have converted your Instagram profile to a business account and connected it to a Facebook business page.
How do I connect my Instagram Account to my Facebook page?
- Go to your Facebook page.
- Go to your Facebook page settings.
- Click on the Instagram button in the left menu.
- Click the button Login and enter your Instagram login information.
Connect Instagram account to Facebook page via the Instagram app:
- Launch Instagram app.
- Tap profile image in the bottom right corner.
- Tap Edit profile.
- Tap Page under Public Business Information.
- Connect or change Facebook page.
Your Instagram is now connected to a Facebook page.
To use our tool you must have an Instagram business profile connected to your Facebook page. Any questions or help needed? Read our blog how to link Instagram with Facebook page or send us a message via Facebook or Instagram.
Video: Instagram Giveaway Picker
Learn how to use our Instagram Random Comment Picker tool to select a winner for your Instagram giveaway by watching our how-to video.
Frequently Asked Questions
You can find answers of frequently asked questions about our tool in the list below. Is your specific question not in the list? Please send us a message via Facebook or Instagram.
Instagram Comment Picker is 100% FREE to use without any limits.
There are no limits of amount of comments with our Instagram Comment Picker.
We have users which has successfully used our tool with more than 500.000 comments.
We only use the permissions that you allow to get media and comments of your Instagram account. Without those permissions we can't get your medias and comments of your Instagram account. We don't have permission to publish anything on your behalf.
You need to log in with your FB profile that is administrator of the page that is connected with the Instagram account, since this is the only way Instagram (Facebook) is providing data to apps via their API.
We don't have permissions to publish or post anything on your behalf on your Facebook or Instagram account.
You can select a random winner from multiple Instagram posts. Just select all the Instagram posts in the settings of the giveaway tool. Keep in mind that loading comments of multiple posts will take more time.
The tool is using JavaScript Math.random method to select a random comment as winner of your raffle.
We will never have any influence on the raffle, so don't ask us to modify the outcome and let you win a raffle.
Most of the times this happens when we don't have the correct permissions or permissions are expired. Please use the change or renew permissions button to allow the correct permissions in the Facebook popup to give access to your FB page and Instagram account. This will probably solve the problem right away, otherwise please send us a message.
Make sure you don't use any adblocker or privacy badger. These could block the Facebook script that is loading the Login button. In some cases the browser is blocking the Facebook script via Do not track option. Please enable Do Not Track (DNT) in the browser settings if you don't see the login button.
If you are sure that your giveaway post has comments and comments are enabled, make sure you have given us the correct permissions and that you have selected the correct filters. Logout and login or use the "change or renew" permission button to allow permissions and FB access to our app.
Support for Instagram Reels is integrated in our tool since July 2022.
Instagram Video (previous known as IGTV) is also supported.
Sorry, we don't support personal Instagram accounts, since we can't get the data via the Facebook API. We only support Instagram Business accounts and Instagram Creator accounts. You can use our manual to convert your account to a IG creator or business account.
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How to run the best Facebook giveaway - instructions
Audience giveaways are an excellent way to draw attention to the public and increase the number of subscribers. Let's talk about how to properly conduct a drawing on Facebook, form a list of candidates and organize the procedure as honestly as possible, without a hitch.
Contents:
- Rules and conditions0008
- Creative
- Contest without efforts
- Requirements
- Performance monitoring
- Congratulations to the winners
Rules and conditions
A very important step is to create the most clear and understandable conditions for users to participate in the draw.
This document should not contain any discrepancies and grounds for more than one interpretation.
Mandatory addition of the following information:
- Who can become a participant: determines the conditions that must be met, or the criteria for the winners.
- What is offered as the main prize: a product, a certificate for receiving a service, a discount coupon.
- What is the time limit for the draw.
- Restrictions (if any): age of participants, place of residence or something else.
- Time and place of receipt of the prize by the winner.
- Method for determining the winner.
Contest example
Types
Usually users are offered to participate in various drawings:
- like the specified post or make a repost;
- write a comment under the post;
- subscribe to the specified page or join the specified group.
These are the most common conditions, but the organizers may indicate their own, based on the situation.
Generator
Most often, the winner is determined live using a random number generator.
Contest options
Creative
The organizers of some communities hold not just a drawing among users, but a competition for the best content, where the best are determined:
- Photo.
- Video.
- Author's drawings.
- Essay.
- Name for the new product.
- Comment under the topic post.
Example of a creative competition
If the content collected during the competition is intended to be used in whole or in part, the organizers must notify the participants in advance.
Effortless competition
And here is the idea of the competition, which does not require any special efforts by the organizers.
But at the same time, such a contest very well stimulates the activity of users on a page or in a group.
The essence of the contest : at the end of each week, users receive gifts (at least purely symbolic) who have received the top fan status on the page, and the status of the top co-author in the group.
Is this consistent with Facebook's policies
Facebook's policies categorize sweepstakes and contests as "Promotions".
Requirements
Promotions are subject to the following requirements:
- The announcement of a competition or drawing must contain the rules and conditions of the competition.
- The administration of the social network is not responsible for these actions and does not participate in their organization.
- Contests and sweepstakes are held only within pages, groups or events.
- Facebook rules prohibit the use of personal timelines for reposting announcements of contests and sweepstakes.
Also, you can't encourage users to share these announcements on their personal timeline or tag friends inviting them to participate.
However, despite the fact that reposts in the personal chronicle are prohibited, this practice is used all the time. So far, no one has been punished for it. But, going to break the rules, you still need to remember about the possible consequences.
Launch of a raffle or contest
Prize
The organizers of the contest should think carefully about what will be awarded to the winner. The prize of a raffle or competition must certainly correspond to the theme of the community that organized the event or the interests of its participants. If the prize is voluminous or weighty, then you need to either limit the geography of the competition, or think about the way the gift is delivered.
Territorial restrictions for participants are appropriate if the organizer wants to present the prize in a special place. For example, in your store.
Example of possible prizes
Design
It is very important to create a successful contest or giveaway announcement. Experts advise choosing an option such as a banner.
How to issue it:
- The name of the competition or draw should be bright, catchy, and inciting to action.
- Briefly but clearly describe the essence of the event.
- There must be a description or photo of the main prize.
If such a banner is supposed to be used when placing paid advertising, its size must be maintained in the parameters 1200x628, and the text should account for no more than 20% of the area.
All other information about the draw or competition must be placed in the text attached to the banner of the publication.
Promotion
In order for as many people as possible to learn about the upcoming draw or competition, promotional tools are used, their set is not small. Specific means are selected based on the goals, scope and budget of the planned activity.
Competent promotion of the competition at the same time will help increase the number of page subscribers, group members, and increase brand awareness.
Commonly used means are:
- Email distribution.
- Publications in other social networks.
- Placement of the announcement on the official website of the company.
- Paid advertising on Facebook and other online resources.
- Publications in social networks and websites on a partnership basis.
- Publications in specialized publics and editions.
- Offline advertising: distribution of leaflets, special stickers on product packaging.
Drawing or competition
From the very beginning of the promotion, it is necessary to regularly publish intermediate information: the number of participants, the number of free places (if there are restrictions), the number of days until the end of registration.
Increases credibility and encourages people to participate by posting information with tips on how to register and win.
To announce a draw or contest on the page, you can use the "Event" option. Or add a link to the promotion site, if one exists.
The culmination of the draw or competition is the final summing up and determining the winner. A lot depends on the type of event.
- In the competition for the best content, the winner is determined by the number of likes.
- In competitions for the best name, slogan or any idea, the decision of the jury or commission is decisive.
- In most draws, the winner is determined using a virtual random number generator. For transparency, this process is broadcast live.
- In some cases, additional services are used to determine the winners.
Additional services
These services are used for large-scale contests and sweepstakes. With the help of such services, a selection is made and the winner is honestly determined.
- Woobox.com is an English-language service that creates sweepstakes and contests, makes selections, and performs other actions.
The service works only with pages.
- Random.org is perhaps the most popular random number generator. From the loaded list of participants randomly selects the winner of the prize. The resource generates a link that the organizers place in the final publication as confirmation of the fairness of the draw.
- Socialbakers.com is a service that generates a selection of any post, which can then be loaded into a randomizer to determine the winner.
- Fanpagekarma.com is an English language sampling service. Working with it is very simple: you just need to insert a link to the post, the program will do the rest.
Summing up
Performance monitoring
During the draw, it is necessary to constantly monitor statistics using Facebook tools: daily check traffic, the number of subscribers, analyze user activity. This is the only way to determine the effectiveness of a marketing campaign.
If paid advertising was launched, then ADS Manager has a detailed report on clicks and transitions.
Congratulation of the winners
After the end of the drawing or contest, you should definitely make a separate post with congratulations to the winners, with their photo at the moment of awarding the prizes.
In other social networks where invitations to participate were previously posted, it is also worth congratulating the winners and thanking all the participants. All competitive works (if any) can be placed on your website. All final publications should indicate start dates for new promotions and invite everyone .
How to run a prize draw on Facebook
In this article, we will talk about the procedure for running a prize draw on promotional posts on Facebook.
If you are reading this material, you may have already come across lotteries on the social network Facebook. And if you still don’t understand what it’s about, then here’s an example, you go to Facebook and see a record of this kind:
Hooray, we are holding a contest and playing such a “Thing”! In order to participate in the draw and get this "Thing" for free, you must fulfill the following conditions .
..
Next is a description of the conditions, there may be rules for participation and it is written what date the draw will take place. This is a kind of Facebook lottery 🙂
And if it’s not difficult for you to create a suitable picture and post a similar post on Facebook, then after the first couple of hundred participants, the question often arises of how to keep a record of subscribers and follow all the rules when drawing a prize and honestly pick a winner? Do not spend a lot of time on all this, and do not rewrite everyone manually? So, everything is in order.
Why run a Facebook giveaway
This is an obvious question. Why should I give something to subscribers or unknown people at all? What's the use of this?
First , this will increase your credibility in the eyes of social network users. Since you give something to others, it means you can afford it and your company is focused not only on getting benefits, but also on taking care of customers.
And this is important for a person if he intends to buy something from you.
Secondly, , due to the popularity of this type of lottery, you can significantly replenish your page with subscribers without incurring significant costs. After all, one of the prerequisites for participating in such promotions is to put "Like" the page that holds it. The main thing is to conduct the draw as honestly as possible, so that later you don’t get a “ban” on the page for fraud. And of course, the prize should be interesting to subscribers. It may even be some small and inexpensive thing, but pleasant to purchase, which you yourself would not mind having.
Thirdly, , after the promotion and fair prize drawing, you will have an impressive number of contacts of participants to whom you can periodically offer your goods or services. The main thing here is not to overdo it. Excessive obsession with advertising can also cause negativity.
The structure of an advertising post about the draw on Facebook
The first is a high-quality and juicy photo (or banner) of the product (service) that you are drawing.
Today, by Facebook standards, this should be a 470 x 470 pixel image. Do not forget, if you give the winner some kind of service or product, then the gift must be of high quality, interesting and affordable to receive at the place of residence of the participant.
Second , these are the conditions for participation. Usually these are three points - like the post with the draw, share this post with access for everyone on your page, and put the mark "Like" the page that holds the draw. If necessary, you can ask to leave a comment under the post, or something else. Everything is in your hands 🙂
The third are the rules of the competition. Here you announce the time until which you can take part in this promotion and the date of the draw. As well as additional information, for example, with the help of which service the lottery will be held, are there any restrictions on participation in the competition of employees of your company, where the winner can receive a gift geographically, etc.
In addition, you can place a targeted (targeted at a specific audience) ad for this post on Facebook to reach more social users. networks.
How to choose the winner
So the D-day has come. We rejoice in hundreds, and some may even thousands, of participants and subscribers of our FB page. But when it comes to choosing the winner, then uncontrollable jitters begin to hit, how can you process all this ?! And here such two services Woobox and Random can come to the rescue. Of course, there are many more of them, but in this article we will consider only these two, and only their free features.
Woobox is an application service for Facebook. It has many offers, both paid and free. One of them is the determination of the winner in the drawings, and the export of all participants in this post to a .csv file, for further work with the list.
So, go to www.woobox.com and register by clicking on the "SIGN UP" button.
After that, we are offered to enter the service through our Facebook profile
Enter your login and password, agree with all the offers and get into the Woobox control panel.
If you manage several groups, the group is selected by clicking the icon in the upper right corner.
When the page on which the draw is held is selected, click on the "Posts" button in the top panel.
And we get to the page where all the posts of our Facebook page are posted. Now select the entry we need and click to proceed to further actions.
In the window that opens, we see our entry (draw) from the Facebook page. In order to export all users who have "Like" this post, click on the item "Export Reactions" on the left side of the screen.
Save the file to your computer. It is generated in .csv format, but it doesn’t display correctly in Excel (maybe you won’t have this problem). I, after saving, upload this file to Google Drive and open it using Google Sheets. In the file that opens, there is a “name” column, it contains the names of all our participants.
We copy all the names and go to the service for the behavior of the draws random.
