HOW TO PICK A WINNER ON INSTAGRAM GIVEAWAY: Free Random Winner Picker for Comment & Story Entries!

HOW TO PICK A WINNER ON INSTAGRAM GIVEAWAY: Free Random Winner Picker for Comments & Story Entries! // So you ran an Instagram giveaway but now you want to know how to choose a winner for a giveaway on Instagram. You’re in luck because in this video, I’ll break down a variety of ways that will teach you how to pick a winner for a giveaway on Instagram, including using an Instagram giveaway winner picker, random number generator, random name picker and more!
There are a lot of websites and apps out there that can show you how to pick a random winner for your Instagram giveaway or Instagram contest; however, I found the majority have limited features and are paid. I spent a LOT of time researching the best FREE options on how to randomly select a winner and feel that the random winner picker apps mentioned in this video will work for all sizes of giveaways, big or small. The Instagram comment winner picker and instagram giveaway apps mentioned in this video will work for you!
While this video is specific for Facebook, these tools will also work and teach you how to pick a winner on Facebook giveaway and how to pick a winner on Facebook!
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RESOURCES MENTIONED
✦ Google’s Random Number Generator: www.google.com...
✦ Random comment picker (requires Instagram Business or Creator profile): www.CommentPicker.com
✦ Random comment picker with download to spreadsheet options: www.GetCombot.com
PAID TOOLS
✦ www.woobox.com
✦ www.gleam.io
✦ www.iconosquare.com
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[@MorganStradling]

I hope you know have all the tools you need to easily pick a winner for your Instagram giveaway. If you found this video helpful, be sure to LIKE, SUBSCRIBE, & COMMENT because it really helps to support me and my channel! Thanks for watching! 🎉

[@TocaUnicorn]

I think your account is really good and informing! I subscribed and thanks for your help 😘💖

[@CommentPicker]

Thanks for the mention of our tool and the suggestion to add extra entries! :D We just wanted to tell that we added a new option where you can add extra entries to your giveaway and also created a how-to video of the Instagram Comment Picker: kzbin.info/www/bejne/bHS8nZWGlKmSlbc

[@joykumarsingh4791]

@@TocaUnicorn good video

[@joykumarsingh4791]

Morna straling is good video

[@Ducanralf]

Am about to make a 5k giveaway in the coming weeks from Russia 🇷🇺.Thanks for the infos.

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[@ericam2815]

YOU SAVED MY LIFE. Okay I'm being a little dramatic. I thought it was going to be MUCH easier and have been struggling for an hour trying to load all my comments to then copy them into spreadsheet lol Thank you for this video. You are amazing!

[@joekim547]

Can't believe this was made just a few days ago! I just ran a contest yesterday that had over 2,500 entries and was looking to pay for an app or program that handles this. So glad I found this! Great content and very well explained. Thanks!

[@MorganStradling]

Yay! I'm so glad you found it (and that I made the video in the nick of time). I really felt there wasn't a great video that showed all your FREE options (and showed multiples ways to pick a winner because people like options). This comment made my day!

[@Rotoscopers]

Thank you so much for doing all the research for this! This will make choosing a winner on Instagram SO MUCH EASIER! 🎉🎉🎉

[@MorganStradling]

You are so welcome!

[@yvonnelee4385]

This is exactly the info I needed, I did bonus opportunities for story shares, reposts and following a sponsored account so the spreadsheet export is perfect. Thanks so much for sharing 🙏🏻

[@TheTrifs]

I actually had 5.149 comments at my last giveaway, and I barely reached 5K people... so as unexpected as it was, this was such a helpful video. Thank You 😂👌🏼

[@kiranrajpoot8807]

I hv won a giveaway on Instagram iPhone 11 pro max and they r saying before i hv to pay 50 dollars shipment charges Kindly guide me is it ture?

[@valley2thebay288]

This video is long af for no reason

[@michellesantana6001]

Holy 12,000 entries, Batman! HAHA YAY! thank you for this video! Im literally doing a giveaway now for getting 300 followers on my craft page. I think the comment picker one will be the best for me, BUT a lot of the people who commented are family and friends so hopefully no one thinks that cheating!

[@MorganStradling]

When our accounts are smaller, a lot of our followers are friends and family at first. I wouldn't feel bad if one of them gets picked. Just record your screen when you pick the winner so that they know you did it fairy and didn't just pick your friends. :)

[@daniellecalder5193]

4:03 is when she starts shares ways to pick a winner.

[@englishwithaltini]

Thank you so much!

[@darkfroz9254]

if you commented many,will it be higher chance for winning the giveaway?

[@TheFoodiesBooks]

This was really helpful thank you, I’m running a competition across two accounts and couldn’t work out how to add comments from both posts, so being able to download to a spreadsheet and then use a random number generator is perfect! Thanks for saving me a chunk of time!

[@esmyhernandez4700]

Literally so easy explained ! Can’t wait to pick my giveaway winner 💅🏼 thank u !

[@MorganStradling]

You're so welcome!

[@chrismclellanart]

But how do you do it on live

[@brisasifuentes7185]

I normally don’t comment on KZbin. But I had to subscribe like and comment on this post because it was so helpful. It was clear concise thoughtful and detailed.

[@DLXWillington]

First of all, Thank you for the info, Second, as a Creator myself,I can tell how much time you put into editing your videos and for that I also say thank you 🙏 I wish your channel the growth in deserves.

[@MorganStradling]

Ah thank you so much! Editing really is a beast but I want the final product to look good, so that means a lot that you've noticed. 💗

[@DLXWillington]

@@MorganStradling keep it up my friend, it will eventually pay off👍🏿

[@randallhere8122]

How do you add extra entries for story shares??

[@TallyfromtheValley7]

What if I am doing a combined giveaway with another account?

[@bridgette4]

So smart I’m dumb my first giveaway I checked everyone to see if they followed the rules lol thankfully it wasn’t hundreds on entries!

[@evangelinemontoya5750]

How would you suggest picking a winner if there’s multiple people as part of the giveaway

[@andreea.cristina.popescu]

I guess you can generate 2 random numbers, right? Using getcombo.com

[@MorganStradling]

You would have to run the report for the various accounts/people involved, download and combine those spreadsheets, then pick a winner from there. Hope that makes sense!

[@katelincleveland3215]

@@MorganStradling you can pick a winner by direct messager on instagram

[@pantelispetrou1593]

Thank you for the video. Anyone else has the same issue with comment picker? I noticed that even though there should have been 23 comments (excluding duplicates), comment picker recognises only 19 of them. Why is that? Those 4 comments have tagged one person as they should have done. In comment picker I ticked the boxe of "exclude duplicates" and chose mimimum amount of @ as "1"

[@jameslonergan6]

This video is so helpful, I have just done my first contest and did not at all think about how I was going to pick the winner, Thankyou for explaining it so easily, great video!!

[@user-dz3yd5bo2o]

Hello, fan! Thanks for the love and support. Congratulations 🎉 You been selected as a prize winner🥇Send me a direct message above to acknowledge your prize

[@alproject716]

Hi there, Thank you so much for the video. Just would like to ask a question, If we use the getcombot website. If people tag or reply to their comment, will this be downloaded as well or can we filter it out? Thank you

[@Kstyleyo]

It took me less than 24 hours!! Thank you 🙇‍♀️😊 I think it's because I followed what you said. I was actually worried because I sent them two other screenshots previously for other matters which I didn't get replies from them. Thought I would annoy them by sending another one!! But haha yes it worked. Much gratitude to you 😊😊

[@Kstyleyo]

Oh i put the comment to the wrong video 🤣🤣🤣

[@alannajm]

@@Kstyleyo haha i was so confused

[@1salahudin]

There was a competition on a channel a few days ago. The first correct answer wins the prize. I was the first to answer correct. The channel owner replied to my answer around 4-5 hours later in the comments section. Asking if I was from his country. Later that day I went and checked if I had won. I saw his comment re if I was from his country to which I replied yes. I did find the comment weird as he could have just clicked on my channel to check where I was from. However a few comments down another person had answered correctly but a few hours after my correct answer. The channel owner immediately had responded to his comment and said he was the winner and to send address details. He didnt ask him if he was from the same country as him. I found this to be extremely unfair and I replied to his comment advising that what he did was unfair and was not honuring a fair competition policy. He didn't even bother replying back to me. Instead he listed the other guy as the winner.

[@87smashley]

I have always used this, however just a heads up this doesn’t work with Instagram reels ( comment picker) ONLY posts so be aware

[@user-ui3os9lj4h]

What kind of contest picker would take into account multiple accounts? For example if the rules state you must follow multiple accounts to be entered?

[@travelwithgoose]

Very useful! Thank you, the video was very well made! Here before your channel blows up 🙌 Are you on TikTok?

[@MorganStradling]

Thank you for your kind words! I am on TikTok (@morganstradling), though I haven't done much there because I've been focusing on KZbin. I need to create some more vidoes on there (my current ones are all over the place).

[@lauriestoneham-lawlor145]

Hi Morgan, this was awesome, but what if your winner is based on the amount of tag entries they submit? Is there something that adds the amount of entries our participants tag?

[@danianla12]

Thank you so much!! THIS WAS SO HELPFUL!

[@GreyHairGirl]

This is the second one of your videos I watched tonight, I just subscribed. Thank you so much! I'm going to be running my first giveaway and you really helped make it simple. Your tips were spot on!

[@user-dz3yd5bo2o]

Hello, fan! Thanks for the love and support. Congratulations 🎉 You been selected as a prize winner🥇Send me a direct message above to acknowledge your prize

[@lovingtheology3669]

This was incredibly helpful! We are doing our first giveaway for our ministry next week!

[@HumbleBeesCreations]

Where I am confused is when I advertise for the raffle. I share that post for the raffle in different groups. Does that mess any of those tools up? (Facebook) How do I advertise best for my raffles to get a large turn around.? I had people then comment on all those different shared posts instead of the one original one 😅

[@kartikk5142]

Thanks for these series of videos, they were very helpful in me doing my giveaway!

[@NervousNick]

Where did Morgan go? Why did she stop making video's?

[@rutegaspar7087]

Life Saver!!! You just made my day! YAY following all your content from now on and I'm soooooo glad I found you today!

[@liayesung5721]

Best free program ever hun! Thank you so much for sharing this~

[@Sunsplash.Dreams]

So happy I found this video. Thank you!

[@MateoG849]

Exactly what I needed 👏🏼 Thank you haha! 😊

[@rozyrositah]

If there’s only a few comments (40-60) entering a giveaway, do you think limiting the # of entries is better? (Maybe 1-2 entries?)

[@kitzymelodie]

what if one of the rule was to like and comment my fellow participants in a hop? I assume they would have to give the their list so that I can past it in excel?

[@LHFINEARTPHOTO]

You saved my life! Haha thanks for this info. 🙌🏻🎉

[@ONLY1MISST]

Business accounts don't let you have music, so that's something to think about.

[@oOEviljinOo]

now its fixed, you can put music on business accounts stories

[@samanthaquiroz99]

This was very helpful! Any tips on choosing a winner when you have multiple posts? Like one post per brand from a giveaway with multiple brands?

[@MorganStradling]

You would have to pull the entries and combine to one spreadsheet. Then pick a winner from there. Hope that helps!

[@samanthaquiroz99]

@@MorganStradling Thank you for your response! Yes, that does help!

[@As-dn7ns]

I don’t have followers but I kinda just wanna do giveaways to make people happy and just cuz lol

[@HarmonySilka]

nice video,do you know what app that we could use for picking instagram winner based on link only not from my own instagram acc but from other acc?

[@scrollsandtaps]

Hey I like to watch your videos. They are not just helpful but you are entertaining too 😊. Do more of giveaways, raffles, contests videos. I'd say pour all you got 😁.

[@MorganStradling]

Thank you so much! That positive feedback means a lot.

[@lenagallagher9817]

Thank you so much for this video and the explanation. It was very clear and easy. Thank you!

[@IheartGLOWGIRL]

Thank you so much for your research and informative video. You cut my time tenfold!!!

[@isaacturnerit]

Thank you been trying to do this all day!

[@YarHarFD]

What if you want to exclude some entries? Like people that are just commenting to help you out but don't necessarily want to actually enter

[@trendn8401]

So glad I ran across this just enter my first give away the page has 70k followers but I bought a bundle deal 75k tickets for 35$

[@mcubedx3]

This video just saved me from a massive waste of time, thank you! 🤝

[@ysloves]

Really helpful one! Thanks for doing all the hard work of research for all of us. Much love!

[@MayteChuXan]

Thanks soooo mucho for allí your guidance. I love the way You explain! Thanks 🤲🏾💗

[@MorganStradling]

You are so welcome! I'm glad it was able to help you!

[@legacydesignervintagehandb9155]

Really helpful Morgan, thank you!

[@timodasneakshow]

I love this video and the information you provided! My question is what if you don’t have a laptop 💻 or desktop computer? Is it possible to use a random number generator on an iPhone?

[@MorganStradling]

Yes, it is absolutely possible to use the random number generator on the phone. It just might take a lot more work, especially if you're having to manual import/create a list of winners. But still definitely possible.

[@timodasneakshow]

Morgan Stradling Thank you 🙏🏾 for your response! Would I have to use the same website(s) you showed us or are there any specific apps especially for smartphones you know of?

[@woodymunstuh]

Would you recommend a random number generator as well for giveaways where we direct them to sign up for an email list?

[@gentlemanneeds]

The last method works for me!!! Thanks a lot!! Really helpful!!! 👍👍👍

[@austinbrown3273]

AYO !!! THIS VIDEO IS GOATED !!! 🐐

[@becomethatgirl9435]

Is it legid to make an giveaway? Should we pay somewhere before the giveaway or not?

[@hotelmamacanino]

you are the best!!!!! you save my life!!! regards from Panamá!!!

[@hanako9013]

I have a question.does this method works for the pages that do their lotteries by machines and systems?

[@piinkdew]

thank you for making this video! it was super helpful, i really appreciate the time you spent going into this c:

[@scrollsandtaps]

Also, see if you can make videos about instagram story challenges. You know, taking screenshots, scribble your stuff on it, then tag x friends and post along with the blank template for them.... That kind of challenges. How brands can implement it? Are there any types that we can bifurcate them into? Few case studies.. etc Looking forward to any such content on your KZbin (or even IG, I'm following you there too) 😊✌️

[@MorganStradling]

OH! This is a great idea! I've done a few of these for one of my Instagram accounts and they are very popular! I'm adding this to my list! Thanks for the support!

[@thembiskosana3910]

THANK YOU MORGAN! So helpful.

[@MorganStradling]

Glad it was helpful!

[@muniraalibhai6785]

Do more comments mean more chances of being picked esp if giveaway is not about tagging but just done or so ? J have seen that on many insta giveaways

[@andrewgarcia8792]

thanks! super helpful, the multiple options was really nice!

[@chickbossdesign342]

Can you run the same giveaway on two different social media platforms (Facebook & Instagram) at the same time?

[@teresauptownhair]

This video was so helpful. Thank you!

[@AJEESH555]

Use full video for many people Thanks for this video

[@Itzzleyy]

Thank you so much. I’ll do a giveaway next week. Everything is set up and I just wanted to know the best way to pick a Winner.

[@BajanLifestyles]

love your lighting, you look so video btw. thanks for this video. You got my subscription

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You do God’s work 🙌🏻 Subscribed!

[@agumwadhwa4769]

I am fine to pay for the tool but is there a way of tracking the story shares as well?

[@dikshagarg23]

Thank you so much, your content is so unique and helpful. Thanks again for sharing such cool tools and insights!! 😀

[@norisb_curls]

Thank you!!!! It worked perfectly for my giveaway!!!!

[@azap7488]

Amazing video!. But this website is asking for a credit card number ?

[@Emimal.A]

IAM an indian ur explanation was 😍😍😍😍😍😍😍wowwwww all the best for ur next next video sis..,.............

[@tibantravel3554]

I've started making a giveaway page on ig. And already dm hundreds of people specially small businesses, but so far i can't find any sponsors, what's the best way to find ? I also tried tried running ads but no luck.

[@MoKath82]

Thanks for this video, going to be testing out comment picker for my giveaway. I had several people entering more than one comment tagging one friend in each, as I didn't specify regarding this is my giveaway, should I let they have more than one "ticket" to win? Or filter out duplicates?

[@MorganStradling]

Since you didn't specify that they all had to be in one comment, I would still allow those entries. But it's really up to you!

[@Amiinerz]

Some people repeat the same users in their comments. How do we filter out repeated usernames?

[@MorganStradling]

Great question! I think the easiest way would be to export all the comments to a spreadsheet, then whoever is your winner, just do search for all the times that username is found (Control + F on Windows; Apple + F on Mac), then I would just scan through all their entries to check for duplicate tags. If there are duplicate tags, I would disqualify and choose a new winner by doing the random number generator again.

[@gunaapricota9495]

Many thanks for this video. Very helpful & useful.

[@BonxoshFragrance]

Hello, is there any way to pick a winner just by followers, I mean no matter if they leave the comment or not. I have made a giveaway just to following my instagram and I've asked a target to pick a winner.

[@user-ii6fi9tr1u]

This was perfect! Thank you!

[@LogzMakaveli]

Much appreciated, thanks for all you hard work. It was really helpful. Keep it up!

[@user-dz3yd5bo2o]

Hello, fan! Thanks for the love and support. Congratulations 🎉 You been selected as a prize winner🥇Send me a direct message above to acknowledge your prize

[@Jess-ec2fp]

hey, great video was just wondering though how does this affect people who @ their friends separately in comments but it’s only the same people, is it one entry per @ or do you get multiple entries for tagging the same person a lot of times

[@vscontracting]

Can you do an update on this video? What are the latest ways to pick a winner as this video is now 3years old 😅.

[@atiracheney9113]

Holy 12,000 entries, Batman!

[@MorganStradling]

🔥🔥🔥

[@AngTiprasa]

How to get entry? Will it be a comment or tagging someone will count as an entry please tell

[@Hsn_4t]

Nice solutions, thanks a lot I also suggest app-sorteos for giveaways with few comments (under a thousand)

[@ebalida]

What’s a good option to use to pick a winner from multiple posts ?

[@oxygenl3]

Thank you soo much for your video, I will test it today 😍

[@larisaarama2214]

hi! your video helped me a lot! Big Thank you and I will definitly follow you for other tricks

[@MorganStradling]

Awesome, thank you!

[@north_of_52]

This video was very helpful! Thank you!

[@mscrogan]

I did a give away and used your random give away picker.... It picked a friend of mine. Do you think i should redo it?

[@MorganStradling]

It's up to you. People might thing you are just choosing your friends, that's why I recommend recording when the picker picks so that way people can have full transparency. If you don't feel good about it (even though you obviously were fair), I'd just pick another.

[@instahanif1992]

Ma'am please how to pick winner KZbin reels ??

[@yessibee5236]

Your awesome! Thanks so much for this video it was really helpful.

[@adriennelaw6396]

hi there, thank you for the video, but how can I pick a winner if I want people to post an image on their ig and tag me as 1 entry? thank you, i will wait for your response.

[@TheSavingSecret]

Do you have insights about about the Instagram business account? I am new to Instagram but working on building my personal finance brand

[@MorganStradling]

It's basically exactly the same, but just has insights that are really helpful and a few other call-to-action buttons that you can add to your profile. Definitely worth it!