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Instagram Giveaway Ideas

This post on Instagram Giveaway Ideas was written by our former Marketing Coordinator, Cassie Alaimo. What would your customers say to this question: “If you could win one thing through an Instagram Giveaway, what would it be and why?” Before you can get to the fun part of deciding on what to give away in your brand’s next promotion, you must do a few things. When running a promotion that

April 5, 2021

Best Practices for Creating Instagram Giveaway Rules

Running a giveaway on Instagram is an easy way to engage and build followers, but if you aren’t creating Instagram giveaway rules, you might get into hot water. Here are some best practices: Have actual legal, official rules. Your rules will help protect you in case of a legal dispute. Include all entry criteria in your rules. Without entry criteria, your entrants get to make them up – and you

October 2, 2020

Can You Run an Instagram Stories Sweepstakes?

Clients have been asking us lately if they can run an Instagram Stories sweepstakes or contest. Here are the facts. What are Instagram Stories? Instagram Stories are a feature of Instagram that allows users to post short videos or photos of their day in a sort of “highlight reel” that disappears in 24 hours. Similar to Snapchat, you can add text or animation or effects to your posts, as well

January 3, 2020

Taming Your #Sweeps with an Approved Instagram Tracker

Once upon a time, Instagram had no need for an Instagram tracker to gather your promotion entries. People did whatever they wanted because there were no promotion guidelines. It was like the wild, wild west in promotion land: no rules applied. Brands did whatever they wanted. Hashtags were untamed and unfiltered, and people wildly tagged anyone and everyone in their posts for fun. Until the law came to town to

July 13, 2018

2016 Instagram API Changes and Hashtag Contests

Did you suddenly lose the ability to track hashtags due to Instagram changes this month? Here’s why: Back in November 2015, Instagram announced they would be changing their application policy in an effort to curtail malicious apps. On June 1, 2016 ALL apps or programs that had not gone through the new approval process and approved by Instagram were rendered unworkable. Here is the announcement and link: https://www.instagram.com/developer/review/ What this meant

June 20, 2016

Taming Your #Sweeps with Instagram Promotion Guidelines

Once upon a time, Instagram had no formal promotion guidelines. And it was like the wild, wild west in promotion land, just like on Pinterest and Facebook and Twitter a few years ago before there were rules. Brands did whatever they wanted. Hashtags were untamed and unfiltered, and people wildly tagged anyone and everyone in their posts for fun. Until the law came to town to clean Instagram up. #TheresANewSheriffInTown

February 10, 2015

How Instagram Direct Changes Promotions

One of the biggest challenges we have had with Instagram promotions has been contacting winners. Instagram had no way to privately contact potential winners to notify them that they won – which led to potential to fraud when we were forced to post a public comment to notify winners. Marden-Kane came up with a workaround to this problem, which involved asking people to verify their account when they contacted us.

January 6, 2014

3 Things To Consider Before Running An Instagram Promotion

Everyone is on Instagram! Let’s run an Instragram contest! It will be super easy – just ask people to post a photo and we can decide on a favorite and …… Whoa!!!! It’s not that easy. Yes, Instagram is very popular right now and it’s easy for consumers to post content and to set up a promotion. But keep in mind that any sweepstakes or contest you run is still

August 1, 2013

The Impact of Instagram Versus Twitter Vine on UGC Contests

Why did Kevin Systrom, co-founder of Instagram introduce 15 second videos now? Because he can? That’s a possible answer since barriers to download speeds have all but disappeared. This is thanks to 80% penetration of smart phones and tablets among adults 18-34. But technology aside for a moment, there is more to it as Systrom suggests; “You can capture a lot in 15 seconds. It’s the right balance between not

July 8, 2013

Privacy Policy

Marden-Kane, Inc. (“Marden-Kane,” “we,” “us,” or “our”) has created this statement in order to demonstrate our firm commitment to privacy. The following discloses our information gathering and dissemination practices for our website, www.mardenkane.com, and for our company in serving our clients. It also describes the choices available to you regarding our use of your personal information and how you can access and update this information.If you have questions or complaints regarding

May 5, 2025