--- title: 'How to Run a Giveaway on Telegram and Not Get Bots? / THIS Will Boost Your Telegram' source: 'https://youtube.com/watch?v=lum25pf7bqU' video_id: 'lum25pf7bqU' date: 2026-07-28 duration_sec: 720 --- # How to Run a Giveaway on Telegram and Not Get Bots? / THIS Will Boost Your Telegram > Source: [How to Run a Giveaway on Telegram and Not Get Bots? / THIS Will Boost Your Telegram](https://youtube.com/watch?v=lum25pf7bqU) ## Summary The video discusses how to create Telegram contests that attract a real target audience rather than bots. It covers different contest formats, the pitfalls of official Telegram giveaways, and provides a step-by-step guide to setting up a fair and effective competition. ### Key Points - **Problem with Telegram contests** [00:01] — Contests often attract bots and inactive participants who unsubscribe after winning, wasting money and providing no long-term growth. - **Official Telegram giveaways boost bots** [01:18] — Official Telegram contests for premium subscriptions or Stars guarantee an influx of fake accounts, harming channel statistics. - **Types of contests** [02:11] — Three main types: official Telegram competitions (integrated but bot-attracting), third-party bot draws (with prize pools and condition checking), and manual winner selection (creative tasks like best comment). - **Importance of relevant prizes** [04:22] — Using a prize that matches the target audience (e.g., a book for an economics channel) attracts quality subscribers, while liquid prizes like iPhones attract non-targeted participants. - **Removing bots after contest** [05:12] — Bots can be removed using special invitation links or by analyzing audience activity and removing inactive accounts. - **Alternative prizes** [06:41] — Branded merch, access to closed communities, or project audits can reward loyal followers without attracting bots. - **Step 1: Define goal** [07:36] — The first step is to determine the contest's goal: audience building, activity increase, or lead collection. - **Step 2: Choose relevant prize** [07:49] — Select a prize that aligns with the goal: relevant for targeted audience, liquid for reach and statistics. - **Step 3: Choose a bot** [08:02] — Select a third-party contest bot, connect it to the channel, and grant necessary rights to manage the contest. - **Step 4: Set up parameters** [08:28] — Configure contest duration, number of winners, conditions, and prepare the announcement post. Add bot checks (CAPTCHA) to filter bots. - **Voting mechanic** [08:55] — Allow participants to vote for the channel to increase their chances, benefiting both channel level and participant odds. - **Step 5: Launch and wait** [09:07] — Launch the contest and wait for the end date. Afterward, sum up results and deliver prizes. - **Alternative growth methods** [10:12] — Mutual promotion with other channels, useful content with auto-signatures, transferring audience from other platforms, and targeted advertising. - **Contest as a tool** [11:21] — A competition is a tool, not a magic pill; it works only when used correctly and strategically. ### Conclusion Effective Telegram contests require relevant prizes, careful bot mitigation, and a clear goal. When used strategically, they can boost audience growth without attracting an army of bots. ## Transcript on your Telegram, invest money in prizes, wait for new subscribers, and in the prize-winners who don’t give a damn about your project. But the most annoying thing is that the prize will go to the person who unsubscribes immediately after receiving it, and you are left Owner of the cart. Today we'll look at how to create contests that are truly effective and work. What formats are there, why official Telegram giveaways are a trap, and how to run a fair giveaway without cheating. Stay until the end, I'll show you step by step how to set everything up correctly. The prizes. In the case of prizes, it's a standard story. You launch a contest, use cool, liquid prizes like Apple technology, and suddenly angry participants from all over the internet come swooping in to go further, there are even entire services that monitor where and on which channel a new competition is about to launch. And people run there simply as if it were work. And immediately after the end of this activity, if they didn’t win, or even if they did win, they immediately unsubscribe from the channel. As a result, we get some kind of momentary burst of activity that doesn't last long, and we waste our money . In the case of bots, these are mass subscriptions of fake accounts that create such a mass in an attempt to increase their chances of winning. And the most offensive thing is that sometimes biggest paradox here is that if we launch an official Telegram contest that gives away premium subscriptions or Telegram Stars, we immediately guarantee ourselves an influx of a huge number of bots, that is, a fake audience. And this comes from the cart itself. So, give it a like if you've ever fallen into this contest trap. And then I’ll tell you how to bots ruin channel statistics? Of course, in Telegram, if we get an inactive audience, all sorts of fake accounts in the subscription, then we worsen our audience engagement. Dead souls are not needed here at all. Here you immediately become a hostage of this needle. You are forced to sit at these competitions constantly, month, constantly launching them. And this very recharge from such activity boosts from the cart has to be constantly received. Now let's run through all the types of contests that exist, and you can run them on official competitions from Telega. Here you can win premium subscriptions and main convenience here is that everything is maximally integrated into the cart, there is great functionality and everything goes as if directly. This means you can choose the number of participants, the number of prizes, and most importantly, get votes. These are the level of our channel and unlock additional features. On the one hand, it's we just talked about: an inactive audience and a wave of cheating. The next option is a draw through third-party bots. Here everything is a little different, although the principle is the same. The competition is launched, the prize is announced, and then the winner is announced. But these prizes are not premium subscriptions, but rather a prize pool that we determine ourselves. For example, several iPhones. Next, we upload a ready-made post, say, announcing this competition. It is published through such a bot. People fulfill conditions, such as subscribing to a channel. And on the designated date when this competition ends, the bot will automatically the winner. And, of course, such services check whether all the conditions of the competition have been met. And here we may be faced with the harsh many participants as, for example, if we were to host an official Telegram competition on our channel. Because, ah, not only do competitions need to be launched, but ideally they also need to be promoted, practically buying advertising for our competition, which is currently relevant and is currently taking place. You can also hold a joint competition with other channels. Thus, it will be a mandatory condition to be subscribed to our channel and to the channel of more people take part in the competition and that we, accordingly, gain more new audience. Well, the third option is super classic, I would say, ice-based, when we can independently, manually select the winner. Here, of course, everything comes down more to some creative rules. For example, a competition for the best comment, the best idea, or the best creative execution. This could be a photo, a video, or any other task that you can set, based on the topic of your project. That the administrator, as the organizer of the competition, reserve the right to determine, I don’t know, according to your taste or if you have a whole team of judges, you yourself will Which format actually brings in Where some cool relevant prize is used. A prize that best suits our target audience. That's what I always say. An example of a channel about economics. We hop and give away some economic book or one of our services. That is, I don’t know, I’m a blogger, a lawyer, let’s say, and an attorney. So, I jump in and play out my consultation or drawing up of an agreement. And for its target audience, this will be a real hit . Here. And in the case of iPhones, they are liquid. People passing by will fly in and try their luck, so that they can then take it to Avitopriz. It is unlikely that any non-targeted subscriber from outside, from somewhere else, will use our service. But if bots have arrived, can I somehow remove them? Of course, this can be deleted later after some time. If, for example, we used special invitation links, we can use users who came via a specific link. That is, if we , or illiquid ones, an we can simply analyze our channel's audience over time using the shown any activity—for example, they haven't been there for over a month, I don't know, they haven't typical for bots—and we can remove them from the mistake - it's such a super-liquid prize, what everyone loves most: iPhones, MacBooks, and so on. This has both advantages and disadvantages. Plus, it is, that everyone wants to receive. Accordingly, this is immediately and automatically the maximum asset. That is, uh, if anyone doubts the case with the book giveaway, then, well, I think many people want an iPhone . But the downside is that this gift is liquid, and therefore that came solely for the gift. And it makes sense to use such a gift if you and I need some short-term increase in activity, increased reach, or audience growth. Let's say we want to show off these green, yes, powerful statistics to potential advertisers, to whom we can sell advertising during the competition period at a high price, much higher than before the competition. But in that case, if we want to maintain , we will once again be hostages of the competition system and will be ends, after a short time. This contrast to the beloved popular iPhone and Apple technology. First, if you have a certain fan base, you can give away your branded merch and thus delight your readers. If have some kind of closed chat or community with signals or some kind of raffle off access to this very closed community. This will also be a nice compliment for your loyal readers. If the channel is about Telegram, like mine, you can raffle off a project audit, bot setup, or maybe even a option. Now let's all write in the comments if you've participated in such competitions. If you are lucky, write about it. At least I'll , like me, never have any luck in these competitions, let's also have a little roll call. Now let's look at how to make a good, effective, and most importantly, fair competition step by step. The first step, and the most important one, is to doing this competition. The goals may be different. For example, to build an audience, increase activity, that is, reach, or, for example, to collect contacts, that is, to obtain data on your potential leads. The next step, again depending on the goal of the competition, is to determine the relevant prize. That is, if we need to attract a target audience and high-quality subscriptions, as . If we just need reach and good statistics, we can take something that is really popular, coveted, and will be in high demand. Step three. We need to choose one of the many bots (and there are many of them) that will help run the competition and randomly determine the winner, while checking all the conditions. To do this, we need to connect the bot to the channel and grant it the necessary rights, which it these services. Next we need to set up all the parameters of the competition. That ends, how many winners there are, what the conditions are, and prepare the post itself that will announce this competition. Plus, additional features that can greatly help weed out bots. For example, checking for a robot. This means that a verification process is added that each participant must complete to confirm that they are not a robot. Plus, they are adding the ability to vote for a channel. And it is announced there that if you now, for example, vote for the channel, then your chances of winning will increase. And it really works. It turns out to be a win-win. That is, a participant donates their votes to a channel, the channel grows in level and receives, say, more opportunities to publish stories, and the participant has a higher chance of claiming the stated prize fund. Once everything launch the competition and then worry about how to to wait until the final day, when the results will be summed up. And then it will be a the winners in order to actually hand over the prizes to them. The most Subscribe to my channel to stay up-to-date with new releases and be the first to learn about all the secret features that will help you successfully develop your Telegram project and fully realize Telegram's potential. that sometimes work. Not all users know that it is impossible to check whether a participant has invited their friends or reposted. And some people actually use it. A clever option is to add additional rules for contest participants, announcing that they must, share with friends, invite more friends, and have them also participate in the contest. In principle, I don’t see anything particularly criminal here, it can also be used. Well, here I can’t ignore other alternative options that may to attract a new audience to the channel. So, if you don't want to bother with contests, there are alternative ways to collaboration with other channels. For example, today we posted a message mentioning or somehow recommending a project that is friendly to us . Tomorrow this project does the same thing in response to us. Plus, the works great, is useful content that people, whether they like it or not, want to repost and share with friends and family. And most importantly, don't forget an auto-signature at the end of such posts, so that the person who receives such a repost in their private message can easily find their way to your channel. And this further leads to a next way to effectively attract an audience to our Telegram is to transfer them from other platforms. Let's say you have YouTube, TikTok, and so on. There are more than two ways here, which, by the way, I talked about in this video. Well, here's the next option. If you have a budget, you use the most direct, targeted advertising creatives possible, which will bring you a will actually stay on your channel for a long time and show good signs of activity. It's important to understand that a competition is a tool and not a magic pill, so it only works if done correctly and wisely. Well, more of a mechanic for promoting my Telegram channel. Link in the description. There I discuss what I talk about in the public domain and provide know how to create a contest that will attract your target audience and not attract an army of bots. And that's all from me. You were on the channel of the Cart Owner. See you in the next videos.