Woobox sweepstakes tools: what the vendor's own pages describe
For a Woobox sweepstakes drawn from a Facebook post, the vendor's Comment Picker selects the winner at random from comments, reactions or both. Woobox also describes Classic photo and video contest templates and an AI poll maker it calls free to start; the pages consulted here do not say what free access covers for the picker or the templates.
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What a Woobox sweepstakes runs on
Campaigns on Woobox start from one of two places. The Classic campaign templates sit at the bottom of the New Site creation screen, and the AI site builder, which Woobox's help page says can create and design a survey, a form, a giveaway, a photo contest and other campaigns in a few minutes, is the newer route. The AI poll maker and the Facebook Comment Picker each have their own vendor pages.
A Woobox sweepstakes is whatever an organiser assembles from those parts: an entry route that brings people in, an eligible pool that decides who can win, a draw that picks one of them, and a record of what the draw did. Each part has a setting in the vendor's own pages, and each setting is a line the published rules should repeat.
The vendor pages consulted here do not describe Woobox instant win or Woobox spin to win, so nothing on this page covers how either works.
Facebook Comment Picker: choosing the post, the pool and the winner
The Facebook Comment Picker sits under Social in the dashboard: the help page says to click Social on the left, then select Facebook Comment Picker. The organiser chooses the Facebook post, and the help page adds that a post can also be found by its URL, then chooses comments, reactions or both as the source of entries. The Woobox Facebook Comment Picker therefore reads the entries that already sit under the post.
Three settings define the eligible pool. The organiser can limit entries to one comment per user, require a tagged friend, or filter by hashtag, and the number of winners is chosen before the draw. Clicking Pick a winner makes Woobox draw randomly from the eligible pool, show the winner with a direct link to the winning comment, and log the draw.
The Picked tab lists the winners and lets the organiser unpick an individual winner, which is the tool's own way of removing one; why a winner is unpicked belongs in the published rules. In a Woobox sweepstakes, the Woobox comment picker leaves a log and a Picked list, and both are the organiser's evidence if a winner is challenged.
Two ways in for photo entries, and one rule for votes
Photo contests are one of the Classic campaign types: the help pages say to choose Photo/Video Contest or Hashtag Contest from the campaign types, and that the setup guide applies to the Classic templates at the bottom of the New Site creation screen. A Woobox photo contest built that way can accept photo submissions in two ways.
The first way uses Instagram hashtags. Woobox says it pulls in public uploads that use the required hashtag from the previous 24 hours and throughout the campaign's entry period. The second way is an entry form with the photo upload option in a UGC Contest, where the File Upload form field accepts files up to 250MB.
Voting has its own rule. In a Classic Template Photo/Video Contest, Woobox says users can vote once per submission, which gives a voter one vote on any single entry and leaves the ranking to how many different voters each entry reaches. A voter who arrives through a woobox com vote link is on one organiser's contest, and that organiser's rules apply.
The template features the help pages name are two entry routes, one vote per submission and a 250MB upload limit. Any other setting of a Classic contest template is not described in the pages consulted here, so it needs a look at the template itself.
AI poll builder: from one sentence to a published poll
The AI poll builder starts from one sentence: Woobox says the organiser tells it what to ask the audience, and the AI writes the choices, designs a hosted landing page and publishes the poll on a public URL in seconds. Woobox calls the tool a free AI poll maker for marketers, brands and creators, says it is free to start, and says there is no code at any step.
Each poll ships with a one-line embed snippet that, in Woobox's words, drops the poll natively into any site, blog or landing page, and each choice can carry an image, a GIF or a short video beside its label. In a Poll campaign the entry page is titled Poll.
A poll built this way can also carry a lead-capture form with the image options, and a form means the organiser is collecting details from respondents, which the published rules should say. A poll counts opinions, a contest counts entries, and only the second has an eligible pool to draw a winner from.
What a participant's chances depend on
In a Woobox Facebook giveaway drawn by comment, a participant's chances depend on who is in the eligible pool. Woobox draws randomly from that pool, so a one-comment-per-user limit, when the organiser sets it, gives every entrant the same single place in the draw, and a required tagged friend or hashtag decides who is in the pool at all.
In a Classic photo or video contest the mechanism is different: the ranking comes from votes, and each user can vote once per submission. The entrant controls the entry and whether it follows the entry rule exactly, and the vote count belongs to the audience.
A Woobox sweepstakes draws from an eligible pool and has nothing to give beyond entering correctly, once, under the published rules; a tip that claims otherwise describes something the draw does not contain.
The draw log, direct links and the Picked tab
Four records in the vendor's own pages give an organiser something to check, and each one records what the tool did, and none of them rules on whether an entry was genuine.
Whether a comment comes from a genuine person is the organiser's reading of the entrant list, done before the draw; the pool settings narrow the list but do not vouch for anyone in it.
For votes, the rule these help pages state is one vote per submission in the Classic photo and video template. Any check beyond that rule, on how a voter is identified, is for the organiser to confirm with Woobox before the contest opens.
- The eligible pool, defined by the one-comment-per-user, tagged-friend and hashtag settings.
- The direct link to each winner's comment, shown when the draw runs.
- The draw log that Woobox says it keeps.
- The Picked tab, with an Unpick control for individual winners.
What Woobox leaves to the organiser
Woobox supplies the draw, the log and the Unpick control, and the organiser supplies everything else. The eligible-pool settings, the entry period, the prize and the reason a winner is unpicked are the organiser's decisions, and a decision the published rules never mention is hard to defend once an entrant challenges it.
A giveaway drawn from a Facebook post also sits under Facebook's own terms for promotions, and a contest run from a Woobox campaign sits under Woobox's terms. The help pages quoted here describe features, not those terms, so the terms have to be read at the host before the campaign opens. In a Woobox sweepstakes that reads a Facebook post, both sets apply at once.
| Tool | What it does | Rule or limit stated | Free access stated |
|---|---|---|---|
| Facebook Comment Picker | Draws winners at random from comments or reactions | One comment per user; tagged friend; hashtag | Not stated |
| AI poll maker | Builds a branded poll page from one sentence | Choices can carry image, GIF or video | Described as free to start |
| Photo/Video Contest template | Takes photos by hashtag or upload form | One vote per submission; 250MB file limit | Not stated |
| Hashtag Contest template | Pulls public uploads with the required hashtag | Previous 24 hours plus entry period | Not stated |
| AI site builder | Creates surveys, forms, giveaways, photo contests | Not stated | Not stated |
Procedure
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Choose the campaign type
In the New Site creation screen, pick a Classic template such as Photo/Video Contest or Hashtag Contest, or use the AI site builder to create a survey, a form, a giveaway or a photo contest from a description. The Photo/Video Contest setup guide applies to the Classic templates only.
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Decide the entry route
For a photo contest, choose Instagram hashtags, which Woobox pulls in from the previous 24 hours onward, or a UGC Contest entry form with photo upload, where the File Upload field accepts files up to 250MB. The choice decides who can enter: anyone who posts publicly with the hashtag, or anyone who completes the form.
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State the eligibility settings
Fix the rule before entrants see the campaign: one comment per user, a tagged friend, a hashtag filter and, for a photo contest, one vote per submission. These are the settings the help pages name, and the published rules should quote each one in the same words.
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Pick the winner in Social
For a comment draw, click Social on the left, select Facebook Comment Picker, choose the post and then comments, reactions or both, set the number of winners and click Pick a winner. In a Woobox sweepstakes this is the moment the eligible pool is fixed, so the settings come first.
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Check the log and the Picked tab
Read the draw log and the direct link to each winning comment, then open the Picked tab. An individual winner can be unpicked there if needed, and the reason for doing so belongs in the published rules.
Readers ask
Is Woobox free?
Woobox describes its AI poll maker as free to start, and the pages consulted here state nothing about a free tier for the Facebook Comment Picker or the Classic contest templates. What a free start includes is set on Woobox's current plan page, so that page is the place to confirm it before an entry period is announced.
How do I use Woobox?
A Woobox sweepstakes or contest starts from a campaign type: a Classic template such as Photo/Video Contest, the AI site builder, or the AI poll maker for polls. Then the organiser sets how entries arrive, writes the entry rule and, for a comment draw, runs the Facebook Comment Picker from Social in the dashboard.
How do I vote on Woobox?
Voting happens inside the organiser's contest, and in a Classic Template Photo/Video Contest Woobox says users can vote once per submission. What a voter must supply beyond that is set by each organiser's campaign, so the rules shown on that campaign are the ones that apply.
How does the Facebook Comment Picker choose a winner?
Woobox draws randomly from the eligible pool, shows the winner with a direct link to their comment, and logs the draw. The pool follows the organiser's choices: the post, comments or reactions or both, one comment per user, a tagged friend and a hashtag filter.
What file size does a Woobox photo contest accept?
The File Upload form field accepts files up to 250MB, according to Woobox's help pages. Entries taken from an Instagram hashtag arrive as public posts instead, so the upload limit applies to the UGC Contest entry form.
Can a Woobox poll go on my own website?
Every Woobox poll comes with a one-line embed snippet that, in Woobox's words, drops the poll natively into any site, blog or landing page. The AI builder also publishes the poll on a public URL of its own, so a poll can live in both places.
Notes and sources
- Woobox. woobox.com/facebook-comment-picker.
- Woobox. woobox.com/polls.
- Woobox. help.woobox.com/articles/photo-submissions/.
- Woobox. help.woobox.com/articles/photo-submissions/.
- Woobox. help.woobox.com/articles/voting-options/.
This page is not legal advice; a lawyer who knows the organiser's country gives that. Sweepstakes law differs by country and by state, and whether an entry route, a prize or a published rule set is lawful where the organiser lives is a question for that lawyer. Woobox draws and logs; it does not decide a disqualification, a prize or whether an entry is genuine, and the organiser of a Woobox sweepstakes answers for all three. The help pages quoted here are the vendor's own words, not test results.
Woobox's user terms require entrants to agree to the organiser's official rules, so any limit on bought or incentivised votes depends on the particular contest. Walmart's Associate Talent Search rules prohibit paying for votes and let Walmart void fraudulent votes or disqualify the entrant. The platform's terms and the organiser's rules are two documents, and a disqualification is decided under the second.
Woobox lists three warning signs of bought votes: many votes from one IP address, votes from people in different countries and regular voting intervals. Award Force says its platform detects and blocks automated or scripted voting and rate-limits rapid voting. Ordinary participation is uneven in time and independent in origin, so it shows none of those patterns; this describes how checks read a count and is not a method for passing one.
In the United States, the FTC says a sweepstakes cannot require a purchase to enter, and California says a sweepstakes must offer a way to enter without cost. Those rules concern sweepstakes entry, not votes: whether a contest allows paid votes is written in its own rules, and ViralSweep even lets organisers configure Pay to Vote. Contests whose rules bar outside votes are refused, and so are political ballots.
Once voting closes, a refund applies where votes ordered for a contest never appear in the count the contest itself displays. ViralSweep says its protections may silently flag and block a vote, and Woobox says votes from IP addresses it has flagged as fraudulent do not count even when the voter appears to have succeeded, so the displayed count is the test. An organiser's ruling or a disqualification is never refunded, and neither is an account ban such as the permanent one Gleam says a breach of its terms may bring.