Easily pick winners for your giveaways using our step-by-step process.
Running a YouTube giveaway draw takes four steps: paste the video URL, set your filters, start the draw, and announce the winner. The whole process takes under five minutes and needs nothing but a public YouTube video with comments enabled — no account, no installation, no cost.
Copy and paste the URL of your YouTube video to start fetching comments.
Set filters like keywords, minimum likes, and unique users to refine your participant list.
Click the 'Start Draw' button to pick winners randomly.
View the winners and backups in an animated interface.
Filters decide who ends up in the entry pool, so each one is effectively a rule of your giveaway. Set them before you draw, and publish them in your video description so nobody is surprised by an exclusion.
Keeps only comments containing a word or phrase you specify. Turn on exact matching to require the precise capitalisation and spelling, or leave it off to accept any variation.
Use it when: You asked entrants to comment a specific word, hashtag, or answer, and you want to exclude people who commented something unrelated.
Watch out for: Exact matching removes misspellings, different capitalisation, and translated versions of your keyword. On an international audience this can quietly exclude a large group, so prefer loose matching unless you have a reason not to.
Limits every account to a single entry, keeping that person's most-liked comment and discarding the rest.
Use it when: You promised one entry per person. This is the fairest default for almost every giveaway and the filter most creators should leave on.
Watch out for: It shrinks the pool noticeably on videos where enthusiastic viewers commented several times. That drop is expected and is not a malfunction.
Excludes comments below the like count you set.
Use it when: You want to reward comments the community actually engaged with, or you need a rough filter against low-effort spam entries.
Watch out for: Most comments on most videos have zero likes, so even a threshold of one can remove the overwhelming majority of entries. Check the resulting pool size before you draw.
Sets how many names are drawn. Winners and backups are drawn together, without replacement, so nobody can occupy two slots.
Use it when: Always draw at least two backups. A meaningful share of winners never respond to the announcement.
Watch out for: Backups only protect you if they were drawn in the same run as the winner. Drawing a replacement afterwards looks like a second, unexplained draw.
These four cover almost every problem creators report. Work through them in order before assuming the tool is broken.
Expected in almost every case. YouTube's count includes replies, which are not entries, plus comments held in your moderation queue that the public API cannot see. Your active filters reduce it further. Approve any held comments in Creator Studio, then reload before drawing.
Comments are disabled on the video, the video is private or unlisted, or the URL points to a channel or playlist rather than a single video. Open the link in a new tab and confirm you can see comments while logged out.
Comments are read up to the first 1,000 returned. On videos above that, the pool is a subset. State this in your rules before entries open so nobody discovers it after the draw.
Check three things in order: was their comment a reply rather than a top-level comment, was it held for review, and did it fail one of your filters. One of those three explains nearly every case, and each has a factual answer you can give publicly.
Running through this once takes a few minutes and prevents the disputes that are impossible to fix after the fact.
To filter YouTube comments based on keywords, enter your desired keyword in the filter field. Use the exact match option for precise results. This tool makes filtering easy for any YouTube giveaway.
In a YouTube comment picker, this option ensures only one comment per user is included, prioritizing the one with the most likes. This feature is perfect for fair YouTube giveaways.
Yes, you can set a minimum like count to include only highly engaged comments for your YouTube giveaway.
Enter the number of winners and backup winners you'd like to select. The tool will randomly pick winners for your YouTube comment giveaway, ensuring a fair draw.