Insights From 50M+ Entries: When Are Giveaways Entered? [INFOGRAPHIC]

When are Giveaways Entered?

When do you enter giveaways? Maybe a little after dinner? Maybe after the kids are sent off to school or after they’re in bed? Or maybe while you’re at work? Don’t worry – we won’t tell! And you’re not alone :)

When Are Giveaways Entered? An Infographic

In the infographic below, we breakdown giveaway entry data spanning over a 17 week period that reveals what days of the week are popular from an entrant’s perspective, what times of day attract the most entries, and the difference in the number of entries on weekdays vs. weekends.

You might use this data to decide when to launch your promotions or when to share them with your followers. Take a peek below – all data is in EST. Feel free to embed the infographic on your blog if you’d like using the embed code below.

When Are Giveaways Entered?

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About the author

Greg Goodson

Greg Goodson is the cofounder of Rafflecopter. 25x ultramarathoner, bluegrass guitarist, & weather enthusiast. Owner of one doge.

  • I tend to enter mine all while I have my coffee, usually about 1000, which I can usually get done in one hr. I’ve won a few great prizes

  • This is a great ‘go to’ guide. Thanks for creating!

  • My giveaways seem to get sporadic entries. BTW I have a giveaway for a $25 gift card ending in a couple of days :)

  • Great graphic, and very helpful. What program did you use to make it? You know that everyone will now be launching their giveaways on Monday at 10am and your server will go down? :) Just kidding, I know how good you guys are at keeping your servers up.

    • hey Ben! this was created using Pixelmator – it’s a great OS image editing app. we always knew that Monday evenings were the ‘hottest’ time of the week, it’s just good to see that the data backs it up :)

  • Super useful data, thanks Greg!!!

  • mornings

  • I have a newsletter come in giveaway promte and it just seems like spam. There is no addrss at bottom and i cannot even have it come up really.Really suspicious and now so more than ever as my Microsofte essentials went off yesterday..hmm

  • Abby Smith

    I’m not sure where else to leave this comment so I’ll do it here! Rafflecopter has made an insane giveaway possible. There are over 20 shops and $1,500 in prizes all in one rafflecopter. The giveaway is at twistmepretty.com if you’d like to check it out!! Thank you rafflecopter. We looove you!!!

  • Joanna

    I’m not sure either where to leave my comment for the DIY giveaway, so I’m entering it her (below? below where?). Anyway, new to the DIY scene but an oldie when it comes to organics, I am excited to try out all the oils! And since my daughter is the one who turned me on to DIY, I know I’ll be sharing my win with her!

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  • FragrantBodyOilz

    Im not sure what Im doing wrong but when I launch via FB it says giveaway is over :(
    https://www.facebook.com/pages/FragrantBodyOilz/195980304468?sk=app_228910107186452

  • Francesca Ebeli

    Ive added all my info on the Rafflecopter webpage, but I cant get it to link to my Facebook Page ‘Get Fit and Healthy’ Can you link me in as well?

  • very useful THANKS =)

  • steph/fangswandsandfairydust

    This is great information. I think the changes from percent of entries by time of day is remarkably steady!

  • julieK

    Very cool infographic! I had read a couple years ago that Mondays are the highest blog traffic so I am not surprised by this data. (PS Tuesday is missing an S in the lower part of the graphic!!)

    • darn – I swear I read over this thing 50 times :P thanks for pointing out the typo!

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  • jks

    If I won a Amazon gift card, I would buy a bunch of books or maybe a TV for my husband.

  • Impressive! Thanks for this! Good thing my giveaway is ending on Monday. Unfortunately, it’s ending at 5pm EST rather than 10pm.

    Also, if anyone is interested, I am giving away 3 greeting cards my mother and I designed. She’s a painter and I’m a writer. http://bit.ly/10Enpp1

    (Honestly, I didn’t mean for this comment to be a shameless self-promotion, but…that’s what it seems to have turned into.)

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  • I have a giveaway card worth $50 but FB link followup text declares it an expired offer.