What Are Sweepstakes? | Difference Between Sweepstakes vs. Contests vs. Lotteries

Looking to run sweepstakes or contests?

We've all heard what sweepstakes are, but what exactly makes something an official sweepstakes?

In this video, we will learn the difference between sweepstakes, contests, and lotteries. Also, learn some Sweepstakes laws and best practices to consider.

In this video, we will cover:
0:00 Introduction Starts
0:26 Difference Between Sweepstakes vs. Contests vs. Lotteries
1:48 What’s a Contest?
2:35 What’s a Sweepstakes?
3:51 What’s a Lottery?
4:06 Differences Between Sweepstakes and Gambling
4:38 Sweepstakes Laws and Regulations to Consider
6:44 Closing Starts
6:56 Official Rules Generator Tool & ViralSweep Promotion

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[jameschristopher]

Ok I think I get your question. It’s a sweepstakes because left to random luck. And win by ‘chance’. But it’s also a contest because significant effort or entry fee is required to enter.

Now a contest here is where the employee has to expend a significant effort in the form of labour to meet the criteria. The issue is the laptops are won by blind chance.

It should be done by ‘voting/judges’ or another sub criteria like employee of the year (for attendance/sales/attitude etc). So would this even count?

It’s also not a sweepstakes because a lot of effort was involved (the effort being TIME). Working takes a lot of time and energy.

So it’s a difficult one.

[tigeruppercut]

Who's here from watching documentaries on Natsubi, the Japanese comedian who was locked up in a room and tortured for about a year by repeatedly having to enter sweepstakes?

[CristianJimenez-jnwu]

Can you explain 🤔 sweepstakes wity 5x entires

[kritsadventures]

Here is an interesting hypothetical I have. Are all employer to employee giveaways illegal?

If a requirement to enter a giveaway is that you provide labor to a company, is that a thing of value and therefore a consideration, making a giveaway strictly for employees illegal?

For example, say my friend works for company X and I'm unemployed.

Company X has 100 old laptops and they wish to give them away to their employees. My friend enters the contest by emailing somebody in the IT department and requesting an entry and the names go into a random picker where 100 names are randomly selected.

I email to enter the contest and my entry is deleted because I'm not an employee. How is this not a consideration?

If it's not a consideration, then by that logic I should be able to require random strangers to perform labor for me as qualification for entry. Whats the difference between the two scenarios? Intent? Pre-existing relationship? Those, as far as I'm aware, are not part of giveaway law. I think I may have discovered that its illegal to run giveaways for employees.