7 Best Sweepstakes Affiliate Networks in 2026: SOI, DOI and CC Submit Offers Compared

Key Takeaways

• Sweepstakes affiliate networks pay per lead from a prize draw: single opt-in (SOI), double opt-in (DOI), PIN flow or credit card submit. None of the 7 networks here publishes its rates before you sign up; they show in the offer list after approval.
• Only 2 of the 7 networks here name the sweepstakes flows they buy: Big Bang Ads buys SOI leads in 18 countries, and VIP Response buys SOI, DOI, PIN flow and credit card trials. The other 5 name sweepstakes as 1 vertical among many.
• Payout thresholds run from 50 EUR/USD (Mobidea) to €1,000 (VIP Response). VIP Response pays within 60 days of the invoice and only after the advertiser pays; Big Bang Ads charges €50 for a payment below its €500 threshold.
• Prize wording gets campaigns rejected: PropellerAds allows "You may win iPhone" and bans "You won iPhone / car". Sweepstakes casinos are a separate business, and California's ban names "media affiliate" among those who can't support them.

What Do Sweepstakes Affiliate Networks Pay For?

A sweepstakes offer is a prize draw: the user enters a name and an email, sometimes a phone number or a card, for a chance to win a gift card, a gadget or cash. Entry is free. The advertiser isn't selling the prize; it's buying the lead and the user's consent to marketing, and it pays the affiliate per lead.

Sweepstakes affiliate networks sell 4 kinds of these leads, and the payout grows with each extra step the user takes:

• SOI: 1 form, 1 submit. The cheapest lead and the easiest to get.
• DOI: the user also confirms the email from a link in the inbox.
• PIN submit: the user enters a phone number and types back the code from an SMS, usually to start a mobile subscription.
• CC submit: the user enters card details, usually for a trial. It pays the most and converts the least.

I checked each network's own site, FAQ and terms on November 13, 2026: which sweepstakes flows it buys, how it pays, the threshold, the traffic it bans, and what publishers write about it on Trustpilot. Where a network's pages disagree, I say so. The basics are in our glossary entry on sweepstakes, and every network we tag with sweepstakes is in the aliencpa catalog. Here are all 7 at a glance:

"Named" means the network lists sweepstakes as a vertical but doesn't say which flows or rates; you see the offers only after approval.

Sweepstakes Networks Compared: Payments, Traffic Rules and Reviews

Payment terms and traffic rules come from each network's own pages; Trustpilot scores were checked on November 13, 2026.

None of the 7 publishes a rate card before you sign up: the rates show in the offer list after approval. On sweepstakes the payout terms matter more than the rate: a lead that pays €3 but sits under a €1,000 threshold for months is worth less than a €2 lead paid weekly.

7 Best Sweepstakes Affiliate Networks in 2026

The order is editorial: direct buyers that publish their flows and payment terms come first, multi-vertical networks that only name sweepstakes after them.

1. Big Bang Ads — Best Direct Advertiser for SOI Sweepstakes

Big Bang Ads, "home of lead generation since 2001", bills through 2 eGENTIC companies: eGENTIC GmbH in Sulzbach, Germany for Europe and eGENTIC Asia Pacific Pte Ltd in Singapore for APAC. It calls itself "the #1 advertiser for Single-Opt-In Lead Generation sweeps offers" and runs its own funnels: "We own and operate the entire conversion funnel".

• Flows and GEOs: SOI sweepstakes in Germany, France, Spain, the UK, Italy, Poland, Belgium, Sweden, Portugal, Austria, Singapore, Australia, New Zealand, Malaysia, Thailand, Hong Kong, Taiwan and South Africa: 18 countries, while its pages say "20+".
• Min payout: €500 for the European entity, $500 for APAC; commissions wait up to 18 months until you reach it.
• Payments: weekly or monthly credit notes, paid "the first working day after lead validation (which takes up to 72 hours)", by SEPA or SWIFT only.
• Traffic: "Social traffic (primarily META)" works best by its FAQ; "Incentivised (Incent), SMS, Co-registration (Coreg), and Search traffic involving brand bidding" are banned.
• Creatives: your own are allowed, with "no winning promises and no misuse of third-party brands"; it also gives prelanders and says it tests landing pages "with our internal traffic".
• Pros: you buy from the funnel owner, not a reseller; S2S postback, and JS pixels for Facebook offers on request; sign-ups approved "within 72 hours maximum".
• Cons: SOI only; wire only, with the highest EU threshold after VIP Response; each billing entity needs a separate approval.

Its FAQ advises newcomers to start "with a maximum of two geos in the same entity" and to focus on 2-3 verticals at most. Its site claims "1000+ Active Affiliates", and that its best make "around 150.000€ of revenue per month"; that's its own claim, without proof.

2. VIP Response — Best for All 4 Sweepstakes Flows

VIP Response (VIP Response B.V., Utrecht, the Netherlands) runs affiliate campaigns in sweepstakes, e-commerce, streaming, white hat, iGaming and nutra, and says: "We are experts in sweepstakes."

• Flows: "Categories: SOI, DOI, Pin Flow, Credit Card Trial"; "Payment models: CPL, CPA".
• GEOs: "active campaigns in 60+ countries", all verticals together.
• Min payout: "Payment threshold is 1000 euro or its equivalent in the chosen currency."
• Payments: within 60 calendar days of the invoice date, and "VIP Response B.V. will fulfill payment after receiving payment from the advertiser"; wire or PayPal, with PayPal fees on you.
• Traffic: "Publisher shall only apply the allowed traffic types or generations mechanisms listed on the Dashboard."
• Pros: the widest choice of sweepstakes flows here; on-demand creatives and designs; a GDPR angle in its support: "From ad creatives to GDPR-compliant flows, we help you stay competitive".
• Cons: the highest threshold and the slowest payment here; a lead counts only once the advertiser accepts it, and "VIP Response retains the right to reject Supplies retrospectively"; Trustpilot 2.6 from 4 reviews, with payment complaints in April and September 2026.

Article 7.10 is the one to read twice: below €1,000, you can ask for your balance only 2 years after your last approved lead.

3. Zeydoo — Best for Giveaway Offers Paid Twice a Month

Zeydoo (Zeydoo Ltd, Cyprus, and Zeydoo Limited, Isle of Man; its publisher terms list them next to the Propeller Ads companies) delivers "exclusive direct offers in social and relationship, surveys, giveaway, finance, and mobile software to more than 195 countries". It doesn't use the word sweepstakes: its prize-draw offers are "Giveaways".

• Flows: every offer except the smartlink is an "Interactive Offer", a CPL offer of 1 of 4 flow types: One-Step, Multi-Step, Playable ("Click Box, Fortune Wheel, or similar playable mechanics") and MIX, a rotation of the 3.
• Min payout: "payment service providers – 100 USD; wire transfers – 1000 USD".
• Payments: twice a month, on the 7th and the 22nd, with a 7-day hold; the first payout comes "not earlier 14 calendar days" after the first impression. KYC can be required, with documents checked "within 5-7 business days".
• Traffic: one-step and multi-step offers are "Best for Pops, Push, Banner", playable offers for paid Meta, with "mechanics that keep Meta accounts compliant"; the smartlink pays revshare "up to 80%".
• Pros: the best Trustpilot score in this list, 4.6 from 36 reviews; postback guides for Keitaro, Binom, Voluum, RedTrack and other trackers; support 24/7 in chat.
• Cons: its terms make "payment for Affiliate's revenue" "dependent upon payments from advertisers"; $1,000 minimum by wire; publishers from Russia and a list of sanctioned countries can't register; rates only after sign-up.

Its terms were last updated on August 5, 2026. Offer applications are reviewed "Monday - Friday, 11 - 19pm GMT +3", so describe your traffic source in detail to get approved faster.

4. Mobidea — Best for Weekly Payouts From 50 EUR/USD

Mobidea is "a CPA affiliate network founded in 2011", with "200K+" affiliates and "800+" advertisers by its own count, AI smartlinks and direct offers.

• Flows: its affiliate offer list reads "Leadgen, mVAS, VPN & CPI, Sweepstakes, Dating, CC Submits, Nutra, Auto Insurance".
• Min payout: "The minimum amount to request a payment is 50 EUR or 50 USD."
• Payments: "Weekly Payments & Flexible Payment Methods".
• GEOs: "200+ Countries Covered".
• Pros: the lowest threshold here and weekly payments; a smartlink if you don't want to pick offers by hand; support "in 10+ languages".
• Cons: no published flows or rates per offer; Trustpilot 2.3 from 6 reviews, with a complaint in October 2026 that traffic was called "not good" only at the minimum payout.

5. AdsEmpire — Best for Sweepstakes Through a Smartlink

AdsEmpire (DETAILED GRAPHICS KFT, Hungary) sells direct CPA offers and a smartlink that "monetize 100% of your traffic", in "dating, games and sweepstakes".

• Min payout: monthly $250 by Bitcoin or USDT, $2,000 by wire, Paxum or PayPal; weekly from $1,500 by crypto. Its terms add that "the applicable minimum payout threshold shall be determined by the Advertiser".
• Payments: "monthly net30, but you can get upgraded to weekly payments if your weekly traffic volumes exceed $1,500."
• Traffic: "We don't accept any kind of fraudulent traffic, chat traffic, or incentive traffic." Email, SMS, celebrity, clickunder and popunder traffic "are restricted by some advertisers", and if you don't tell your manager in advance, it may "withhold part or the entire sum of your traffic value".
• Pros: a smartlink for mixed traffic; S2S postback; stats updated every 15 minutes; applications reviewed in about 48 hours.
• Cons: a $2,000 threshold for wire and PayPal; its homepage now leads with iGaming, and its awards are for dating and smartlinks; Trustpilot 2.4 from 13 reviews.

6. Mobplus — Best for Sweepstakes Next to mVAS Offers

Mobplus is an mVAS-first network: its top verticals are mobile subscriptions, sweepstakes, e-commerce, nutra, smartlink and insurance, and sweepstakes "Offers The Chance To Win Prizes By Entering A Drawing Or Competition".

• Min payout: "Low Minimum Threshold 100$".
• Payments: wire, Payoneer, PayPal, Wise, Capitalist or USDT.
• Offers: "100000+ Competitive And Exclusive Direct Offers Covering 150+ Countries" on its affiliates page; "180,000+ Campaigns" on its homepage.
• Tracking: a "Self-Developed Tracking System" and a smartlink.
• Pros: sweepstakes and PIN-style mobile offers in 1 account; USDT and Capitalist payouts.
• Cons: no legal entity on its site; no published payment schedule, traffic rules or flows; no Trustpilot page.

7. The Lead Wolves — Best for Exclusive Lead-Gen Offers on Everflow

The Lead Wolves (The Lead Wolves SL, founded in 2020) calls itself an "Advertiser & Exclusive Affiliate Marketing Network" with in-house and exclusive offers, and lists sweepstakes first among its verticals.

• Models: "CPI, CPL, CPA, CPC, CPM, CPS".
• Traffic: "Social, Display, E-Mail, Push, In-App and Native".
• GEOs: "Europe, North America, Asia Pacific, LATAM & Middle East".
• Tracking: Everflow, so you get a standard postback and reporting.
• Pros: "1500+" live campaigns and "50+" advertisers by its own count; a referral bonus program.
• Cons: no published threshold, schedule or payment methods, only "Fast payment terms"; its only Trustpilot review, from August 2024, says $173.79 went unpaid for 1.5 months.

Networks I Checked and Left Out

• Proleagion: its German site sells leads to companies, up to 100,000 a month, and its sweepstakes page is a guide, not an affiliate program with terms.
• Blitzads: a Hong Kong CPA network "since 2019", but its site doesn't mention sweepstakes and signs up publishers through a contact form.
• OpenAff: its awards are for crypto and finance; sweepstakes is only an option in its sign-up form.
• Affmine: its site and terms don't mention sweepstakes, and "Payment for Commissions is dependent upon Advertisers providing such funds to Affmine."

Where to Buy Traffic for Sweepstakes Offers

The network that buys your leads is half the setup; the ad network that sells you the traffic is the other half, and its rules on prize wording are stricter than most affiliates expect. Here is what each one says in its own policy:

• PropellerAds: the clearest rule on prize claims, see the screenshot. It also rejects "statements about payment / awaiting / delivery" of any prize.
• HilltopAds: recommends sweepstakes and pin-submits among the best offers for its traffic, and bans "Phishing messages with statements about winning / receiving large and substantial gifts" and "logos of famous brands".
• Clickadu: lists sweepstakes among the banners it allows.
• Adcash: "Promotion of lotto, lottery, or sweepstake-related campaigns is permitted" where legal in the target country.
• ExoClick and TrafficJunky: ExoClick's certified advertiser rules list "Sweepstake offers" among landing pages it won't accept on popunder zones, and TrafficJunky bans sweepstakes on popunders.
• TikTok: allows "entry into sweepstakes or raffles for a chance to win a prize upon survey completion", but not "guaranteed too-good-to-be true gifts or rewards to all participants".

Big Bang Ads recommends Meta first for SOI, and push and pop are the usual tests for sweepstakes. Our tops of push ad networks and popunder ad networks compare them.

What You Can't Say in a Sweepstakes Ad

Ad network rules follow the law, which is the same in spirit in the US, the UK and the EU: no fake wins, no hidden costs.

• US. The FTC's guide for small business: "Sweepstakes-type promotions that require a purchase by participants are illegal in the United States." In June 2023 Publishers Clearing House agreed to pay $18.5 million after the FTC said its "Official Entry Form" didn't enter people into the sweepstakes and its shipping costs averaged "over 40% of the product costs".
• UK. The CAP Code, rule 8.19: "Promoters must not claim that consumers have won a prize if they have not." Rule 8.21.1 bans claiming the consumer "has already won" if claiming the prize costs money or the prize doesn't exist.
• EU. The Unfair Commercial Practices Directive lists among practices banned in all cases "Creating the false impression that the consumer has already won" a prize when there is none or claiming it costs money.
• Germany. In May 2020 the Federal Court of Justice (BGH, I ZR 7/16) ruled that a prize-draw form asking consent to calls from sponsors picked from a linked list of 57 companies gave no valid consent for the specific case. That's the market behind SOI leads in Germany: the lead is worth what its consent is worth.

Sweepstakes Casinos Are a Different Business

Many searches for sweepstakes affiliate programs mean something else: sweepstakes casinos, US online casinos with 2 currencies, where 1 can be redeemed for cash prizes. They're gambling in all but name, and US states are closing them, with affiliates named in the laws.

California's section 337o took effect on January 1, 2026; a violation is a misdemeanor with a fine of $1,000 to $25,000, up to 1 year in county jail, or both. New York's S5935-A, signed on December 5, 2025, makes it unlawful for "any other person or entity to operate, conduct, or promote online sweepstakes games" in the state and lists "media affiliate" among those who may not support them, with fines of $10,000 to $100,000 per violation. In September 2026 New York's Attorney General took $8 million from VGW, the operator of Chumba Casino, Global Poker and Luckyland Slots. PropellerAds launches US sweepstakes casino ads "only once the license is provided, and only in approved states".

None of the 7 networks above runs sweepstakes casino offers on its public pages. If that's the program you're after, read the laws of the states you target first; for licensed casino and betting programs, see the best gambling affiliate networks.

How to Start With a Sweepstakes Network: Step-by-Step

1. Choose the flow for your traffic: SOI for broad push, pop and social traffic; DOI and PIN where users will confirm; CC submit only for warm traffic.
2. Pick 1 or 2 countries in 1 billing entity, as Big Bang Ads advises, and ask the manager for the current prize and landing page in each.
3. Read the payment terms before the rate: the threshold, when leads are validated, and whether the network pays before or after the advertiser does.
4. Tell your manager the traffic source before you send anything. Email, SMS, popunder and incent are banned or restricted at most networks here, and AdsEmpire can withhold the whole sum for undisclosed traffic.
5. Write the prelander and creatives to the ad network's rules: "You may win", never "You won", no brand logos, no fake payment notices.
6. Set up tracking: an S2S postback from the network to your tracker, and the source or zone ID in every click.
7. Test with a fixed budget and watch the share of leads the advertiser rejects, not just the CPL. For the size of the test, see how much budget to test an offer.
8. Take the first payout before you scale. A network that pays on time at €100 is a better test than a bigger rate you haven't been paid yet.