Can I Give Away Games To Promote My YouTube Channel?

Thanks for getting back to me.

That's great, as I didn't want to require people to do anything special to enter the giveaway. I don't want to forcefully push people to my channel, I just want to make them aware of it.

Sounds right to me. Taken from the FAQ:

• Invite Only
  This allows you to privately share the giveaway link with friends, or outside communities.

Edit: Not too sure about putting the link in the video. If they have to watch the whole video to get to the link than they are technically being required to perform an action in order to enter the giveaway. Posting the link in the video description would be fine though. I might have misunderstood you though.

Video-linked giveaways were allowed in the past, but that was prior to the crackdown on gleam.io. The current phrasing still allows them [namely, since the action is interactive, not active/contributive (to a promotional, commerical, or monetary element that benefits the GA creator)- as such, it ought fall under typical SG event allowances], but it may be better to get confirmation from staff if they're still permissible.
(Put another way, if you look at the FAQ quote, it mentions "liking a Facebook page", not 'visiting a facebook page and finding the comment among many that has a GA linked in it'. In the first, you're taking an action to support the site, in the latter, you're merely interacting with the site.)

As you say, though- those giveaways would have to be separate from the ones that were made to promote the channel in the first place, since no actions can be required to validate an entry once it has already been made in a giveaway. (Technically, you'd also lose any right to a leaked giveaway reroll in that instance as well, since the links are essentially posted publicly- but as there's no restriction to your deleting giveaways prior to their end, that oughtn't affect much.)

Basically, SG gives pretty free reign with group management or invite-only giveaway access, so long as it isn't exploitative in how it utilizes the site, made for the sake of providing a direct benefit to the GA creator, or violates any of the conduct/access rules on SG (such as requiring actions to validate an entry).

Thanks for getting back to me.

That's great, as I didn't want to require people to do anything special to enter the giveaway. I don't want to forcefully push people to my channel, I just want to make them aware of it and then earn those subs by creating good content.

Thanks for getting back to me.

That's great, as I didn't want to require people to do anything special to enter the giveaway. I don't want to forcefully push people to my channel, I just want to make them aware of it.

Thanks for the kind words haha. Unfortunate for myself that you are no longer interested in checking out my channel.

I deliberately didn't link to my channel because I was unsure of the rules on sharing, which is why I made this thread.

If you change your mind on taking a look at my channel, I've added a link in the OP to it.

Hey, thanks for the interest, here's a link to my channel.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCGt277NWBXGLd13D9jbf8vA