1. Dates
All times are India Standard Time.
- Applications open on 1 November 2026 and close at 11:59 pm on 10 November 2026.
- Each accepted creator uses Zanoo for 15 days, starting the day we set up their account. The last start date is 15 November 2026.
- The contest ends at 11:59 pm on 30 November 2026. We announce results after that, by email to every participant.
2. Who can enter
- Individuals aged 18 or over, living in India, with an Indian bank account or UPI ID.
- An Instagram Business or Creator account with at least 5,000 followers, which you own and run yourself.
- Not our employees, contractors or their immediate family, and not anyone already paid by us to promote Zanoo.
One entry per person and per Instagram account.
3. How to enter
Apply with the form on zanoo.in/creators. Entry is free and needs no purchase. We choose which applications to accept, and reply to every applicant within 5 working days.
4. What taking part involves
- Sign up for Zanoo with the email you applied with, and connect your own Instagram account. We switch on a paid plan for your 15 days at no cost to you.
- Use Zanoo on your real account for those 15 days.
- Fill in our feedback form before your 15 days end. We send you the link.
- Post one reel about Zanoo on your Instagram before your 15 days end, with Instagram’s Paid partnership label switched on, and send us its link. Your opinion is yours; we only check it for factual mistakes about Zanoo.
- Keep the reel up and Instagram connected to Zanoo until the results are announced.
5. How entries are ranked
Everyone who completes step 4 is ranked on four parts. Each part is scored by where you stand among the other participants, from 0 to 100, then weighted:
| Part | Weight | How it’s measured |
|---|---|---|
| Usage | 30% | Your activity in Zanoo during your 15 days: the days you used it, automations you set up and the messages, comments and leads they handled. |
| Feedback | 20% | Your feedback form, scored 1 to 5 by two of our team for how specific and useful it is. Criticism scores as well as praise. |
| Your reel | 25% | Your reel, scored 1 to 5 by the same two people for how clearly it shows Zanoo in real use. Whether you liked Zanoo does not count. |
| Engagement | 25% | Views, likes, comments, shares and saves on your reel in its first 7 days, from Instagram. Half on the total, half on the total divided by your followers, so smaller accounts can win. |
Ties go to the creator who posted first. Our ranking is final.
6. Prizes
- First place: ₹10,000.
- Second place: ₹7,000.
- Third place: ₹5,000.
- Everyone ranked 1 to 10: an offer of a paid collaboration with Zanoo. We agree the brief and the fee with each creator.
There is no other payment for taking part. Prizes are paid by bank transfer or UPI within 15 working days of the results, to the winner only, and cannot be exchanged or transferred. We deduct tax where Indian law requires it and give you a statement; we may need your PAN to do so.
7. Disqualification
We may disqualify an entry, at any point, for:
- bought or automated followers, views or engagement, or engagement pods;
- activity in Zanoo created only to raise the usage score, such as messaging yourself;
- a reel without the Paid partnership label, or one that is removed, made private or edited to mislead before the results;
- disconnecting Instagram from Zanoo before the results;
- false information in the application, or breaking Instagram’s rules or our Terms.
8. Your reel and your feedback
Your reel stays yours. By entering, you let us share, repost and quote it, with credit to you, to talk about Zanoo; ask us to stop and we won’t use it again from then on. We may quote your feedback without your name, and use it to improve Zanoo.
9. Your data
We use what you give us, and your Zanoo and Instagram activity during the contest, only to run the contest, rank entries and pay prizes, as our Privacy policy describes. We delete the details from the “notify me” form after the contest ends.
10. General
We may change these rules, or end the contest early, if something outside our control makes it unfair or impossible to run; we will tell every participant by email. Instagram does not sponsor, run or endorse this contest. Questions: hello@zanoo.in.