How Sweepstakes Work

Stuff You Should Know

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Society & Culture

4.6 • 79.3K Ratings

🗓️ 22 September 2020

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Sweepstakes were invented as marketing tools to drum up interest for a product or sales. But winning them can be fun and as they’ve proliferated an entire subculture of people who enter hundreds of them a day. Enter the fascinating world of sweepstakes today!

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0:00.0	There's so much news happening around the world that we're somehow supposed to stay on top of.
0:05.7	That's why we launched The Big Take.
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0:16.4	I'm Wes Kosova.
0:17.7	Each weekday I dig into one important story and talk about why it matters.
0:23.6	Listen to The Big Take on The I Heart Radio App, Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen.
0:31.3	Welcome to Stuff You Should Know, a production of I Heart Radio's House Stuff Works.
0:41.3	Hey and welcome to The Podcast.
0:42.9	I'm Josh Clark.
0:44.2	There's Charles W. Chuck Bryant, Jerry's over there and you may already be a winner because
0:50.8	you're listening to Stuff You Should Know, The Podcast.
0:54.5	I was going to see a version of the same thing.
0:57.5	Hey, that's the spoils of doing the intro.
1:02.0	That's right.
1:03.0	You may be a winner.
1:04.5	Yep.
1:05.5	Chump.
1:06.5	Sweepstakes.
1:07.5	Yeah, man.
1:08.5	So I was aware of sweepers before that there's this group of people out there.
1:14.2	Yeah, the hobbyists, people who enjoy sweepstakes and we'll talk about them later.
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