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JD
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What do you like best about ViralSweep?

ViralSweep gave us exactly what we needed and when we couldn't figure it out on our own, their team was incredibly helpful. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about ViralSweep?

It was not the most intuitive platform, but their support staff, especially Aldin, were quick to respond and helped us every step of the way. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is ViralSweep solving and how is that benefiting you?

We used the gallery and voting features for a contest we held on our website. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

ViralSweep Overview

What is ViralSweep?

ViralSweep is a software tool that helps brands to build, run, and manage digital marketing promotions like sweepstakes, giveaways, contests, instant wins, referral campaigns, and more. The software suite offers features such as A/B testing to optimize promotions​​, powerful integrations to plug into your current marketing stack, entrant fraud/spam prevention, user management for multi-brand handling, additional promotional entries via social actions, and detailed analytics of entrant information.

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Product Description

ViralSweep is easiest way for businesses to build, run, and manage sweepstakes on their website.


Seller Details
Year Founded
2012
HQ Location
Boston, US
Twitter
@ViralSweep
3,740 Twitter followers
LinkedIn® Page
www.linkedin.com
2 employees on LinkedIn®

Giancarlo M.
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Recent ViralSweep Reviews

John L. B.
JB
John L. B.Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"So far, it's been great! (First Giveaway)"
It is easy to use. Tech support has been very quick to help by answering any questions (but nothing has been broken). Implementation was a breaze! ...
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Electra F.Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"Super simple!"
Customer service is great and ease of platform is super!
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Verified UserSmall-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
3.5 out of 5
"Great product for conversions on sweepstakes"
It's very simple and easy to understand and use. Functional and does the job. People understand it and it's basic.
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ViralSweep Media

ViralSweep Demo - Sweepstakes
Sweepstakes example
ViralSweep Demo - Promotion Builder
This is what is looks like to build a promotion with ViralSweep.
ViralSweep Demo - Drawing Winners
Drawing Winners
ViralSweep Demo - Sweepstakes Analytics
Sweepstakes Analytics
ViralSweep Demo - Mobile Sweepstakes
Responsive sweepstakes for mobile and tablet devices
ViralSweep Demo - Thank You Page Example
On the thank you page of our promotions, you can incentivize participants to gain more entries by performing social actions such as liking pages, sharing content, answering questions, watching videos, and more.
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John L. B.
JB
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Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about ViralSweep?

It is easy to use. Tech support has been very quick to help by answering any questions (but nothing has been broken). Implementation was a breaze! I shot the code over to a team member and she quicikly put our giveaway on our website. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about ViralSweep?

It would be nice to be able to see what specific action an entrant completed that was thewinning action. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is ViralSweep solving and how is that benefiting you?

Email Aquisition Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

EF
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
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What do you like best about ViralSweep?

Customer service is great and ease of platform is super! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about ViralSweep?

I would like to see more options for a 'voting' competition - such as an option for free votes alongside paid options. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is ViralSweep solving and how is that benefiting you?

We no longer have to manually count votes for competitions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Ayo O.
AO
PPC Manager
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about ViralSweep?

Viralsweep platform makes viral marketing so easily with the types of features it has. What makes it also interesting is the proce comparison with most top competitors. It is quite easy to use to be fair also. The amount of other third parties tools or software it easily integrate with is insane. Customer Support is decent too which is a plus. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about ViralSweep?

The little dislike I had initially was how busy the site is because of the successful features it has online. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is ViralSweep solving and how is that benefiting you?

It's the easiest platform we've saw that helped us family our marketing efforts and to quickly and most times easily help us execute some of our marketing ideas Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Ed Z.
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Founder/President
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
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What do you like best about ViralSweep?

The primary upside for me was how user friendly the platform is to navigate as a first time user. I am 'old-school' when it comes to Sweepstakes so there was some hesitation at first to learn something new. However, ViralSweep has thought through all the questions and have the answers right in front of you with various pop-ups, and videos. Additionally, my experience with Customer Support was amazing. Quick to get a hold of via chat, and Aldin was able to patiently answer everything and anything, even walking me through the individual steps when necessary. He was the clincher as to committing to the purchase. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about ViralSweep?

To be fair, I have not used the product fully enough to identity any issues. However, I am learning more and more each day. I get a little frustrated with understanding how to identify all the different fields that I can edit and create custom language, custom colors, etc. But there is no risk in making a mistake as you can just retract any edits and continue to trial and error. Plus, the last resort is to just open a Chat with customer service! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is ViralSweep solving and how is that benefiting you?

The optimal benefit of ViralSweep is that it allows me to self-create, and self-edit sweepstakes on a short timeline. My team executes 60+ events a year and we often will implement a corresponding sweepstakes. ViralSweep shortens the development time and I can save and utilize many features. So, not only is it saving time but it is saving expenses, thus providing better value to the client. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about ViralSweep?

ViralSweep was used by our organization to conduct its annual photo contest which consists of dozens of photos which are submitted into five different galleries. Once set up and active it worked efficiently and our members were able to submit photos into the gallery of their choice with no effort. This was the first year we used the ViralSweep platform and the support needed to get it set up and working to our satisfaction was superior, almost instantaneous response to questions about how to achieve our goals. Once set up, our contest worked smoothly. Some features of the program are exactly what we needed. For example, limiting photo submissions to only one per IP address. Same for the voting, only one vote per gallery from an IP address. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about ViralSweep?

Viral sweep is a very complex platform and for a first time user, it has a steep learning curve to get everything set up and working as desired. The photo contest required some workarounds to construct our five separate photo galleries with links to each one so they could submit photos. It would have been helpful after the voting on the photos was completed if the voter metadata were accessible on the "Moderate" page instead of having to match the metadata on the "Entrants" to the photos in the "Moderate" gallery. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is ViralSweep solving and how is that benefiting you?

Our nonprofit organization has an annual conference with an associated photo contest. ViralSweep is being used for the first time to conduct our photo contest and pick winners who are awarded cash prizes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sandip C.
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What do you like best about ViralSweep?

How easy it was to use and ease of implementation of a sweepstake contest. The Customer support is awesome. We had a few questions and they answered and even made changes in a couple of days. We use it every quarter to run our quarterly contests. Even though we have a custom ecommerce platform it was easy to integrate. Took our developers almost no time to integrate. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about ViralSweep?

Ability to customize the look and feel of the entry form. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is ViralSweep solving and how is that benefiting you?

Speed of implementation and not having to involve IT in running contests. We gathered over 10K leads with our initial promotion Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Online Media
AO
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
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What do you like best about ViralSweep?

It's very simple and easy to understand and use. Functional and does the job. People understand it and it's basic. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about ViralSweep?

The design and aesthetics need improvement. It could use a more modern feel with design-driven product decisions from form to function. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is ViralSweep solving and how is that benefiting you?

It is helping us gain qualified leads by way of the sweepstakes we run. It does the trick. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Petra L.
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President
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What do you like best about ViralSweep?

Viralsweep is easy to use and helps to make sweepstakes more exciting. I can highly recommend it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about ViralSweep?

If there's anything I don't like then it is the cost. I'm running sweepstakes not as a business but for my YT channel and I'm not making money with it. It's a bit pricey for me. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is ViralSweep solving and how is that benefiting you?

I get more viewers on social media and my YT channel Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Brenda C.
BC
Assistant Brand Manager Marketing
Information Technology and Services
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about ViralSweep?

One of the most useful functions is the fraud detection, since the system detects and eliminates users who try to cheat in the contests, discarding them immediately from the list. Thanks to its complete and customizable forms, it allows us to expand our portfolio of potential customers, generating many more emails, using them for our email marketing. It has a free trial, which allowed us to get to know the software perfectly and encouraged us to buy it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about ViralSweep?

The software is not very intuitive, so it took us a while to adapt to it, but, I guess it is due to its interface that seems to me not very navigable. I would like your analytics to be more in depth, to know exactly which contest had the most reach, the views it had, beyond the contestants that participated. When I try to upload an image for the contest format, it deforms it, no matter what dimensions I use to create it and it does not show up in preview but only once I download it. This has happened to me several times already. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering ViralSweep:

This software has been very useful for us, because we have been able to significantly increase the number of our followers on social networks, we have been able to increase the number of our sales per month and we have achieved greater loyalty of our followers with our brand, so we highly recommend it. This is a great software for all marketing departments of all companies, because it allows to reach a larger audience in social networks, allows the capture of potential customers and saves a lot of work and time to the entire team, increasing performance and generating more sales. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is ViralSweep solving and how is that benefiting you?

We are using this software for the creation of contests that we launch on our social networks, in order to create a wider audience and capture potential customers. All the contest management is very easy to use, with customizable forms that we adapt to our products and the type of contest. Free trial for 7 days, where we can get to know all the tools and useful features of this software. Complete and customizable forms for our contests, which also allows us to create a complete email database. Fraud detection contestants, manages to evaluate each participant and detect fraud in the requirements requested or the form filled. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Kristi C.
KC
President
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
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What do you like best about ViralSweep?

The simplicity of the platform. Create a contest in minutes, not hours! As a small business owner, I don't have time to get sucked into learning new software. I did the free trial and thirty minutes later had my first contest going and immediately signed up for the business level account! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about ViralSweep?

Haven't found anything to dislike. I look forward to setting up our weekly campaigns, analytics are great, and I love watching our email sign-ups grow as a result of each campaign. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering ViralSweep:

Go for it, if you want to run contests and promotions, sign up today and don't waste your time anywhere else. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is ViralSweep solving and how is that benefiting you?

Many of my customers want to do promotions, and I never had a good platform or way of facilitating them. I heard about Viralsweep at a conference and was intrigued. Now, we are able to create weekly promotions and drive traffic to our social sites and to the app store to download our app, signups doubled in the first month! For a small investment, we are providing a service to our customers and growing our fanbase at the same time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.