ViralSweep vs Gleam
If you’re looking to run viral marketing campaigns, you probably have come across a few different platforms.
Below is a comparison of ViralSweep and Gleam.
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Products
ViralSweep
ViralSweep offers a suite of products that any brand can utilize depending upon their use case.
If you want to grow an email list, you can use our sweepstakes, instant win, or waitlist products.
If you want to display content, you can use our gallery product, coupled with our contest or hashtag product.
If you want to run giveaways on social media, you can use our comments product.
If you want to run purchase-based sweepstakes, you can use our purchases product.
The full list of ViralSweep products is below:
- Sweepstakes
- Contests
- Instant Wins
- Purchases
- Waitlists
- Milestones
- Hashtags
- Galleries
- Email Forms
- Comments
- Random Name Picker
Gleam
Gleam offers 4 different products, all of which ViralSweep has, except for their rewards product which is not currently part of the ViralSweep suite of products.
- Competitions
- Rewards
- Gallery
- Capture
Trial Period
ViralSweep offers a 7-day free trial with full access to our entire suite of tools, with two limitations: you can see only data for the first 10 entrants to your promotion (though you can see how many total entries you have), and you cannot connect to any email marketing services during the trial period.
Other than these two limitations, you can build and launch a promotion during your trial period and you are able to cancel within the 7-day period without being charged.
Gleam does not offer any trial period.
Their competitions app has a free plan, though it is restricted where you cannot actually see any of the data you collect.
Gleam does not offer any trial or free plan for their other apps.
Pricing
ViralSweep offers a simple pricing structure, where almost all of our apps and integrations are included in our $49 plan.
The Business plan includes one additional app and more integrations.
We offer unlimited entries and unlimited promotions on any plan.
Gleam pricing is more complex, where you can purchase all of their apps for a set amount, or you can purchase each app separately.
In addition, Gleam has limits on each of their apps in terms of how many leads you can have, rewards you can claim, gallery items you can have, etc. whereas ViralSweep is unlimited.
ViralSweep Pricing
| Starter Plan | Business Plan | Premium Plan | Elite Plan |
| $49/mo | $199/mo | $399/mo | $999/mo |
You can see ViralSweep’s pricing page for more detailed information.
Gleam Pricing
All-inclusive pricing for Gleam:
| Pro Plan | Business Plan | Premium Plan |
| $97/mo | $397/mo | $997/mo |
Per-app pricing for Gleam:
Competitions App
| Hobby Plan | Pro Plan | Business Plan | Premium Plan |
| $10/mo | $49/mo | $149/mo | $399/mo |
Rewards App
| Pro Plan | Business Plan | Premium Plan |
| $39/mo | $109/mo | $399/mo |
Galleries App
| Pro Plan | Business Plan | Premium Plan |
| $39/mo | $149/mo | $399/mo |
Captures App
| Pro Plan | Business Plan | Premium Plan |
| $39/mo | $109/mo | $399/mo |
Integrations
ViralSweep offers a wide variety of integrations with email marketing, CRM, SMS, and CMS platforms, as does Gleam.
Here are the comparisons for these services that each platform integrates with.
ViralSweep
Viralsweep easily integrates and works on these platforms and many others.
Content Management Systems
| BigCommerce | ClickFunnels | Leadpages | Magento | Shift4Shop |
| Shopify | Squarespace | Unbounce | Volusion | Wix |
| WordPress |
Email Marketing / CRM
| ActiveCampaign | Attentive | AWeber | Benchmark | Braze |
| Bronto | Campaign Monitor | Cheetah Digital | CM Commerce | Constant Contact |
| ConvertKit | Cordial | Dotdigital | Drip | Eloqua |
| Emarsys | Emma | EZ Texting | GetResponse | HubSpot |
| iContact | Intercom | Iterable | Keap | Klaviyo |
| Listrak | Mad Mimi | Mailchimp | Mailerlite | Maropost |
| Omnisend | Ongage | Ontraport | Postscript | Rare |
| Rejoiner | Retention Science | Sailthru | Salesforce | Selligent |
| Sendgrid | Sendinblue | Sendlane | Sendy | Shopify Email |
| SMSBump | Vero | VerticalResponse | Zaius |
Tools/Services
| Bazaarvoice | Bitly | Facebook Lead Ads | Facebook Pixel | FOMO |
| Google Analytics | Judge.me | Stamped | Yotpo | Zapier |
Gleam
Gleam integrates with these platforms and others.
| BigCommerce | ClickFunnels | Leadpages | Magento | Shift4Shop |
| Shopify | Squarespace | Unbounce | Volusion | Wix |
| WordPress |
Email Marketing / CRM
| Acoustic | ActiveCampaign | Autopilot | AWeber | Benchmark |
| Bronto | Campaigner | Campaign Monitor | Constant Contact | ConvertKit |
| Customer.io | Drip | E-goi | Emma | GetResponse |
| HubSpot | iContact | Keap | Intercom | Klaviyo |
| Mad Mimi | Mailchimp | Mailer Lite | Mailjet | Marketo |
| Omnisend | Ontraport | Sailthru | Salesforce | Sendgrid |
| Sendinblue | Sendlane | Sendy | Shopify | Unbounce |
| Vero | Vision6 | Zoho |
Tools/Services
| Bitly | Google Analytics | Rebrandly | Zapier |
Customer and Product Support
ViralSweep offers live chat, scheduled phone calls and demos, and email support. Our support is located in the United States and hours are between 6AM to 6PM Eastern Standard Time.
Gleam offers email support and live chat, however the company is located in Australia, so the hours are between 9am – 5pm AET. Gleam does not take phone calls or offer demos.
Managed Services
ViralSweep offers managed services, including done-for-you promotions, and full legal administration, bonding and registration in New York and Florida, and prize fulfillment.
Gleam does not offer any managed services.
Final Thoughts
While Gleam has a good product, it does not offer as many campaign types, the pricing can be a bit complicated, and they don’t offer phone calls or in-person demos.
ViralSweep offers a variety of campaign types, the pricing is straightforward with annual discounts, and we will take your calls and give you a live demo of any of our products.
If you’re a larger business that needs managed contests or sweepstakes services, then the only choice would be ViralSweep.
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