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viral.app
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Analytics and payout platform for tracking UGC creator performance and managing campaigns across TikTok, Reels, and Shorts.
35K visits/mo19K saves
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AI video social-listening platform that scans social video content to surface untagged brand mentions, sentiment, and creator leads.
15K visits/mo
Pricing
No public pricing
Free trial available
Formula Pro: $599 per month
Yearly Pro: $433 per month
Basic: $0 per month
Development: Free
Standard: Starting from $68/month
Enterprise: Limited-time offer
No public pricing
Pay-as-you-go: 42.8% platform fee for corporate, 33.3% for academic/non-profit (no monthly fee)
Participant payment: minimum $8.00/hr, recommended $12.00/hr
Core features
- ✦Cross-platform UGC analytics for TikTok, Reels, Shorts, and Facebook Reels
- ✦No-login tracking of any public creator or competitor account
- ✦Campaign management with creator rosters and posting checks
- ✦Automated CPM/CPA/milestone-based creator payouts and invoicing
- ✦AI-based trend and hook analysis from a video library
- ✦API and integrations with Slack, Discord, and n8n
- ✦AI-powered Excel and Google Sheets formula generation
- ✦VBA & Apps Script generation
- ✦Regular Expression generation and explanation
- ✦ChatGPT messaging with system prompts
- ✦Multiple language support
- ✦Fully SQL-compatible vector database
- ✦Fast and powerful queries (vector search, text search, filtered search, complex queries)
- ✦Enhanced RAG effectiveness
- ✦High-performance and cost-efficient MSTG vector engine
- ✦SQL/Relational Vector Database
- ✦Powerful Full-Text Search (BM25)
- ✦Integrates with AI Stack
- ✦Security and Compliance (SQL-based RBAC, SOC 2, ISO 27001 Compliance)
- ✦AI video analysis of audio, visuals, and captions
- ✦Untagged brand mention and UGC detection
- ✦Creator sourcing by niche, audience, and brand fit
- ✦Outbound comment engagement tracking
- ✦Competitive benchmarking across brands
- ✦Brand sentiment and safety monitoring
- ✦Access to a verified and engaged participant pool
- ✦Self-serve platform for easy task setup and launch
- ✦Tools for AI training and evaluation
- ✦Fair compensation for participants
- ✦Audience checker
Use cases
- →Brands tracking and paying UGC creators across platforms
- →Marketing teams monitoring competitor short-form video performance
- →Agencies managing multiple influencer campaigns from one dashboard
- →Growth teams researching viral video trends for creative briefs
- →Financial modeling
- →Data cleansing and transformation
- →Statistical analysis
- →Inventory and supply chain management
- →Forecasting
- →Automating repetitive tasks
- →Generating copy for outbound sales campaigns
- →RAG for Domain Knowledge Base
- →Recommendations
- →Chatbot
- →Image Search
- →Finding untagged user-generated content about a brand
- →Sourcing creators that match specific audience criteria
- →Measuring campaign impact across social video
- →Benchmarking a brand's social presence against competitors
- →Academic research
- →AI training and evaluation
- →Market research
- →User research & testing
- →Data annotation
- →Training & alignment
- →Evaluation & safety
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