G-Snap!'s interactive live blogging platform brings breaking news and events to life by giving content publishers a better way to engage and connect with their audience. Whether it's mainstream media journalists or citizen bloggers, G-Snap!'s tools make it easy for any writer to cover new and events as they are happening, interact directly with their readers, and add pictures, video imagery, Tweets, and more to your reporting. The G-Snap! experience is changing how people consume content by bringing life to the Internet and captivating audiences like never before.
In addition to our robust feature set, we have spent countless hours perfecting the underlying systems that power our product. You can be sure that you are utilizing a product that has been properly built, tested, and can scale for any event. We are also available to build out our system to incorporate your specific needs.
G-Snap! is pleased to offer a free version of our product for users that host less than 250 unique viewers* a month. If you expect to host more, please contact us to inquire about becoming a G-Snap! Premium User.
As a Premium user, you have access to a growing collection of exciting features. Today, this includes:
- Premium users have access to the G-Snap Advertising Platform (GAP). GAP enables our customers to leverage existing (or develop new) sponsors that would like to participate by advertising inside of your live events. Specifically, GAP allows you to serve custom ads from your sponsors into your live events on a custom interval (minutes or messages). Included within is a nice set of reporting metrics to help you gauge ad performance.
- Premium users can add a custom theme to their live blog (when embedded into your website). You'll have full access to colors, fonts, custom headers/footers, and much more. Quickly save up to 10 themes and pick one to be your default (making it easier to create and set up new events in the future).
- Premium users can have up to 50 polls/surveys for any given event.
Most importantly, Premium users are not subject to the 250 visitor limit (per month). Simply work with us to gain an understanding of your traffic and we'll custom tailor a plan built for your needs (plans start at $199/mo). You'll need to take us through your plans so we can gain a better understanding of the type of events you'll be hosting, how frequent they might be, and a guess at anticipated viewers per month. It's pretty simple...don't worry!
You might be asking, "can't I use Twitter or Facebook or just my blog to do the same thing?" Well, perhaps the table below will highlight the differences between the various products and why we believe G-Snap! is better suited for live events. From real-time updates, advanced comment moderation, polls, advertising, richer imagery, and the option to interact directly with other viewers G-Snap! is the ultimate live blogging product. But we digress...this comparison should help.
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| Ability to add a comment (about an event or anything at all) | | | |
Add media photos and videos
(G-Snap! also offers the ability to upload Office files, PDFs, ZIP files) | | limited | |
| Custom in-stream advertising | | | |
| User polls | | | |
| Host Q&A Session | | | |
| Custom templates to match your brand | | limited | |
| Main moderator (option to invite additional moderators) | | | |
| Host large audiences without losing quality control | | | |
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| Pick only the best viewer comments to publish | | | |
| Ban problematic users with a single click | | | |
| Auto-approve comments from trusted users | | | |
| Bad language filter | | | |
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| Create an event on the fly via mobile | | | |
Easily manage your event
(communicate event updates, manage viewer commentary, host Q&A) | | | |
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| Stream Twitter Feeds | | n/a | |
| "Instant replay" after the event | | limited | limited |
| Live event statistics | | | |
How exactly could you use G-Snap? Glad you asked. G-Snap! is an exceptional product of choice for live blogging events in the following markets: breaking news, sports, corporate events, conferences, music events and more. Read on for a couple of examples.
