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Viral Loops
What Viral Loops is
Viral Loops is a referral marketing service for creating campaigns that encourage, track, and reward customer referrals. Its templates support prelaunch waitlists, giveaways, newsletter referrals, Shopify referrals, milestone referrals, and customer referral programs. The Campaign Wizard guides setup, customization, and launch. Viral Loops AI can inspect a homepage’s colors, fonts, style, and messaging, then suggest a template and apply the brand to a campaign. Viral Loops Pages lets users create a campaign landing page without code, while the Campaign Installation Agent can configure a campaign on a website or form after a snippet is added. A real-time dashboard reports performance by channel and shows referral and reward status. Integrations include Mailchimp, HubSpot, Klaviyo, Zapier, Shopify, Webflow, WordPress, Google Analytics, and webhooks. Plans run on the web and through an API, from Start-up at $49 a month for up to 1,000 participants to Power at $399 a month for up to 25,000.
Who it suits
Viral Loops suits startups, newsletters, and e-commerce stores seeking referral-led growth. It fits teams that need campaign templates, branded landing pages, integrations, participant tracking, and reward-status reporting.
What it does well
- Provides multiple referral campaign templates
- AI can recommend and brand campaigns
- Builds landing pages without coding
- Offers channel and referral analytics
- Includes webhooks and major integrations
What to know first
- No free plan
- Plans limit participant counts
- 14-day trial allows only 10 participants
- Monthly pricing starts at 49.00 USD
Plans
| Plan | Billed and limits | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Plus (monthly billing) | monthly · up to 5,000 participants · customer referral campaigns · milestone template · custom domain · reCaptcha · full API access | $139 a month |
| Plus | Monthly · Up to 5,000 Participants | $139 a month |
| Growing (annual billing) | annually · up to 10,000 participants · double opt-in · email analytics · HubSpot workflows · automated rewarding · Stripe and Tremendous rewarding · revenue tracking | $159 a month |
| Growing | Monthly · Up to 10,000 Participants | $229 a month |
| Growing (monthly billing) | monthly · up to 10,000 participants · double opt-in · email analytics · HubSpot workflows · automated rewarding · Stripe and Tremendous rewarding · revenue tracking | $229 a month |
| Power (annual billing) | annually · up to 25,000 participants · dedicated account manager · concierge implementation · team invites · priority/video support · advanced fraud analysis | $279 a month |
| Start-up (annual billing) | annually · up to 1,000 participants · lead-generation campaigns · basic integrations · basic fraud identification · email notifications · import/export · no-code installation | $35 a month |
| Power | Monthly · Up to 25,000 Participants | $399 a month |
The first 8 of 12 plans, as viral-loops.com lists them, read 15 Oct 2026. The maker's own page has the final word. Every plan
Verdict
Viral Loops combines referral templates, guided setup, branded campaign tools, integrations, and live analytics. Its paid monthly plans are participant-limited, with a 14-day Growing-plan trial restricted to 10 participants.
Facts from Viral Loops's own pages
- AI tools
- Viral Loops AI analyzes a homepage’s colors, fonts, style, and messaging to recommend a template and apply the brand to a campaign. · viral-loops.com, 9 Oct 2026
- Analytics
- The real-time dashboard reports campaign performance by channel and shows participants’ referral and reward status. · viral-loops.com, 9 Oct 2026
- API
- The public API uses campaign API keys and includes participant, order, referrer, rank and conversion endpoints. · documentation.viral-loops.com, 15 Oct 2026
- Audience
- The company describes its service as serving startups, newsletters, and e-commerce stores seeking organic growth through word of mouth and referrals. · viral-loops.com, 9 Oct 2026
- Campaign pages
- Viral Loops Pages lets users build a custom campaign landing page without writing code. · viral-loops.com, 9 Oct 2026
- Campaign setup
- The Campaign Wizard guides users through campaign setup, customization, and launch. · viral-loops.com, 9 Oct 2026
- Campaign types
- The product supports referral programs, referral waitlists, newsletter referrals, invite-based giveaways and AI-powered campaigns. · viral-loops.com, 15 Oct 2026
- Company headquarters
- LinkedIn lists headquarters in Vancouver, British Columbia, with an address at 422 Richards Street, Suite 170. · ca.linkedin.com, 15 Oct 2026
- Company size
- LinkedIn lists Viral Loops as a privately held advertising-services company with 11–50 employees. · ca.linkedin.com, 15 Oct 2026
- Data location
- The DPA says data subject to EU data protection law is stored in the EEA unless the customer explicitly consents otherwise. · viral-loops.com, 9 Oct 2026
- Documentation
- The knowledge base contains campaign, integration, privacy, rewards, API and page-builder articles, while the developer site documents SDK installation and methods. · documentation.viral-loops.com, 15 Oct 2026
- Founded
- LinkedIn lists Viral Loops as founded in 2016. · ca.linkedin.com, 15 Oct 2026
- Fraud controls
- The platform offers participant banning, disposable-email filtering and fraud-identification tools. · viral-loops.com, 15 Oct 2026
- GDPR
- Viral Loops provides GDPR data-rights and marketing-consent guidance and states that EU-protected customer data is stored in the EEA unless the customer agrees otherwise. · documentation.viral-loops.com, 15 Oct 2026
- Giveaways
- Leaderboard and Tempting Giveaway templates let businesses rank referrers or increase giveaway chances through successful referrals. · documentation.viral-loops.com, 15 Oct 2026
- Headquarters
- Toronto, Ontario, Canada · viral-loops.com, 28 Sept 2026
- HubSpot integration feedback
- A HubSpot marketplace reviewer praised easy setup, support and payment-based referral tracking, with no current cons reported. · ecosystem.hubspot.com, 15 Oct 2026
- Installation
- The Campaign Installation Agent can configure a referral campaign on a website or form after the user adds a snippet. · viral-loops.com, 9 Oct 2026
- Integrations
- Documented integrations include Mailchimp, Klaviyo, Mailjet, ActiveCampaign, HubSpot, Google Analytics, Slack, Segment, Salesforce, Marketo, GoHighLevel, Stripe, Brevo, Customer.io, Mixpanel, Zapier, webhooks and custom JavaScript. · documentation.viral-loops.com, 15 Oct 2026
- JavaScript SDK
- A client-side JavaScript SDK is installed with a Viral Loops loader script and exposes campaign methods such as identify and getCampaign. · developers.viral-loops.com, 15 Oct 2026
- Limit: cost
- GetApp reports that some users consider the product expensive for startups and dislike recent pricing changes. · getapp.com, 15 Oct 2026
- Limit: customization
- G2 reviewers report limited non-English customization and some settings requiring support intervention. · g2.com, 15 Oct 2026
- Limit: performance
- A G2 reviewer described platform performance as poor despite receiving quick support. · g2.com, 15 Oct 2026
- Limit: pricing
- Capterra’s review summary cites high or unpredictable pricing and disappointment with pricing changes, especially for startups. · capterra.com, 15 Oct 2026
Where Viral Loops stands on Freedom251
- Waitlist Software#6 of 10
- Customer Referral Software#9 of 14
- Referral Management Software#27 of 36
- Startup Launch Tools#10 of 11