PowerReviews Attempts To Make Reviews More Social

Leena Rao

Leena Rao is currently a Senior Editor for TechCrunch. She recently finished graduate school at the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University, where she studied business journalism and videography. From 2004 to 2007, she helped lead Congresswoman Carloyn Maloney’s community outreach and relations efforts in New York City. She graduated from Columbia University in 2003, where she was... → Learn More

Monday, February 27th, 2012
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PowerReviews, a company that provides customer review technology for retailers and e-commerce sites, is debuting a new suite of tools that helps companies promote, reward and measure customer engagement and review generation.

PowerReviews, which launched in 2007, provides retailers and brands with the ability to collect, organize and analyze comments and other user-generated content. PowerReviews 5,500 customers include Staples, REI, ESPN, Callaway and Jockey.

Basically, PowerReviews is allowing brands to help reward users for creating reviews, as well as encourage users to share and post reviews on Facebook and other social sites. So with the new suite of tools, a brand could reward a review creator on a site for posting content. Brands could also reward users for sharing content or reviews on Facebook. Another key feature is the ability to subscribe to reviews.

PowerReviews is also trying to help brands determine what content creates high conversions, increased social traffic and more. These analytics, which help answer questions like “Which type of shared content creates the most organic traffic?” and “Which type of engagement is most likely to drive a conversion?” are also included.


Company: PowerReviews
Website: powerreviews.com
Funding: $37.3M

PowerReviews is the leading provider of social commerce solutions, including customer reviews, to retailers and brands. The company’s innovative tag-based approach to collecting, organizing, structuring and analyzing user-generated content significantly boosts product sales and customer engagement. Recognized as the customer reviews Solution Leader in the Internet Retailer Top 500 survey, PowerReviews works with over 1,000 retailers and brands on over 3,500 websites, including Staples, Drugstore.com, Gardener’s Supply, Diapers.com, Callaway and Jockey. In addition to its Enterprise solution,...

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