Spot.IM Comments

Spot.IM is the next-generation user engagement platform that reimagines the way you think about your comment section. In only 5 minutes, you can turn your website’s old comment section into something of real value by leveraging your users’ conversations and social output.

Spot.IM incentivizes your users to create engaging User Generated Content through a beautiful, instantaneous chat UI. The best of those contributions are then exposed in the context of your professional content in the live, personalized Spot.IM Newsfeed. By implementing real-time social capabilities, Spot.IM creates on your site a content-circulating ecosystem. We keep the conversation about your content flowing, increasing on-site user engagement and loyalty, driving bounce rates down, and pageviews up.

You can’t surrender your conversations to social networks and aggregators. For your brand to remain relevant in today’s Internet, you need to be able to create meaningful communities around your own content, on your own site. Spot.IM gives you every tool you need to accomplish this and leap into the new generation of online publishing.

Live Commenting, Actionable Notifications

User engagement becomes truly in-the-moment with Spot.IM. We combine the familiar interface of a commenting section with the real-time capabilities of social networks and instant messengers. Typing users and submitted comments are seen instantaneously. Actionable, sticky notifications alert your users immediately to replies on their comments and other trending conversations across your site.

Dynamic Newsfeed

The Spot.IM Newsfeed enables websites to expose their content to their users in the most efficient way possible. The above-the-fold Newsfeed sorts and highlights the first 140 characters of each of your article’s most fantastic user Reply, and displays that Reply in the context of the article. Being able to see what other users have to say is increasingly vital information for users when deciding whether your content is relevant and worth reading.

The Spot.IM Newsfeed automatically prioritizes both your professional and user-generated content uniquely for each of your site’s visitors. It’s about getting the right content to the right reader.

Group and Private Messaging

Your users see other online visitors and engage them in a free-flowing dialogue in either group or direct message.

Mobile Integration

Spot.IM on your site is automatically optimized for all mobile platforms, ensuring that your users get just as much out of your site when they’re on the go as when they’re at home.

Prioritized Moderation

Moderation can be time-consuming, and even expensive. Spot.IM provides you with an unprecedented degree of automation, ease, and control to take the hard work out of monitoring your site.

Social Elements

Spot.IM combines a host of features that keep your users engaged with your content and one another at all times. Rewards for posting, liking, and sharing incentivize your site’s visitors to keep creating and interacting with content. Users can also directly tag one another in real time with a simple ‘@’. And of course, it goes without saying that all types of media are supported for sharing.

See Spot.IM in Action

Check out Time Inc’s Entertainment Weekly for a live example of Spot.IM on one of the Internet’s most popular sites.

Features

• Live Commenting – Typing users and submitted comments are seen in real time. No waiting, no delay, no frustrating load times.
• Chat Interface – A chat UI is integrated into the commenting experience to stimulate vibrant conversations. See if a user is online and engage in free-flowing dialogue.
• Newsfeed – Hot topics and trending conversations are presented in a cross-site Newsfeed, driving discussion, clicks, and pageviews. Newsfeed offers smart content recommendation to your readers.
• Direct Messaging – Community members can elect to talk privately, discuss your site’s content, and share common passions and interests.
• Above-the-Fold – The Newsfeed can be accessed by clicking on an unobtrusive, yet attractive button that constantly sits on the side of your website.
• Mobile Integration – Unlike other commenting platforms, Spot.IM’s mobile interface is smooth and easy to navigate, allowing your community to flourish even when it’s on the go.
• Notifications – Spot.IM instantly notifies your readers about new comments and hot conversations, so your content is circulated – and never missed.
• Seamless Implementation – Application of plugin within five minutes. User and commenting data imported or exported with a click.
• Automatic registration – Single Sign On (SSO) with a variety of different platforms (Facebook, LinkedIn, Google+, Twitter)
• @Mentions – With a simple “@,” your community members can address each other within a conversation. Mentioned users get an actionable, mobile notification and an email alert even if he or she is offline.
• Community Interfacing – Beyond group and private messaging, users can like and share each other’s messages.
• Gamification – Spot.IM incentivizes your community by rewarding active contributors in your community with points and rankings. High-ranking community members push the level and flow of conversation.
• Customization and Branding – Make your community just that – yours – with a variety of customizable design options, including colors, schemes, and icons.
• Moderation – Advanced automatic, manual, and user moderation lets you eliminate trolls and spam, keeping your User Generated Content clean while allowing your star commenters to shine.
• Media Sharing – Videos, images, GIFs, you name it – Spot.IM’s system supports your community in bringing a little color to the conversation.
• Analytics – Find out who’s clicking, where, and why to optimize and get the most out of your content.
• Language Support – You can control your spot in 16 different languages.
• SEO support

For more information, please visit our website – Spot.IM