January 28, 2014 – Vicomi, the startup company that has developed a commenting system with various web engagement tools, announced today a new release. This release delivers new functionalities that further empower websites to increase website stickiness, engagement and hence provide the website users with better commenting experience, longer visitation time and a direct increase of the number of pageviews.
The commenting system, including the proprietary recommendation widget, is offered at no cost and the integration is very simple.
The company has revealed its new feature, the “Smuggie”. Smuggies represent the number of votes for each comment. Users can hover their mouse over a comment and share their opinion by clicking on the appropriate Smuggie. In addition to this new feature, the new release also lists comments with the most popular comments on top. The popularity of a comment is determined by the number of Smuggie votes. Next to each comment users are even able to see the Smuggie count.
The company reports that the new version was running in Beta for the last month and has shown a 20% direct increase in the amount of web engagement through comments and up to 70% increase in total user engagement, based on the number of Smuggies.
As if that’s not enough, the company is about to release its new moderation and dashboard platform in just a few days. Vicomi has invested over a year of development alone on this very robust and intuitive tool, and it is a core part of the services that allows Vicomi to stand apart from the others!
“We are excited about this new release and next week’s moderation and dashboard platform release!”, said Eli Ken-Dror, Vicomi’s Co-Founder & CEO.
The company’s new version is ready for your website installation on the company website.
The URL for this launch is: //launch.it/launch/vicomi-announces-new-version-of-their-commenting-platform-with-enhanced-features-and-optimiza