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VentureBeat: Buzzillions, offering “power reviews”

  • Maggy Young · 2 years ago
    All very nice, but with the possible exception of cars, maybe we are making simple things complicated. Is making most(80/20)purchases this complicated? People ask their friends' advice where necessary, do we want to read a book (or page)? Maybe Ebay gets it more right with simple sellers' rating - keeping simple things simple?
  • Andrew Constantin · 2 years ago
    I'm amazed that you left out PR's largest competitor: Bazaarvoice. Not only was Bazaarvoice first to market but their clients pay on a subscription basis. Recently, they announced they were cash flow positive and their clients include industry titans like: Walmart, Home Depot, Sears, Dell and QVC.
  • Jay Shaffer · 2 years ago
    Thanks for the shout-out! And here is a quick update, we now have more than 500,000 reviews on over 130,000 products - adding more than 1,000 new products with reviews everyday. Enjoy the new way of shopping everyone!

    Jay Shaffer
    VP Marketing, PowerReviews.com
  • Jay Shaffer · 2 years ago
    As a point of fact for the readers out there, Mr. Andrew Constantin is a core investor in Bazzarvoice, which would help explain why he was amazed that they were left out of an article about Buzzillions.com.
  • Andrew Constantin · 2 years ago
    True, I am a core investor in Bazaarvoice. My wife and partner is also an Advisor to the company.

    That doesn't change anything from my previous post. All those facts are true.

    I would think any solid reporter would mention PR's largest competitor.

    Bazaarvoice was the main focus of a WSJ article but the reporter still mentioned PR's as a competitor.

    This is common sense not sour grapes.

    Best of luck to you and PR team.

    Sincerely,

    Andrew Constantin
  • Peso Paul · 2 years ago
    It's easy to see that Yelp reviews aren't biased, thanks to the transparency of each reviewer via their profile page.
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  • Rachel · 1 year ago
    Now, there's another really interesting consumer reviews website called www.viewpoints.com. Unlike other consumer review sites, I think viewpoints.com really gives a great sense of community. Viewpoints has developed this really interesting hybrid of a reviews website and a community site like Facebook or MySpace.
  • viewpoints sucks · 1 year ago
    Hi Rachel,

    So how long have you been working for viewpoints for?