ShoutOut Reviews

I just requested a refund for my tier 3 purchase after much deliberation and experimentation with the platform. I love the current capabilities and the road map, but like many others mentioned here the Shoutout branding in the recorder link, intro videos, outro videos and bumper all were too much for us. Too many Shoutout links and footers.

Dan, I wish you and your team the best with the project and network you are building. But I think it's important to know that many of us long time Appsumo customers recognize that we are paying to be beta testers of evolving products. (Hopin LTD member from day 1).

The most responsive companies value the input on these pages as a part of their feedback loop. I hope you too choose to do the same. None of us are here to argue.

I wanted your platform to work exactly as it does. I just wish I could turn off every reference to your company and replace it with my own, for brand continuity for my user , true white label. I'd pay extra on top to no be forced to promote your brand, while providing valuable feedback (as I did experience minor bugs). However, I value the power and configuration options within the simplified, easy to navigate dashboard.

Basically okay, but there are a few problems:
1. Too many ads
- Top right logo
- After completing the clip, there will also be a link to Shoutout
- The embed code in the website is nothing special except the QR code and 2 other links to Shoutout
2. Should be allowed to use cname to replace (with myowndomain.com)
3. Once collected, there is no embed code to display as a slide on the web page, but still a link back to the Shoutout.
Should follow Testemorial form to display right on the web (requiring customers to click to another website is impossible, my customers often suspect other strange websites and they will not click)

It's an awesome piece of software.
I am literally using it every day! I am an online course creator and this is worth more than gold for me. I have so many use-cases, and it is one of the LTDs I am using really a lot. And it works just really good!

What could be improved?
UI could maybe be improved a bit, but actually, I don't care so much for the features I get! :) Pabbly integration would be rather important for me.

After all - great product. I can just imagine where it will be in a few years!! Full stacked and keeping it of course.

This is a neat tool with a lot of potential BUT the MAIN Drawback is that they put "Shout Out" EVERYWHERE! It's all over the emails, in the email FROM name, the Subject line, the links, the gallery page headers, everywhere! There's no getting around it. ShoutOut has an affiliate program, but NONE of the many URL links back to Shout Out have the affiliate tracking ID, so we could at least get something in return for "NON - White Label Abilities"

Unfortunately this whole thing is a walking Ad for ShoutOut to end users who likely will never subscribe because they aren't businesses.

Shout Out has a lot of useful features, but I'd like to see the following changes:

1. CName (for white label / for display in social sharing)
2. Ability to change base URL (once you set it for your company, there appears to be no way to change it, even if you change company name in the profile settings).
3. Ability to remove Shoutout logo from Gallery pages (I created a view link template, but there is no way to replicate the ShoutOut default template since the return to gallery button on the same line as social sharing is NOT an option. PLUS, the Gallery page STILL features the ShoutOut logo header with no apparent way to remove it).
4. Remove ShoutOut from the Email FROM name (ie. "YourCompanyName via ShouOut" should simply be "YourCompanyName" - of course shoutout would still be part of the actual email address but most don't look that far and shout out knows it)
5. Remove ShoutOut from SUBJECT Line or ability to make our OWN subject line ("You have been invited to record a ShoutOut video for YourCompanyName" should be "You have been invited to record a video for YourCompanyName" AND "Your ShoutOut video for YourCompanyName is ready!" should be "Your video for YourCompanyName is ready!")
6. Remove Shoutout logo from email invitation body, and video ready email.
7. Remove from email footer: To find out more about ShoutOut please visit shoutout.social
8. Minimize ShoutOut address in emails.
9. ANYWHERE a user ALLOWS ShoutOUT branding, the user should be given the option to link back to their affiliate account.

10. Allow for multiple uploads of logos to be saved and recalled on ShoutOut. (For instance, I would like a different logo on Intro Section, Outro Section, and Contributor Section of video. Instead of JUST "Place logo on intro/outro/overlay" there should also be an option to upload logo and select from list of previous uploads.) Also, multiple logos should be allowed per section.)
11. Allow option to upload our own PNG (or even) Motion Graphic Overlays and Frames (with proper format instructions).
12. Option to use custom colors for current / default frames and logos
13. Automatic text resizing and/or line removal if a customer text input is left blank.
14. Automatically FADE out music at the end of video so that sound doesn't abruptly cut out OFF BEAT.
15. For video PREVIEW areas, AUTOMATICALLY PLAY enlarged videos after clicking.

Shoutout is a great tool for both collecting testimonials and creating videos in different situations and for multiple purposes. It's a matter of creativity and ingenuity to see all the things you can create with it.
It is a very simple tool to use, with which in just a few minutes of use you can already be taking advantage of it for your own project. With minimal effort you get high quality videos for immediate use.
We are very happy with it, and we are surprised that there are not more users valuing it. Totally recommended.