The KickApps Platform

Powering Audience Growth and Engagement

KickApps is a web-based platform that makes it easy for you to add a wide array of social features to your website. Whether you are a one-person shop or a global corporation, our suite of applications are designed to integrate seamlessly with your website and your brand.

Sign up for KickApps today to unlock the power of social media in growing and engaging your audience.

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One Platform, Many Applications

KickApps delivers a range of social media and rich-media applications that power audience growth and engagement. Using KickApps, you can create and manage your own social network, photo & video sharing features, video players, widgets, user-generated blogs, message boards and more, all on a single platform. KickApps also with your existing content management system.

A Social Graph Engine^TM for Publishers

As the first Social Graph Engine^TM for publishers, KickApps enables you to capture activity and profile data whenever site visitors interact with your website’s applications (whether those applications are provided by KickApps, third-party developers or a publisher’s in-house development team). This social graph data is used to inform many user-facing and administrative applications, including Intelligent Ad Serving. Advertising powered by the KickApps social graph dramatically increases CPMs and click-through rates by informing ad serving engines with audience profile information while also providing contextual relevance to editorial programming and marketing.

Maximum Customization, Flexibility and Control

You can tailor every aspect of your KickApps powered website to look and feel the way you want. Tap into the power of the KickApps hosted pages, KickApps APIs, Feeds and Widgets to deliver social media experiences to suit your needs. You can even use the APIs alone or as a hybrid with the KickApps hosted pages. Plus, our media and member management applications keep you in control of your site’s content and visitors.

Deploys in Hours or Days, Not Months

KickApps is designed from the ground up for any web publisher, developer or designer to create feature rich social and rich media websites. We’ve done all the heavy lifting and put easy-to-use applications in your hands so that you can get your social media site rolling in a matter of hours or days, not months. Use the power of the KickApps WYSIWYG Site Styler, Feed Manager and Widget Studio to create engaging social media experiences on your own website.

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Start Monetizing Your Traffic Immediately

Our business model enables you to make money from your social media site through advertising from Day 1. If you join the KickApps Advertising Inventory Network, you can use the entire platform at no cost. We simply share the advertising inventory with you on each of your KickApps hosted pages. Alternatively, you can take control of your KickApps site’s entire advertising inventory through our Usage Based model, in which you pay a fee based your site's traffic. Either way, our business interests are completely aligned. The better you do, the better we do. Learn more about our pricing here.
Additionally, you can create viral widgets that act as interactive ad units to drive traffic back to your site. We call them WidgeADs™.

Your Site and Your Data

All of your site's data belongs to you.

Major League Scalability

Whatever your size and goals, KickApps is built to scale with you. Some of the world’s largest media and entertainment companies rely on KickApps’ social media platform to power their communities. Read more about our customers here. Read more about our customers here.