Varolo Review

Varolo is a free-to-join service that incents its members to watch ads in exchange for the chance to win a weekly jackpot (currently $500/week). Members can also earn money when people they invite to join watch ads.

How Does Varolo Work?

Advertisers need people to watch their ads. Traditional TV, radio and newspaper advertising doesn't reach the audience it used to due to the popularity of DVRs, mp3s and the Internet. That's where Varolo comes in. Advertisers pay Varolo to run their ads, and Varolo pays its members to watch the ads.

How Are Members Paid by Varolo?

One way members can be compensated is through a weekly cash jackpot, which is currently $500. Members earn one or more entries into the weekly drawing for every ad they watch. It takes 10-15 minutes per day to watch the ads. After each ad, the member must rate the ad within a certain timeframe in order to receive credit for watching it.

Members can also can earn income by inviting others to join their "village" (the name Varolo uses for a member's downline).  Members earn a percentage of the ad revenue generated by every ad watched by everyone in their village. However, a member must log in and watch ads each week in order to be eligible to be paid on their village's ad views.

Varolo members have the option of becoming affiliates, with the opportunity to earn income by referring advertisers. When an advertiser referred by an affiliate purchases advertising, the affiliate earns a percentage of the revenue for the life of the ad.

There is a built-in mail function which allows members to email their first level "villagers" to help them grow their villages.

Varolo is by no means a get-rich-quick scheme.  But it's completely free to join, and members have the opportunity to earn some extra money and build an income stream over time if they want to work at building a village. There's no risk involved, so if you're interested, I say give it a go.

Regarding your Varolo review:

I joined Varolo last week. I liked the concept so I took out an ad on NPros.com.  I referred 20 people into my village in 5 days.

While I still like the ease of enrolling people, here are my results actually trying to earn revenue.

BTW, by referring that many people that quickly I was on the top 10 growing villages and recieved a Varolo Velocity achievement card:

So here is a snapshot of my results so far. As you can see, I have 20 active people in my Varolo Village.

I have earned 179 entries into the next $500 jackpot.

I have earned 1500 "points" that I can redeem for things like wildcards, which at this time don't seem to do anything for me except help get me to the next 'level'.

So far I am level 2.

I have watched 83 ads. I will admit, most of the ads are very funny. In order to max out my potential earnings, I need to watch 140 ads per week. 20 per day, about 10 minutes of my time to view and then rate the ads.

At the end of the week, I will have earned a whopping 30 cents in Varolo commission.

Thirty. Cents.

As I understand the commission structure, no matter how many people I have in my matrix ( it's a forced matrix, so only three people I referred are actually on my front line ) I will still only have to watch 120 ads per week to get my max earnings.

But how many people would I need in my Varolo Village to actually make it worth while?

If I spent 70 minutes working at Starbucks instead of watching Varolo ads, at the $7.25 minimum wage, I would have made about $8.46 cents.

But if I grow my Varolo Village by double, and I don't see a problem as my advertising results have been very consistent, I will have 40 people. I assume that means my max earnings watching Varolo ads would be 60 cents.

So how many people would I need to actually make just minimum wage? I may not completely understand the Varolo compensation plan, but I'm going by what I see so far.  And based on the numbers and results I see, I'd need about 564 people ( FIVE HUNDRED AND SIXTY FOUR! ) just to earn eight dollars and forty-six cents for my 70 minutes of watching ads.

In the Varolo back office, it shows the top village ( Dewayne G ) as having 6294 members.

If Dewayne G is only getting 30 cents for every twenty people, and that's assuming they are as fresh and active as mine are, Dewayne would be earning about $94.41 per week. I would expect the largest village to be making thousands per week, not less than 100 dollars.

If my math is completely off please let me know. But right now I don't think Varolo is really all they try to make it out to be.

This is very interesting. Although the way the math works out sucks, and even with 30 members, you're only making a few cents for over an hour of your time, you really have nothing to lose for joining, so you cant exactly call the company a scam, as WatchDog said. Unless all the ads are as hilarious as most of the superbowl ads, I don't think this is in any way worth it.

Wow very interesting.  Thanks so much for the details on this.  

This sounds like AllAdvantage and other related failures all over again.

The premise sounds great, and Varolo may have the best of Intentions, but for me the math just doesn't work.

Advertising is based on eyes on the target. And one pair of eyes is worth a fraction of a cent. Check average CPM ( cost per thousand impressions ) rates and you'll see what I mean.

Abbey's Varolo review of the math involved seems pretty sound. What's the value to Varolo for each video viewed by each person in the Varolo village? A penny per view or less? So what if you make 5 percent of everyone in your village, if they are only making a fraction of a cent for watching a video.

I guess if your village was the size of the Superbowl audience and Century 21 was paying $30 million dollars for a 30 second ad ( true story ) then maybe it might make sense and equate to some real "village" revenue, but I don't see it. I was a skeptic about AllAdvantage, another one in my win for me, lose for them column, and I'm afraid I have the same hunch about Varolo.

The only positive is, even if I'm right, no one loses anything but some of their time viewing videos. There's no signup fee, so you're not losing any cash if you chose to be an optimist and give it a test drive.

My Final Varolo Review

i feel like this was just a big waste of time.

I have over 30 people in my downline from a one week ad campaign. The most I can make is 30 cents this week.

Varolo is on the top 10 list this month on MLMRankings.com. http://www.mlmrankings.com/varolo/

I seem to remember AllAdvantage was on there too.

Once Varolo peaks from their viral marketing and free signup momentum, I expect they will fall by the wayside the same as AllAdvantage and ePipo and other similar offerings.

It all looks great on paper, and the company may make some decent revenue showing videos due to sheer volume, but it just doesn't translate into a viable money making deal for the average person trying to make extra cash from home.

In my humble opinion, that doesn't mean there's an inherent Varolo Scam - just that the business model is not sustainable. For Varolo to be a scam, I think I'd have to see a history of the executive team creating and then crashing companies with similar business offerings. ( Like the string of text revenue related companies created and crashed by Krauza and company ).

Anyone want to make a friendly over-under wager on how many months this runs as an MLM?