By now you’ve probably heard that Gigya is shutting down its Social Engagement Suite, Social Share Bar, and Share Buttons at the end of January 2021. You’re probably on the hunt for alternatives for your Gigya Social Share Bar. That’s where we can help.

Plenty of Gigya Social Share Bar users have migrated to Shareaholic Share Buttons since Gigya announced the closing, and there is no shortage of reasons as to why.

Reasons Gigya Social users choose Shareaholic Share Buttons

Ok, so we’re biased. We love our product and believe it’s the best on the market. But we’re not the only ones. In fact, over 300,000 websites use our products, including publicly listed and Fortune 500 businesses

Here’s the good news: with Shareaholic, you’ll still have all the features you’ve come to know and love with Gigya Social Share (in fact, you’ll have much more).

• Dashboard
• Strong analytics
• Reliability + speed
• Use Pre-Built Share Button Templates (drag and drop codeless UI), Custom Icons (your own Design System and Style Guide), and APIs
• Integrates into your workflow and existing tech stack (Bitly, Google Analytics, Buffer)
• Technical Integration Setup & Support
• Role-Based Team Management

More than a decade of experience

In our 10+ years of business since 2009, our Share Buttons widget has been a powerful tool for marketing and content teams alike, helping companies extend their brands, acquire new business, and make meaningful connections with their customers.

Our experience has helped us form the product we offer today, which is why we not only offer the features that Gigya offered its users but so much more. The knowledge, relationships, and influence we’ve acquired over the past decade is invaluable.

Also, in an age where companies fade away as quickly as they crop up, our customers can take comfort in knowing that we’re not going anywhere.

Ready to make the move from Gigya Share Bar to Shareaholic Social Share Buttons?

If you’re ready to get started with Shareaholic, check out our share button widget demos and plans. Interested in our Enterprise plan? Let us know by clicking the “chat with us” button on our plans page and a member of our team will be in touch. We’ll be happy to answer your questions and help you decide if Shareaholic is a good fit for you and your business.

Inclusivity is important to us at Shareaholic.

We strive to make Shareaholic’s on-site tools accessible to all, including those with disabilities, in line with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA).

Today, we’re pleased to share that most of Shareaholic’s on-site tools are now Level AA compliant in accordance with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG 2.0 AA).

What this means is that Shareaholic tools work well with assistive technologies such as screen readers (software that reads digital text aloud), screen magnifiers (zoom), keyboard accessibility, etc. Making the web a wee more accessible to as many people as possible. Learn more.

WordPress runs over 34% of all websites on the internet. That’s amazing. And Kinsta is one of the leading hosting services for WordPress powered websites. Known for fast, hassle-free premium managed hosting.

We’re glad to share that Shareaholic is now officially recommended by Kinsta for Kinsta customers and has been included in their selection of the Best Social Media WordPress plugins.

Kinsta has also published an extensive review of Shareaholic’s platform, which includes a look at just a few ways we’ve developed Shareaholic from the ground up with performance and scalability in mind. Many sites that depend on Shareaholic get millions of visitors per month, and some each and every day…

So if you’re already on Kinsta and don’t have Shareaholic yet, do check us out, knowing that Shareaholic is fully compatible and recommended by Kinsta. And if you’re looking for a new WordPress host, we recommend checking out what Kinsta has to offer. From their 24×7 support to speed optimizations to seamlessly working with Shareaholic.👌🏼

About Kinsta:

Kinsta is one of the fastest-growing and highest-rated managed WordPress hosts on the market; powered exclusively by Google Cloud Platform. Their primary focus is providing superior performance, enhanced security, scalability, and world-class 24x7x365 support. They’ve worked with some of the biggest names in the industry, such as GE, Intuit, Drift, and Buffer. Whether you have a small blog or a large and dynamic eCommerce site, Kinsta can help take your business to the next level.

We’re extremely excited that our new Share Count Proxy API service is available today to all Shareaholic Site Profiles on the Pro plan and above — review instructions on to enable the Share Count Proxy API for your Site Profile. Takes less than 5 minutes to setup. This service is also available for use programmatically via API.

Why You Need the Share Count Proxy for Your Website

The Share Count Proxy API functions much like a secure VPN service. Once enabled, all Share Count requests to the various Social Networks are proxied through this service. Doing so, results in:

• Better Protection of Visitor Privacy / Easier GDPR Compliance

  The “original” share buttons from Facebook, Pinterest and others automatically transmit data of your visitors to the social network sites as soon as they visit your website. This is also the case if you use custom Share Buttons (such as a plugin) and choose to display Share Counts. Data is shared without the need for visitors to click on a share button and therefore have no choice.

  The Shareaholic’s Share Count Proxy API fixes this by allowing your site visitors to see how popular your pages are without needless leakage to the social networks (unless they decide to share, of course). Once enabled, all Share Count queries to the Social Networks are proxied through this API securely and visitor privacy is protected (like an anonymous VPN).

• Better Facebook Share Counts

  You can set Facebook App credentials. Calling Facebook’s Graph API with authenticated credentials results in better, more accurate Share Counts. It is not possible to safely make such authenticated requests without a server-side solution, like this proxy.

  Also, since this Proxy API protects user privacy, Firefox and other major browsers do not default block requests to it like they do to client-side requests to Facebook’s and other such APIs.

• Faster Website Speed

  This proxy consolidates what would have been multiple client-side HTTP requests (one for each social network) to a single HTTP/2 compatible request for your visitors. By cutting down on requests, your website will load faster. Plus, the proxy lives on our optimized servers that are super-specialized for retrieving, caching and serving, so your own servers and database run faster as they have to do less work.

• Save Money on Your Web Hosting

  Retrieving, caching and serving Share Counts can be a server and database intensive activity which can test even the best of web hosts. Because this service lives on Shareaholic servers, you and your host don’t need to deal or worry about any of this. Save on your hosting bill, let us do the heavy lifting instead. Also, because the service is hosted, it works with any CMS, including Shopify, Wix, and Blogspot.