GeoSurf Reviews and Ratings

Rating: 7.5 out of 10

Score

7.5 out of 10

Community insights

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Business Problems Solved

GeoSurf has been widely used by various departments and professionals to address a wide range of use cases. For instance, users have utilized GeoSurf to ensure worldwide compliance across multiple products by simulating different locations and checking for regulation restrictions. The SEO department has successfully leveraged GeoSurf to simulate traffic from various GEO locations and test their website's performance. Additionally, the media and affiliation departments have employed GeoSurf to verify ads published by advertisers.

Engineers at Fyber have found great value in GeoSurf as it allows them to test the features of their ad tech products and simulate their behavior in different regions around the world. The localization department has also benefited from using GeoSurf as a VPN to test foreign user accounts and ease the localization process. Furthermore, professionals in various industries have relied on GeoSurf to change browsing locations on a daily basis, enabling them to access sites that are not accessible in their location and ensuring they can complete their work effectively.

Moreover, GeoSurf has proved its usefulness for quality assurance purposes. Users have employed it to view video-on-demand services across 18 Latin American countries, helping identify potential QA issues and provide support. Users have also utilized GeoSurf to test products with different IP addresses, replicating how real customers outside of the corporate network would experience them. Whether it's monitoring ad campaigns based on specific locations or troubleshooting geo location queries, GeoSurf proves to be a valuable tool.

The marketing department has adopted GeoSurf for research and testing purposes. Its ability to access more than 120 global locations from one place helps marketers gain insights into different markets quickly and efficiently. Additionally, GeoSurf has been instrumental in pulling geo-targeted screenshots for clients upon campaign launch and providing functionality tests for international products that require accessing sites from specific country IPs.

Overall, GeoSurf serves as an indispensable solution for a wide range of use cases across industries, empowering users to test products, troubleshoot issues, and gain valuable insights into various markets and regions.

Reviews

45 Reviews

Fast + Secure + Reliable = GeoSurf

Rating: 8 out of 10

Incentivized

June 19, 2017

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

GeoSurf is an essential add-on that is used across our whole organization. Since we are an international company with many localized labels and regulations to comply with, GeoSurf enables us to simulate location-restricted journeys and verify the user experiences.

Pros

Simple and intuitive interface, very easy to switch between proxies.
There is an Android app that can be used with the same account.
More locations or alternative servers can always be arranged, if need be.

Cons

There is no iOS app which is a big gap and we need an alternative product for such devices.
Our subscriptions is with shared and limited bandwidth, some users forget to turn off GeoSurf when they are done with the proxy thus incurring unnecessary costs. Would be good to have some reality checks implemented to avoid unintended long session.
The Android interface is little outdated, although it's still simple and quick to use. I'd prefer slightly more modern design, including usage statistics.

Likelihood to Recommend

It's a great add-on for testing location-based user journeys. Sometimes it does not go around all geolocation restrictions (ie. video streaming) which is also understandable. Also since it's shared across the organization, the behavior of others in the network can impact the IP address (ie. black listing or temporary cool off).

Verified User

Employee in Marketing (1001-5000 employees)

Vetted Review

2 years of experience

GeoSurf is a must for your mobile apps

Rating: 8 out of 10

Incentivized

June 14, 2017

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Geosurf to develop and validate our apps in all the territories we support. It allows us to validate the work our team is doing as well as analyze what the competition is doing in similar markets.

Pros

Allows us to use real flows and real banking information for final review of products before shipping to a geo beta territory.

Cons

On mobile, the app UI is a little confusing and not that easy for some of our users to understand. First time users usually need a little hand holding.

Likelihood to Recommend

Geosurf is great for engineers and QA testers to validate work in foreign territories. However, the UI and flow of the app are not user-friendly for product and feature focused team members.

Verified User

Manager in Engineering (11-50 employees)

Vetted Review

5 years of experience

Great tool to visit a site without being physically present at the location

Rating: 8 out of 10

Incentivized

June 13, 2017

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

It's being used by the whole organization. It solves location problems.

Pros

Offers IP of locations without being there
Easy tool to use

Cons

Doesn't work well on Chrome
Need to offer more IPs per popular locations (they get burnt)
The IPs appear as satellite - this also doesn't project a real and accurate picture

Likelihood to Recommend

<ul><li>Well suited on a browser</li><li>Less suited on a VPN</li></ul>

Verified User

Manager in Corporate (201-500 employees)

Vetted Review

10 years of experience

Another happy customer!

Rating: 8 out of 10

Incentivized

June 1, 2017

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

[It's used by the] SEO department to simulate traffic to the website from a variety of GEO locations. The media and affiliation departments test the ads published by advertisers.

Pros

Great support
Has all the GEO locations I need
In 5 years only once I needed a specific location that was not available

Cons

Different login interface. When you enter your username (email address) then leave the interface to look for the password - the username disappears.
Have to re-login often.

Likelihood to Recommend

I don't have a scenario in mind where GeoSurf would NOT be well suited... probably not ideal for streaming HQ movies.

Gadi Shoshani

SEO & ASO Team Leader in Marketing at William Hill (10,001+ employees)

Vetted Review

5 years of experience

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GeoSurf Review

Rating: 8 out of 10

Incentivized

May 31, 2017

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Our products are shared across different countries with different rules. We use GeoSurf to help log-in in different locations to make tests. It can be used by testers, developers and managers to validate releases or simply check if the apps are working correctly in these locations. The tool is used across all the organisation.

Pros

Easy to use
Fast and reliable service
Good range of localizations

Cons

Show the IP after choosing a localisation.
Set different IP for each tab of the browser. Good to compare different tabs/localizations.

Likelihood to Recommend

Good:

<ul><li>Test different jurisdictions/localisations</li><li>Good range of counties available</li><li>Fast proxy</li></ul>

Verified User

Engineer in Engineering (201-500 employees)

Vetted Review

1 year of experience

GeoSurf features perfectly fit with international campaign management role.

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

May 31, 2017

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

GeoSurf is used by our campaign operations team that manages campaigns for various markets (with multiple advertisers) across the EMEA region. With GeoSurf it's easy to switch your browser to the needed country. This way we were able to tackle geo-settings on creatives, but we also use it for print screens to show the advertiser that the campaign(s) run on preferred inventory.

In addition to adjusting our geo settings, GeoSurf is also used for mobile emulation. With an increasing number of mobile campaigns, it's helpful to easily switch your browser into a 'mobile device' (e.g. Apple iPhone 6).

Pros

Flexibility to switch countries (if you need another country on your GeoSurf account, you can easily send a request to your GeoSurf contact).
Mobile Emulation.
Great support!

Cons

Experienced problems with the GeoSurf toolbar in several browsers (it's currently not working in Chrome for example).
Missing an overview of the contract (can't see how many countries we can add/how many change requests we can send, etc.).

Likelihood to Recommend

Campaign management for multiple advertisers across EMEA-market

-Possibility to make screenshots of the campaign to show the advertiser that the campaign is live and showing on preferred inventory.

-Tackle Geo-settings that are applied on the banner (not showing up except if you're in the country).

Mobile campaign management

-Easily switch your browser into a mobile device (e.g. Apple - iPhone 6).

Tobias Tanger

Senior programmatic specialist at Bannerconnect (51-200 employees)

Vetted Review

3 years of experience

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GeoSurf, yep, it will help you.

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

May 30, 2017

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We are using geosurf in our department to reproduce production issues and to troubleshoot geo location queries. Since our products are being used around the world, we need the ability to simulate logins from different countries With this need we found a great solution in GeoSurf. It's very easy to use and is giving us the needed platform for checking complaints that are arriving from around the world.

Pros

GeoSurf allows us to connect to our products the same way it was experienced by connecting from a different country, with latency and ISP limits.
It allows us to check blacklist and whitelist IPs and countries.
It is allowing us to reproduce real user complaints with success.

Cons

We need to have ability to check some other geolocation checks with simulation of GPS coordinates and other checks.

Likelihood to Recommend

As explained, whenever you need to reproduce a connection from a different country, GeoSurf gives the answer. But it is limited to IPs/countries and does not allow you to simulate GPS/Wifi coordinates and connections.

yosi angel

BizOp Tech Team Leader in Information Technology at 888.com (1001-5000 employees)

Vetted Review

2 years of experience

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Be confident in your product's geo-location features after using GeoSurf to test them

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

May 25, 2017

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use GeoSurf to test our products as if they were accessed by real customers outside of our corporate network. This is vital since our products behave differently based on the user's geolocation.

Pros

GeoSurf is redirecting web traffic really well in order to simulate browsing from alternative locations.
GeoSurf has a good interface and is very easy to set up and adjust.
GeoSurf provides a very large number of possible VPN locations all around the globe.

Cons

One main thing to improve is that when GeoSurf is turned ON it routes traffic from idle browser tabs too. Would be best if only active tabs traffic is being redirected.
A widget to monitor traffic in real-time would be nice.
A way to program it to turn on/off the IP routing at specific times would be nice.

Likelihood to Recommend

GeoSurf is very useful if your product has geolocation features and you need to test those before releasing it.

Alexander Delivlaev

Quality Assurance with Test Automation in Information Technology at bwin (1001-5000 employees)

Vetted Review

2 years of experience

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Leave it to GeoSurf

Rating: 8 out of 10

Incentivized

May 22, 2017

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

My company has customers around the world, and I lead a team that places and manages content for websites and mobile apps in 10 different languages in countries from Europe to Latin America. My team relies heavily on GeoSurf to monitor the content we place on those sites, as it is important for us to view the sites as they are seen in the countries where our customers are accessing the content.

Pros

GeoSurf is a powerful tool that allows us to switch from the different versions of our websites in country to country very quickly.
It has a very easy-to-use interface and toolbar which makes changing countries very easy.
GeoSurf has a mobile view which allows us to see what mobile content looks like in a given country within a web browser.

Cons

Occasionally a country will stop working for periods of time. They usually come back eventually, but can be a bit annoying when you need to see content in that country.
GeoSurf can interfere with the default browser proxy settings and interfere with loading content when it is turned off.
It's not really a GeoSurf problem, rather an issue on our company network, but some of my team are unable to access one country in particular, and we are having trouble getting this issue sorted by our IT team.

Likelihood to Recommend

For what my team uses GeoSurf for, it is well suited for jumping from country to country to quality control content placements very quickly. For the most part it is reliable, efficient and fast, changing countries and loading content instantly. Our company uses it for a fairly specific task on only our company website, but for what we use it for, it is a very powerful tool.

Verified User

Manager in Information Technology (5001-10,000 employees)

Vetted Review

1 year of experience

GeoSurf - very easy to use and reliable for product testing

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

May 12, 2017

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Being an international company we quite frequently need to test user journeys from an international customer's perspective. GeoSurf enables us to do this, testing the products we launch on a range of global IP's.

Pros

Logging in - very easy.
Selecting a country - very easy.
Quick access through control panel.

Cons

I would like to be able to use Geosurf on a a particular window, rather than having that IP active on all windows. This would enable me to make comparisons between different countries simultaneously.

Likelihood to Recommend

Suited for product testing internationally.

Verified User

Professional in Product Management (1001-5000 employees)

Vetted Review

1 year of experience

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GeoSurf features perfectly fit with international campaign management role.

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

May 31, 2017

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Pros

Flexibility to switch countries (if you need another country on your GeoSurf account, you can easily send a request to your GeoSurf contact).
Mobile Emulation.
Great support!

Cons

Experienced problems with the GeoSurf toolbar in several browsers (it's currently not working in Chrome for example).
Missing an overview of the contract (can't see how many countries we can add/how many change requests we can send, etc.).

Likelihood to Recommend

Campaign management for multiple advertisers across EMEA-market

-Possibility to make screenshots of the campaign to show the advertiser that the campaign is live and showing on preferred inventory.

-Tackle Geo-settings that are applied on the banner (not showing up except if you're in the country).

Mobile campaign management

-Easily switch your browser into a mobile device (e.g. Apple - iPhone 6).

Tobias Tanger

Senior programmatic specialist at Bannerconnect (51-200 employees)

Vetted Review

3 years of experience

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