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RTM builds promotions for you.
Revup lets you run them yourself, or runs them for you.
Self-serve sweepstakes, contests, and instant wins with rules templates, fraud controls, email, and SMS from $99/month. Or hand a sweepstakes to Revup with managed administration.
Which one fits your team?
RTM (Realtime Media) is an agency-style provider: a team scopes, builds, and runs each promotion. Revup is software your team can run itself, and Revup can also administer a sweepstakes for you. The cost, speed, and control of each option are very different.
Choose RTM if…
- You want a custom-built promotion program with bespoke microsites and engineering.
- You need receipt validation for purchase-based promotions.
- You need prize fulfillment handled for you.
Choose Revup if…
- You want to launch promotions yourself, without a per-project agency engagement.
- You want predictable monthly self-serve pricing instead of custom quotes.
- You want entrants in your own customer profiles, email, and SMS, not in a one-off microsite.
Want Revup to run the promotion for you, including official rules, registration and bonding, and winner paperwork? See managed sweepstakes administration.
Revup vs RTM at a glance.
Agency service versus Revup's self-serve platform and managed administration, side by side. Updated October 2026.
Revup RTMRTM details are based on RTM's public pricing and feature pages. RTM scopes and prices each engagement individually.
Run it yourself, or hand it off.
RTM delivers custom promotions as a service. Revup gives your team the tools to run them directly, with the marketing stack attached, and can administer a sweepstakes for you when you would rather hand it off.
Launch on your schedule.
Build, preview, and publish promotions yourself instead of waiting on a scoping and build cycle.
Rules templates built in.
Auto-generated official rules templates with AMOE and eligibility fields. Bring in counsel where your promotion needs it.
Eligibility and fraud controls.
Age gates, geo settings, CAPTCHA, per-IP caps, IP allow and block lists, VPN and proxy rules, and passcodes.
Winner management built in.
Random draws, alternates, claim forms, affidavit and tax documents, plus claim reminders and deadlines.
Email and SMS, built in.
Follow up with entrants through automated flows and campaigns from the same platform that ran the promotion.
Your data, in one profile.
Every entrant joins a unified customer profile you own, reusable across every promotion, form, and survey you run.
Agency promotions are quoted per project.
With an agency, each promotion is scoped and priced on its own. Revup's self-serve platform is a flat monthly plan and your team does the building. Managed administration is scoped separately for each promotion.
RTM pricing is quote-based and varies by project. Self-serve Revup plans don't include state registration or bonding, which Revup handles as part of managed administration. Revup does not fulfill prizes. See Revup pricing.
RTM vs Revup, answered.
Common questions from teams weighing an agency against Revup.
RTM (Realtime Media) is a digital promotions agency that builds custom sweepstakes, contests, and instant-win programs for enterprise and CPG brands. It works as a service, with project managers, legal support, receipt validation, and custom builds, rather than as a self-serve product.
Revup is a promotion platform you can run yourself or hand off. On a self-serve plan, your team builds sweepstakes, contests, instant wins, forms, and surveys directly, using official rules templates, eligibility settings, fraud controls, and winner management. Self-serve pricing starts at $99/month instead of a per-project quote, with native email, SMS, and customer profiles included. With managed sweepstakes administration, Revup handles setup, official rules, registration and bonding, and winner communications for you, scoped separately for each promotion.
Yes. With managed sweepstakes administration, Revup handles promotion setup and management, official rules, state registration and bonding, and winner communications and documents. You supply the prize and deliver it to winners. Managed work is scoped and agreed separately from a self-serve plan.
RTM makes sense for large programs that need custom engineering, bespoke microsites, receipt validation, or prize fulfillment at scale. If you want a team to run a sweepstakes for you without those, Revup's managed sweepstakes administration is another option.
Yes, for Shopify stores. Revup's Shopify purchase sweepstakes award entries from orders automatically. Revup does not offer receipt-upload validation, so receipt-based promotions are a case where an agency like RTM may fit better.
Revup gives you official rules templates with AMOE and eligibility fields, plus age gates and geo settings, but these are tools, not legal advice. On a self-serve plan, your team handles any state registration or bonding and should work with counsel on high-value promotions. If you'd rather hand that off, Revup's managed sweepstakes administration includes official rules, registration and bonding.
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