Virallized vs SidesMedia

SidesMedia sells followers, likes and views as delivered packages across several platforms. Growthoid now redirects to it.

This is not a like-for-like comparison and we will not pretend otherwise. SidesMedia sells you followers; Virallized grows an audience. The relevant question is not which is better value per follower, but whether bought followers do anything for you at all.

This is not a like-for-like comparison

SidesMedia sells followers, likes and views as packages, delivered to your account within minutes. Virallized grows an audience. Those are different products that happen to move the same number on your profile, and a feature grid comparing them would be misleading.

So we will put the actual difference plainly: we do not sell followers, have never sold followers, and would not. Everything we do is aimed at real people choosing to follow you because they saw your account and wanted to.

One thing worth knowing if you have been comparing services: Growthoid, which many roundups still list as a separate company, now redirects to SidesMedia. If both appeared on your shortlist, they are one destination.

Trustpilot removed their profile

SidesMedia has no Trustpilot rating because Trustpilot removed the profile, with the message that the business goes against their guidelines. That is Trustpilot's judgement rather than our opinion, and we verified it directly.

They are not alone. Sixteen services listed on our rankings page have had profiles removed on the same basis, and almost all of them sell followers rather than growth. It is a consistent enough pattern to be worth noticing when you choose.

What bought followers actually do

The counts arrive, and that is real — these services deliver what they advertise. The problem is what happens next. Bought followers do not comment, save or share, because they were never interested in your account.

Instagram decides who sees your posts partly on engagement rate: interactions divided by followers. Add several thousand accounts that never interact and that ratio falls, which means your posts reach fewer of the people who did want to see them. It is entirely possible to buy followers and end up with less reach than you started with.

That is the case against buying, and it is a practical one rather than a moral one. If you want a number for a brand deal with a threshold, packages will produce it. If you want an audience that does anything, they will not.