Before you launch a survey or referendum, use your followers and friends to gather as many people as possible around your event.
Create Your EventPublishing a survey directly risks talking to an audience that doesn't even know it exists yet. An Event solves this: it's an announcement with a countdown, not something to vote on. You can link it to a Survey or a Referendum (never both), set a start date — and optionally an end date — and publish it. From that moment, anyone can "join" the event while waiting for launch: when the start date hits, the linked content activates automatically and every participant is notified. There's no follower minimum to create one — anyone with an account can start building their community from zero.
You create the event — title, description, cover image, and optionally the survey or referendum to link. It isn't visible to anyone yet.
You publish it. It becomes visible with a countdown, people can start joining, and pre-launch comments are open.
On the start date, the linked survey or referendum activates on its own — no manual action needed — and every participant gets the launch notification.
When the linked content closes, the event moves to ended and every participant receives a results summary.
Every time someone joins an event, their followers get a notification: "X joined [Event] — join them too!". Anyone who already joined never gets a redundant notification. No one is ever auto-added — it's always a choice. That's how an event grows along the participants' real social graph, instead of depending only on the creator's own reach.
Every stage of an event triggers a notification to the right people — no manual follow-up required from the organizer.
Who receives it: Followers of every organizer
Channels: In-app, push, and email
Who receives it: Only the event creator
Channels: In-app, push, and email
Who receives it: Followers of the person who joined (excluding anyone already participating)
Channels: In-app and push
Who receives it: Organizers only
Channels: In-app and push
Who receives it: All participants and organizers
Channels: In-app, push, and email
Who receives it: All participants, with a results summary
Channels: In-app, push, and email
A Wiviscope Referendum is a powerful but deliberately limited tool: creating one requires at least 100,000 followers, and you can create at most one per year. It's not something to "try out" — it's for when the community behind you is already real and ready. An Event is the opposite: no requirements, no limits, create as many as you want. That's why it's the natural way to warm up an audience before you spend your one referendum for the year — or simply before launching an important survey you want as many people as possible to answer from the first minute.
Here's the complete list of what you can configure from the creation form.
A scheduled container that links a Survey or a Referendum to a launch date: it gathers interested participants before the vote is even open.
No. You can create an event with nothing linked, gather interest, and link the survey or referendum later by editing the event.
No — unlike a referendum (which requires at least 100,000 followers), anyone with an account can create an event, with no limits.
Their followers get a notification and can choose to join too. No one is ever added automatically — it is always each user's free choice.
Yes. On the start date you set, the linked survey or referendum activates on its own and every participant gets the launch notification — you don't need to take any manual action.
Yes, and the system handles it automatically: the scheduled launch is rescheduled to the new date without needing to republish the event.
Yes — every time participants cross 100, 500, 1,000, or 5,000, all organizers get a milestone notification.
Yes, comments are open while the event is scheduled or active. They close once the event has ended.
A notification with a results summary of the linked survey or referendum.
Yes, especially because a referendum is capped at one per year and requires a real community behind it: an event is the natural way to build and warm up that audience first, without spending your one available referendum.
Create an event, link the survey or referendum whenever you're ready, and let the system notify everyone at the right moment.
Create Your Event