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Why vepple?

About Us

Vepple is made with love by the team at Revolution Viewing.

RV's company mission is to Empower people to make life changing decisions. In the context of Vepple, we want to help prospective students find their perfect university by serving them content that's relevant to their interests.

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Revolution Viewing is trusted by over 100 higher education institutions, including:

Background to Vepple

Revolution Viewing produced it's first univeristy Virtual Tour in 2006 - a collection of 360s brought together, it was delivered on 5000 CD-roms. We've come on a long way in the 15 years since, delivering 50+ bespoke virtual experiences for UK universities, cementing ourselves as leaders and experts in the sector. Vepple is the product of this experience, combined with the findings of a primary research programme which validated our belief that there was a 'perfect' way to showcase a university online.

Research

Over the past five years we've undertaken eight primary research studies to understand what prospective students want from rich media solutions as part of the student recruitment cycle.

In 2018, a series of focus groups and online surveys highlighted the need for virtual experience solutions in the minds of prospective students. Building on this in 2020 following the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, we ran a dedicated research programme looking to establish what prospective students wanted from a virtual experience platform. This, combined with our experience of delivering more than 50 bespoke university virtual tours formed the basis of Vepple.

Revolution Viewing in numbers

18 years

Founded in 2004 and still going strong! 'Better' is what we strive for every single day – and that's what makes us truly different.

24 team members

People are at the heart of all we do and we've built a fantastic team of talented, friendly experts, dedicated to producing ground-breaking work.

110+ clients

…and counting. We've worked with over 110 universities since we started 17 years ago, and this continues to grow every day!

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The stats we've received from our first open day are strong: users spent an average of 19 minutes visiting an average of 19 pages across the tour. Not having had any experience in virtual open days previous, this initially felt like a big investment. On reflection, we spent a similar amount on this as we would on a physical open day, but we have the luxury of using this again and again.

Tasha Winsor

Senior Recruitment Events Officer,
University of Essex

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We love our virtual experience, it looks great and we think it's sector leading. We were blown away when we ran our first virtual open day event on the platform in June 2020 - we have over 6,000 unique visitors in that one day and the average session duration was over 11 minutes. We are really please and can't wait to see the impact on our enrollment stats!

Lorraine Jones

Associate Director of Marketing and Student Recruitment,
Nottingham Trent University

The stats we've received from our first open day are strong: users spent an average of 19 minutes visiting an average of 19 pages across the tour. Not having had any experience in virtual open days previous, this initially felt like a big investment. On reflection, we spent a similar amount on this as we would on a physical open day, but we have the luxury of using this again and again.

Tasha Winsor

Senior Recruitment Events Officer,
University of Essex

We love our virtual experience, it looks great and we think it's sector leading. We were blown away when we ran our first virtual open day event on the platform in June 2020 - we have over 6,000 unique visitors in that one day and the average session duration was over 11 minutes. We are really please and can't wait to see the impact on our enrollment stats!

Lorraine Jones

Associate Director of Marketing and Student Recruitment,
Nottingham Trent University

The stats we've received from our first open day are strong: users spent an average of 19 minutes visiting an average of 19 pages across the tour. Not having had any experience in virtual open days previous, this initially felt like a big investment. On reflection, we spent a similar amount on this as we would on a physical open day, but we have the luxury of using this again and again.

Tasha Winsor

Senior Recruitment Events Officer,
University of Essex