Compact widgets — Badge, Rating Badge, Avatars, Logos, Social Star

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VideoTestimonials has five compact widgets under the Compact filter in Dashboard → Studio → Widgets. Trust Badge shows your average rating in minimal, detailed or compact form. Rating Badge adds a star breakdown. Avatars stacks customer initials with a count. Logo Bar lists your customers' company names. Social Star shows an avatar stack with a five-star count.

Compact widgets take up minimal space. Use them in sidebars, headers, footers, and between sections where a full wall of testimonials would overwhelm.

All five of these layouts are widget types you can create from the Widgets tab of Studio and customize in the widget builder's Design tab (theme, colors and the options specific to each widget).

Badge

Called Trust Badge in the widget picker: a small badge with your average star rating that fits in a sidebar or header corner. The Badge Style setting has three options: Minimal (star and rating), Detailed (stars, "out of 5" and review count), Compact (star, rating and count).

Good for: product page sidebars, header trust badges, SaaS login pages.

Rating Badge

A Trustpilot-style standalone badge with the aggregate star rating and count, plus a breakdown bar for each star level.

Good for: lower-funnel pages where credibility matters most — pricing, checkout, signup.

Avatars

"Join 500+ happy customers" pattern — shows overlapping avatar circles with your customers' initials and a count.

Avatars Style setting has three variants: stacked, inline, or grid.

Good for: signup page CTA areas, freemium product tours, hero section social proof.

Logos

Called Logo Bar in the widget picker: a "Trusted by leading companies" strip built from the company names on your testimonials (up to eight), each with a colored initial tile. Classic B2B "trusted by" treatment.

Good for: B2B homepages, pricing pages, case study directory pages.

Social Star

A compact aggregate rating badge — up to five customer avatars, the star rating, and a "people rated us 5 stars" line with the number of five-star reviews.

Good for: footer, "About" page, anywhere a quick rating summary matters.

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