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25 Website Popup Examples That Get Clicks
Website popups can do more than just capture a few email addresses. In this post, we’ll explore some of the best website popup examples to inspire your design.
When you think of popups, you might have mixed feelings. Some people enjoy them for the deals and discounts, while others find them annoying. But the fact is, they work well for generating leads, with an average conversion rate of around 9.3%. That’s why top brands keep using them, even at the risk of annoying some visitors.
So, what does an effective popup look like? And how do you make sure yours works for your site and needs?
We’ll look at 25 great popup examples from successful brands and provide 5 best practices to help you go from idea to launch in minutes.
1. Black Ember Notification Icon Drop-Down Offers
Usually, notifications are hard to ignore, so many brands use them as conversion tools. In this case, the Black Ember brand weaponizes the notification icon to compel users to view what it offers. Once you click on it, a popup with a drop-down shows a couple of discounts, announcements, and limited-time offers you can choose from. Each of the announcements opens a classic popup with a CTA, a field for filling up an email and an action button.
In addition, if you scroll past the fold to browse the homepage, you will trigger another popup, designed as a full-screen modal with a beautiful minimal design. It’s a classic subscription form for users to become part of the Black ember community and receive exclusive offers in their emails.
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2. Semicolonchi Join Mailing List Popup
Samicolonchi is a nonprofit bookseller dedicated to bridging the literacy gap among minoritized communities by giving them easier access to books. Right from the start, when you open their homepage, the site offers you to join their mailing list to receive new arrivals, sales, special offers, and events info. It’s a standard popup with minimum text and a field to type an email.
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3. Proweb Cookies Popup with a Style
Some of the most annoying popups in mankind are the ones informing users about the use of cookies. This standard website procedure often disrupts the experience, especially if coupled with other popups. In fact, when your important popups that announce info such as offers, sales, or events come on screen with the cookie popup; visitors often close all of them due to frustration.
Proweb fights this inconvenience by making a creative cookie popup that shows an effort in design and copywriting. The popup comes in a beautiful magenta color with a custom cookie illustration and much better text than the standard generated cookie popups. Users can choose ” Yes, please” to accept the cookies or decline by clicking ” No…I’m full!”.
Notice that the cookie popup takes a central place on the screen instead of the corner of the page, making it much easier to interact with. Also, it isn’t combined with other popups, so it doesn’t overwhelm the user experience.
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4. Perfect Keto Full-Screen Popup Discount Sign-Up
In this example, Perfect Keto opens up with a full-screen popup that features a couple of cool elements to take ideas from. First, they added a slideshow of high-quality keto product photos as a presentation. Next, they present the sign-in for a discount CTA with the inconvenient option for users to ” pay the full price” if they choose not to take the discount. This is a very clever way to make your visitors think twice before rejecting your offer. And last, Perfect Keto also included social proof to let users know that they are a top brand with over 13K 5-star reviews.
To sum up, this design manages to give a product presentation, an offer you can’t refuse, and social proof in a single popup.
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5. Odd Balls Store Cart Promos
Similar to Black Ember, Odd Balls are more delicate about their popups by packing them as notifications. The notification icon lights up two unread messages for the user to open, which is much less disruptive than the standard popup method. When visitors click the notifications, they see the offers presented with an icon and a short title.
Whichever offer they click, it will open a popup window with details and a CTA button.
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6. Crown & Paw Limited Offer Popup
Crown & Paw is an adorable brand that creates custom pet portraits for happy pet owners. Currently, they offer a discount on the first order through a dynamic popup with a live countdown. What we can learn from the example is, that this is a very good method to create urgency and help your visitors make a decision faster.
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7. The Oodie Full Screen Discount Popup
When you visit the Oddie, you’re welcomed with a cozy full-screen popup that gives you a discount for your next order if you sign up with texts. You can buy a warm oddie for yourself or someone special. This is a multi-step popup that doesn’t redirect you to a page, instead all the options and text fields load in the same popup until you complete the process.
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8. A Dozen Cousins Popup
Here we have a very cute pastel purple popup by A Dozen Cousins for a discount in exchange for signing up. The popup has a very detailed description of message frequency, security, and terms of service related to sharing your phone number. Usually, info like this one comes in a different page or modal linked to the popup, but here, it’s placed in the element fully with no need for extra click.
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9. Adore Me Get Styled Popup
Adore Me takes a different route in comparison to the previous examples. It uses the bottom right of the page, where you usually locate the live chat, to place the popup. Similar to the live chat button, you can open and close the popup at any time if you’re interesting in their offer to get styled.
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10. Bibado Cute Popup Discount
Next we have the baby store Bibado with a very tempting offer of earning extra money on your first order and combine with bundles to save up to 60% of the total price. The popup is short, where you choose to get the discount or opt out with no unnecessary info. As a bonus, the popup also uses an adorable baby picture that easily grabs the attention of the specific target audience: baby moms.
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11. Visme Animated Popup Full Screen
Email subscription popups come in all forms, but it’s always better to do it in style, just like Visme. Here we have a full-screen popup that hides any possible distraction and gives more space for the text to be bigger and much easier to read. Speaking of style, there’s a cool 3D animated character interacting with the text field that makes you forgive Visme for disrupting your browsing.
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12. Caraway Home Claim Savings Full Screen Popup
Here’s another stylish full-screen popup that looks great since it was designed to look like a split-screen hero image. On the left, you can see a high-quality photo of product composition with a quote from an interior design magazine as social proof. On the right, there’s the offer for free shipping and claiming savings.
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13. Craft Sign-Up Popup
We are all tired of listening to the cliche phrase ” Less is more”, however, there’s a reason this is the first golden rule of web design. Especially when your page is content-heavy or uses background videos, it’s very easy to overwhelm visitors with additional elements. In the case of Craft, they went to the familiar path of using a classic bottom-right white popup with black text. Using visual hierarchy, the text has a CTA title, a text field for email, and two contrasting buttons.
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14. Fable & Mane Sign Up and Discount Popup
On the contrary, if the page is more minimalistic and stylish, you can afford to design a fancier popup. Fable & Mane, for example, has a very delicate hero image with a light creme background and a product composition that leaves a lot of white space. This and the black overlay background behind, make the colorful popup stand out without overwhelming the eye.
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15. Glossier Popup
Sometimes the message it’s all it takes to make a difference between a boring popup and a good one. Glossier gives visitors a colorful offer with the claim ” You deserve it!”, minimum text and two big buttons to opt-in or opt-out.
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16. Go Flaus Unlock Discount
We especially love the design of Flaus’ popup for sign-up in exchange for a discount. Copy aside, the popup is very well-designed in a non-standard shape with a disconnected exit button. It just looks awesome.
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17. Kinfield As Seen on Shark Tank Discount and Subscription Deal
Kinfield also takes the creative design route with its popup, choosing a circular shape with a disconnected exit button similar to Flaus. What’s great about this design is the pattern of the popup background continues the pattern of the page background. It simply looks so natural and in place.
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18. Lil Bucks Popups
Lil Bucks uses a modern grid layout design with vivid candy colors and great product photography. Their popup follows that same design and makes things even better with great copy full of puns. So, if you’re ready to buck wild with 15% off, sign up and click ” Buck Yes!” and you’re in.
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19. Maguire Discount Popup
For more minimalistic macro websites, the simplest solution is the best one. Maguire uses a standard white popup for sign-in with bare minimum design elements over a black overlay background. It looks great for this specific website that uses big product images.
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20. Neil Patel SEO Traffic Step-by-Step Full Screen Popup
Niel Patel’s 7-week action plan takes a route similar to checkouts, as it uses a full-screen popup with multiple screens. Each screen refers to a specific step in the process and completing a step shows in a progress bar above the CTA title.
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21. Nuoo
Nuoo is a beauty brand with natural herbal elements and hand-written fonts on its website. This specific brand design shows up in their popups as well, as we can see in the example. The popup has the standard sign-up message for discounts, but it doesn’t fail to use pretty imagery and signature hand-written fonts to make it look like a natural part of the site. In addition, the popup also features the overall store rating from real verified reviews.
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22. Optinmonster Abandonment Popup
Optinmonster gets to business with this one. Immediately after you try to abandon their page, a popup appears educating you on the very concept of page abandonment. The text includes a short fact that a huge percentage of visitors who abandon a website never return and they follow with a solution right after. The options are also very well thought out: you can choose to get started, or ask a few questions first.
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23. Snif Popup
First of all, this store has very clever branding, starting from the name Snif which is the perfect choice for a store that sells perfumes and scented candles. Their popup keeps with the pun presenting a very cool CTA title “Snif this.” for signing up. We also love the extra attention to detail with the animated “go ahead, email us” banner on top.
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24. Toms Spin the Wheel to Save Popup
Amongst the most popular tools for stores to engage visitors, are the mini-games and wheels that can get you some prices, discounts, special offers, or even free shipping and free products. Toms doesn’t let their popup go to waste, as they give potential clients a spin chance to save with only four possible outcomes, which communicates greater chances for visitors to hit the exact price they want.
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25. Tully’s Training Targeted Relatable Popup
And last, we have Tully training with a relatable action-based popup for dog owners. With a clever copy, the popup welcomes visitors with a quiz question of whether they’re struggling with a destructive dog or a puppy mayhem. The reliability of the popup gives a bigger chance that visitors will want to learn more and continue exploring the website.
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5 Tips for Designing Website Popups To Try Right Now
Popups can really help your website if they’re done right. They can catch people’s attention and give them something useful. Here are five easy tips to make your popups work well.
1. Set Clear Goals ✅
First of all, it makes sense to know what you want your popups to achieve before you start designing. If you want to grow your email list, your popup will most likely offer a discount in exchange for email sign-ups. If you aim to increase sales, your popup will highlight special promotions or new products. Clear goals will ensure your popups have a clear purpose.
2. Pick the Right Popup Style ✅
As usual, different styles work for different purposes. A sticky bar at the top of the page can share ongoing promotions without being too intrusive. Slide-in popups are great for inviting visitors to subscribe to your newsletter. If you have a special sale on certain products, on the other hand, use a full-screen popup that appears when visitors land on your site.
A quick reminder: Always consider mobile users when you’re designing a popup since they use a smaller screen and the exit button shouldn’t be too small and too difficult to tap.
3. Match Your Website Design ✅
Consistent design makes the popups feel like a natural part of the site, which visitors will appreciate. Your popups should blend in with the look of your website so they don’t feel like a disruption. To do so, use the same colors, fonts, and tone of voice as your overall site. However, matching your popup with the overall design doesn’t mean mimicking it completely. After all, the popup should contrast the background.
So, for example, if your website uses a lot of background videos, colorful photos, and elements, make the popup clean in black and white and use a black or white overlay background behind it.
4. Keep the Copy Short and Sweet ✅
Effective popup copy should be short, clear, and match your brand’s voice. Focus on what the visitor will gain. Instead of using vague language, be specific. For example, instead of saying, “Sign up for our newsletter,” say, “Join our newsletter for weekly tips and 10% off your first order.” Simple, friendly language connects better with your audience, making your message more engaging.
5. Offer Real Value ✅
And last, it’s always how the visitor benefits from your brand that will make them stay. Your popups should offer something valuable to visitors. This could be discounts, exclusive content, or special offers. For example, if you want more people to join your loyalty program, use a popup that offers an immediate reward, like “Join our loyalty program and get a free gift with your next purchase.” This provides instant value and the visitor will feel compelled to opt in.
Alrighty, folks, that’s a wrap!
Not everyone likes popups. Many find them annoying because they interrupt the user experience. Despite this, popups are common on websites, especially eCommerce ones since they work well for offering discounts, promoting newsletters, or pushing memberships.
Popups can be an easy and cost-effective way to get visitors’ attention and turn them into leads. It’s worth trying them to see if they boost your conversion rates. So if you offer something valuable, like a discount or special deal, people are more likely to appreciate it. Just make sure they can close the popup easily if they’re not interested.
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