Ticketfly unveils ‘first of its kind’ products to identify and reward top fans

May 15, 2013 7:00 AM Rebecca Grant
Rebecca Grant

Ticketfly unveiled its latest product Fanbase, a suite of customer analytics products that founder Andrew Dreskin said is a first of its kind. Venues and event promoters can use Fanbase to identify their top fans and offer them rewards for loyalty.

EveryMove gets $3.5M for its apps that reward healthy employees

April 4, 2013 5:04 PM Christina Farr
Christina Farr

Seattle-based Everymove has closed $3.5 million in funding for its health care mileage program. The company also just launched its Android app, which follows an iPhone app that lets employees gain points for eating nutritious meals and going to the gym.

Stop working and watch TV: Viggle hits 1M users, opens up code to developers

July 31, 2012 11:15 AM Rebecca Grant
Rebecca Grant

As if watching TV on the couch is not tempting enough, Viggle has made it even more alluring by rewarding viewers for checking into a show from their smart device.

Since launching six months ago, the company has acquired more …

Kiip will fill its digital wallet with rewards for your everyday victories

July 24, 2012 5:00 AM Rebecca Grant
Rebecca Grant

Kiip released its own app today, charmingly called “Kiipsake,” which acts as a digital wallet where people can store all their Kiip rewards.

Kiip is a mobile network that delivers rewards for achievements that occur within games and apps. This …

Kiip raises $11M to reward users for everyday life

July 17, 2012 4:00 AM Rebecca Grant
Rebecca Grant

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Rewards network Kiip announced today that it closed $11 million in a second round of investment. The funding will go towards expanding Kiip’s rewards system beyond gaming, infusing ‘moments of happiness’ into everyday life.

Kiip works with game developers, brands, …

Loyalty startup CrowdTwist grows revenue 3200% with Sony & Pepsi as clients

March 8, 2012 12:24 PM Ben Popper
Ben Popper

Consumer loyalty platform CrowdTwist, one of the graduates from TechStars NY’s first class, has announced a huge revenue growth of 3,200 percent year over year.

CEO Irving Fain once complained to me that his company didn’t get much screen time …

Game visionary Jesse Schell talks about the pleasure revolution

December 5, 2011 7:00 AM Rob LeFebvre
Rob LeFebvre

When Jesse Schell talks, the game industry listens. A talk he gave at the Dice Summit in 2010 garnered hundreds of thousands of views as he talked about the logical extension of spreading game rewards beyond games. This year, the …

Kiip and GameSalad integrate ad-based rewards directly into game development platform

November 28, 2011 4:00 PM Dean Takahashi
Dean Takahashi

Kiip and GameSalad are announcing a partnership today that could ensure lots of new mobile games will have ad-based rewards baked into them from the start.

Kiip has a reward system that gives people real-world prizes for achievements in games. …

Points.com makes rewards programs easy for small businesses

November 21, 2011 12:26 PM Meghan Kelly
Meghan Kelly

Small businesses need an easy way to deploy rewards programs for their customers, and Points.com is trying to achieve that with its new Magento storefront application.

Loyalty programs are a way to bring in repeat customers by making purchases feel …

Shopkick partners with Visa to give customers more incentive to shop at a physical store

November 21, 2011 9:41 AM Tom Cheredar
Tom Cheredar

Mobile rewards startup Shopkick has partnered with credit giant Visa to incentivize purchases made within a brick and mortar retail store, the companies announced today.

Customers who shop at a handful of partnering stores now have the ability to accumulate …