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Shopkick started putting all the pieces together with its location-based shopping app last year, helping retailers not only drive foot traffic and engagement, but also incorporating Visa integration to help lead consumers to the check-out register. The company said the results have really paid off for retailers and brand partners, which generated more than $110 million in revenue in 2011. The company said it has now more than 3 million active users for the system, which is in use at 11 national retailers and more than 4,000 stores. The system, which launched in August 2010, began as a sort of location-based loyalty and reward system, with users installing a Shopkick app that can communicate their presence to Shopkick when they arrive at a store.
Shopkick scored $110M for partners in 2011 — Tech News and Analysis
Earn Location-Based Rewards With Shopkick for Android
Location-based rewards platform Shopkick is now available for Android users, allowing them to automatically check in at partner retailers to earn points and rewards.
Shopkick App Lands Big Fish: Target and The Wet Seal
Shopkick, the location-based mobile rewards app , appears to be gaining momentum as the holiday shopping season cranks up, recently signing up Target and The Wet Seal. They are the latest retailers to jump on the location-based shopping app bandwagon joining American Eagle Outfitters, Best Buy, Macy’s, Simon Malls and Sports Authority in deploying the app that delivers location-based rewards to shoppers just for walking into the store. Speaking with Cyriac Roeding, Shopkick CEO , in August, I mentioned reserving judgement but clearly, the app is being legitimized by the power retailers signing up to try it.Check-ins for store products with Shopkick
You can check in at your favorite restaurant, at Starbucks, at work, and at home, but how about checking in at a box of Triscuits? Now you can! Shopkick, an app that combines location and barcode scans, allows users to scan items while shopping to earn kickbucks rewards, and the company announced Tuesday that users have now scanned more than three million products at 250,000 locations nationwide. The app’s unique “walk-in” location technology allows users to earn points just be entering a store belonging to one of Shopkick’s 1,100 retail partners, including any Target, Best Buy, Macy’s, Sports Authority, Crate and Barrel, American Eagle Outfitters, Wet Seal, and more. Interestingly, the technology isn’t GPS-based, since it has an error radius of 50 to 1,000 yards.
Shopkick’s location-based shopping app lets users implicitly check in to the locations of its retail partners in exchange for rewards. The startup’s 750,000 users have paid it in-kind with more than 100 million checkins in the six months since launch. Shopkick is celebrating the milestone achievement Valentine’s Day, just days prior to its official six-month anniversary on February 17.
Shopping Rewards App Shopkick Hits 100 Million Checkins
When last we heard from Shopkick, a location-based shopping app, the startup was touting 750,000 users and more than 100 million checkins. Shopkick is announcing Thursday though that it’s nearly doubled its user base to 1.4 million users and has found a new mega retailer friend in housewares seller Crate and Barrel. Crate and Barrel will begin doling out kickbucks — Shopkick currency redeemable for rewards — and special offers to Shopkick users who visit any of its U.S. stores.
Shopkick Lands New Retail Partner, Hits 1.4 Million Users
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Shopkick is taking its audio check-in technology to television in a new deal with the CW that will allow Shopkick users to unlock exclusive deals when they use their app during certain commercials. The partnership, which will be announced today at the CW’s upfront presentation, is a significant deal for Shopkick and shows how smartphone apps like Shopkick can help brands connect their broadcast commercials to local transactions. The way it works is that the CW will provide a subtle on-screen prompt for Shopkick users to fire up their app. Using Shopkick’s audio technology, which normally senses a beacon inside a store to unlock rewards, the app will recognize specific commercials from partner brands. When Shopkick identifies the commercial, it will push out special offers on products and kickbucks to users. So all a user needs to do is watch Gossip Girl with their smartphone nearby and the app open to get the deals.
Shopkick & The CW Strike Deal To Deliver Rewards for Watching TV Ads [VIDEO]
The CW Television Network is now the exclusive television partner of Shopkick , a mobile shopping application that rewards its more than 1.5 million members for walking into stores and scanning product barcodes. The network made the announcement at its Upfront presentation in New York Thursday. With the network-startup team up, CW advertisers will be able to reward Shopkick users with offers intended to drive them to stores if they watch select ad spots.
Shopkick 2.0 Puts Your Favorite Stores (And The Best Deals) On Display To Their 1.5 Million Users
Let’s say you go to a store and check-in. Then what? Maybe there’s a deal. Maybe. But for many location-based services, the check-in is the end of the equation. Shopkick is pretty much the opposite.
The Power of Velveeta: Shopkick Announces 3 Million Product Scans
Sleeper location-based service Shopkick is quietly amassing some impressive numbers. Its users are still small, at about 750,000 compared to Foursquare’s 5 million users, but those users are doing totally different and far more monetizable things. Ten percent of users use the app every single day, and later today Shopkick will announce a new milestone: Users have scanned more than three million products at 250,000 locations nationwide since its August launch. Compare that to TechCrunch Disrupt finalist CheckPoints, boasting 600,000 barcode scans . Participating brands include Kraft Foods, Procter & Gamble, Unilever, HP and Intel.