6 location based services and brands they are working with

Scvngr

AT&T

Scvngr bills itself as a “game about doing challenges at places”. Available both on the iPhone and Android, Scvngr engages the user with a social game all about going places, doing challenges, earning points and unlocking rewards.

“AT&T continues to invest heavily in mobile network upgrades and roll out industry-leading mobile capabilities to our customers,” said Hardmon Williams, vice president and general manager for AT&T Mobility and Consumer Markets in Iowa, Minnesota and Nebraska. “By building on SCVNGR to bring the mobile-social experience to customers right in our store locations, we are able to engage and reward them in exciting new ways.”

Foursquare

Starbucks

Sephora

Gap

Foursquare is a location based service which announces to other users, and your friends on Facebook and Twitter, where you are when you “check in” to a specific place.Foursquare check-in locations is available from most smartphones, including the iPhone, Android, BlackBerry and Palm devices.
Checking into certain locations will earn you different level badges depending on how many people and how often check ins occur at a location. Check in often enough and you can become the mayor of a specific location, until someone else checks in more times and bumps you as the mayor.
Starbucks has partnered with FourSquare to give mayors of Starbucks locations an in-store discount.

Stickybits

Pepsi

Cambell Soup

Attach digital content [photos,text,PDF’s …] to barcodes. ” A fun and social way to attach digital content to real world objects via barcodes”. A person`s Stickybits activities can be shared across Facebook, Twitter and Foursquare.

“This sweepstakes is the first of its kind to use the Stickybits app,” said Seth Goldstein, Cofounder, Stickybits. “We are pleased to have Campbell as a charter advertising partner.”

People can enter the Cambell’s sweepstakes by scanning the UPC codes from labels of the newly redesigned Campbell`s soup cans, sharing their impressions of the new designs by adding a photo or other digital content, which is then posted to Campbell`s Facebook page.

Gowalla

Incase

TOMS Shoes

Share your favorite places with friends, fans and followers. “A Highlight tells a story about a place that is special to you — And it also tells a story about yourself. Start exploring Highlights now to learn more about your friends, family and the world around you.” With 18 different buckets to describe places and events.

Incase and Gowalla teamed up to allow users to collect Incase virtual items, modeled after actual Incase gear, when you check-in on Gowalla at Apple Stores around the world.

Shopkick

Macy’s

Best Buy

American Eagle

How it works: [from their website information]

“Checking in: You can collect kickbucks for checking in to many places around you!

Walking in: Collect kickbucks just for WALKING INTO Best Buy, Macy’s, American Eagle, Sports Authority and major malls, in four major markets: New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Chicago, and some stores also in Miami, Dallas and Minneapolis. Plus, you’ll get exclusive shopkick deals at those stores that will save you big bucks, and give you kickbucks (bad rhyme intended :).

Scanning: Collect kickbucks by scanning products in stores with your phone.

Redeem your kickbucks for rewards! You can redeem your kickbucks for cool rewards like gift cards, iPads, music downloads, donations to causes, and much more!”

Booyah [MyTown and InCrowd]

H&M

Pantene

The MyTown app by Booyah lets users buy and own their favorite real-life locations, collect rent when other people check-in to your shops and allow users to upgrade their shops to increase their value. This location based social game boasts over 3 million users.

“H&M, through this campaign, is trying to reach a highly-engaged urban audience, which is perfect as it operates 200 stores in cities across the United States,” said Rachel Veiga, associate director of MediaCom, H&M’s New York-based agency.

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