CrowdTwist recently announced a Series A round of funding of $6M from lead investors SoftBank Capital and Fairhaven Capital. CrowdTwist is a social loyalty and rewards platform that draws heavily from the loyalty side of gamification with a focus towards rewards, monetization, and a strong analytics platform, and the new round is a signal in the future [...]
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Social Loyalty Platform CrowdTwist Raises $6M
September 19th, 2011 
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No Comments »G-List Interview: Irving Fain
September 13th, 2011 admin As part of our G-List – the who’s-who of the gamification space – we will be holding weekly Tweetups with some of the awesome leaders in gamification and a few speakers and guests of our upcoming Gamification Summit in New York. Follow @gamificationco for updates and submit questions with hashtag #gsummit. Up next on September [...]
First Acquisition in the Gamification Space: BigDoor Buys OneTrueFan
September 8th, 2011 Jeff Lopez The gamification space is continuing to heat up. We’ve already seen innovative campaigns, great client growth, and large rounds of funding, but today, BigDoor is announcing the first acquisition in the space in a partnership with OneTrueFan. OneTrueFan is a service for web publishers that enables visitors to earn points for their online activity and [...]
Posted in Cool Companies, Gamification Tags: bigdoor, Eric Marcoullier, keith smith, OneTrueFan, Todd Sampson 1 Comment »How do you Make an Intelligent City? The 24 Hour City Project
August 29th, 2011 Jeff Lopez Through technology we have created new ways to collect, show, and share data. Beyond that dry term, “data”, is a vast range of possibility, and gamification is demonstrating how we can show and share information in the hopes of becoming more fit, more healthy, and more knowledgable. These are largely personal goals made social through [...]
Buster Benson and Jen McCabe Team Up for Habit Labs
August 15th, 2011 Jeff Lopez Two start-ups in gamification of health have merged to create Habit Labs and achieved an early round of funding. Buster Benson, creator of Health Month, 43 Things, and Locavore, has teamed up with Jen McCabe, founder of Y-Combinator backed health startup, Contagion, to get Habit Labs up and running. They already have a strong foundation with [...]
Americans Elect and the Evolution of Games in Politics
August 11th, 2011 Jeff Lopez by Greg Caswell and Jeff Lopez Regardless of your political orientation, the last few months have been frustrating ones for American voters and citizens. The political system seems far removed from ordinary Americans; politicians are playing a game removed from the needs of many of their constituents because their primary goal is to win the [...]
Gamification In Japan: McDonald’s “Kazasu Coupon”
July 28th, 2011 Koji Fukada As the first part of a series on gamification in Japan, we are sharing a translation of a post by by Koji Fukada and Tomohiro Uogishi from gamification.jp. Hi, folks! Today, let me explain about gamification elements implemented to “KAZASU Coupon,” a coupon distribution service of McDonald’s Japan. Kazasu Coupon is a membership-based service for those who have [...]
Posted in Cool Companies, Gamification Tags: Gamification, gamification.jp, Koji Fukada, McDonalds, Tomohiro Uogishi, YUMEMI 1 Comment »New Video on the Business Value of Fun
July 26th, 2011 admin Gamification Co CEO, Gabe Zichermann, recently spoke at the Sustainable Brands conference in Monterey, CA. His talk goes over some of the more interesting uses of gamification as well as the value proposition to brands and companies. At a easily digestible TED style 18 minutes, the video is well worth the time.
Posted in Cool Companies, Events, Gamification Tags: brand, gabe Zichermann, Gamification, Sustainable Brands 1 Comment »Exclusive: IActionable Opens Platform to Education and Non-Profits
July 25th, 2011 Jeff Lopez Today, gamification and engagement platform, IActionable made the announcement that they are opening their service to to educational companies and institutions for free. They are offering their platform with fully enabled feature functions and free basic consulting at no cost to educational institutions and at discount to non-profits. The goal is simple. Education should be a priority, and [...]
Posted in Cool Companies, Gamification Tags: Champion Village, Charlie Besecker, education, IActionable, Jeff Lopez, SalesForce, schools 2 Comments »
EpicMix Takes Gamification to the Slopes
July 21st, 2011 Greg Caswell If you live in the continental United States, winter is probably the furthest thing from your mind right now. However, if you do happen to be planning ahead for or fantasizing about the next skiing season while the AC fails to cool you down, the resort town of Vail in Colorado made a new, gamified [...]
Posted in Cool Companies, Gamification Tags: epicmix, Gamification, Greg Caswell, skiing, Vail 4 Comments »
