For Passbook and all other local shopping apps like Shopkick, there's a sequence of product innovation, consumer usage, and retailer adoption (usually in that order). As the holiday shopping season kicks off with record Black Friday and Cyber...
With consumers expecting to be able to get feedback, deals, and reviews while standing in a retail environment, brands must be ready to act – not only by making sure their web content is accessible via mobile device, but through partnerships and...
Shopkick has even launched an SMB program. Another example is Shopkick - bucking the showrooming trend in lots of ways. This is ROBO: research online to buy offline. Now we're not only seeing things like retail inventory feeds (i.e.
This is what we’ve seen happen already with Foursquare Radar and Shopkick. 'Tis the season for top 10 lists. I guess I'm playing right into the cliché. However instead of looking back at "best of" fodder, I recently decided to partake in some...
And, this doesn't begin to cover the specialty niche LBS sites like Foodspotting and ShopKick. Checking in or tagging locations on location-based social networks like Foursquare, Facebook and Twitter is no doubt the hottest phenomenon today...
Best Buy announced a product this week with Shopkick, which will limit check-ins to within the physical store walls. Though we continue to see misguided thinking on revenue opportunities, a glimmer of realism is beginning to take over.