September 18, 2026
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Ivan Kuo

Prominent Gamifiers – Naureen Meraj and Imran Sayeed of NTT Data

Ivan Kuo13 mins

Seeing a company’s employees in a fully collaborative and effective setting is extremely hard to come by these days. As businesses continue to promote cutthroat strategies to encourage individual performance, teamwork is almost non-existent. In fact, it may get so bad that simply communicating with colleagues over an internet chat-platform even becomes tiresome, which also isn’t helped by the fact that most of these communication platforms are hard to understand and difficult to work with.

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The War for Talent in the Enterprise with JP Rangaswami

Ivan Kuo02 mins

The Gamification Revolution is the only live gamification webcast featuring Gabe Zichermann and fellow gamification experts every Thursday at 1 PM EST/10 AM PST/1800 GMT. Join us and have all of your gamification questions answered by these experts.

This past week’s guest is the Chief Scientist at Salesforce, JP Rangaswami! Robert has been working as an education researcher with the Gates Foundation and shares his knowledge on how games are affecting the American Education landscape. You can expect to learn about:

  • The ever-changing demands of modern work
  • Why the concept of generational gaps are becoming null
  • How to utilize existing corporate game cultures for gamification
  • The workspace disconnect of competitive employees working in teams. 
  • Salesforce’s strategy of focusing on engagement
Check out the video below for the full interview. Please note that a connection error occurs around starting at 9:58. Skip to 13:30 to resume for content.



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Be sure to catch this week’s episode featuring lifehacker Jon Guerrera and learn to gamify your life and possibly land a job at Google.

You can now catch the Gamification Revolution every Thursday at 1PM EST/10 AM PST/1800 GMT.

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GSummit 2012 Behind the Scenes: Sunny Lee

Ivan Kuo11 mins

(5/26 Gamification Expert Interviews Unlocked)

Every week until GSummit SF 2013, we’ll be unlocking some special content from last year to give you a preview on what to expect this April 16 – 18.

Watch Sunny Lee discuss the future of credentials and recognition with Mozilla’s Open Badges project:


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Cancer Research UK Hosts Hackathon to Build a Smartphone Research Game

Ivan Kuo13 mins

This past weekend, top developers at Facebook, Google and Amazon Web Services joined research academics and public attendees for a Cancer Research UK hackathon to utilize crowdsourced genetic data and turn it into a smartphone game, tentatively called GeneRun.

The hackathon’s goal is to produce a game that makes use of crowdsourced “citizen scientists” (a la Fold.it) to quickly interpret and analyze data that will facilitate research for cancer drug interventions.

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GSummit 2012 Behind the Scenes: Josh Kramer

Ivan Kuo01 mins

(4/26 Gamification Expert Interviews Unlocked)

Every week until GSummit SF 2013, we’ll be unlocking some special content from last year to give you a preview on what to expect this April 16 – 18.

Watch Josh Kramer, Founder of Leapfrog Builders, explain where he thinks the future of loyalty systems are:

To see more expert gamification videos, visit our Video  page or Subscribe to our YouTube channel!

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New Vendors Added to the Gamification Buyer’s Guide – 3/1/2013

Ivan Kuo02 mins

Need a place to start looking for gamification solutions? Our gamification buyer’s guide is a comprehensive database featuring numerous prominent companies, their vital stats, and a filtering system to find which company is right for you. Here are this week’s new gamification solutions added to the Buyer’s Guide:

  • FantasySalesTeam is an application that allows sales teams to run more engaging sales contests based on fantasy sports concepts.
  • Mobitto is a crowdsourced mobile loyalty app that rewards people for doing the things they like the most.
  • PAKRA works with you to understand the knowledge, skills and behaviors critical to maximizing your customers experience, and to explore opportunities for business improvement across all channels of contact

See the full gamification Buyer’s Guide for the complete list of gamification vendors. If you would like to be apart of the Buyer’s Guide,

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Maritz and Badgeville announce new partnership but what about Bunchball?

Ivan Kuo18 mins

Earlier this week, Maritz and Badgeville announced a new partnership that will allow each company’s gamification solutions to work in tandem. Clients of Maritz will now be able to track and influence user behavior across websites, mobile applications, and enterprise applications. Additionally, Badgeville’s clients can now access Maritz Solutions’ rewards and fulfillment services to offer a range of rewards for the Badgeville gamification systems.

The new partnership is further evidence of the growing need for employee engagement solutions in enterprise but what’s particularly interesting to note is that Maritz made this same exact announcement in 2010 but with Bunchball instead.

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60 Second Gamification Tips with Gabe Zichermann

Ivan Kuo11 mins

We’ve seen a lot of positive feedback for some of Gabe Zichermann‘s 60 Second Solution videos with EntrepreneurMagazine so we decided to start releasing our own Gamification Co series of 60 Second Gamification Tips with Gabe Zichermann!

Every week from now until GSummit SF 2013, we will be releasing a series of short gamification tips to help you on your path to gamification. Watch Gabe’s first tip below:

Make sure to subscribe to our YouTube channel for all the latest tip videos and gamification content we have to offer. You can check out our tip page on GSummit here:
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Using Games in the American Education System with Robert Torres

Ivan Kuo42 mins

The Gamification Revolution is the only live gamification webcast featuring Gabe Zichermann and fellow gamification experts every Thursday at 1 PM EST/10 AM PST/1800 GMT. Join us and have all of your gamification questions answered by these experts.

This past week’s guest is Senior Program Officer at the Gates Foundation, Robert Torres! Robert has been working as an education researcher with the Gates Foundation and shares his knowledge on how games are affecting the American Education landscape. You can expect to learn about:

  • How gamification is improving student knowledge assessments
  • The current philosophy of american education
  • Robert’s work with game designers and psychologists to measure game learning effectiveness 
  • The difficulty of knowledge transference between different learning systems
  • The ability for games to promote creative thinking
  • Video game violence and its effect on child behavior

Check out the video below for the full interview:


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Be sure to catch this week’s episode featuring the Chief Scientist at Salesforce, JP Rangaswami and learn about his insights on enterprise engagement sciences.

You can now catch the Gamification Revolution every Thursday at 1PM EST/10 AM PST/1800 GMT.

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Quincy Jones’ Playground Sessions is a Rhythm Game that Actually Teaches you Piano

Ivan Kuo54 mins

Playground Sessions will Make you a Piano Hero…and thank the gods that there won’t be any crappy plastic controllers necessary either.

Playground Sessions is a new piano education application created by Chris Vance and Quincy Jones to make learning piano more fun. The program utilizes a “play to learn” model that relies on today’s most popular music to get students interested in playing and subsequently learning as well.

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Introducing GFeedback: Free Startup Advice from Gabe Zichermann

Ivan Kuo03 mins

Startups are a big part of the gamification community because they’re paving the way to a fully gamified future but they’ll still need to existence in the future for that to happen!

That’s why we’re starting a new feature on Gabe Zichermann’s Gamification Revolution weekly online show, GFeedback! We will give one community-voted startup 5 minutes with Gabe: the founder will have to come on camera, present a concept, and ask design questions in 2 minutes and Gabe, with his guests and other show participants, can give feedback on that idea for the following 3 minutes.

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Chok! Coca-Cola’s Most Successful Hong Kong Marketing Campaign in 35 Years

Ivan Kuo63 mins

Coca-Cola has really been innovating with their marketing campaigns worldwide. We saw one Coke vending machine challenge mall visitors to dance for free Coke in South Korea. And another Coke machine challenged commuters to be James Bond in Europe to promote the release of Skyfall. Apparently, Coke isn’t done with using gamification for marketing as the Harvard Business Review blog shed some light on their Chok campaign — an initiative Coca-Cola claims to be the best Hong Kong marketing campaign they’ve accomplished in 35 years.

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