This week on the Gamification Roundup we have gamification enabling the opportunity to improve in a variety of ways. Gigya, which was once a widget company, has turned into a integrative social platform solution and now reaches a monthly user base of over 1 Bn. Prescription only iPad games have been developed for improving visual…
We’re beyond excited to announce Gamification Summit 2012, which will take place in San Francisco June 19-21. Coming on the heels of 2011’s awesome, sold out events in NYC and SF, GSummit 2012 (our only major US event this year) promises to deliver even more of the hands-on, data-rich learning, networking and fun that helps…
This week on the Gamification Roundup we are seeing the allure of gamification. BadgeVille makes another strategic partnership with Ant’s Eye View. Two startups and a university use gamification to reach out to prospective employees and students. Even support teams and corporate wellness initiatives are seeing strong reasons to go towards gamification. Read the full…
This week on the Gamification Roundup we have big news on incentivization and research. In addition to Badgeville’s recent partnership with BazaarVoice, now they are collaborating with Klout. Hearing news of this and an NY Times article on incentivizing civic behavior, we may soon have all our actions incentivized with the promise of glorious prizes…
Enterprise gamification (aka using game thinking and mechanics to engage employees and partners) is getting more interesting every day. Following on the heels of Bunchball’s moves to connect gamification platforms to major enterprise software, Badgeville today announced a unified enterprise connector initiative. Cloud Connectors makes official their longstanding connection with Omniture, and adds Jive and…
This week on the Gamification Roundup it’s all about power-ups. From Badgeville parterships to Minecraft education and even your personal life hacks, see how gamification is giving everything a buff!
In the past, I have been surprised to come across a number of people working on gamification that have never designed games and don’t play them regularly. Luckily, there are also people like Tony Ventrice who works at Badgeville and is a veteran game designer. In the past, he has made games with Playdom and…
This past week has seen the release of a flurry of articles around the web that highlight the business side of gamification. Following an updated announcement by Gartner that 70% of the Global 2000 organizations will have at least one gamified app by 2014, authors have raced to demonstrate how it has already taken hold in many different…
Last week, Samsung was among the first to announce integration of Badgeville’s new behavior platform in Samsung Nation. Samsung has put their weight behind the rollout. Rather than gamify one marketing campaign or a single product site, the company brought gamification into the forefront and integrated the new features throughout the US corporate site. Leaderboards, badges,…
Moderator Christine Lagorio of Inc. Magazine is guiding panelists, Samantha Skey of Recyclebank, Irving Fain of CrowdTwist, Kris Duggan of Badgeville and Brian Wong of Kiip, in a discussion about loyalty programs and the ways in which they have evolved. Principally they are exploring why physical-world rewards (prizes, money, free-products) and other tangible benefits aren’t…
As part of our G-List – the who’s-who of the gamification space – today we are happy to have Kris Duggan, founder of Badgeville and panelist for our upcoming Gamification Summit in New York. Follow @gamificationco for updates and submit questions with hashtag #gsummit to get Kris’s insight into gamification and consumer engagement. Keep reading below, and be sure…
Gamification platform Badgeville today announced a second round of funding for $12 million. Founded in September of last year, Badgeville has accelerated quickly by bringing in 75 clients from a range of industries. Deloitte, NBC Universal, and Discovery have already produced some great case studies in gamification. The Series B includes investments from Norwest Ventures…
The Engage Expo is wrapping up here in New York. The conference focuses on engaging kids and youth with digital games, with thematic tracks ranging from “App Strategy” to “Creative, Design, and Development”, and of course our favorite, gamification. Speakers in the gamification track included a panel with Rajat Paharia, Chief Product Officer at Bunchball,…
Gabe Zichermann was featured very prominently in an article for The San Francisco Chronicle by Casey Newton that was released this past Tuesday. In the piece, entitled “Online game-based marketing can be big business“, Gabe projects that 2011 will be the “year of gamification”, shares his thoughts on why games are so hot right now…
TechCentralSF and The Gamification Summit are teaming up to bring you The Start Up Crawl – Game Edition! This is an exciting after party that will start at Pedro’s Cantina following the Summit at 6:30pm on Thursday, Jan 20th where we’ll meet up with representatives from Badgeville. From there, we’ll continue to “crawl” to some…
