March 2012
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Reward Anyone: Self-service Comes to Kiip
We’ve been spending time architecting a process for self-service that we’re super proud of. Many developer platforms claim ease of integration but very few have figured out a way to show two instant benefits: tracking achievement data and activity, and being able to reward and thank your players. Take a spin for yourself here.
Here are some screenshots of our on-boarding. If you find...
The Build Fund: Anyone Can Build.
We are stoked that we are finally taking the wraps off of a project that we’ve been working on for a little while. We call it the Build Fund.
In essence, along with our self-service on-boarding, we wanted to support the independent developer community with a financial buoy.
Going along with the theme - “Anyone Can Build”. Anyone can tap into Kiip to reward their users and...
December 2011
3 posts
Announcing Kiip Spotlight
We’re proud to announce the launch of Kiip spotlight. It’s a chance for us to share with you some of our favorite apps and games that are in our network, along with the rewards that make us proud of our partners. We’ll be rotating through our favorites regularly - and so make sure to keep tabs on this page. Best is to follow @kiip or to bookmark the spotlight page by clicking...
Kiip Up #12 - Happy Holidays + Swarm + Spotlight
We’re back after a 2 week gap! And of course, Merry Christmas to those who celebrate, and happy holidays to all. We’re extremely grateful for your support this past year. 2011 was a blockbuster year for Kiip - along with launching our network to the world and experiencing phenomenal growth - we also had a chance to brighten everyone’s day with Kiip rewards from amazing brands. In...
Kiip Up #11 - Gamesalad, Walgreens, and now we're...
First thing’s first. We’re going to try moving Kiip Up into a biweekly letter. It gives us a chance to kiip things fresh while saving your inboxes!
As I had briefly mentioned in the last Kiip Up, we were about to celebrate a very special event with Gamesalad this past Monday. We were very excited last week to announce our integration partnership into their builder. You can read more...
November 2011
4 posts
Kiip and Gamesalad Level Up
The cat’s out of the bag! We’re really excited to be partnering with Gamesalad. Today has been a big day. Some of the articles that came out today paint a great picture and really illustrate well what we’re doing with Gamesalad:
Venturebeat - Kiip and GameSalad integrate ad-based rewards directly into game development platform
Pocketgamer.biz - Mobile rewards ad network Kiip...
Kiip Up #9
As we near closer to the Thanksgiving holiday, it’s important to realize what we’re thankful of. I am certainly thankful of the past year and the entire family that we’ve built around Kiip, including our team, our developer partners, our brand partners, and our investors and advisors. But that’s for next week =).
This week, I had the pleasure of...
Kiip Up #8: Love
Had an amazing time earlier this week keynoting at the European Gartner IT Symposium to a host of extremely talented and diverse execs. For the first time, we also revealed a deeper look into our gifting feature and what its done for us. Beyond retargeting thousands of rewards to deserving individuals, we also did a close analysis into the messages that people were sending accompanying these...
Kiip Up #7
Had an amazing time at the Dublin Web Summit last week. It truly is eye-opening to see the European tech scene come alive.
This next week I’ll be spending time in D.C. at the Digital Capital Week event held by Peter Corbin and the iStrategy Labs crew. My session is going to be around innovative mobile marketing and how it’s taken shape over the past year....
Kiip up #6
This week has been and will be a crazy one! Had a great time yesterday in San Diego at the CEA Forum speaking on next generation mobile strategies. This Friday I hope to see some of the European startup and web community at the Dublin Web Summit. I’m excited to spend some time across the pond (albeit briefly). Our European traffic has grown almost two-fold in the past couple months and...
October 2011
5 posts
Kiip Up #5: Chicago
Very excited about Chicago. Had a great time last week spending time with our CPG clients and I can’t wait for our latest rewards to be deployed. The true online-to-offline element of what we’ve created is a full circle of a conversion funnel - and now we’ve made it turnkey for brands to activate.
I was honored to take the stage at iCitizen in Columbus a couple weeks back....
Our Weekly Update: Kiip Up #4
I want to extend a heartfelt congratulations on behalf of Kiip and Guinness World Records to Philipp Schneckenburger, our world record holder! He scored 6,133,889 points to achieve this amazing feat. For reference, the second place holder had scored 5,328,110 points. Huge congratulations. Wired wrote a great piece about the world record and the results. We couldn’t be more excited.
Shortly...
Announcing the Official Kiip / Mega Jump Guinness...
We’re also very excited today to announce the results of the 5-day long kick-off competition we had with Guinness World Records to celebrate our partnership. Hundreds of thousands of scores were posted around the world, and we had a heated competition leading right to the end. We couldn’t be more excited about this kick off. Quoth Wired:
21-year-old Swiss gamer Philipp Schneckenburger...
Our Weekly Update: Kiip Up #3
Note from the CEO: This is the weekly update that we send out to our clients. We figured it held some exciting content from the space we all swim in and so I’m excited to share it on our blog. We appreciate any feedback so feel free to ping me at kiipup ‘at’ kiip.me. We read all the responses. To subscribe, head on over to our main page and scroll on down to the bottom.
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September 2011
2 posts
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Bringing The Ultimate Recognition to Gamers: The...
Today I am excited to announce our partnership with Guinness World Records. This is hot on the heels of our partnership with Verizon Wireless and their developer community. We’re constantly working on building amazing partnerships that enhance our network and help it grow at an accelerated rate. With this, we’re just getting started.
Guinness World Records has built an amazing...
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Kiip Teams Up With Verizon Wireless
Today, we’re very excited to announce our partnership with Verizon Wireless in helping bring access to Kiip’s platform and SDK to their VDC Community. With our network’s growth, we’ve quickly realized that many other companies are also harnessing the exponential growth of an independent developer community. By combining forces with companies that we complement well,...
May 2011
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April 2011
1 post
Out of Thin Air
Today’s a big day at Kiip. We’re putting forth an idea that we truly believe will change the landscape of mobile advertising and engagement.
The achievement moment in games evokes feelings of accomplishment and happiness, and speaks directly to pillars of human emotion. The pride that one feels in rising to a challenge – and beating it – is unmatched when we play games.
So we thought to...