For financial services companies, evolving technologies not only help them improve their own rewards programs but also position them as potential competitors to leaders in the deals space… even versus the big guys, like Groupon.
Since this was the year of the Social Super Bowl (or the Not So Social Super Bowl), Media Logic thought it’d be fun to do a (non-scientific and non-representative) analysis of how social media extended and amplified the ads a couple of days out. UPDATE: see related article in Advertising Age. We conducted a fast poll of everyone who works here, and then did a fast scan of the tweets and stories respondents pointed us to. Here's what we learned.
In the coming year, I will have my eye on the evolution of the retail discount. The traditional coupon clip has been transformed by shopping apps and social media. As an admitted bargain hunter, I’m glad to see deal-seeking become posh again. With the growing popularity of online social networks, where consumers “like” and follow brands as readily as they do friends and pop stars (see Media Logic’s 2010 Retail Marketing Report), the buying experience has become truly interactive and is likely to grow even more so.