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We’re proud to announce that the PunchTab-powered Green Day Numero Uno Fan Contest has been announced as a 5th Annual Shorty Industry Award Finalist.

Green Day’s “Numero Uno Fan” contest generated more than 165,000,000 social impressions and 179,000 social actions by rewarding fans for engaging in all kinda of ways. Fans were encouraged to complete various social actions. Each action earned fans points to move up a leader board and toward the grand prize: tickets to the Green Day concert at Irving Plaza in NYC presented by Nokia Music and AT&T.

And the results were pretty darn impressive.

We’re so excited we decided to host a giveaway.

Enter below and make sure to share the Shorty Nomination with your social networks!

PunchTab is a leading incentives-based engagement platform, powering over 14,000 loyalty programs and over 1000 giveaways every month for top brands such as eBay, ConAgra Foods, Unilever, Walmart, Green Day, Fox Studios and more.

We’re a fast-paced start-up, ramping up our team for 2013. We need a marketing manager to assist with demand generation programs including content marketing, content syndication, social media marketing, events and more. And. We’re hiring.

Sound good?

Keep reading.

What We’re Looking for in Our Newest Teammate:

- Wicked smart.

- Funny and/or sarcastic and/or willing to deal with other funny and/or sarcastic people.

- Obsessive about marketing and marketing trends in the social, mobile and digital landscapes. Writes about said obsession.

- Experience with traditional demand generation programs such as live events, webinars and whitepapers.

- Experience driving leads through social media

- Looking to join a start-up with incredible growth and even more potential

- 3+ years driving demand generation campaigns

- Experience with Pardot or other marketing automation solutions a plus

-Xbox FIFA skills a bonus.

-SF Giants fans encouraged, but Dodger fans need not apply.

 

Our Team, Culture and Company:

- We work hard but don’t take ourselves too seriously.

- We believe in making your own fun.

- Growing at an incredible pace.  (We went from 3,000 customers in 2012 to over 14,000 at the beginning of 2013.)

-We hate meetings, like FIFA and love music. (Though we disagree on what constitutes “good music”).

- We’re success driven and always looking for opportunities to make an impact in the market

-We’ve got top tier investors and a killer leadership team with a track record of success

 

The Role:

- Write for, edit and manage contributors for our new blog focused on the digitally engaged consumer.

- Help manage our research agenda around consumer behavior to be re-purposed into webinars, whitepapers & infographics.

- Manage day-to-day demand generation programs using our marketing automation solution, Pardot.

- Ensure we meet the monthly targets for qualified leads.

- Work closely with sales to ensure we’re following up on leads.

- Think outside the box and always push the envelope.

 

If you’re interested in applying or learning more, please contact superwoman@punchtab.com.

 

The AWS re:Invent conference in Las Vegas includes “Launched!” a Live Stage environment for selected start-up companies to launch their products and services publicaly for the first time. The AWS start-up team spent months narrowing the field of fantastic companies down to eight. Each company represented unique and elegant solutions in the areas of media, big data, developer platforms and crowd-sourcing helping to demonstrate the innovation possible with AWS….

And PunchTab is one of those elite 8! We’re excited to head to Vegas and present on stage with some other killer start ups. If you’re there, give us a shout out on Twitter and look out for Founder Mehdi Ait Oufkir on the Re:Invent stage announcing a brand new product from PunchTab. We can’t give it away just yet, but stay tuned!

You may have seen the post on Billboard about how Green Day and Nokia teamed up with PunchTab to launch their last big campaign. They needed to drive engagement, traffic and awareness… And the results were pretty compelling.

We thought we’d pass along the results… And maybe get you thinking. How can PunchTab super power your next campaign? Get the full Green day case study, here!

In case you missed this morning’s TechCrunch piece, PunchTab has some news!

The new PunchTab iPhone application is now available for free download in the app store.

We’re now powering more than 1,000 giveaways every month, many of which were previously available only on Facebook. But you spoke, and we listened. And based on demand from our publishers and end-users, you wanted us to extend the ability to enter PunchTab powered giveaways to your mobile devices.

Done and done. Brands on the PunchTab platform now have more visibility among consumers by making their giveaways available to iPhone users through this new app. And for you end-users, it just got easier to find and enter giveaways.

Enjoy!

A message from The Wolf:

Just a quick update for all you eCommerce folks. PunchTab’s extension for the Magento Marketplace is now officially out of beta. So for any of you who were waiting on the SUPER green light, you’ve got it.

Now go and get it! Start incentivizing user purchases and sharing with PunchTab’s free extension.

(And don’t forget to review it or The Wolf will get mad!)

The Custom Catalog Feature is Better Than Ever!

If you’re still using the default catalog, consider adding a custom version. When prizes are well aligned to your user base, your members are even more incentivized to take those daily point-earning actions. Some great customized catalogs we’ve seen are offering discounts or coupons towards future purchases, free shipping, logo t-shirts and stickers, or gift cards for things topical to their site activity. You can also limit the number of each prize available so users have to win their way to the top to get them!

And! We’ve made the custom catalog even better. This week our rockstar, ice-hockey playing engineer rolled out some sweet new features just for you. Now you can drag-and-drop images to your prize catalog so your users can see exactly what they’re working for. Add an unlimited number of customized treats and keep that leaderboard active with competition! Head to your dashboard and check it out!

And if you want to catch Arthur playing ice hockey, you can watch games in live stream. (He’s pretty dang good, too.)

Congratulations, Facebook!

Congratulations to the Facebook team! It’s a historic day for The Valley, with many exciting ones ahead. We look forward to watching your continued growth and innovation. Cheers to all the hard work and dedication that’s gone into your success!

And to celebrate today’s milestone, we’ve added Facebook Credits to the PunchTab loyalty program catalog. So all you PunchTab loyalty members can now redeem your points for credits to buy virtual goods and play your favorite Facebook games. Head to your PunchTab profile and check it out!

Refer a Friend to PunchTab and Score!

Our loyal publishers have been sharing their PunchTab success stories with their agencies, blogger communities, followers and fans. And we really, really appreciate it…

So we decided to formal our appreciation by creating the official PunchTab Referral Program. Now, when you tell people about PunchTab we’re going to hook you up with great opportunities for your blog, website or eCommerce site. When 10 of your friends add PunchTab, you’ll get to choose from 1 of 3 great prizes. (Yup, you’ve got choices.)

Sharing is easy- invite friends and colleagues with Facebook or via email. Login and get started!

Cheers!

The Mommy Bloggers community is HUGE! And according to Today’s Technorati post, HUGE might be an understatement. 14 percent of all American mom’s are bloggers. That’s means this tech savvy group is now about 3.9 million strong. Yup. Three point nine million! Crazy right?

So with Mother’s around the corner, we’re felt it only appropriate to create a Mother’s Day Giveaway for all you multi-tasking, advice-giving, story-telling, recipe-pinning, DIY Mavins with a Mommy Blog fan club!

Add a PunchTab loyalty program to your Mommy Blog and enter to win a $100 Life is Good gift card. Just take the steps below and when prompted, share your blog URL in the comment section. (You’ll also earn more entries by Liking, Tweeting, Becoming a Fan and more!) And then add a PunchTab powered giveaway to your blog and share the love with your readers!)