VIDEO: Social Rewards Review

welcome today we'll be looking at Social rewards a brand engagement platform this video is brought to you by the technology advice smart advisor tool which lets you compare over 80 top gamification companies in under 2 minutes social rewards helps Brands create social media buzz if you will by offering rewards to users who share brand content on their networks users create accounts on social rewards and can then select a few Brands to promote in exchange for rewards such as discounted products or gift cards it's pretty much like hiring a spokesman except this spokesman works for cheap gift cards and on Twitter so let's look at a specific company and how these rewards are doled out here's the page for Planet Hollywood up at the top there's a few options we can transfer stuff you can look at your account you can see other programs and look at the FAQ below it you can see other companies in this rewards network which is bali's flamingo Paris Las Vegas and then in the center of the page here we have the actual actions we can take to get rewards this is the hashtag award for posting a unique photo on Instagram with the Planet Hollywood tag #ph Vegas for every photo you post you can earn 10 rewards points there's also a retweet reward where you can retweet one of Planet Hollywood's photos and you can uh earn 10 points for favoring it 15 points for retweeting it or 25 for a retweet favorite and a reply to it there also sharing rewards for other social social media channels and even a YouTube reward where you can get Five Points just for watching some of Planet Hollywood's promotional videos to put this all in perspective though let's look at the rewards you can earn you can scroll down here and see our various rewards that we can redeem things for there's a $10 Starbucks card for 1,000 points all the way up to a $100 food credit to strip house for 10,000 points so that Starbucks card would be roughly 100 unique Instagram photos of course points do transfer between brands on the social rewards platform so you can have three or four brands that you can switch between promoting still these rewards are going to take a pretty long time to achieve for Brands this may or may not be a relatively effective way to get some social media activity going it's very superficial motivation in that these actions are laid out as exactly that tasks that you complete in return for monetary rewards there's no real brand loyalty being built and you're not going to be added to some type of VIP list or get special treatment it's simply gift cards for tweets if you will the system does have some anti-spam filters though which is nice it only lets users complete three systemwide shares every day for instance so hopefully that keeps users from posting so many brand updates that their friends simply get annoyed at the content which would of course accomplish the opposite goal so it's a pretty simple platform and that's our take on the social rewards system if you're thinking of implementing a similar gamification or engagement program or maybe want to see some alternative Solutions visit technologyadvice.com where you can compare over 80 top gamification and engagement providers including social rewards thanks for watching this review of social Rewards

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