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| 09.03.2026 | Gamification Marketing Technology: How Game Mechanics Are Driving Deeper Customer Engagement | Share
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Engagement has become one of the most pursued yet elusive metrics in marketing. Whilst companies invest millions in campaigns designed to capture customer attention, engagement rates continue to decline across ... |
| 04.02.2016 | Badgeville launches new data analytics to gamify work and improve consumer loyalty | Badgeville, the company that gamifies work and customer engagement, has launched a new data analytics service dubbed MotivationMetrics. Its purpose is to make it easier for companies to gather a huge amount of social data and figure out how... |
| 04.02.2016 | Badgeville launches new data analytics to gamify work and improve consumer loyalty | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Badgeville, the company that gamifies work and customer engagement, has launched a new data analytics service dubbed MotivationMetrics.... |
| 20.05.2015 | BetterWorks’ Goal Is To Bring Goal Setting To Every Organization | BetterWorks, a cloud platform that helps companies set and manage goals, announced a new feature today that automatically updates goal progress based on information in Salesforce and Workday.
The platform enables employees to set goals in a... |
| 24.03.2015 | Badgeville releases analytics engine to improve enterprise gamification | Badgeville has raised more than $40 million to pioneer “gamification,” or the use of game-like mechanics such as leaderboards to motivate people to engage in non-game work more enthusiastically. And today, the company is releasing its new a... |
| 24.03.2015 | Badgeville releases analytics engine to improve enterprise gamification | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Badgeville has raised more than $40 million to pi... |
| 16.02.2014 | With $770K In Seed Funding, Playbasis Wants Businesses In Asia To Gamify | Playbasis, a Thailand-based gamification startup that helps companies engage with customers and employees through cool rewards and social games, has raised $770,000 in seed funding from Ardent Capital, 500 Startups and Axis Capital. The sta... |
| 27.08.2013 | As Badgeville Homes In On Gamification For Large Enterprises, It Launches A New Behavior Lab | Gamification — the idea of adding gameplay elements into services to get people to interact more with them — has been one of the more buzzy features in the last few years of social media services, but it’s also been one of the more problema... |
| 09.04.2013 | Badgeville Names Former Cast Iron Exec Ken Comée As Its New CEO | Gamification startup Badgeville just announced that it has appointed Ken Comée as its new CEO. Co-founder and outgoing CEO Kris Duggan will become the company’s chief strategy officer, and he will also remain on the Badgeville board.
Comée ... |
| 09.04.2013 | Gamification startup Badgeville names new CEO | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Gamification startup Badgeville said tonight that it has appointed Ken Comée as its new chief executive. Founder and former CEO Kris Du... |
| 09.04.2013 | Gamification startup Badgeville names new CEO | Gamification startup Badgeville said tonight that it has appointed Ken Comée as its new chief executive. Founder and former CEO Kris Duggan will become chief strategy officer of the Redwood City, Calif.-based company.
The change comes as ga... |
| 26.03.2013 | Badgeville Gamifies Salesforce Platform Toolkit To Drive Behavior, Increase Use Of Cloud Apps | Badgeville today launched a toolkit on the Salesforce Platform that is designed to get people more engaged in using online apps. The new toolkit puts a Salesforce Force.com wrapper around Badgeville’s APIs that hook into behavior tools and ... |
| 04.12.2012 | Enterprise gamification goes big as Badgeville teams up with Capgemini | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Gamification, the use of game-like mechanics to make non-game applications more engaging, of the business world has moved beyond its ex... |
| 04.12.2012 | Enterprise gamification goes big as Badgeville teams up with Capgemini | Gamification, the use of game-like mechanics to make non-game applications more engaging, of the business world has moved beyond its experimental phase. Add achievements, such as badges and leaderboards, to the sales process, and all of a s... |
| 30.10.2012 | According to gamification evangelists, life’s a game: All you have to do is know how to play it | People love games. From gambling to ancient gladiators to more modern offerings like video games, it’s clear that something about competition, challenge and reward strikes a chord with humans.
Source: Timizzer.com
If nothing else, gamificat... |
| 03.10.2012 | Learn27 launches its social e-learning software for business | To keep their employees happy, companies are taking more of an active role in professional development and training.
Learn27 is an e-learning startup for the enterprise. Instead of targeting students and consumers like the majority of educa... |
| 03.10.2012 | Learn27 launches its social e-learning software for business | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
To keep their employees happy, companies are taki... |
| 20.09.2012 | Screw pain points! Compliment Karma launches to spread the love (exclusive) | It feels damn good to have a manager recognize that you’ve been pulling long hours at the office, and even better when your colleagues notice it too.
Compliment Karma, a Chicago-based startup, builds on our generation’s need for positive re... |
| 20.09.2012 | Screw pain points! Compliment Karma launches to spread the love (exclusive) | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
It feels damn good to have a manager recognize th... |
| 18.09.2012 | Badgeville Gamification Platform Comes to Salesforce.com | The Badgeville gamification service is now available on Salesforce.com’s AppExchange. The new service will allow people to give out badges for use on any app in the Salesforce.com ecosystem.
For Badgeville Co-Founder Kris Duggan, the news h... |
| 18.09.2012 | Badgeville gamifies Salesforce.com to make salespeople more productive | In time for a big industry conference, analytics firm Badgeville is launching a “gamification” app on Salesforce.com’s App Exchange that can help salespeople become more motivated and productive.
Badgeville is a big proponent of gamificatio... |
| 18.09.2012 | Badgeville gamifies Salesforce.com to make salespeople more productive | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
In time for a big industry conference, analytics firm Badgeville is launching a “gamification” app on Salesforce.com’s App Exchange tha... |
| 17.09.2012 | Are you being played? How tech companies use gamification | This is a guest post by entrepreneur, Kris Duggan
When you visit LinkedIn, one of the most ominous features encouraging profile completion is the progress bar telling you that your profile has a long way to go before you’re complete.
This v... |
| 05.09.2012 | Social Data: Gigya Launches User Management Platform To Put Marketers In The Driver’s Seat | Businesses understand the importance of implementing a social strategy in the Facebook Era — and not just because it’s cool, but because it can have a real effect on user engagement. Just ask Salesforce, which recently acquired Buddy Media ... |
| 05.09.2012 | Badgeville Brings Gamification to Drupal Communities | It’s a classic quandary — getting people to participate in online communities can be hard, but getting people to participate well in online communities is even harder.
To that end, behavioral management platform Badgeville has announced a n... |
| 24.08.2012 | Seattle startup BigDoor powering NFL.com rewards | With the NFL regular season fast approaching, the football league this week announced its first-ever NFL Fan Rewards. The program gives regular users of NFL.com virtual coins in exchange for reading articles, commenting and taking part in o... |
| 21.06.2012 | Badgevilles Acquires Gamification.org, Grabs The “Gamification” Username On Twitter, Facebook, YouTube | So that’s how Badgeville is using some of that $25 million in funding from May. The engagement-focused startup (and former TechCrunch Disrupt participant) is today announcing the acquisition of the Gamification.org Community from Gamify, a ... |
| 30.05.2012 | BadgeVille gets a $25M boost in latest funding round | Less than two years after launching, BadgeVille continues to bring big businesses into gamification
Badgeville, a behavior platform businesses incorporate gamification into their process, announced it has closed a Series C round of venture ... |
| 30.05.2012 | Badgeville raises $25M to break out from the pack in gamification | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Buzzword or not, gamification, or the use of game-like rewards to engage customers and employees, is getting real. Badgeville, the crea... |
| 30.05.2012 | Badgeville raises $25M to break out from the pack in gamification | Buzzword or not, gamification, or the use of game-like rewards to engage customers and employees, is getting real. Badgeville, the creator of a popular gamification platform, has raised $25 million in a third round of funding.
The large amo... |
| 30.05.2012 | BigDoor rival Badgeville scores $25M for ‘gamification’ platform | Fast-growing Badgeville has reeled in $25 million in fresh funding, money that the 20-month-old Menlo Park, California startup will use to expand its gamification platform. Badgeville, which competes against Seattle’s BigDoor, said that its... |
| 30.05.2012 | Badgeville Raises €25M in Series C Financing | Badgeville, a Menlo Park, Calif.-based provider of SaaS enterprise gamification solutions and services, has raised €25m in Series C venture financing.
The round was led by InterWest Partners, with participation from existing investors inclu... |
| 30.05.2012 | Badgeville Levels Up With $25M From InterWest & More To Gamify The Enterprise | When Badgeville launched at TechCrunch Disrupt San Francisco back in 2010 and took home the “Audience Choice Award,” its mission to help companies big and small leverage gamification elements like leaderboards, badges, leveling-up, experien... |
| 30.05.2012 | Badgeville’s Kris Duggan: Six frameworks can gamify employee and customer engagement (interview) | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Brands have embraced “gamification,” or using game-like behavior in non-game applications, as a way to engage their audiences. That is ... |
| 30.05.2012 | Badgeville Closes $25M Series C |
MENLO PARK, CA, The Behavior Platform and global gamification leader, today announced it has closed a $25M Series C round of venture financing led by InterWest Partners.
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| 29.03.2012 | Badgeville powers gamified reality TV show Escape Routes | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Gamification, the use of game-like rewards in non-game applications, is moving into reality TV. Badgeville will provide gamified achiev... |
| 10.03.2012 | Sexy IPOs Versus SaaS-y IPOs | Editor’s Note: This guest post is written by Doug Pepper, who is a General Partner at InterWest Partners where he invests in SaaS, mobile, consumer internet and digital media companies. He blogs at dougpepper.blogspot.com.
IPOs are hot agai... |
| 29.02.2012 | Company Reactions to Facebook Timeline for Brands | This morning Facebook launched Timeline For Brands, which will give brand pages the same look, feel and functionality as the personal page Timelines the social network has been rolling out since September.
We spent the morning asking more t... |
| 12.02.2012 | No Longer An Awkward Teenager? Gamification Grows Up | Editor’s note: Guest contributor Joseph Puopolo is an entrepreneur and startup enthusiast, who blogs on a variety of topics including green initiatives, technology and marketing.
Over the last year, you may have noticed that a once-niche tr... |
| 10.01.2012 | Badgeville Proves Gamification Is Here To Stay, As Recyclebank & Others Buy In | Badgeville is convinced that 2012 is going to be a big year for gamification and that the startup can help your company take advantage of all the elements of gaming that make us tick (and click), whether they be leaderboards, badges, leveli... |
| 23.12.2011 | Gamification is Helping Drive Web 2.0’s $400 Million Future | The Web health space is expected to see revenues quadruple to $400 million by 2016, and much of that growth could come from companies selling gamification services. This week, Keas, a firm co-founded by former Google Health chief Adam Boswo... |
| 15.12.2011 | Badgeville's Radical Idea: Tell Customers What You Want Them To Do | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
For about six months now, I’ve been trying to get Kris Duggan to change the name of his company. To me, “Badgeville” manages to be both faddish and inaccurate: it tries to sna... |
| 12.09.2011 | Badgeville adds social fabric analysis to its gamification suite | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Gamification company Badgeville has made a big splash in the past year by helping web sites better engage visitors through game-like fe... |
| 12.09.2011 | Badgeville adds social fabric analysis to its gamification suite | Gamification company Badgeville has made a big splash in the past year by helping web sites better engage visitors through game-like features such as leaderboards and badges. Now it is taking a step further and adding behavioral analysis to... |
| 12.09.2011 | On Its One-Year Anniversary, Badgeville Launches A New Product Called Social Fabric | It’s been a year since social rewards and analytics company, Badgeville took home the prize for Audience Choice Winner at TechCrunch Disrupt 2010. Today, Founder and CEO Kris Duggan spoke at this year’s Disrupt to talk about how far the com... |
| 08.09.2011 | Seattle gamification startup BigDoor buys OneTrueFan | BigDoor's Keith Smith, Matt Shobe and Jeff Malek at the company's new offices in Seattle's South Lake Union neighborhood
BigDoor believes it has the keys to success to increase engagement on Web sites. And today the fast-growing Seattle sta... |
| 25.07.2011 | Venture capitalist Tim Chang describes the white-hot landscape of game investments | The emerging landscape of games is attracting a lot of money, thanks in part to excitement about Zynga’s upcoming initial public offering and some recent acquisitions such as Electronic Arts’ $750 million purchase of PopCap Games. Tim Chang... |
| 25.07.2011 | Venture capitalist Tim Chang describes the white-hot landscape of game investments | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
The emerging landscape of games is attracting a lot of money, thanks in part to excitement about Zynga’s upcoming initial public offeri... |
| 13.07.2011 | Badgeville Raises $12M Series B |
Badgeville closed a $12 million Series B round led by Norwest Venture Partners and El Dorado Ventures, with participation from existing institution Trinity Ventures and Webb Investment Network.
>> Click here for more funding data o... |
| 13.07.2011 | Badgeville Rounds Up $12M | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Menlo Park, CA-based Badgeville, which helps Web publishers and e-commerce providers equip their sites with game features to enhance customer loyalty, said today that it has r... |
| 13.07.2011 | Badgeville raises $12M for gamification platform | The rewards company gets support from new investor Norwest and existing investors
On the heels of releasing its new Dynamic Game Engine and Widget Studio, social rewards and loyalty platform, Badgeville, announced Wednesday that it has rais... |
| 13.07.2011 | Badgeville Closes $12M Series B Funding | Badgeville, a Menlo Park, Calif.-based developer of a social loyalty, behavior analytics, and smart gamification platform, has closed a $12m Series B funding.
The round was led by Norwest Venture Partners (NVP) and El Dorado Ventures, with ... |
| 13.07.2011 | Badgeville raises $12M to lead the way in gamification | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Gamification startup Badgeville has raised $12 million in a second round of funding to add game-like features to non-game applications.... |
| 12.07.2011 | Badgeville Raises $12 Million, Celebrates With An Infographic | Badgeville founder and CEO Kris Duggan is one of those people that is so ridiculously upbeat and positive all the time that sometimes you just want to strangle him. No one has a right to be that happy.
He was smiling and happy when I met hi... |
| 31.05.2011 | Badgeville amplifies gamification with version 2.0 | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Badgeville, which helps companies gamify their web sites, is launching version 2.0 of its social loyalty program today.
The beefed-up p... |
| 31.05.2011 | Badgeville amplifies gamification with version 2.0 | Badgeville, which helps companies gamify their web sites, is launching version 2.0 of its social loyalty program today.
The beefed-up program includes a dynamic game engine and widget studio. Both are aimed at making it easy for companies t... |
| 31.05.2011 | Badgeville gamifies business | The company launches a new Dynamic Game Engine and Widget Studio
Social loyalty platform Badgeville, which has raised just under $3 million from Trinity Ventures and angel investors, announced Tuesday the launch of two new products: its pat... |
| 19.05.2011 | Rewind: Keith Smith, BigDoor CEO, on the economics and future of gamification | Keith Smith in the KIRO studios (Erynn Rose photo)
Our guest this past week on the GeekWire Podcast was Keith Smith, CEO of BigDoor, a Seattle company bringing the principles of video games to the world of online publishing, with badges, le... |
| 12.02.2011 | Lessons From TechCrunch Disrupt Audience Choice Winner Badgeville’s Launch | Editor’s note: This guest post was written by Kris Duggan, CEO and founder of Badgeville, which launched at TechCrunch Disrupt San Francisco in September 2010. Prior to founding Badgeville, Duggan held positions at Socialtext and WebEx.
I w... |
| 20.01.2011 | Badgeville’s gamification rewards snare dozens of customers | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Badgeville creates reward systems that make web sites more engaging for users. Since unveiling its business in October, the company has... |
| 20.01.2011 | Badgeville’s gamification rewards snare dozens of customers | Badgeville creates reward systems that make web sites more engaging for users. Since unveiling its business in October, the company has rounded up 25 well-known customers, who have a combined 2 billion monthly page views.
Among the customer... |
| 05.01.2011 | Indie Fashion Store Moxsie Lands A Partnership With 'Beyond The Rack' | One of the recent startup trends that we’ve been seeing involves an industry that doesn’t immediately come to mind when you talk about Silicon Valley: the fashion scene. One fairly new entrant to the space is Moxsie, a community-driven indi... |
| 10.12.2010 | VCs level up with “gamification” investments | There are a few different ways to measure the power of a meme in the tech industry. You can run powerful sentiment analysis on blog posts and message boards, scour trending topics on Twitter, or just follow the money. While it’s no absolute... |
| 10.12.2010 | VCs level up with “gamification” investments | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
There are a few different ways to measure the power of a meme in the tech industry. You can run powerful sentiment analysis on blog pos... |
| 08.12.2010 | Le Web Startups: Badgeville is a modern loyalty rewards platform to drive engagement | Badgeville is a badge system for web publishers allowing them to reward their users for checking-in and participating on their site. The idea is to get users to game their activity on the site. They have a had a $2.5 million series A fundin... |
| 26.11.2010 | Funding roundup - week ending 11/26/10 | Badgeville, Bizness Apps, Gather, MyThings, Qype, SmartDate, Svpply, Welocalize, Yardsellr ZipList
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Bizness Apps, a company that develops apps for small businesses, raised an undisclosed round of seed funding from Build.com CEO Chris Fr... |
| 23.11.2010 | Badgeville raises $2.5M for rewards platform | The company is backed by angels and execs from eBay, Panatir, PayPal, Chegg, and more
Badgeville, a loyalty and rewards service platform, announced Monday the close of a $2.5 million Series A round of financing led by eBay COO Maynard Webb,... |
| 23.11.2010 | Badgeville Closes Series A Financing Round | Badgeville, a Palo Alto, CA-based start up that develops a Social Rewards and Analytics Platform, has closed its series A financing round.
The company intends to use the capital to hire new professionals (E-mail: [email protected]) and to c... |
| 22.11.2010 | Badgeville raises $2.5M to spread game mechanics across the web | Badgeville, a white-label platform for publishers looking to integrate social rewards into their websites, announced today that it has raised a $2.5 million round.
The startup offers widgets and APIs to publishers looking to add game mechan... |
| 22.11.2010 | Badgeville Investors Now Betting $2.5 Million That You'll Want To Check In To Websites | TechCrunch Disrupt Audience Choice winner Badgeville announces a $2.5 million Series A round today in order to apply its badge-based game mechanics across the web. Investors in the round include eBay COO Maynard Webb, Palantir founder Joe L... |
| 11.11.2010 | Some 16 Startups are selected to compete at LeWeb | We’re less than a month away from LeWeb ’10, still to date the biggest tech conference in Europe, put on each year by Geraldine and Loic Le Meur. This year’s agenda features a whole lot of TechCrunch as several of us will not only be on sta... |
| 10.11.2010 | The 16 Startups Competing At LeWeb '10 (Only 1 Sort Of From The U.S.) | We’re now less than a month away from LeWeb ’10, the giant tech conference in Paris, France put on each year by Geraldine and Loic Le Meur. This year’s agenda features a whole lot of TechCrunch as several of us will not only be on stage at ... |
| 14.10.2010 | Add Game Mechanics To Your Site In Five Minutes With BigDoor | White label game mechanics startup BigDoor Media today announces the launch of new its new “MiniBar” features, which consist of Facebook compatible widgets that allow website owners to incorporate game mechanics and loyalty programs easily ... |
| 29.09.2010 | Startup Battlefield: The Final 7 Make Their Closing Arguments | The TechCrunch Disrupt Startup Battlefield is approaching its dramatic conclusion, and the 7 finalists remaining are making their closing arguments in front of a panel of all-star Silicon Valley judges. Here are their questions and the star... |
| 27.09.2010 | Badgeville Wants To Layer Social Gaming (And Yes, Badges) Across The Entire Web | When Foursquare first launched, there were no deals. There was no way to get free pizza or cheap beer. The only incentive to play their game was to earn badges and bragging rights among friends. Badgeville, a new startup launching today at ... |
| 27.09.2010 | Badgeville brings loyalty badges to any Web publisher | A startup called Badgeville wants to bring the badge concept (popularized by Foursquare and other location-based startups) to any online publisher.
Chief executive Kris Duggan said Badgeville’s goal is to increase reader engagement and help... |
| 01.07.2010 | The Rise of the “Game Mechanic in a Box” | Having a game mechanic integrated into your product is effectively a launch requirement at this point. And it makes complete sense, too – build your product so that it harnesses people’s natural competitive drive and their desire for praise... |
