Boomerang, which allows users to give gifts to their Facebook friends, announced Monday that 1 million gifts have been claimed on the platform. Three-quarters of the gifts were distributed through Boomerang’s brand offerings, which are free, nominal-value gift cards from major and small brands.
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Sigmund Freud is famous for making society’s understanding of the conscious mind versus the unconscious mind popular. The conscious mind is associated primarily with our current moment of perceptions and awareness, while the unconscious mind largely motivates the actions in our lives — even if these motivational drivers are only available to us in a disguised form. If you compare the mind to an iceberg, as Freud often did, the unconscious is the large mass unexposed below water level. Humans: We are complex beings, aren’t we? Now let’s fast-forward about 100 years: How do we use Freud’s principles to create extremely successful and engaging social and mobile marketing solutions?
Wrapp, which allows Facebook users to send free and paid electronic gift cards to their friends, has said that three new retailers have joined the fold: Victoria’s Secret, American Apparel, and Little Black Bag. Using Facebook as a platform, Wrapp noted that 1.25 million users of its iOS and Android applications have given 11.5 million digital gift cards — seen by 122 million Facebook users.
Wrapp, a mobile social gifting application, connects Facebook users through gift cards. If a user wants to celebrate a Facebook friend’s new job, or thinks they could use something from a store, he or she can send a gift card through Wrapp. So far, it has become quite popular. Wrapp announced that since its launch a little over a year ago, users have redeemed more than 1 million gift cards.
Facebook made a serious entry into the social gifting fray with Facebook Gifts last year, and now it’s looking to go deeper into the market. The company Thursday announced the Facebook Card, a plastic gift card that hold all electronic gift cards users have received through the social network. This will roll out gradually to U.S. users.
With the holiday shopping season in full swing, Facebook added a section to its app center, Apps for Gift Ideas, aimed at helping users with their gift decisions.
It has been proven that a marketing message holds so much more weight when it comes from a friend rather than a brand. So how can brands get in on the friend-to-friend connection? Social gifting application Wrapp seems to have this solved. By utilizing sponsored (free) and paid gift cards, Wrapp has excelled at getting brands involved in conversations with friends. Wrapp CEO Hjalmar Winbladh, as well as Gap Sr. Director of Business Strategy Soundar Koneti, spoke at the AllFacebook Marketing Conference in New York about how the company has succeeded with friend-to-friend marketing.
Facebook has recently been expanding the number of users who have access to Gifts, allowing them to give presents to friends through the social network. Just in time for the holidays, the social network is also adding partners, giving users more options. Facebook announced that users who have access to Gifts can now give the sound of music — through iTunes.
Tis the season for giving, and Facebook is on board, announcing at its rescheduled event at iconic toy store FAO Schwarz in New York Thursday night that its Gifts feature is being rolled out to more users, and introducing several new retail partners.
Social gifting application Wrapp reached a multiyear agreement with prepaid and financial payment provider Blackhawk Network’s Blackhawk Digital platform, under which national and local retailers that offer electronic gift cards via Blackhawk will have access to Wrapp’s marketing platform, enabling Wrapp to add those retailers to its stable.
