Placecast Launches ‘Card-Linked ShopAlerts’

Placecast announced the launch of ‘Card-Linked ShopAlerts’, which are mobile offers tied to nearby store locations using geofencing technology that consumers redeem by simply swiping their linked credit or debit card at the store.

“Location-based card-linked offers are the holy-grail of mobile marketing,” says payments industry expert Dickson Chu who has led initiatives at Citibank, PayPal and Living Social. “Placecast is enabling the delivery of an offer to a consumer who is near a store and highly likely to make a purchase. Retailers and brands get closed-loop performance marketing where they can measure the ROI of their mobile campaign where it counts – in the real world.”

Placecast launched Card-Linked ShopAlerts in beta with card issuers this spring. To date, over 550 merchants have delivered card-linked offers using the platform with restaurants emerging as the top-performing category.