Posts Tagged ‘MyTown’

Have you ever heard of PowerMat? It’s a small ‘mat’ that charges your phone, iPhone and more by just dropping the device on the mat’s surface. When a small company with a new product like that evaluates its advertising options today, they’ll be choosing from expensive options like print, television and radio, or web opportunities [...]

Join Baratunde Thurston (left), The Onion’s Director of Digital and author of How to Be Black, for an entertaining look at creative social media campaigns in our Social Media Marketing Boot Camp starting February 16. Other speakers include Morin Oluwole (Facebook), Tim Devane (bitly), and SocialTimes' writer Devon Glenn.   Register now.

Keith Lee, the CEO of MyTown, told the audience at Inside Social Apps in San Francisco, that the application is currently at 1.9 million registered users and is growing by 100,000 users per week. Those users also spend an average of 70 minutes in the app per day. Take that Foursquare! During the “Monetizing Mobile [...]

Booyah, creators of the increasingly popular mobile social “check-in” game MyTown — currently exclusive to the Apple iPhone — have added another campaign partner, this time the Travel Channel for their Food Wars TV show. Food Wars travels to different cities and has two establishments battle it out over who serves a best particular dish, [...]

Social iPhone game MyTown will now allow players to “check-in” to real-life stores and key areas near H&M stores to gain virtual clothing items and points. The game is a location-based style augmented reality game, where players are able to accumulate points by visiting real world locations with their iPhone and registering that they have [...]