Las Vegas (PRWEB) April 22, 2014
Fluencr today announced availability of its iOS app for iPad and iPhone, designed to connect passionate consumers with their favorite brands for exciting endorsement-style engagement. Currently in public beta and working with big name brands, Fluencr is a micro-endorsement platform that monetizes social media influence for both brands and ambassadors. As the first of its kind, Fluencr gives brands the unique capability to discover, measure and endorse their biggest fans in a way that’s efficient, transparent, and authentic. With a unique brand tagging feature that acts as a “social meta-tag,” Fluencr technology allows users the ability to tag a brand in social media posts across popular social channels, without the use of hashtags or keywords, allowing brands a new level of insight into their marketing strategies and campaigns.
The Story
Gerome Sapp, former NFL player for the Baltimore Ravens and Indianapolis Colts, founded Fluencr based on his experience with endorsement deals during his football career. Leaving the NFL to pursue entrepreneurial opportunities, Sapp earned an Executive Harvard Business School degree and secured $300,000 in seed funding from the Vegas Tech Fund to launch Fluencr, after identifying a significant need to provide influencers the ability to amplify and be recognized for what they are already doing. Concurrently, Fluencr provides insightful analytics to brands who hope to engage with and reward their ambassadors.
“The idea of a ‘social ambassador’ comes from our belief that every individual possesses valuable influence that can benefit the brands they love, even if they’re not a professional athlete or celebrity,” said Sapp. “In addition to connecting brands and their biggest ambassadors in a way that is authentic and engaging, Fluencr gives brands the ability to understand and leverage the actual return on investment of social influence for the first time.”
Moving beyond simple brand-agnostic measurement and arbitrary scores, Fluencr allows marketing teams to engage with their organic fan bases in a way that is smarter, faster and more rewarding. Fluencr provides metrics around purchases and brand engagement allowing for a better understanding of real-time impact as well providing analytic predictors for future product and/or brand strategies. For ambassadors, the technology is mutually beneficial by creating an open marketplace where they can be discovered and rewarded by the brands they love for their real-time social influence around organic social post.
“The Fluencr team’s ambition and industry knowledge creates a great foundation for disruptive innovation,” said Andy White, partner of the Vegas Tech Fund
To date, clients include the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority, UFC Gym, HYLETE and a large national online shoe retailer, among others.
Availability
- iOS app available today on Apple App Store
- Android app available late April 2014
- Fluencr platform currently in public beta
- Fluencr platform official release available 2H 2014
Additional Resources
Brands and ambassadors can sign up for Fluencr today at http://www.fluencr.com and engage with Fluencr on Facebook, Foursquare, Instagram, Twitter, and YouTube.
About Fluencr
Fluencr is an analytics platform that uses gamification principles and Big Data to create a unique and valuable SAAS technology called Brand Tagging that allows millions of social media users the ability to TAG a brand in any type of social post, across popular social channels. For more information visit http://www.fluencr.com.
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