Media Mentions
Mid-Missouri Schools Receive Classroom Technology Funding
January 20, 2012 Next Jump is partnering with donorschoose.com in a $500,000 fundraising campaign called SA500 Kids, in order to help fund the 243 Missouri classrooms needing new technology, as well as additional schools across the country... New Franklin faculty like Jennifer Stutzer, a high school science teacher, have had success using this online database.
iPad a Solid Education Tool, Study Reports
January 20, 2012 A study finds that the iPad helps students connect better with their work. DonorsChoose and SA500 Kids help public schools overcome the problem of finding funds to pay for tablets. "Students' interaction with the device was more personal. You could tell students were more engaged," said Coleman Kells, principal of Amelia Earhart Middle School... Luckily, there are sites like DonorsChoose.org that can help offload the costs from teachers and school districts. And a program called SA500 Kids is helping to accelerate funding for technology resource requests on the site.
No more Netflix, more to give
January 19, 2012 Covington Reporter Kris Hill explains how he would rather spend $20 a month on a charity than pay for a Netflix service he doesn't use. "I tweeted about it, joining in on the cacophony of 'Dear Netflix...' posts that voiced displeasure over the changes, but rather than just complaining I made a vow. With the $20 a month I would not be spending I pledged to put that toward a charitable cause... I remembered about a website I read about a month or so ago called DonorsChoose.org. Teachers can go to the site and submit requests to fund projects in their classrooms... Another website has popped up called SA500 Kids, one which works in partnership with DonorsChoose.org, which you can find at http://www.oo.com/sa500kids."
Today's Honoree is Charlie Kim
January 18, 2012 Charlie Kim, Next Jump CEO, has been recognized for his "commitment to educating future generations of engineers and in conjunction with DonorsChoose." This is a long-term investment as part of NxJ Cares, to help provide the tools and experiences needed for an excellent education.
EXCLUSIVE: British Airways appoints new employee discount scheme provider
January 11, 2012 British Airways has appointed Next Jump as provider of its employee discount scheme to give staff a wide range of offers. The new scheme launched in October 2011. The Altitude Plus scheme provided by Next Jump, replaces the previous scheme which was in place for more than 3 years... Janine Sparks, reward manager at British Airways added "On Friday there is such a buzz and excitement in the office about all the offers on that day. The benefits are cascade by word-of-mouth, which is probably the best way of communicating and getting employees to join."
Life at work: At this company, the dealmaking gets personal
January 3, 2012 Groupon? Living Social? Please. KPMG employees have their own daily deals Website. Just ask Cat Candela, who loves the Perks at Work program so much she's begun briefing new hires about their first day on the job. "It's a cross between eBay and Groupon," Candela said of the internal site, which offers discounts for travel, clothing and restaurants... The offers are overseen by Next Jump, a New York company that handles corporate rewards.
How Cornell Beat Stanford (and everybody else) for NYC Tech Campus
December 28, 2011 New York-based Next Jump is a data-driven rewards and offers company working at the juncture of three quintessentially New York City businesses: advertising, publishing and commerce. Between its annual Silicon Valley 500 event and other efforts, Founder and CEO Charlie Kim estimates that he and his company probably have invested more in recruiting software engineers out of college than any company on the east coast...
OO.com Helps Holiday Shoppers Become Fabulously Frugal
December 14, 2011 Finding the best deals this holiday season can be tough, but OO.com makes it simple! At OO.com, shoppers can find the lowest prices and strongest promotions from more than 30,000 top retailers for the "price plus" experience!
Taking the NEXT JUMP to Invest in Future Generations of Engineers
December 13, 2011 This holiday season you can SHOP, SAVE, and GIVE technology to classrooms with Next Jump! For every dollar spent on Next Jump's discount site OO.com through December 31st, the company will donate one WOWPoint reward to SA500 Kids, the fundraising campaign to fulfill teacher's requests to bring technology to public school classrooms on DonorsChoose.org!
Gamification: more than fun and games, it's about engagement
December 8, 2011 Gabe Zichermann speaks with Gigaom's Ryan Kim about Gamification. "Zichermann said teamplay can also have a strong effect. He noted the experience of NextJump, an employee rewards provider, which now has more than 80 percent of its employees working out because of a new gamified health system that splits the workforce into teams and doles out cash to the teams that work out the most."
Join the Season of Giving with Next Jump
December 4, 2011 IMI Tech Talk host Tom D'Auria talked with Founder and CEO of Next Jump, Charlie Kim about growing his company into the premier provider of rewards and loyalty programs in the U.S., Next Jump's investment in the future of engineering in America with SA500 Kids, and how to bring technology into the classroom for just pennies on the dollar.
Next Jump Officially Launches OO.com with SA500 Kids $500,000 Fundraising Campaign for Technology in Public Schools Through DonorsChoose.org
November 25, 2011 Next Jump, the premier provider of rewards and loyalty programs, is proud to announce the official launch of OO.com, the company's first consumer facing shopping site... As part of the excitement around OO.com's official release from Beta, Next Jump will be kicking off a $500,000 fundraising initiative called SA500 Kids, to bring technology into classrooms at more than 100,000 public schools across the company.
By Deadline, 7 Bids in Science School Contest
October 31, 2011 Mayor Bloomberg held a press conference at Next Jump regarding the Applied Sciences NYC initiative, covered in The New York Times: "The mayor discussed the bidding in the offices of Next Jump, which is the sort of enterprise that he said was too rare in the city: a fast-growing technology company that relies on engineers."
East Coast Companies need to win at home in talent war
October 21, 2011 New York's mayor Michael Bloomberg has been making the rounds lately exhorting entrepreneurs to help make the city the new capital of technology. But it's not going to happen unless start-ups and local tech companies start significantly upping their game and competing against Silicon Valley for local talent on their home turf, said Charlie Kim, the CEO of New York-based rewards and offers provider Next Jump. What makes Kim so vocal? Well, he just organized the largest engineering job fair in New York last Saturday called SA500.
See SA500: NYC's New Tech Career Fair
October 17, 2011 Organizer Next Jump did an amazing job of creating this first-ever event. The floor was packed with geeks. And schwag. And hope, as growing companies who are creating new jobs looked for aspiring engineers to fill them.
New York takes its engineering talent crunch to the NYSE floor
August 3, 2011 The Next Jump- and NYSE-hosted tech recruiting event, SA 500, covered in GigaOM: "...it's a major effort to strengthen the New York and east coast tech ecosystem and help companies to grow and thrive without losing talent to Silicon Valley. It also shows that New York is rising to the challenge of being a major tech destination."
Next Jump's Mobile App Ella Rewards You For Sharing Local Shopping Tips
July 27, 2011 Today, Next Jump is unveiling another piece of the puzzle with the debut of Ella, an iOS app that allows you to earn and reward WOWpoints for sharing fashion and shopping tips with your friends.
Closing the Redemption Loop in Local Commerce
July 24, 2011 Next Jump CEO Charlie Kim, who recently partnered with LivingSocial to power daily deals across his commerce network, sees a shift in targeting from broadcasting deals to narrowcasting them. "Blasting out a deal to everyone in New York is not targeting," he says. "When you broadcast too much in any category, it is just a lot of noise. Email response rates have plummeted for everyone across the industry. What used to be 10% response rates even a year ago, now you are talking the 1% to 2% level." The constant barrage of emails from Groupon, LivingSocial, and every daily deal copycat is creating user fatigue that is visible in declining response rates.
Next Jump Puts Pieces Together to be a Deals Powerhouse
July 21, 2011 The pieces are now falling into place for Next Jump to be a major disruptor in a market that is increasingly being fought over by giants, from newcomers like Groupon to web titans Google and Facebook.
iPad is Pressed into Service as a Door Greeter
July 14, 2011 With the iPad app, merchants get easier access to aggregated data about the event and shoppers. It gathers identifiable consumer demographics from numerous online organizations and companies with which it has partnered; consumers must opt in to the program via the organizations in order for identifiable data to be shared.
7 Winning Examples of Game Mechanics in Action
July 6, 2011 Leveraging the game themes of tribalism and competition had an astonishing effect on behavior. Today, 70% of NextJump employees exercise regularly - enough to save the company millions in work attendance and insurance costs over the medium term - all the while making the workplace healthier and happier.
Big Data + Mobile: Helping Retailers Understand Who Their Customers Are
April 21, 2011 Charlie's speech on the keynote stage at O'Reilly's Where 2.0 Conference, which explores the intersection of location technologies and trends in software development, business strategies, and marketing. His presentation highlighted one specific example of how NxJ leverages consumer and mobile data with our VIP Shopping Nights to help retailers better understand and appeal to their consumer segments.
LivingSocial Teams Up With Loyalty Program
April 4, 2011 Deals site LivingSocial is expanding its reach through a new partnership with Next Jump, a provider of loyalty and rewards programs, giving it more firepower as it competes with market leader Groupon.
Living Social Taps Into Rewards Programs With Next Jump Deal
April 4, 2011 Next Jump will gain full access to LivingSocial's inventory of deals, and the two companies will work together to integrate their respective technologies. It is a new distribution channel for LivingSocial which should help it keep scaling up the volume of deals and demand that it can handle.
NextJump Fitness Video
Mar 30, 2011 Next Jump has world class fitness facilities to keep employees healthy, happy, and productive. Marissa Beck, our Director of Wellness, shows off the gym, trainers, fitness competition and everything else that makes Next Jump's fitness program so incredible.
Deals Juggernaut Next Jump Hires a CFO, Looks To Add 100 Engineers In San Francisco
Jan 31, 2011 Groupon gets all the attention, but another deal juggernaut that should be on your radar is New York City-based Next Jump. The company runs group discount shopping programs for 90,000 corporations and organizations, and powers MasterCard's loyalty rewards program. Investment bankers are sniffing around.
FlightCaster bought by Next Jump, promises major travel focus
Jan 10, 2011 FlightCaster, the California-based startup which predicts airline delays, was bought today by loyalty programme technology firm Next Jump. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. The Y Combinator-backed FlightCaster says the acquisition will help Next Jump, provider of loyalty and discount scheme web services to the likes of MasterCard Marketplace, move into travel in a bigger way.
Yahoo's Chief Mobile Engineer, Sandeep Gupta, Lands At Next Jump
Aug 23, 2010 Sandeep Gupta formerly worked at Apple on the iPod, and put out a slew of iPhone and Blackberry apps for Yahoo, including the Flickr iPhone app, Yahoo Messenger, and the Yahoo Entertainment iPad app. His hire by Next Jump signals that the New York City e-commerce company is planning a big push into mobile apps.
Disruptors of eCommerce Keynote Speech at Web 2.0
May 5, 2010 Charlie Kim was invited as a keynote speaker in the Disruptors: eCommerce segment of the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco on May 5th. This keynote speech was delivered to an audience of over 10,000 attendees. Charlie's specific series was done in "Ignite-style," consisting of a 5-minute presentation with 20 powerpoint slides, advancing automatically every 15 seconds.
Banga to Take Top Post at MasterCard
April 12, 2010 "Beyond its core business of debit, credit and prepaid cards, Banga said Monday that he sees e-commerce and mobile commerce as key components of MasterCard's future. The incoming CEO pointed to one example as a model for the types of opportunities ahead: last week's announcement of a deal between MasterCard and Next Jump to provide online shopping tailored to a customer's prior spending."
MasterCard Allies With Next Jump
April 12, 2010 "The merchant analytics from the Next Jump's e-commerce model permits merchants to re-direct their advertisement expenditure towards better pricing in return for guaranteed sales. This strategy is helpful for both the merchants and consumers involved in e-commerce, thereby creating ample growth opportunities for MasterCard and Next Jump, the providers of this innovative technology."
MasterCard Portal Offers Discounts Tailored to Shoppers' Tastes
April 12, 2010 "I've never seen anything that good. That's very powerful," said Karl Rexer, the president of Rexer Analytics, a Winchester, Mass., data mining and consulting firm that has worked with banking and technology companies. High conversion rates are elusive because it is tough to gain access to detailed spending data, he said. "You usually don't have data that's going to be as specific to the individual as what" Next Jump "has available," he said.
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MasterCard and Next Jump Announce Partnership
April 9, 2010 Cheryl Cascone of Fox Business News interviews Charlie Kim, CEO of Next Jump, and Josh Peirez, Head of Global Innovation at MasterCard, on their recent partnership announcement.
Next Jump Takes Over MasterCard's New Rewards Program, MasterCard MarketPlace
Apr 8, 2010 "MasterCard's customer rewards program just got a major upgrade. As part of a deep, three-year partnership with NYC-startup Next Jump, the credit card organization just launched MasterCard Marketplace. Any cardholder can go to the site and sign up for discounts on electronics, computers, clothing, jewelry, and other products from thousands of merchants and manufacturers. Next Jump will operate the program on behalf of MasterCard, and help it advance its overall e-commerce strategy in other ways as well."
Everything You Wanted to Know About The Most Secretive Startup In The World (Next Jump)
Jan 14, 2010 "If Kim keeps perfecting his shopping algorithms, you may never shop the same way again--and you won't even know that you are doing anything differently."
Unboxed: The Data That Turns Browsing to Buying
December 5, 2009 "Next Jump is a bellwether for the next generation of e-commerce, driven by better data," says Tim O'Reilly, a blogger and the chief executive of the technology publisher O'Reilly Media.