Digital Gift Cards news and trends

Blackhawk Network Debuts Code-Based Rewards Payouts
Loyalty & Rewards // February 15, 2024

Blackhawk Network (BHN) has introduced a new way for businesses to distribute customer loyalty rewards. The branded payments provider’s “Select Codes” offering, announced Thursday (Feb. 15), is a digital “code-to-catalog” that lets businesses distribute codes to customers, who can then swap that code for their choice of...

Roblox Expands Digital Gift Card Offerings With Blackhawk Network
Gift Cards // February 14, 2024

Branded payments provider Blackhawk Network is expanding its digital gift card offerings via partnership with Roblox. The partnership will offer digital gift cards on digital gaming platform Roblox’s gift card site in the local currencies of Austria, Belgium, Switzerland and Brazil, the companies announced Wednesday (Feb. 14). “In an increasingly...

Digital Gift Cards Popular as Consumers Balance Giving and Budgeting This Holiday
Consumer Insights // November 23, 2023

Amid the festive cheer, the holiday season is also accompanied by economic uncertainties and inflationary pressures. Consequently, numerous consumers in the United States are gearing up to reduce their spending this year. However, they are not willing to skimp on gifts and are finding ways...

Venmo and InComm Team to Offer Digital Gift Cards
Retail // October 18, 2023

Payments firm InComm has teamed with Venmo to enhance that company’s digital gift card offering. According to a Wednesday (Oct. 18) news release, the new feature offers eligible Venmo customers personalized ways to mark gifting occasions with popular gift card brands directly via the app. “For several years running, our...

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Digital Gift Cards Popular as Consumers Balance Giving and Budgeting This Holiday

November 23, 2023
Amid the festive cheer, the holiday season is also accompanied by economic uncertainties and inflationary pressures. Consequently, numerous consumers in the United States are gearing up to reduce their spending this year. However, they are not willing to skimp on gifts and are finding ways to make ends meet by trimming other seasonal expenses like […]

Banks Try Digital Gift Cards to Turn Everyday Spend Into Loyalty Perk

July 03, 2023
Today’s hostile macroclimate is proving to be historically hungry for consumers’ purchasing power. Record inflation is eating up Americans’ ability to make everyday purchases with little to no worry. Fortunately,...

Merchant-Funded eGift Cards Help Credit Union Members Spend Smarter

May 02, 2023
As credit unions (CUs) seek ways to stay competitive in an increasingly diverse, crowded and complex financial sector, it’s creating some fascinating new possibilities for the organizations that service CUs...

Seashells And The Shifting Tides Of Gift Cards

January 06, 2017
Originally a savings and rewards platform, Seashells now wants to ride the wave of digital gift card giving. The lure? Instant cash-back rewards, ones that benefit both consumers and retailers, according...

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Prizeout Launches Cash-Back Products for Credit Unions

February 21, 2024
Prizeout has introduced a new white-label solution that enables credit unions to offer their members a suite of cash-back products. The new CashBack+ helps credit unions boost their non-interest income and offer new benefits to their members, the advertising and FinTech company said in a Tuesday (Feb. 20) press release. “CashBack+ was created to give […]

Blackhawk Network Debuts Code-Based Rewards Payouts

February 15, 2024
Blackhawk Network (BHN) has introduced a new way for businesses to distribute customer loyalty rewards. The branded payments provider’s “Select Codes” offering, announced Thursday (Feb. 15), is a digital “code-to-catalog” that lets...

Roblox Expands Digital Gift Card Offerings With Blackhawk Network

February 14, 2024
Branded payments provider Blackhawk Network is expanding its digital gift card offerings via partnership with Roblox. The partnership will offer digital gift cards on digital gaming platform Roblox’s gift card site in the local currencies...

Venmo and InComm Team to Offer Digital Gift Cards

October 18, 2023
Payments firm InComm has teamed with Venmo to enhance that company’s digital gift card offering. According to a Wednesday (Oct. 18) news release, the new feature offers eligible Venmo customers personalized ways to mark gifting...