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July 11, 2019 • BY BUSINESS WIRE

Toluna Partners with NeoCurrency to Offer Cryptocurrency Rewards to Toluna Influencers

Unique Offering Highlights Company’s Vision to Provide Digitally Innovative, Personalized and Relevant Benefits to its Consumer Community

WILTON, Conn.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Toluna, a leading consumer intelligence platform provider that delivers real-time insights to companies of all sizes, today announced a partnership with NeoCurrency, an all-digital rewards company that uses data to identify the best rewards and prizes that drive loyalty participation and purchase.

“For me, this partnership came about as part of our ongoing mission at Toluna to be a digital and technological leader, being disruptive in the marketplace and constantly innovating our consumer community, which is one of our unique selling points that sets us apart from our competitors” 

NeoCurrency will allow Toluna Influencers to receive a Bitcoin Gift Card (cryptocurrency provided by www.MyBitCards.com) as a reward option for sharing their opinion on brands, products and services via the Toluna Community. By including this option in its reward catalog, Toluna Influencers have the opportunity to exchange their points for a Bitcoin Digital Card with a value of $20. Toluna’s digital community is a keystone of its Insights on Demand platform. The brand places a special focus on listening to consumer feedback and reacting accordingly. Cryptocurrency is a growing global phenomenon that is changing the way consumers shop and spend money. Toluna is excited to offer Bitcoin as a reward option and to stay on the cutting edge of technological advancements to provide the best possible value to influencers and brands.

Toluna recently polled its dedicated community to gauge if a cryptocurrency rewards option was of interest, and over one third of the community responded positively. As a result of Toluna’s commitment to creating a community that cares about its users through personalization and relevancy, as well as remaining at the forefront of technology, the company began the process of selecting a partner to provide a digitally-first benefit to its users.

“For me, this partnership came about as part of our ongoing mission at Toluna to be a digital and technological leader, being disruptive in the marketplace and constantly innovating our consumer community, which is one of our unique selling points that sets us apart from our competitors,” commented Phil Ahad, Chief Digital Officer at Toluna. “Providing our influencers with cryptocurrency reward options proves Toluna’s ability to be agile with consumer feedback, and to act as pioneers in a market that does not focus heavily on cryptocurrency.”

For security reasons, the redemption process to cash out points for Bitcoin has multiple layers of protection. NeoCurrency has an IP blacklist and whitelist, as well as trigger security for different types of fraud-based events. Reward links can be deactivated on-demand to prevent fraud as well, ensuring Toluna’s commitment to the highest level and best in class data quality and protection. As more and more retailers are accepting Bitcoin as a method of payment, this partnership allows users to take advantage of the benefits of cryptocurrency in a way that they otherwise may not have access to.

“We are excited to offer an innovative digital reward for the Toluna Influencer community,” said Geoff Miller, President of NeoCurrency. “Toluna’s mission is to be a digital and technological leader in research. NeoCurrency is an all-digital company that is built to modernize rewards. This makes for a great partnership. Offering influencers the ability to receive a Bitcoin Gift Card for their effort is an innovative reward. Most people have heard about Bitcoin, but this may be the first time many will actually have a chance to own and use cryptocurrency.”

With an eye to the future, Toluna looks forward to adding new mobile and modern lifestyle brands as reward options to the TolunaInsights™ catalog. The company will continue to focus on providing marketers with on-demand consumer insights to enable agility, innovation and disruption in today’s crowded market.

About Toluna

Toluna provides consumer insights designed to empower success in today’s on-demand, global economy. Powered by the perfect fusion of technology, expertise, and the largest global community of influencers at the ready, Toluna delivers rich, reliable, real-time insights to individuals, and companies of all sizes. Our automated consumer insights platform, TolunaInsights™ underpins everything we do. Clients can access the platform directly, leverage Toluna’s managed services, or create fully-customized digital consumer insights programs via our engineered services. TolunaInsights was built to complement QuickSurveys, Toluna’s on-demand platform designed for quick-turn, automated research.

Toluna is a founding member of the Insights on Demand Consortium, a multi-lateral group that’s advancing the principles and adoption of Insights on Demand. The company has 24 offices globally spanning Europe, North America, South America, Asia Pacific, and MENA.

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