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IP: 1020.com, 209.59.153.201
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TechCrunch
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Placecast Brings Location-Based Shopping Alerts To Retailer Smartphone Apps
Placecast's ShopAlerts service , which delivers retailer and merchant offers and discounts to consumers via their mobile phones, is announcing new functionality today—integ...Read more... -
Placecast Launches Self-Serve Version Of Location-Based Mobile Deals Platform ShopAlerts
Placecast's ShopAlerts service , which delivers retailer and merchant offers and discounts to consumers via their mobile phones, has been used by a number of high profile bran...Read more... -
AT&T Taps Placecast For Location-Based Shopping Alerts
AT&T is betting big on location-based shopping alerts through a partnership with Placecast. AT&T is debuting a branded ShopAlerts service, which will deliver special offe...Read more... -
O2 Taps Placecast For Location Based SMS Marketing Campaigns
Placecast is announcing a fairly significant partnership with European carrier O2 to enable geo-fence marketing campaigns for a number of brands for the carrier's users. ...Read more... -
Placecast Debuts All-In-One Geolocation Data Funnel LocalBox
As more and more geolocation apps hit the market, there is an enormous amount of data from these applications that can be mashed up to provide greater use to consumers. Locatio...Read more...
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Company
Summary

- Company Name: Placecast
- Homepage: http://www.placecast.net
- Category: mobile
- Founded: 2005
- Overview:
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Placecast is a location-based digital advertising company that provides ShopAlerts, an opt-in marketing service via mobile devices designed to drive customers to specific physical spaces like retail stores.
ShopAlerts is a white-label service that works automatically on any phone and does not require an app. Users opt-in to a given brand’s program and receive text messages on their phone with information, coupons and offers from places of interest around them.
Placecast was founded in 2005 and is based in San Francisco and New York. The company is funded by Voyager Capital and Onset Ventures.
People
| Name | Title |
| Anne Bezancon | Founder and President |
| Daniel Parkes | Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer |
| Rich LeFurgy | Board of Directors |
| Name | Title |
| Alistair Goodman | CEO |
| Blair Swedeen | VP Market Development |
| Jeff Davis | Senior Manager, Program Operations |
| Scott Velicer | Product Manager |







