Social – invariably at bars, me or my friends (usually Bob!) are showing someone this app, getting them to download it, and then friending them on the app.
Trying to out-badge my friends has gotten me into more trouble than I care to relate…but it also has me using the app again and again. Untappd taps into this by offering badges for quantity, locale, types and special occasions. Badges – Eagle Scouts are not the only ones that like working toward badges, goal setting and goal achievement are basics of human psychology.(chart after the break)Īgain, it is the balance and combination of several characteristics that make this app addictive and successful: The appeal and staying power of the app is revealed in this chart from App Annie: since its release in October 2011, the app has stayed in the top 250 for Free iOS App Downloads and usually in the top 100. Candy Crush is also free but makes revenue based on in-app purchases that help get through levels users are stuck on (note that one does not have to purchase anything to get through the levels, a user just needs patience…the fact that Candy Crush Saga is leading in revenues is a clear indicator that US app users want instant gratification and are willing to pay for it). This is the opposite approach of the app which is leading in profits in May 2013 on the iOS App Store, Candy Crush Saga. Breweries can register to manage their brand on the site here. By simply giving users the means to track their beers, they are building a huge data warehouse of likes, dislikes and drinking characteristics (when, where, what type, with whom) that any brewery or pub/bar would be mad not to take advantage of.
This app is free, and that, plus making it available on as many platforms as possible, is a genius move by the developers. If you desire, you can include a ranking (one to five bottle caps), a location (from Foursquare’s massive location database), a picture (which, like all social media photo sharing can come back to haunt you) and a comment. The app is simple: you have a beer, you log that beer in UnTappd. That psychology is what all social media type apps should strive for. And that is the beauty of the mixture of social media, location, goals/badges and history/statistics that UnTappd succeeds at: it is an app that you want to share, and after sharing, you encourage your friends to use. If they treated introductions like a MLM scheme, I’d own part of UnTappd by now :). But the rise in Craft Beer brewing and drinking in America (see a good infographic here) has pushed many Americans out of their lager drinking malaise and into enjoying the multitude of tastes that are presented by the craft beer industry. If you haven’t heard of or used the app known as Untappd, you may not be a beer drinker.
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