Sunday, November 27, 2016

What happened to GetGlue?

GetGlue started in June 2010, as a social network allowing users to "check in" to TV shows, movies and other media they are consuming via a website or mobile app. Most noticeably, users were able to earn stickers when checking in, and could redeem up to 20 of them each month to be mailed to them at no cost. In November 2013, GetGlue was acquired by I.TV and the ability to earn physical stickers was removed, limiting users to collecting only "digital stickers." In January 2014, GetGlue changed its name to TVTag and further features were removed from the website/app. These changes led to a lot of members abandoning the network. In December of that same year, TVTag announced that it was closing down, barely a year after it was acquired by I.TV.

TVTag has since been succeeded by Telfie, an app which operates similarly to the old version of GetGlue.