We’re delighted to announce that the Drinksin iPhone App is now available to download for Free from the Apple App store for your iPhone, iPod Touch or iPad. Filled to the rafters with all the pub information you will ever need to have the most fun in the neighborhood you’re in right now.
The app is available for use Globally with data currently available for the UK, West Coast US and Zagreb, Croatia. Watch this space for other countries coming up soon.
Features
What’s On Nearby: One tap takes you straight to events happening in pubs and bars just round the corner from where you’re stood.
Offers Nearby: If you’re strapped for cash or just love a bargain, use this feature to access money saving offers and promotions from pubs and bars nearby. From food and drink offers to group discounts and incentives, they’re all there waiting for you.
Pubs Nearby: Not sure what pubs are nearby but fancy a drink, or need somewhere to meet a colleague for a coffee meeting. Tap the screen for a list and full details of venues nearby (includes photos, description, and contact info – even use the directions feature for a step by step guide on how to get to your venue of choice.
What’s next?
Over the coming weeks and months Drinksin will be adding lots of new features and services to the application including 1000’s more pub listings from up and down the UK and Worldwide. Expect enhanced search features, user tip-offs as well as a heap more offers and events to make sure you can have the most fun with minimum planning fuss. Some other top secret goodies also coming up but we have all been sworn to secrecy at Drinksin HQ. As soon as we can tell, you’ll be the first to know.
We’d love to hear what you think about the app and any suggestions you have for the future, you can contact us at support@drinksin.com or say hi via the contact us form on this blog.
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Yesterday saw the launch of an update to Footy Pubs 2010. The Free mobile app available on iPhone and Nokia handsets.
Users can now find pubs showing the World Cup by searching for venue name, street, town, city and postcode as well as all the usual nice stuff such as hitting matches nearby to find a list of pubs near to your location.
The second big improvement to the app, is a new feature called Offers. This brings up all pubs nearby with offers and special World Cup promotions, helping you not only pick the best spot to watch the footy this summer but also save money – nice! Unfortunately we can’t promise that Capello’s boy’s sparkle on the pitch, but here’s hoping the next match blows us all away…at least you’ll have a nice pint in your hand
Download Footy Pubs 2010 today for your iPhone or Nokia here
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To celebrate the launch of
Ovi maps and to help get customers in the mood this footbal season, Drinksin has partnered with
Nokia to bring the
‘Footy Pubs 2010’ application to
Nokia’s new navigation optimised phones.
Footy Pubs 2010, launching 1st June will help you plan where to watch the World Cup, by leading you directly to pubs nearby showing matches nearby using GPS technology and Ovi maps.
To promote this summer’s football season, Nokia and Drinksin have also partnered with Phones4U, the UK’s fastest growing independent mobile phone retailer with more than 440 stores nationwide for a football focused poster campaign across all Phones4U outlets.
Jaime Keenan of Drinksin, interviewed David Murray-Hundley, Drinksin CEO to talk about the partnership and understand a little more on how the partnership will benefit Nokia’s and Drinksin’s customers.
Why have Drinksin and Nokia decided to partner on this application?
It’s a win for both sides. We had already developed Footy Pubs 2010 as an iPhone app and were keen to explore other areas of the market, so Nokia was a great choice, considering how many phone units in the world Nokia have. For Nokia it was about the data we were able to provide and the app fitting in nicely with the launch of Ovi Maps on the Ovi Store, whilst also being a great product to boost traffic around the World Cup.
Tell us a little more about the app?
In simple terms, it finds your location and then gives you a list of bars and the matches they are showing. Or you can look for a particular match and it will find a bar nearest to you. Also helps you find your way to the pub. Keep thinking we should have an app that also helps find your way home, if alcoholic beverages are your choice for a football game. It also works in its own right after World Cup fever has ended.
What are the benefits of the partnership for Drinksin?
Coverage. We have in the last 6 months really built up our traffic and now its time to really start delivering benefits to our users and the bar community. So Nokia opens up a whole new window for us and I’m very excited to be associated with the brand.
Times are tough in the drinks industry right now, with unprecedented pub closures across the country. How can the Nokia and Drinksin partnership benefit the on-trade?
It’s about people in pubs and sometimes the right pubs, so I think being able to almost create an experience for a user before they even get to the pub is great. Being able to allow pubs to push what they are doing, not just on a sandwich board in the street but in a way that modern users want to find information means they will get new visibility.
How do you see the Nokia Drinksin partnership evolving in the future?
We are talking about a number of options. Would like to work with Nokia on some off our non-UK specific ideas and also some ideas around Rugby, Ozzie rules football etc.
The location based space is very exciting right now, what does Drinksin offer that makes it different?
We actually do something with it. I get frustrated that everyone goes on about it and the app tells me, I am here!! Well I already knew that, what I want to know is where are my options and how do I get there.
Any exciting football related stories to tell us on a final note?
I am rubbish at football. This is a fact well known to a lot of people. I once met Pele in a bar in Monte Carlo and challenged him to a game of kick about in casino square. Obviously he didn’t take me up my offer, but then introduced me to at the time some very famous football players. I had no idea who they were until the next day, when someone told me. He was a nice guy, we shared some drinks and that’s the only story I have.
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The Drinksin ‘Footy Pubs 2010’ mobile app helps customers plan where to watch this summer’s football, and will lead them directly to your door.
Drinksin, are offering all publicans FREE use of the application to ensure the UK’s 2 million iPhone users and 3 million Nokia smartphone users can access the best pubs and bars available to watch the football this summer.
1 - Register your venue
2 - Tick the box against the games you are showing
3 – Add any Footy promotions and offers
4 – Await your Welcome Email onto the application
5 - Customers in your area will be led via GPS directions straight to your door, not your competition
To register your pub or bar for Free, go to: www.drinksin.com/worldcup
How does it work:
The app developed by Drinksin, will work anywhere in the UK and offer fully up-to-date venue and match information, special offers and promotions from registered outlets.
The Match Planner tool will help users plan which pubs to watch crucial matches in – users can just select their city and match they want to see for a list of participating pubs.
Or if out and about with mates, users can tap the Matches Nearby button, which uses GPS to locate them, for immediate access to a list of pubs showing the game just around the corner from where they’re stood.
To drive as many visitors as possible. The app provides directions, so users can just look at the map, follow the arrows, and arrive at your outlet to order that drink. The application’s share features also makes it easy for users to tell their friends to come and meet them.
To make the most of this FREE opportunity to drive more customers into your pub for the World’s Greatest Football Tournament.
Register your Pub in just 2 minutes, for free today at http://www.drinksin.com/worldcup
iPhone Screenshots:
Nokia Screenshots:
Register your Pub in just 2 minutes, for free today at http://www.drinksin.com/worldcup
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