Financial Fitness with Alan Akina - Make money while watching TV

25 Nov 2013 · 1 min

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In a brief segment of the morning show "Wake Up Today," host Alan Akina introduces Viggle, a smartphone loyalty app that rewards users for watching television. The app samples the TV's audio to automatically check users into the program they are viewing, granting points for each viewing session. Additional points can be earned by interacting with on‑air content through trivia, polls, and voting. Points are redeemable for a variety of rewards such as movie tickets, music, gift cards, or can be donated to charity. Akina shares a personal example, earning 289 points from watching a Thunder‑Rockets basketball game, illustrating the app's practical use.

And speaking of apps, a new app may help you pick up some of your favorite items by watching TV. Alan Akina has more.
Good morning, gang. How would you like to earn rewards points just for watching TV? Sound too good to be true? Well, you can with a new smartphone app called Viggle. Viggle is a new loyalty program that lets you earn points for watching TV. Now here's how it works. Viggle takes a sample of the audio from your TV and checks you into whatever you're watching. Now, I tested it out the other day and earned 289 points for watching the Thunder and Rockets basketball game. You can redeem reward points for items such as movie tickets, music, gift cards, or they can be converted into charitable donations. Additional points can be earned by interacting with what's on air. For example, points are earned for answering trivia questions, polls, and voting. For Wake Up Today, I'm Alan Akina. See you on Wednesday.
Cool stuff. You ever heard of that?
No.
That's interesting.