First Foursquare Campaign in Barcelona

Oh-Barcelona.com, the accommodation specialists, offer a the first ever Mayor special for foursquare users in the city of Barcelona, Spain. The mayor of their venue will win a free scooter rental for a weekend.

Barcelona, Spain, August 21, 2010 --(PR.com)-- Oh-Barcelona.com, the accommodation specialists, offer a Mayor special for users of the new hit location-based social media service foursquare.

Oh-Barcelona.com, located in the heart of Barcelona, have just launched one of the first promotional campaigns in Barcelona to feature the American social media service foursquare.

From 15 August to 12 September 2010 foursquare users have the possibility to win prizes by checking in at Oh-Barcelona.com’s venue. Prizes include discounts and a free scooter rental provided by Barcelona-based company Cooltra.

The person who checks in the most times at the foursquare venue “Oh-Barcelona.com” becomes the mayor of this venue. The user who is officially the Mayor of Oh-Barcelona.com when the competition ends on 12 September at 10pm) will win the top prize of the competition, which is a free scooter rental for a weekend. Also, for each check-in users can claim a discount of 10% on all scooter rentals and tours.

Foursquare is an American location-based social media service. Its "game" character has recently made it very popular among mobile internet users in the USA and the UK. Users can collect points by “checking in” at venues in a certain radius around them. Venues are listed on Google maps and Smartphones such the iPhone or Blackberry can detect existing venues via foursquare. The person who collects the most points by checking in at a venue then becomes the “Mayor” of this venue until another user then check in more times and replaces them at the top.

Oh-Barcelona.com’s partner for their foursquare campaign is the scooter rental specialist of Cooltra. The Barcelona based company offers a variety of different scooters, group experiences as well as guided city tours.

In order to enter the competition it is necessary to use the foursquare application on a mobile phone device such as iPhone, Android or Blackberry. For checking in at the venue called Oh-Barcelona.com users have to be within a radius of approx. 2 km from the actual venue.

The venue Oh-Barcelona.com is located at c/ Roger de Lluria 50, near Passeig de Gracia, in the city centre of Barcelona.

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