{"id":5443,"date":"2017-11-24T08:53:03","date_gmt":"2017-11-24T08:53:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/insights.invyo.io\/europe\/?p=5443"},"modified":"2019-04-12T16:43:40","modified_gmt":"2019-04-12T16:43:40","slug":"a-revolut-university-challenge-just-brilliant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/insights.invyo.io\/europe\/industries\/education\/a-revolut-university-challenge-just-brilliant\/","title":{"rendered":"A Revolut University Challenge, Just Brilliant!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Revolut, the one-million clients payment app, is again demonstrating an impressive ability to rapidly expand its customer base across Europe by going after universities.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Revolut launched a <strong>university challenge<\/strong>\u00a0few months ago between European universities to promote its payment services to the new generation.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/insights.invyo.io\/europe\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Techfoliance_revolut-university-challenge.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-5481  alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/insights.invyo.io\/europe\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Techfoliance_revolut-university-challenge.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"371\" height=\"210\" \/><\/a>All students had to do was to sign up for the University Race and get started using Revolut, then rally their friends at university to do the same. By doing so, students had the chance to win a <strong>12-month membership<\/strong> to Revolut Premium, meaning all Revolut features for free excluding insurance.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The race ended last November 15th and more than <strong>100 universities<\/strong> competed all across Europe from France to Lithuania or Lisbon, and leading to <strong>1,000s of new subscibers<\/strong> for the company.<\/p>\n<p>The operation was very successful for Revolut. As an example, the Vilnius University won the challenge, and on boarded almost<strong> 800 students<\/strong>\u00a0who opened an account:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/insights.invyo.io\/europe\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Techfoliance_revolut-european-leaderboard-university-challenge.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-5480 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/insights.invyo.io\/europe\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Techfoliance_revolut-european-leaderboard-university-challenge.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1010\" height=\"570\" srcset=\"https:\/\/insights.invyo.io\/europe\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Techfoliance_revolut-european-leaderboard-university-challenge.png 1010w, https:\/\/insights.invyo.io\/europe\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Techfoliance_revolut-european-leaderboard-university-challenge-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/insights.invyo.io\/europe\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Techfoliance_revolut-european-leaderboard-university-challenge-768x433.png 768w, https:\/\/insights.invyo.io\/europe\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Techfoliance_revolut-european-leaderboard-university-challenge-700x395.png 700w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1010px) 100vw, 1010px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Targeting students is a strategic move for Revolut since they are travelling a lot and need to spend globally without paying additional fees.<\/p>\n<p><strong>We should see more challenges like this one in the coming months from other players since gamification is a powerful growth hacking tool.<\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Read more <strong>here<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Revolut, the one-million clients payment app, is again demonstrating an impressive ability to rapidly expand its customer base across Europe by going after universities. Revolut launched a university challenge\u00a0few months ago between European universities to promote its payment services to the new generation. All students had to do was to sign up for the University [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5485,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1210],"tags":[1528,1811,1812,578,1502,657,280,82,1814,1047,325,339,935,1201,1813,1556,936,1258,903],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>A Revolut University Challenge, Just Brilliant! - INVYO Insights Europe : Media Fintech<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/insights.invyo.io\/europe\/industries\/education\/a-revolut-university-challenge-just-brilliant\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"A Revolut University Challenge, Just Brilliant! - INVYO Insights Europe : Media Fintech\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Revolut, the one-million clients payment app, is again demonstrating an impressive ability to rapidly expand its customer base across Europe by going after universities. 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