{"id":326239,"date":"2019-11-05T08:55:41","date_gmt":"2019-11-05T06:55:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=326239"},"modified":"2019-11-06T06:54:45","modified_gmt":"2019-11-06T04:54:45","slug":"google-launches-play-points-rewards-for-android","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/326239-google-launches-play-points-rewards-for-android.html","title":{"rendered":"Google launches Play Points rewards for Android"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google <a href=\"https:\/\/www.blog.google\/products\/google-play\/google-play-points-rewards-program-all-ways-you-play\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>launched<\/strong><\/a> its new Play Points rewards programme in the United States this week.<\/p>\n<p>The feature has been available in Japan since September 2018 and was introduced to South Korean users in April this year.<\/p>\n<p>Play Points lets Android smartphone users earn rewards by buying and downloading apps from the Google Play Store. Subscriptions also earn customers rewards points.<\/p>\n<p>These points can be redeemed for credit in the Google Play Store or used for in-app purchases.<\/p>\n<p>Users can also donate their points to a selection of non-profit organisations, including Doctors Without Borders USA and the World Food Program USA.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Reward levels<\/h3>\n<p>The system includes four reward tiers that offer different perks.<\/p>\n<p>Each tier offers increased points earnings for every dollar a user spends.<\/p>\n<p>The bottom Bronze tier rewards users with 1 point for every dollar spent, while the top Platinum tiers gives 1.4 points per dollar.<\/p>\n<p>Users will have to spend a certain amount to stay within a particular tier.<\/p>\n<p>The program is free to join via a simple sign-up process within the Play Store app.<\/p>\n<p>Google has not revealed plans for the rollout of Play Points in South Africa and other countries.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read: <a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/business\/326229-facebook-owns-instagram-and-whatsapp-and-wants-you-to-know-it.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Facebook owns Instagram and WhatsApp, and wants you to know it<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google launched its new Play Points rewards programme in the United States this week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":326449,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[167,61693,45108,22331],"class_list":["post-326239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","tag-google","tag-play-points","tag-play-store","tag-rewards"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326239"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=326239"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326239\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":326253,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326239\/revisions\/326253"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/326449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=326239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=326239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=326239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}