To our valued partners,

We are fully aware of the turbulent times we are in and and strongly believe that we will overcome these difficult days together with unity and solidarity.

Although we can not be physically together as a team, we are fully on top of our business, only this time working remotely from our homes. As a technology company, we are efficiently managing remote working while keeping our spirits up and not lose our joy as a team during this period.

Internally, we have taken all the necessary steps towards keeping our employees safe and encouraged them to stay home and be cautious at all times.

You may reach out to us anytime -through dropping us an e-mail at hello(at)blesh(dot)com– as we are here to help you for all of your location-based intelligence and advertising needs. We continue to be prepared for everything as much as possible, and follow all developments very closely.

We wish everyone healthy days ahead. Please stay at home and keep your spirits up.

-Blesh

Blesh CEO Gözde Alemli was a guest speaker at the 5th Digital Analytics Summit, held at Bogazici University’s Albert Long Hall on November 28th, 2018, along with Onur Erbay (Hopi), Yomi Kastro (Inveon) and Hale Korkmaz (İşbank).

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OMD Turkey targeted audiences on screens in real-time for HP’s Sprocket campaign using Blesh micro location data and programmatic OOH provider Awarion, resulting in a first in OOH (Out-of-Home) marketing. Continue Reading…

Turkey’s largest private bank, İşbank, strongly retains the practice of giving out money boxes to its junior customers, a practice originally launched back in 1929 to increase savings awareness in the society. Now to trigger and inspire its new generation of junior customers to save more, Blesh and İşbank partnered for the digital version, named the Digital Money Box. Continue Reading…

GSMA’s Mobile World Congress (MWC) is having its America debut with MWC Americas during 12-14 September in San Francisco’s Moscone Center. Blesh is attending the congress with its Atlanta team, promoting its IoT products as well as showcasing why Atlanta is the most mobile-friendly city in the U.S. Continue Reading…

The Ramadan month was over at the end of June and the Muslims all around the world joyously celebrated Eid al-Fitr by visiting families and friends as well as traveling. The three-day feast began on Sunday, June 25th and ended on June 27th.

Ramadan feast is a marvellous time for families to gather and spend time together which results in many people traveling across country to meet with their loved ones. Since the feast is in summer, it also marks the beginning of the summer holidays when many individuals take the week off for a longer escape. This all meant a surge in airport traffic and we were ready to see how feast would effect footfall in big cities, vacation spots, airports and malls.
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 Written by Bilgehan Işıklı, iOS Developer at Blesh

The idea of cross platform development tools is very appealing, I get it. Instead of dealing with two different development processes, you get to work on only one and Voilà, you have your Android and iOS applications. I mean, who doesn’t want that, you get your product for half the price. However, that is not the case most of the time: yes, for not-that-complex projects, you can accomplish this at a certain level, but things start to get ugly when you get your feet wet enough.  Continue Reading…

…Can they find their way home? Travelling season is on and we saw wanderlust travellers in Turkey flocking to airports to escape the overwhelming city life. In the last 90 days, we saw more than 150K travellers travelling domestically (60%) and abroad (40%).

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After work drinks, strolling through the sea side, office lunches outside and lounging at the parks…. May is the favourite month of many white collar people in Istanbul, as that is when spring truly arrives there. After a very long winter which seemed to extend to late-April this year, most greeted May with much needed joy as it was finally warm enough to go outside.

Right before the summer season, when most of them will escape the city for their already planned holidays, we thought we’d have a look at how they spent their time during their favourite month. See the full infographic here. Continue Reading…

With Turkey becoming one of the newest members of ECSEL JU (Electronic Components and Systems for European Leadership Joint Undertaking), Blesh had the opportunity to present a new R&D project and submit its proposal at the ECSEL Call Forum 2017 in Brussels on March 2nd, 2017. Continue Reading…

Beacon enthusiasts can now see beacons for airports and banks full in action at the recently opened Samsung Innovation Center in Istanbul.

Open for a full year at River Plaza, the Samsung Innovation Center includes Samsung’s IoT (Internet of Things) solutions for various purposes and verticals, including Samsung’s own devices as well as of companies in its Samsung Enterprise Alliance Program (SEAP). Continue Reading…

Blesh has recently partnered with Volkswagen Turkey for its smart key fobs, to be sold online and handed out to new buyers starting from November 2016.

The smart key fob is a beacon itself, as it works with Bluetooth Smart (aka Bluetooth Low Energy). It is paired with Volkswagen’s mobile app, “Volkswagenim” (My Volkswagen).
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Retail Technology Awards, established by The International Data Corporation Turkey to honor the achievements in industry technological innovations within Turkey, awarded Unilever the third place in the Big Data & Analytics category for its Algida Cabinet Beacon Tracking project.

Unilever and Blesh partnered for the project to track the Algida icecream cabinets throughout Turkey.  Unilever came up to Blesh for a solution to track the location of the cabinets to ensure they are in the correct location and not lost.

Blesh beacons were placed on the cabinets and by signals received from 100+ apps on the Blesh network,  Unilever was able to see the location of the cabinets and track them in real time individually.

Startup 100, established to select top performing startups in Turkey as well as encouraging their growth and expansion, has selected this year’s top 100 performing startups, judged by an independent panel of highly acclaimed thought leaders in business, technology and marketing. Blesh was selected as one of the top 10 performing startups, placing at number 7.

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Blesh has raised $2.5M so far in its on-going Series A funding. The round is being led by TRPE Capital along with existing investors Ali Sabanci, Turgut Gürsoy, Emre Berkin and Kemal Ciliz.

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We went for a full dive in all the data we received from our beacons and came up with a new infographic! Along with an update on our total number of beacons deployed, this time we also analyzed cross-location visits for airports, retail shops, banks and malls. 

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