You Can Now Use American Express Membership Points To Buy Facebook Ads

Wednesday, June 29th, 2011

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American Express this morning announced that customers will now be able to pay for Facebook ads using Membership Rewards points, which the company says are used by millions of American Express small business and consumer Cardmembers.

Cardmembers can redeem Membership Rewards points for Facebook Ads through AmEx OPEN’s Facebook Page or the Membership Rewards program website. Each $6,750 spent can be redeemed for $50 worth of Facebook advertising.

American Express will soon start rolling out a national marketing program to support the launch.

This isn’t the first time AmEx has partnered with a social media company. Just recently, the company expanded its relationship with Foursquare to provide local deals to people who sync their cards to their Foursquare accounts.

Company: Facebook
Website: facebook.com
Launch Date: February 1, 2004
Funding: $2.34B

Facebook is the world’s largest social network, with over 500 million users. Facebook was founded by Mark Zuckerberg in February 2004, initially as an exclusive network for Harvard students. It was a huge hit: in 2 weeks, half of the schools in the Boston area began demanding a Facebook network. Zuckerberg immediately recruited his friends Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes to help build Facebook, and within four months, Facebook added 30 more college networks. The original idea for the term...

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Company: American Express
Launch Date: 1850

American Express is a diversified global financial services company, headquartered in New York City. The company is best known for its credit card, charge card and traveler’s cheque businesses.

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