Get your message out to THE most loyal community.
With over 65,000 Loyal Members and the ability to reach over 6 Million fans – Buckeye Nation Rewards is Ohio State University’s most powerful engagement platform.
We provide exclusive access to Ohio State's ever-growing community around the World.
Ohio State has the 3rd largest Student Enrollment in the Country with 18 graduate and professional programs in the top 10 (U.S. News and World Report)
Our Faculty and Staff support more than 200 academic centers and institutes, where research, policy-making, knowledge creation and student engagement happen daily across many disciplines
Buckeye Alum are in all 88 OH counties, 50 states and 171 countries worldwide. Our living Alum have contributed over $681,808,654 in lifetime receipts to date.
What is BNR?
Buckeye Nation Rewards (BNR) is THE Official Loyalty Program of The Ohio State University. BNR is designed to creatively deliver sponsored content to our members and their friends/family through fun, gamified challenges, prizes, and social content.
This unique format gives Ohio State and its partners unprecedented ways to engage and target our ever-growing community in a fun and rewarding way.
BNR Lives Online
Users can signup and participate online at buckeyenationrewards.com through our easy to use and mobile friendly design.
And via Our App
Additionally, we've launched the Buckeye Nation Rewards app which provides our users with even more ways to earn and participate + more ways for us to reach them through push notifications and advanced smartphone functionality.
With BNR, everybody wins.
Because we incorporate gamification into our system, we help our sponsors generate incredible results though fun, incentivized actions, challenges and games that are rewarding for our users, and beneficial for our sponsors.
We connect our licensees and sponsors with THE best fans in the land both on the ground on campus and across the nation digitally with our vast fanbase and alumni network.
Our Sponsorship Opportunities Make an Impact
BNR was built to serve as a fun and interactive destination for our community and sponsors. Our technology and platform allows us to integrate sponsored content, games and systems to increase the number of ways our sponsors can connect with our passionate community.
We're about more than just impressions and clicks.
Through BNR you can sponsor specific "Challenges" to drive actions and results for your business.
Watching A Video
We can prompt our users to watch a video of your choices. From commercials to educational content, we can get users to watch and learn.
Reading An Article
If you have an announcement of offer you would like or members to know about, we can setup Article Challenges to make sure your content is viewed.
Targeted Ads
BNR provides various, effective ways to accommodate and track standard and non-standard Ad Units
Completing a Survey
Looking for insights or feedback? We can setup a custom survey for our members who are rewarded for completing it.
Visiting a Location
Through the BNR App, we can reward members for visiting a physical location. Once they arrive they can unlock special offers or rewards.
Playing Games
BNR provides various, effective ways to accommodate and track standard and non-standard Ad Units
Sharing to Social Media
We can setup a custom post with the content, copy and link of your choosing. Users then share it to their own personal network where their friends and followers see the post.
Reading an Email
Through the BNR App, we can reward members for visiting a physical location. Once they arrive they can unlock special offers or rewards.
Purchasing Items
Looking to boost sales? We can reward our members for making verified purchases via our own system, or one your own platform.
Promote your Business through one of our innovative methods.
Targeted Outreach
We can target specific segments within our audience to drive your promotions and messaging to your ideal target audience though a variety of channels and techniques.
Gamified Engagement
Our content is worth engaging with meaning you get results at a large scale. We’ve developed “Challenge” types that are designed to help you achieve your business goals.
Custom Activations
From technology integrations to live experiential events, our team and platform helps you execute the perfect activation that is sure to be a hit with our community.