On Monday, media company Mashable announced it has teamed up with Visa to introduce its brand new marketplace, Mashable Shop.
To celebrate the launch this holiday season, Mashable and Visa are offering custom apparel and accessories with designs from the Mashable Collective, along with curated, tech-focused products from successful crowd-funded businesses, and products from Visa Checkout merchant, Williams-Sonoma.
Stacy Martinet, chief marketing officer, Mashable, declared:
“As a brand, Mashable is about creating new and interesting ways to bring the best of digital culture to our community, and the Mashable Shop is a great opportunity to do just that.”
Sam Shrauger, senior vice president, digital solutions at Visa, noted:
“Visa Checkout and the Mashable Shop are the perfect pairing this holiday season – giving the Mashable community the ability to pay for the ‘most-wanted’ gifts in two clicks or less. Not only are we offering Mashable readers a fast, easy way to shop and pay for gifts they love, the shop gives Visa’s merchant partners a new digital platform to showcase great holiday gifts this season.”
Marinet then added:
“Visa is leading the charge in digitizing the online consumer experience and we love working with them to curate some of the most fun items on the Internet. Our products will be updated regularly in order to highlight the best of the ever-changing digital world we’re living in.”
Some of the initial products featured on the Mashable Shop include:
- “The World’s Best Travel Jacket” by BauBax
- Gramovox’s Floating Record
- Master & Dynamic’s “Over Ear Headphones”
- The world’s first 3D printing pen – the 3Doodler
- Custom Mashable apparel
- Williams-Sonoma’s “The Smoking Gun”
