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Keep Track of Santa As He Comes To (your) Town with Glympse Santa Tracker

Keep Track of Santa with Santa Tracker

Santa Claus is coming to your town soon so it’s time to start hanging those stockings and think about how to make the season great for your residents with our upcoming Glympse Santa Tracker.

Over the years, fire departments and cities have used the Glympse mobile app and its tags feature to create an easy, secure and safe way to share Santa’s location with their community residents during December Santa caravans, local parades, festivals and events.

Starting in October 2023, we will provide a way for you to customize our app to allow groups to brand the experience. With Glympse Santa Tracker, you will be able to create a unique name for your Santa, update your city’s logo and brand, save multiple Santa routes, and spread the holiday cheer to as many people as you like.

Perfect for parades, Santa caravans, local festivals and events.

Glympse Santa Tracker creates a link specific to your Santa and your event. Share it broadly with your community by posting it to your website, sending on social media, emailing to others, turn it into a QR code and more. Anyone who clicks on the link will see your Santa’s real-time location for the event – with or without downloading the Glympse app. Glympse Santa Tracker makes it easy!

  • Personalize Glympse vanity tags with Santa avatars, colors, images, logos, messages and more.
  • Create up to 7 routes for Santa, based on your event and community preferences. The community will get an Uber-like experience as they watch Santa on his route.
  • Add personal messages from Santa. Whether it’s a cheerful greeting or instructions about your event, you’ll bring an extra touch of enchantment to the experience.
  • Use Santa Tracker to promote your organization or special offers; you can include ads or links on a dedicated web page to recognize sponsors, promote events, and help everyone feel merry and bright!

The Coolest “Santa Tracker” is Coming to Town with Glympse Santa Tracker

  • Perfect for fire departments, local governments and community organizations for their parades, Santa caravans, local festivals and events.
  • Children don’t need to freeze outside while waiting to wave to Santa for Santa while he roams the city streets. Parents can track his route and magically arrive just when Santa is expected to go by.
  • Give Santa the freedom to walk around your event or festival, and engage with more people. Everyone can easily find him on the app.

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) about Glympse Santa Tracker

  1. How can I get started with my own Glympse Santa Tracker for a magical experience?
    • This unique solution is coming to town October 2023 on the Glympse App. In the meantime, please see here to learn more.
  2. How accurate is the location and tracking?
    • Glympse is a worldwide, award-winning, geo-location technology company. The public will see real-time updates in an easy user interface with highly accurate location data.
  3. Can I customize Glympse for my brand?
    • Yes! You can customize the Santa avatar, logo, colors, header links, routes and even special messages to make the magic even more personalized. (If you don’t want to customize, we have several festive templates to choose from).
  4. How do I share Glympse with my community?
    • Glympse creates a link specific to your Santa and your event. Share it broadly with your community by posting it to your website, sending on social media, emailing to others, turn it into a QR code and more. Anyone who clicks on the link will see your Santa’s real-time location for the event – with or without downloading the Glympse app.

Our Elves Are Standing By

For the organization or business that creates a Glympse Santa Tracker, the cost is just $99 for the year. You’ll receive a link specific to your community. Share that link on social media, your website, newsletters – anywhere! Anyone in the community who taps or clicks the link will track Santa for free – no cost, no app, and no downloads required!

Glympse: The most trusted name in global geo-location technology

Most of the year, we here at Glympse are helping people and businesses share their location safely, securely and temporarily. We pioneered this field, and we’ve been deployed on +1 billion devices and with some of the biggest brands in the world. If you want to know more, visit us online.