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December 14, 2018

Hallmark Teams Up with Alexa to Send Holiday Greeting Cards

Alexa Skill Blueprints customers can send Hallmark greeting cards to Alexa-enabled devices this holiday season

Kansas City, Mo. (Dec. 14, 2018) – Hallmark is teaming up with Amazon to offer personalized holiday greeting cards through Alexa Skill Blueprints, a way for anyone to create and share customized Alexa skills in just minutes. The greetings are available on the Alexa Skill Blueprints website and include custom Hallmark images and personalized messages.

“Advancing our work with Amazon is a top priority for Hallmark,” said Sara Beth Burton, general manager of digital commercialization with Hallmark Greetings. “As more consumers rely on voice services like Alexa in their daily lives, we thought this would be an opportunity for us to test new technology and make Hallmark greetings available in a new way.”

This month, Amazon launched the new Hallmark Holiday Greeting blueprint on its Alexa Skill Blueprints website. Skill Blueprints enable anyone to create and share their own personalized Alexa skills using a set of easy-to-use templates—no coding required. When a customer clicks on the Hallmark Holiday Greetings blueprint, they receive step-by-step instructions guiding them through the process of creating the skill. Customers can select a theme featuring artwork designed by a Hallmark artist and choose a message written by Hallmark writers and narrated by Alexa. There are also options to record custom messages and upload custom background images. Then the customer can share their skill with others so the recipients can receive their Hallmark greeting card through their own Alexa-enabled devices.

“The holidays can be hectic—that’s why we’re excited to team up with Hallmark to make it easy for Alexa customers to send personalized holiday greeting cards to their friends and family,” said Rob Pulciani, Vice President, Amazon Alexa. “The new Hallmark Greeting Card blueprint makes it easy for customers to stay connected with their loved ones in a unique and fun way through voice.”

Media Contacts

JiaoJiao Shen
Hallmark Cards, Inc.
(816) 274-4873
jiaojiao.shen@hallmark.com

About Hallmark

About Hallmark

For more than 100 years, family-owned Hallmark Cards, Inc. has been dedicated to creating a more emotionally connected world. Headquartered in Kansas City, Missouri, and employing more than 20,000 worldwide, the company operates a diversified portfolio of businesses. The Hallmark business designs and sells greeting cards, gifts, ornaments and gift packaging in more than 30 languages with distribution in nearly 100 countries and 100,000 rooftops worldwide, including a network of company-owned and independently-owned Hallmark Gold Crown stores in five countries. Hallmark Media is entertainment’s leading destination for feel-good content and operates three cable networks – Hallmark Channel, Hallmark Mystery, and Hallmark Family. Hallmark+, launched in 2024, is our streaming service and membership program delivering the very best of Hallmark all in one place, featuring a blend of all new, exclusive original series, movies, and other feel-good content plus monthly discounts and rewards for shopping at Hallmark retail stores and at Hallmark.com. Crown Center is a real estate development company that manages the 85-acre hotel, office, entertainment and residential campus surrounding Hallmark’s headquarters. Crayola® offers a wide range of art materials and creative play toys designed to spark children’s creativity around the globe. For more information, visit Hallmark.com. Connect on Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, Pinterest, YouTube, and LinkedIn.