Yesterday in the Times Newspaper a great 16 page supplement from Raconteur Media was included on mobile marketing – with great quotes from a number of leading companies and figures from the UK mobile marketing scene – including a number of MMA members.
You can download the PDF or browse the document online. Either way – it [...]
As suggested by the UK arm of the IAB.
Nice set of quotes from well known practitioners in this space. Worth a quick look and a re-tweet etc
Simply use http://tr.im/tenthings to re-tweet easily.
1. It’s an always on medium. Consumers love their mobile phones so much that researchers found when they took peoples phones away for a day they [...]
I have been watching the Adfonic guys with interest since I met them in London prior to Mobile World Congress.
I saw Paul and Wes last night at a function pre-launch and I asked them who they saw their major competitors were. “Admob” was the answer. I’m happy to give them some promotion below and enclose [...]
While not exactly mobile related, I received this interesting piece of news that Getty Images has teamed up with Flickr.
According to the PR who sent me the details,  “Getty Images embarked on this partnership was to offer its clients the chance to purchase genuine, unexpected imagery which would otherwise be unable to be licensed”.
More information from [...]
I met Aran Hamilton at Mobile World Congress, and he could not tell me much about his current project, but he has been in touch to reveal that Zoompass is now live. More from the release below – it looks really interesting.
Zoompass, Canada’s first mobile payment service is a new fast, safe, and convenient way [...]
Over at Sky News, there is an interesting report on how Dell and others are making real money from twitter.
Quoting from the story:Â
Dell embraced social media in 2007, and set up their @DellOutlet account to advertise discounts on refurbished products.
It also publishes promotions exclusive to 600,000 Twitter followers.
Dell now has a string of accounts and [...]
As reported in Mobile Marketer Magazine by Giselle Tsirulnik, Unilever have been looking at the effectiveness of mobile coupons.
Stephanie Kovner-Bryant, senior integrated marketing manager of Unilever was quoted in the article as saying
“The reason we wanted to test this it is it is an exciting technology for us. A big part of strategy has to do [...]
I picked up this article in New Media Age about Nick Hynes, who successfully founded the Search Works has started a new mobile agency called SOMO.
According to the article, the agency is also being backed by ex-Overture CTO Carl Uminski and Simon Edelstyn, former director of syndication at Google.
Somo, which currently employs nine staff, will offer clients [...]
Brad Howarth, writing for B&T Magazine in Australia has published a “Top 50 Australian marketing blogs” list. Each year B&T look at the blogosphere in Australia and anoint their top 50. This is their definitive list for 2009 and comes from the work of Julian Cole at Adspace-pioneers.blogspot.com. Interesting that a mobile blog scrapes in at number [...]
I received an interesting report from Jumiper – reproduced below.
HAMPSHIRE, UK: June, 3rd 2009 — Advertising budgets for mobile channels are expected to buck the downward trend and exhibit strong growth over the next five years, according to a new report from Juniper Research.
The report found that constraints on budgets, imposed in the wake of [...]
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