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Mobile advertising hits the mainstream press

I am encouraged to see that more and more stories about mobile advertising are starting to appear in the mainstream press, and not just advertising and mobile industry trade magazines.
While I was sifting through my weekend reading, which consists of the Financial Times, New Media Age, Campaign, Marketing Week, The Daily Telegraph and the Economist, [...]

mobile advertising quote of the week

In this week’s Campaign, there is a quote that could not go unreported.  As part of the Economist’s advertorial on inspiration, they interviewed Will Collin (left) who is a founding partner of Naked Communications about “inspiration”.
In the Q&A that followed, he was asked “what idea should we be taking more seriously”.
In his response (copied below) he singles [...]

Britain’s top 10 private media companies

The Daily Telegraph newspaper in London has been running a series on the “Britain’s biggest private companies” over the last week or so - covering the top 10 retailers, property, manufacturers, food and drink, transport and leisure, business services, financial services, utilities, and resources companies in Britain.
As quoted from the Telegraph website:
Many of Britain’s biggest [...]

Turning your brand into a destination - literally with naming rights for the Dubai Metro

Looking through this week’s Economist, my eye was drawn to a full page ad, promoting the naming rights for the Dubai Metro - to be completed in 2009.  The print ad directs you to the Road and Traffic Authority’s website for the Government of Dubai, which then points to a special website www.metronamingrights.com.

Here, there is [...]