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Mobile Content conference in London 18 - 21st November

I’ve just been invited to Chair the whole of day 3, and also sit on a panel at the IIR Mobile Content Conference in London in the next couple of weeks.
The Panel topic is “What Are The Biggest Hurdles To Developing A Profitable Mobile Advertising Ecosystem?” and I will be joined on the panel (Chaired by [...]

Location Based Advertising discussion at LBS 2008 in Berlin

Next week in Berlin, I have been invited to give a keynote at the LBS 2008 conference run by IIR Conferences.  I am no stranger to this event, having spoken at, sponsored and chaired the LBS 2006 conference in London, and the LBS 2007 conference in Madrid.
Since leaving Seeker Wireless in July, I have been inundated [...]

Mobile Advertising Is Broken - Who Will Fix It?

I have had a long association with Peggy Saltz from msearchgroove and she has invited me to write semi-regular guest posts on her site. The latest of these addresses the issues we currently face with mobile advertising.
Peggy gives a great introduction to the post over on msearchgroove, and Jonathan Macdonald, one of the drivers behind [...]

The 3 P’s of mobile advertising from Jonathan MacDonald

At the MMA Mobile Marketing Forum in Budapest, one of the most dynamic and challenging presentations was from fellow mobile advertising evangelist Jonathan MacDonald, who is a Senior Consultant at Ogilvy.
Jonathan explained that Ogilvy puts digital, including mobile in the middle of the equation and this is quite unique for an agency with expertise across [...]

Mobile advertising debate summary from netimperitive roundtable

I was invited to a very interesting roundtable organised by Netimperitive, sponsored by Reactor Mobile and held at the offices of Blyk on Tuesday in London.Â
The attendee list below is a who’s who of the mobile advertising ecosystem, and as such some very healthy and lively debate ensued.
The most common theme of the debate was “why [...]

The impedance effect of the mobile industry

I’m an Engineer from way back, so for me the concept of impedance refers to
“the effective resistance to an alternating electric current arising from the combined effect of ohmic resistance and reactance“.
Translated - it means things and people getting in the way.
As some of you know, I present at conferences and speak to people [...]