Category Archives: Advertisers that use Mobile

Can the iPhone run Flash Ads?

via: Mobile Marketing Watch

At Apple’s iPhone OS 4 announcement, there was the predictable and laughable lack of Flash inclusion once again for the fourth-gen OS.  Though Apple’s new iAd mobile advertising platform will be based on HTML5, where does it leave the rest of the ad-world who does use the seemingly ubiquitous technology?

After the event, during the Q&A portion, Steve Jobs was asked yet again about any future plans regarding Flash — even just in iAds — in which he promptly replied “no.”  It’s now clear that Apple will never use Flash, opting instead for a life of HTML5.  While I’m not saying there’s something wrong with HTML5 from an ad-unit point of view, it’s the simple fact that Flash is used in an astonishingly large amount of ad creative already in use from a brand’s inventory.

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Now, when advertisers choose to adapt to the iAd platform for distribution, they’ll have to completely re-work their Flash-based ad-inventory instead of simply using the tried-and-true ad-units they already have.  What’s the solution?

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Full Screen Mobile Ads

via: Mobile Marketer

Unilever to run full-screen ads on America Movil handsets

Consumer-products giant Unilever and food corporation Grupo Bimbo will run full-screen ads across Latin America and the Caribbean beginning in the fourth quarter of this year.

These brands will target the 190 million subscribers of carrier América Móvil, which has partnered with MyScreen Mobile Inc. to integrate its full-screen interactive mobile advertising service. MyScreen’s patent-pending technology platform delivers full-screen advertisements to the mobile phones of opted-in subscribers and provides them with rewards such as free services, special offers and discounts.

“We met with large advertisers and operators, and we immediately saw a positive response from both parties, because we can deliver a similar brand experience to what advertisers can deliver on a billboard or TV commercial,” said Maurizio Angelone, CEO of MyScreen Mobile, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. “We’re launching commercially in Latin America with the biggest mobile network operator, América Móvil, which will use our platform to deploy this new way of delivering advertising to mobile consumers.

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Using Mobile Advertising to build a Multi Media Brand

via: Mobile Marketer.com

Shape magazine has launched a new iPhone application to help women fit into that little black dress.

The application, Little Black Dress, was developed as part of Shape’s ongoing partnership with mobile fitness developer PumpOne. Little Black Dress provides 12 total body strength training and cardio workouts for women.

“Our strategy was to offer a different kind of fitness app, one that directly links fitness to fashion,” said Sabine Feldmann, publisher and chief brand officer of Shape at Weider Publications, New York. “Shape’s Little Black Dress has a workout for every type of dress style, so a woman can look fit and fabulous for any occasion on her social calendar.

“A woman can be confident that the time she’s spending working out will lead her towards her goal of looking great in her little black dress,” she said.

Shape is a fitness and lifestyle magazine for women and it is published by Weider Publications.

PumpOne creates mobile personal fitness tools.

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According to Shape, the exercises in Little Black Dress are specifically designed to sculpt, shrink and strengthen a woman’s figure in all the right spots to make it ideal for slipping into whichever little black dress style she wants to wear.

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Mobile ROI Report for Brand Advertisers

via: reuters.com

Quattro Wireless
(www.quattrowireless.com), the leading premier global mobile ad network, today
announced it is celebrating the company's third birthday with the release of
the first Mobile R.O.I. Report for Brands: Results and Objectives Indexes for
Mobile Advertising. The report shows that mobile advertising, once thought of
as the medium of mobile personalization advertisers - such as ringtones -- has
become an effective strategy for brand and premium direct response marketers.
Industries that want to reach a broad audience, such as CPGs, Autos, Finance,
and Entertainment, are embracing the medium by integrating mobile into their
marketing mix and developing innovative and engaging creative, thus driving
more consumers to click, respond and buy. The findings also make it clear --
by illustrating that animated ads are twice as effective as text ads, and that
expanding ads also drive higher click-throughs - that those marketers and
agencies that provide an engaging experience and take advantage of consumer
behavior will make the most of their mobile investments. The executive summary
of the report can be downloaded at

http://quattro.typepad.com/my_weblog/2009/10/q2-2009-mobile-roi-report-for-brands.html

As the largest and fastest-growing premium global mobile ad network, Quattro
Wireless analyzes more than 10 billion mobile actions each month - ad
requests, served impressions, and user actions such as page views, clicks and
video plays - to target and optimize ad campaigns and provide insights to
marketers and publishers on consumer behavior. In this new report, Quattro has
analyzed its over 4 billion ads sold and served per month during Q2 2009 to
produce valuable insights for the industry. This data can be used to benchmark
campaigns and understand trends in the usage of mobile devices in a rapidly
changing market.  

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Andy Miller, Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder of Quattro Wireless, said,
"The entire team at Quattro Wireless is proud of becoming the leading premium
global mobile ad network in just three short years. Thanks to the hard work
and dedication of Quattro employees, we have built a sustainable business and
successful partnerships with many of the world's largest marketers, agencies
and publishers. Today, we are excited to release our first Mobile R.O.I.
Report for Brands, which continues to demonstrate our ability to deliver value
to our clients and to promote the mobile channel as a critical component of
driving ROI for all marketers." 

In addition to bringing new publishers and advertisers into the mobile
marketing space, Quattro Wireless has been recognized by its peers and the
business community with multiple awards and honors. In 2009, these included:
CEO Andy Miller named Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of  The Year 2009 in the
Emerging Company category in New England;  selection as a Northeast 100 Top
Private Company by AlwaysOn Media; and selection by the Massachusetts
Innovation & Technology Exchange as a finalist for the Mobile 2009 category in
the 14th Annual MITX Interactive Awards, for its campaign for the Concha y
Toro Xplorador brand of wine. 

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How valuable are customers from different mobile channels?

via: Mobile Marketer

That question should be legitimate to ask as more retailers such as fast food giants Pizza Hut and Papa John’s generate record sales from mobile customers.

Among the key mobile channels to consider are Web site, SMS, application, display ads, search, email, carrier portal and brand-specific mobile devices such as Amazon’s Kindle and Barnes & Noble’s Nook.

As reported last week in this publication by staff reporter Dan Butcher, Pizza Hut claimed $1 million in incremental sales from its three-month-old iPhone application (see story). Papa John’s, too, had already set an earlier milestone from mobile ordering, reported here earlier in the year.

What is this telling the market? That consumers are becoming increasingly comfortable with shopping and buying through their mobile device.

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Why invest in Mobile Advertising

Why recession is a great time to invest in mobile

via MobiThinking

With doom and gloom in abundance, the knee-jerk reaction for companies is to trim all marketing budgets, mobile included. Don’t. If consumers are changing their purchasing habits, surely this is the most important time to be talking to them (before your competitors do)? So why not choose mobile: the most cost-effective and targeted of channels.

MMA chief Mike Wehrs makes a convincing case for mobile marketing in times of recession in this interview. But mobiThinking wanted to go even further, so we’ve rounded up the latest analyst research and the views of the marketing elite.

First to the marketing folks…
mobiThinking approached the authors of two of the world’s most popular marketing blogs (both Top 10 in the Power 150 for their opinion.

Chris Brogan, founder, Chrisbrogan.com:
“I say marketers should shift a bit more of their budget into experiments during a recession, because that’s where the breakthrough opportunities will come. If you already know the results of the tried-and-true, then you know what your budget can sustain. But what if you tried mobile and got a huge boost? That would be worth it. For that reason alone, shifting some investment into mobile marketing would be a good call, in my estimation.”

Piers Fawkes, founder, PSFK:
“It’s about thinking different rather than investing more. Consider how applications can help deliver your brand experience and service rather than sending a message to a phone that is disconnected with a product and service. Applications are leading this charge, but I find it hard to differentiate Web spend and mobile spend when it comes to their development – it’s really the same thing these days.”

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Are there any Advertisers that only advertise through Mobile Channels?

via Mobile Marketing Watch

Advertiser: Volkswagen GTI goes all Mobile, Oct-2009

Volkswagen has announced its intention to exclusively use mobile marketing to promote the release of its latest version of the GTI.

Although mobile channels have been used by myriad car makers in the past, the decision to exclusively restrict marketing endeavors to the mobile realm is both gutsy and inspiring.

The German car manufacturer will promote the new GTI through a free game application available to iPhone users. Those who download the “Real Racing GTI” app are incentivized to do so by being automatically entered into a drawing to win one of six limited editions of the vehicle.

According to Tim Ellis, VP of marketing for Volkswagen in the US, the decision to dedicate exclusive focus to mobile marketing was based on the general interests and preference of the typical GTI driver – one who is described as “a tech-savvy consumer who enjoys social networking, playing games and spending time on mobile devices.”

I wonder if the folks at Volkswagen realize that the Android is coming on strong…

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