Posts Tagged ‘Mobile Media’

Mobile for the masses

February 16 2010

It's just a matter of time (measured in days).

It's just a matter of time (measured in days).

How important will be is mobile advertising and mobile marketing? It’s difficult to wrap your brain around that fact that advertising is being disbursed on a one-to-one basis so quickly and into so many emerging markets. As long-time advocates of one-to-one marketing we want to embrace this shift and seek new and better ways to tie mobile into consumer or B2B marketing programs. Researching…

The Economist sheds new light on why we (Americans) are not the center of the universe when it comes to mobile marketing. However, many of our current customers are now reaching out to decision makers in these markets as technical infrastructure, cloud computing and other solutions find ways into India, Africa and Eastern Europe. That happening today.

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Mobile Media is Scary

June 2 2009

In the B2B space mobile media looks like it is light years away from adoption. Maybe it is. The consumer side of the marketing family loves the new media and plans on spending more and more on the platform. Not sure what that means now that our marketing media is converging. Mobile web, web t.v., DVR, text, text-to-web, web-to-text, phone-to-text and more.

These changes force marketers into new content and we’re having to adapt to it in a hurry. Are you struggling to keep up, or have you given up?

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Rather than spew something preachy about new mobile trends, please take a minute to read a couple of these articles. It’s clear we need to prepare for mobile media, or is it. Scary.

Connecting outdoor to SMS is an unexpected blend of old and new. MediaPost

Southwest is looking for a little LUV on your mobile phone. Southwest Airlines Blog

Millenials are mobile media junkies, but they are frugal. What does that mean? eCommerce Journal

This may be a crazy rant by Ray Capece, but he has some good points. Check the brand recall numbers. Wow. Technosailor

Here at VLG we’ve gotten into the game by dipping our big toe in mobile media waters. Go to our homepage, click the iPhone then play along. It’s a simple path that’s easy to execute for SMB, but for most it’s a little scary.

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