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Why is mobile advertising treated like a 7 year old?

After announcing the appointment of Tim Hussain as Head of Mobile Advertising for Sky back in August 2008, I finally had the chance to sit down with him today and talk about all things mobile. Like me, he was been involved in the first internet wave (1994 – 1999) when we had small screens, dial-up internet [...]

3rd party ad serving on mobile – a good start

I caught the news over at MobiAd news about MediaCom running a campaign for T-Mobile using the Nokia Media Network, with ad serving from Eyeblaster’s Ad Campaign Manager platform. Quoting from the story: Third-party ad serving may become important to the mobile advertising industry, as it allows for more consistent measurement of advertising results across mobile [...]

Mobile advertising in Brazil

One of the great things about running a popular blog on a hot topic such as mobile advertising is that you hear from amazing thought leaders and practitioners from around the world. Recently, I was contacted by Rafael Storch de Freitas who is an account manager with a large agency in Brazil. He was writing to [...]

The 3 P’s of mobile (and social) 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 [...]

mobile advertising – walking the talk

image credit: Michael Smetham Many people are writing about mobile advertising – who’s getting it right, who will win and what the forecasts for 20XX will be – but are these people also using mobile advertising? In this post, I want to highlight the difference in the mobile advertising industry between those who do and [...]