Former Virgin America VP Marketing to Advise on Kred Stars and Kred Leaders Programs SAN FRANCISCO, CA (Jan 26, 2012) - Kred, a leader in influence measurement, announced today that Porter Gale has been named Lead Advisor of its Kred Stars and Kred Leaders programs. Gale will be Kred’s chief evangelist to marketing executives and influence marketing [...]
Strategic Executive Joins San Francisco Based High-Tech Start Up London, England (June 7, 2011) – PeopleBrowsr, the high-tech social analytics and engagement company, has appointed Andrew Grill as CEO of UK operations. Grill joins PeopleBrowsr from Visible Technologies, where he was Head of International Client Strategy. Well-known amongst digital strategists and social media agencies, Grill [...]
This coming Friday, 9th July 2010 Reputation Online will be hosting an event at the London Hesperia hotel in Victoria titled “Navigating the online monitoring jungle“. Having recently presented to an agency who said they had “shortlisted” 12 other monitoring companies, I know that this will be of great interest to those who want to start on [...]
On July 14th between 4-6pm Visible Technologies is sponsoring an event at the IAB in London looking at the “buzz about the social media buzz”. The team at brand-e.biz has assembled a fantastic line-up including Chris Clarke, Global Chief Creative Officer, LBi on leveraging social media for the Conservative Party Robin Grant of We Are [...]
It’s nice to be able to welcome the rest of the Visible crew to the UK. WPP Company Establishes European Headquarters to Support Growing Demand for Comprehensive Social Media Monitoring Solutions Visible Technologies, a leading provider of social media monitoring and engagement solutions, today established its European headquarters in London. This will enable Visible Technologies [...]
After coming off stage from a really enjoyable presentation at Mobile Monday Amsterdam, Klaas Weima from Energize.nl asked if I would be prepared to do podcast, and at the same time Matthijs Van Den Broek from Marketing Facts asked if he could do a Vodcast about my talk. I was delighted to participate, and [...]
This week sees London host two important events, one being the G20 meeting, the other is carnival of the mobilists, hosted right here in London at London Calling. For those of you who don’t know much about the carnival – have a look at www.mobili.st and to the one person this week who emailed me thinking [...]
UPDATE: 2 March 2009 – Visto Acquires Good Message to Visto folks – I know your product set well but the Good mobile messaging product is sensational. Please promise to keep innovating the Good suite – it is the closest thing to mobile mail nirvana I have ever seen. When I could not get Good [...]
Andrew Grill (right) recently spoke with Keith Dyer, Editor of Mobile Europe Magazine at the Femtocell Europe 2008 conference in London. In the short (5 minute) interview, Andrew explains how the Seeker Wireless zone detection technology can be used to enhance the femtocell proposition, and also be used for fixed mobile substitution (HomeZone) services as well [...]
Mobile Europe TV (part of the leading industry publication Mobile Europe) interviewed a range of companies at MobileWorld Congress in Barcelona in February 2008. Andrew Grill was interviewed by Mobile Europe TV on the Seeker Wireless solution around Fixed Mobile Substitution and Mobile Advertising. Click the picture to view the video or visit the Mobile Europe [...]
Australian Journalist, Stuart Corner from iTWire has written an excellent short article on the new Seeker Wireless mobile advertising solution. Quoting from his report at iT Wire he says In the movie Minority Report, as the hero strides down the street video advertising billboards spring to life and address him by name: all thanks to [...]
I was recently interviewed by Richard Tucker (a fellow Aussie) from inbabble.com during a recent media tour for Seeker Wireless. He kindly blogged about the intereview – produced below with his permission. Interview: Andrew Grill, Seeker Wireless, on their location based technology Seeker Wireless provides location awareness technology for mobile phones, but rather than offer [...]
Andrew Grill will be a keynote speaker at the LBS 2007 conference to be held from Mon 08 Oct 2007 – Thu 11 Oct 2007 at the Melia Avenida America Hotel, Madrid, Spain. See more information at http://www.iir-conferences.com/lbs2007 Andrew will be outlining the latest Fixed Mobile Substitution offering from location specialists, Seeker Wireless. As location enabling [...]
Interview: Andrew Grill, GM Sales and Marketing of Seeker Wireless on location based services Seeker Wireless has developed solutions to provide location based services on existing unmodified 2G and UTMS handsets. I asked Andrew Grill, GM Sales and Marketing of Seeker Wireless an open question on his view of the future of wireless based location [...]
Seeker Wireless spoke with Gartner analysts Katja Ruud and Charlotte Patrick at 3GSM 2007 in Barcelona and following this, we received a favourable blog entry here http://blog.gartner.com/blog/comminn.php?itemid=1962
By Andrew Grill, General Manager and Head of Sales, Seeker Wireless Fixed-mobile convergence (FMC) is a concept to be applauded and if it achieves its aims, it is set to make all our lives easier. The noble aim of FMC is to marry the convenience of mobile with the high quality and speed of fixed [...]
Source: siddey.wordpress.com Having operated in “stealth mode” for nearly two years, Australian company Seeker Wireless has revealed that it is in the progress of deploying its high-accuracy mobile location based services enabling technology to a number of European mobile network operators. Formed in 2003, Seeker Wireless has developed a means to reach sub-100 metre location [...]
July 4, 2006: Andrew Grill Appointed South Australian Business Ambassador in the UK A team of hand-picked networkers will voluntarily extol the virtues of South Australia during business dealings in Europe, promoting the state as a place to live, work and invest. Appointed by Premier Mike Rann, the volunteers are a mixture of Australian expatriates [...]
At the change-over meeting of the Rotary Club of Sydney on Tuesday, July 4th 2006, Andrew was awarded with a Paul Harris Fellow by the club in regognition of his service to the club and the community over the past 8 years. In accepting the award, Andrew said he was both “humbled and honoured” to [...]
Appeared in The Australian July 18, 2006 Permission obtained from Author to reproduce in full here. Private details such as age, sex and income have always been valuable in the competitive commercial world. The more you know about your customers the better. Now another item is fast becoming the must-have personal detail – their location. Advances [...]
Also published on the Sydney Morning Herald website By BRAD HOWARTH (reprinted below with permission) May 16, 2006 One of the hardest parts of taking a new technology into a foreign market is finding the right people to talk to. Trade shows and government agencies play their parts but without personal introductions to the right parties, [...]
The Australian launch of high accuracy location based services became one step closer with the news that local LBS solution provider Seeker Wireless has achieved sub 100m location accuracy in the Sydney CBD using standard GSM handsets. Seeker Wireless have been developing high-accuracy, low-cost location based services that utilise existing handsets, and GSM networks. General [...]
I was amused to see in the classified motoring section of my local newspaper the Sydney Morning Herald an advertisement that offered a “New” service – allowing you to link the classified ad to the online version at drive.com.au . This is not NEW! In 2001, when I was running propertylook.com.au, we launched our look-up [...]
Sydney, 19 November 2004: Mobile marketing is set for a real boost with the introduction of new location based services, claims the newly appointed General Manager of Seeker Wireless, Andrew Grill. “The possibilities for LBS are endless. Everything from locating the whereabouts of a child, through to rendering assistance for roadside service or ordering a [...]
This was a webcast I delivered back in August 2000 – how things have changed since! In my 15 minute talk, I cover ADSL, portals and mobile internet. One quote from the video was that in 2000, 40% of Australians had a mobile. Watch the video below or read the transcript. Hello and welcome. [...]
