I’m a big fan of foursquare, I always have been but even I am getting a little fatigued. All that checking in with no real benefit is starting to make me question why I use foursquare at all. With the recent announcement that Facebook Deals is now available in the UK, it is worth looking [...]
By Andrew Grill
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Posted February 1, 2011
in facebook, location based services
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Tagged 4sq, Emily White, facebook, Facebook deals, Facebook places, foursqauare fatigue, foursquare, foursquare London office, foursquare office, groupon, Joanna Shields, lbs, location based advertising, mobile, mobile social networking, normob, social media, the future of foursquare, twitter, twitter London office
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Foursquare seems to be in the news a lot recently, and is starting to exhibit a similar hype curve to that of Twitter. Update 15 March 2010: with one tweet from @mrskutcher (aka Demi Moore) the battle of the location based social media platforms is now over. Now that she is on Foursquare and other [...]
By Andrew Grill
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Posted March 13, 2010
in mobile, social media
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Tagged 4sq, @andrewgrill, @aplusk, @janole, @mrskutcher, Aston Kutcher, badges, barista, barista badge, best symbian foursquare app, brightkite, check-in, Debenhams, Debenhams foursquare offer, Demi Moore, facebook, four square, foursquare, foursquare 101, foursquare advertising, foursquare business model, foursquare celebrities, foursquare currency, foursquare Demi Moore, foursquare local offer, foursquare social currency, google, gps, gravity, lba, lbs, location, location advertising, location based advertising, location based services, location based social, mayor currency, Nokia, rummble, seeker wireless, social currency, social media, social media advertising, social networks, starbucks, starbucks foursquare, sxsw, sxsw09, symbian foursquare app, twitter, what is foursquare
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Interesting release from the team at Vodafone about their mobile advertising roll-out. Some of the services coming up from Vodafone I have been personally involved with and it will be good to see Vodafone roll these out in a range of markets. The full Vodafone release is here. Vodafone announces today that it has fulfilled [...]
By Andrew Grill
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Posted May 13, 2009
in advertising
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Tagged Accor, Adidas, agencies, Allianz, BBVA, Beiersdorf, bmw, branded applications, brands, Burger King, Cadburys, china mobile, cisco, Citroen, Coca Cola, Diageo, Direct Line, Disney, Ford, General Motors, Heineken, hp, Ikea, lba, lbs, location based advertising, Lufthansa, L’Oreal, McDonalds, Mercedes, microsoft, mobile widgets, Mobilkom, Nestle, p&g, Proximus, Rick Fant, sky, Sony, Unilever, VF, Vodacom, vodafone, zonal marketing, zone detection
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On Thursday 27th November, around 40 location developers attended the first London Geo/Mobile Developers Meetup at Google HQ in London. Given my nearly 4 years working with some of the world’s location pioneers at Seeker Wireless, I feel quite qualified to tackle the subject of location and in particular location based advertising. First up was [...]
By Andrew Grill
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Posted November 28, 2008
in location
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Tagged cloudmade, fire eagle, Gary Gale, geo, geo meetup, google, lbs, location, location based advertising, mobile advertising, Nick Black, Open Street Map, slideshare, yahoo
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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 [...]
By Andrew Grill
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Posted October 23, 2008
in advertising
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Tagged jonathan macdonald, lbs, lbs 2008, location based advertising, location based service, location conference berlin, location enabled advertising, location expert, location expertise, mobile advertising, msearchgroove.com, ogilvy, peggy salz
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Head over to Telematics Update where Osman Iqbal talks to Andrew Grill from Seeker Wireless and Richard Lee of Creativity Software talk about what it will take for location-based advertising to go mainstream.
Andrew and Richard will be speaking at the Navigation and Location Europe 2008 conference in Amsterdam from June 4-5.
Recently I was asked to respond to some questions around Location Based Advertising as part of an opinion piece. I thought it would be useful to republish my responses here, and promote some debate on the issue of location based advertising. What does location based (aware) advertising actually entail? Could you give some real life [...]
Over on the excellent MSearch Groove website, Peggy Anne Salz gives us a preview of a very interesting report to be released at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona next month. The real attraction is the Netsize survey, the company’s first-ever online poll of some 1,800 industry professionals. Two key takeouts – respondents to a survey for the Netsize [...]