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Mobile advertising’s success lies on the second screen not the main screen

I have Twitter CEO Dick Costolo to thank for a new analogy to debunk pundit thinking on mobile advertising. Yesterday in Barcelona, Dick gave a great speech at the annual Mobile World Congress.  You can watch his 30 minute speech online, where “registration” (for spam collection) is required but it is free. Dick said that [...]

Mobile World congress video interviews with Jeb Brilliant

Mobile advertising in 40 seconds.  This is the shortest presentation I think I have ever given! I ran into Jeb Brilliant outside the Spinvox stand in Barcelona and he pointed his phone at me and said talk!  The result is me explaining the Gigafone full screen permission based solution in just 40 seconds. He also [...]

Telecom TV at Mobile World Congress on Mobile Advertising

On Monday 16th February at Mobile World Congress, Telecom TV held one of their Main Agenda sessions on  Mobile Advertising – posing the question: “What role can Mobile Advertising play as operators seek to finance consumer data applications? What makes us think that users want or will tolerate advertising as part of their already expensive [...]

GSMA publish results from UK metrics study on mobile advertising

16 February 2009, Barcelona, Spain: The GSMA and a task force comprising Telefónica, Vodafone, Orange, T-Mobile International and 3, today unveiled the results of a feasibility study examining mobile audience metrics that will enable media and advertising agencies, brands and publishers to deliver better mobile advertising campaigns. The study, part of the GSMA’s Mobile Media [...]

Gigafone launches Ochre a new digital advertising marketplace with nine partners

Full disclosure: Gigafone is a client and we are incredibly excited to announce a new digital advertising platform with some truly outstanding partners.  The reason I am excited, is that as part of  my 2009 year of action, we’re helping to drive some of the change sorely needed in the mobile advertising space – namely A [...]

Mobile Monday Peer Award finalists announced

MobileMonday Barcelona and the Mobile Monday Community are organizing Mobile Peer Awards during the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. The February 16th event is expected to draw several hundred participants to see which of the international candidates are most successful in the eyes of the peers. The competitors have been selected by local MobileMonday chapters [...]

Mobile Advertising Pioneer GIGAFONE Announces Sponsorship of MOFILM at The Barcelona Mobile World Congress

Russian mobile advertising pioneer Gigafone unveiled as sponsor of the world’s biggest global mobile short film festival. 21st January 2009, Moscow Russia: Gigafone, the leading Russian mobile advertising provider, has today announced its sponsorship of the MOFILM Short Film Festival , to be hosted by Kevin Spacey, in Barcelona at the Mobile World Congress (16-19th [...]

Kevin Spacey to keynote and host at Barcelona Mobile World Congress

Two-time Academy Award-winning actor and director Kevin Spacey will headline at the GSMA’s Mobile World Congress (16-20 February 2009) in Barcelona, as host of the MOFILM Mobile Short Film Festival and mobile entertainment keynote speaker. The MOFILM Mobile Short Film Festival is the first of its kind, and highlights the increasing influence of the mobile [...]

3G roaming vs WiFi roaming – there is a clear winner

Posted from Barcelona Airport – on the way back from Mobile World Congress. Logged onto the Kubi WiFi access point in the airport.  Before connecing via my BT OpenZone roaming account, I thought I’d check the roaming charges – on Kubi access is 12.7p per minute!  That’s  £7.62 per hour! In contrast, my Vodafone data card [...]

Acision launches location-based charging with Seeker Wireless; Mobile operators worldwide can now offer highly accurate zone-based charging to rival the fixed network

Barcelona, February 13th 2008. Acision, the messaging and charging company of choice for over 300 network operators and service providers worldwide, today announced that it is working with zone detection technology provider Seeker Wireless for the provision of location-based charging. With its expertise in rating and charging, Acision will initially launch “HomeZone” to enable operators [...]

Seeker Wireless powers location for mobile advertising

New solution location-enables mobile advertising inventory without the need for GPS Barcelona, 12th February 2008 – Seeker Wireless, the leader in location and zone detection technology, today announced a new innovative solution for mobile advertising that applies location to standard cellular handsets to drive adoption of mobile advertising. The SeekerZone™ Mobile Advertising Platform provides the [...]

MobiAd news topic of the week – using location for mobile advertising

Over at MobiAD news, their topic of the week is one of my posts – using location for mobile advertising. No comments yet – anyone feel like contributing? This will be a hot topic at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona next month.