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A big week for the iPad in more ways than one

This week has been a big week for the iPad.  Not only did Steve Jobs launch the iPad2 on March 2nd, there has been a lot of discussion in the UK about iPadvertising as well as how iPad publishers are being treated by Apple. Image credit: Reuters. I first used the term “iPadvertising” on my [...]

Will Apple’s iAd fail at the first hurdle in the UK?

I read with interest in the latest edition of New Media Age that the iAd network (to be launched by Apple next month in the UK) is asking £600,000 from advertisers as a minimum campaign spend. Now this to me seems like an awful lot of money, especially for a mobile campaign – and on [...]

Reputation Online Live: Navigating the online monitoring jungle 9th July in London

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 [...]

Search works founder goes mobile and launches SOMO

I picked up this article in New Media Age about Nick Hynes, who successfully founded the Search Works has started a new mobile agency called SOMO. According to the article, the agency is also being backed by ex-Overture CTO Carl Uminski and Simon Edelstyn, former director of syndication at Google. Somo, which currently employs nine staff, will [...]

Mobile web take up across Europe up 4% on last year says Forrester

According to a report in New Media Age, mobile internet usage has grown by 4% in Europe. According to the Forrester report, some 24% of Europeans regularly access the internet on their mobile phones. The research found mobile internet use increased over the past year, from 20%, and found the growth in take up increased [...]

IAB launches mobile innovation award

Digital trade body celebrates innovative advertising in partnership with Orange UK and New Media Age. Wednesday, 15 April 2009 In partnership with Orange UK and New Media Age, the IAB is launching a new award to celebrate innovation in mobile advertising – part of its ongoing programme of educating the market about mobile and promoting [...]

Iconic newspaper advertising

While not strictly mobile advertising, I noted recently in the UK papers that the Newspaper Marketing Agency is running a campaign called “newspapers deliver”.  It is another example of the “advertising in a downturn” approach, also used to good effect by the FT recently. They have modified some iconic newspaper campaigns to stress that newspaper advertising [...]