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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 [...]

Suitably Social: How FMCG brands can best use social media to engage with customers

MBA student Randall Helms (@sonicrampage) got in touch to let me know about his MBA dissertation for the University of Edinburgh Business School titled Suitably Social: How FCMG Brands Can Best Use Social for Engaging with their Customers. I’ve had a quick read and it is a solid piece of work – so I am more than [...]

Unilever testing mobile coupons and barcodes

As reported in Mobile Marketer Magazine by Giselle Tsirulnik, Unilever have been looking at the effectiveness of mobile coupons. Stephanie Kovner-Bryant, senior integrated marketing manager of Unilever was quoted in the article as saying “The reason we wanted to test this it is it is an exciting technology for us. A big part of strategy has [...]

Vodafone Completes Roll Out of Mobile Advertising Services to 18 Markets in 18 Months

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 [...]

Tesco signs up Unilever to trial of mobile-based Clubcard scheme

No sooner had I blogged about Microsoft’s view of 2019 with a great short video on mobile meets retail,  I read in this week’s edition of New Media Age that Tesco (the UK’s largest retailer) has signed up Unilever to a trial of a mobile-based Clubcard scheme. Article from NMA by Alex Farber below: Tesco Mobile has signed [...]