Saturday, October 13, 2007

Mobile Marketing Ready for Takeoff

OCTOBER 12, 2007

Small screens to reach mass market.

Major European brands are set to increase their mobile marketing, according to an Airwide Solutions-sponsored study by Vanson Bourne.

More than one-quarter of the 50 companies surveyed had already launched live SMS text-messaging campaigns, and nearly one-fifth had launched live MMS multimedia campaigns. "Among the most important lessons learned so far is that the way in which a mobile branding campaign works in delivering something of value to the user is just as important as how a mobile campaign looks," said John du Pre Gauntt, senior analyst at eMarketer.

"This lesson is more than just a question of technology," he said. "It is a function of the interactions among all the players who collaborate to deliver any mobile experience."

One-half of responding companies said that they were not yet using either text messaging or multimedia messaging in their marketing.

Text-based mobile advertising is already reaching quasi mass-market status in Europe, and the US is not far behind, according to a July 2007 study by M:Metrics.

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