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Mobile Market: Samsung, top handset manufacturer in the US mobile market

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The latest report of comScore revealed Samsung as the top handset manufacturer with an overall market share of 25.3% while Google Android continued gaining ground in the Smartphone market with 40.1% market share in June.

For the three-month average period, Samsung ranked as top OEM with 25.3% market share (0.08% up). LG came closer at second spot with 21.3% market share (equivalent to 0.4% points), and Motorola on third rank with 14.5% market share. Apple strengthened a post at fourth with 8.9% while RIM at fifth with 7.9% market share.

Meanwhile, Google Andriod made it on top rank with 40.1 market share (5.4% up) in the Smartphone market. Apple grabbed the second rank with a market share of 26.6% (1.1% up) while RIM came third with 24.3% market share, followed by Microsoft at 5.8% and Symbian (2.0%). More of the report here

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Creative and mobile marketing ‘to be key for travel brands’

Travel brands will be embracing mobile marketing next year, the latest study shows. Travel brands expect to increase the emphasis they place on using creative channels like social media and web content, as well as mobile marketing, new research suggests. According to a survey of 325 travel brands, including airlines, agents, tourist boards and tour operators, from Frommers, 70 per cent of respondents are planning to raise their digital marketing spend next year.

The mobile Internet does not need apps

THE CO-CEO of Canadian Blackberry smartphone maker Research in Motion (RIM), Jim Balsillie has said that Apple’s idea that smartphones need apps is just plain silly and will die out quickly. Speaking at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco, Balsillie said that you can bring the mobile to the web, but you don’t need to go through some kind of control point. Apple’s system for apps involves everything going through a central control point where they can be purged of anything that Steve Jobs does not like, he said.

Mobile banking revolution gathers pace, opens new frontier for profits

Kenya has been the birthplace of a banking revolution: with 65 per cent of mobile phone users now interested in adopting mobile banking services over traditional banking, according to a global survey last month by Netherlands technology firm Fundtech and research firm Aite Group.

Local Retailers Play Black Friday Catch Up with Mobile Marketing

Chicago, IL USA – Black Friday is just around the corner and mobile marketing and advertising is predicted to play a bigger role in driving in-store sales than ever before. “The 2010 holiday shopping season will demonstrate the strength of mobile marketing and advertising to drive in-store sales to the masses and introduce 2011 as what we and many other mobile experts believe will be the “stepping out” year for mobile.” says Scott Metcalfe, Chief Strategist at FetchLocalCustomers.com a Chicago based leader in local online marketing and local mobile marketing.

The Mobile Web: 3 Key Improvements

While mobile marketing has obviously seen explosive growth in recent years, 2011 brings the most significant mobile Web evolution as part of the overall mobile experience. With nearly 60 million Americans currently owning smartphones, the rapid growth and success of tablets, and improved user experience across devices, the mobile Web will become a much greater component to the multifaceted world of mobile marketing.

UK Consumers Are Doing More Online, More Often, With More Devices

Broadband access high, mobile web usage rising. UK internet users have embraced the web and its possibilities like never before, although some demographic groups remain offline. eMarketer estimates more than 44 million people are online in the UK in 2010 and nearly 70% of all households have broadband access.

Mobile Internet users in China to hit 800 mln in 2015

The number of mobile Internet users in China is on the path to reaching 800 million by 2015, and the total assets of the industry is to run over 100 billion yuan ($15.05 million), the Communication Information News reported Wednesday, citing a research report from the China International Capital Corporation Limited (CICC).

Asia: Fostering mobile innovation

The Asia-Pacific region is home to almost half the world’s mobile subscribers and includes some of its fastest-growing and highly-penetrated markets. As Total Telecom prepares to head to Hong Kong for Mobile Asia Congress 2010, we take a look at some of the key markets in the Asia-Pacific region.

Research and Markets: Cambodia – Telecoms, Mobile, Internet and Forecasts

Cambodia has managed a remarkable transition in building a vibrant telecom market. Despite the country’s status as one of the least developed nations in the world and whilst it remains one of the poorer countries in Southeast Asia, Cambodia’s efforts to expand and upgrade its telecom infrastructure have certainly been bearing fruit. There was very little infrastructure remaining from before the tumultuous Khmer Rouge days. As a result, Cambodia bypassed rebuilding the fixed-line market and quickly launched into alternative technologies, jump-starting its telecommunications infrastructure with digital technology.

Print Publishers Say Mobile is in Their Future

Eighty-five percent of print publishers surveyed by the Audit Bureau of Circulations believe that more people will rely on mobile devices as a primary information source in the next three years. That probably does not surprise you.

Mobile market continues to grow

According to recent research, global sales of both smartphones and traditional mobile phones continued to grow rapidly in the third quarter of 2010. The report, released by Gartner, examines the sales of mobile devices worldwide. Overall, 417 million mobile phone units were sold in the quarter, a 35 percent increase from the same quarter in 2009. Smartphone growth was even more rapid, with a 96 percent increase compared to the third quarter of 2009. Eighty-one million smartphones were sold worldwide during the quarter.

Africa Hits 500 Million Mobile Subscriptions Mark

The number of active mobile subscriptions in Africa crossed the half-a-billion mark in the third quarter of this year, to reach 506 million at end-September, according to research by UK-based Informa Telecoms & Media. The report, published on the researcher’s website said at the end of the third quarter of this year, Africa accounted for 10% of the world’s mobile subscriptions and was one of the world’s fastest-growing regions – with the subscription numbers increasing 18% over the year to September.

An apparel retailer launches mobile fashion alerts

Fashion emergency? Never fear, mobile fashion alerts are here. Women’s apparel retailer White House Black Market has launched FashionAlerts, location-based text messages that alert shoppers close to participating stores about upcoming in-store sales, online promotions, new product releases, sweepstakes and style tips.

IAB, MMA work together on industry standards to measure mobile web ad delivery

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Industry standardization for the Mobile Web Advertising and Measurement Guidelines is recently released by the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) and the Mobile Marketing Association (MMA) for public comment. The guideline is reportedly designed to regulate the key metrics for the mobile interactive industry.

With the help of Media Rating Council, the guidelines will be expected to provide a framework that governs how ad impressions are counted on the mobile web. In a statement at Mobile Marketer NY, MMA said that “effective and reliable measurement standards are a cornerstone requirement for the health and future growth of the mobile marketing industry”.

The guidelines, among other things, are also aimed to provide transparency to the marketplace and the ability to compare programs across organizations and industries both today and over time.

MMA added “Once marketers are able to reliably measure and track their programs they’ll then be able to calculate the ROI of their programs and invest their marketing budgets to optimize value to their customers and their businesses”.

The “Mobile Web Advertising Measurement Guidelines” program is set with the following objectives:

  1. Defining the mobile Web ad impression
  2. Creating a common definition and methodology that will become widely adopted in the U.S. and globally for counting mobile Web ad impressions
  3. Encouraging U.S. mobile Web ad servers to have their impression counts audited by an independent third party
  4. Distinguishing between the established IAB Web ad impression and the mobile Web ad impression, and when each metric is appropriate
  5. Providing marketers and agencies with greater clarity and certainty via the auditing process that key metrics used for buying mobile Web ads are methodologically sound and meet the highest standards available to the media industry
  6. Reducing levels of discrepancies and spurring the industry’s growth by offering  Internet publishers and ad servers a consistent, rigorous way to count the delivery of ad impressions

MMA and IAB encourage the industry players such as advertising agencies, advertisers, online publishers and technology vendors to read the proposed guidelines and submit comments. The public comment period for the guidelines is open until December 10.

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Baidu’s Answer to Android And The Mobile Market

Baidu, the ten-year-old leading Chinese search engine firm, is developing a new mobile operating system, like Android or Windows, the Chinese media reports. What does this mean for the smart phone and mobile search/apps commerce market in the People’s Republic of China? Earlier this year, Motorola’s announcement that its Android smart phones for China Unicom will embed Baidu as its mobile search engine was lost in media reporting regarding Google’s issues in China.

AdMob CEO: Apple not enforcing ad restrictions

Despite putting a scare into AdMob and its customers with its new policies on third-party ad networks, Apple has not yet enforced those policies, AdMob’s CEO confirmed Tuesday. Omar Hamoui, founder and CEO of Google’s AdMob division, said it has been business as usual for AdMob’s ad network customers seeking to place ads in iPhone applications ever since Apple inserted language into its iPhone Developer Agreement in June that appeared to kneecap adnetworks owned by anyone competing with Apple in mobile computing, such as AdMob parent Google. “They haven’t been enforcing (the new regulations) yet. We’re very appreciative of that,” he said at the MobileBeat 2010 conference here.

Mobile Phone Demand Expands 14.5% as Market Fragments; Top 5 Pressured by Challengers, Says IDC

The worldwide mobile phone market continued to show signs of improvement during the second quarter of 2010 (2Q10), driven primarily by smartphone vendors and companies outside the top five leaders worldwide. According to the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker, mobile phone vendors shipped a total of 317.5 million units during 2Q10, up 14.5% from the 277.2 million units shipped during the second quarter of 2009 (2Q09).

The opportunity to help advertisers in the digital realm remains

Greg Swanson, president of Itz Publishing and co-chairman of Inland’s online committee, believes the opportunity for newspapers to grab a larger share of the dollars spent on online advertising remains huge, provided papers offer creative solutions to advertisers.  “We’re basically chasing 25 percent of the [total] digital dollars available, and we’re missing 75 percent,” Swanson said during a recent Inland Webinar.

Google cuts ties with Chinese advertisers

Google Inc has cut commercial ties with two of its Chinese advertising agents, raising concerns that the internet giant’s recent standoff with the government may scare away more domestic advertisers. The search engine ended partnerships Monday with the Universal Internet Media and the Xi’an Weihua Network, major advertising agents for Google in east and northwest China, Marsha Wang, spokesperson for Google China, was quoted as saying by China Daily Tuesday. The two are among 25 of Google’s authorised advertising agents in the country. ”

Hey marketers, consumers are moving to mobile, are you?

If you’ve been toying with the idea of moving some of your local search budget to mobile then perhaps the findings of recent research by comScore, for the Yellow Pages Association, will help make up your mind. Over 17.3 million mobile subscribers accessed business directories from their devices during March of this year, found comScore. That figure represents 14% YoY growth. Impressed? There’s more. The number of people accessing business directories at least once a week from their mobile devices also rose – up 16% YoY.

S’pore youths most wired in Asia

SINGAPOREAN youths are the most wired lot in Asia, according to survey results released on Monday, and – perhaps in keeping with their love of material goods – they are most receptive to mobile advertising. In a regional survey of 11 countries by market research firm Synovate.

Portals, Telecom Lead Mobile Advertising

Portals/directories and telecom were the top two mobile advertising verticals in Q2 2010, according to the latest S.M.A.R.T. Report from Millennial Media. Portals Top Vertical for 3rd Straight Quarter. Q2 2010 marked the third straight quarter portals/directories has been the top mobile advertising vertical as measured in terms of spending by Millennial Media. Telecommunications jumped from the number three spot in Q1 2010 to number two in Q2, swapping places with previous number two entertainment.

Mobile Video to Double Reach by 2013

$1.34 billion in revenues predicted by 2014. The population of mobile video viewers in the US will grow nearly 30% in 2010 to reach 23.9 million, according to eMarketer’s forecasts. The still represents a reach of only 7.7% of the total population and less than 10% of mobile phone users, but those numbers are set to double by 2013 and increase still further in 2014.

Are Mobile Marketers Missing Most of Their Hispanic Audience?

Low uptake among both native- and foreign-born Hispanics. At first glance, Hispanics appear highly engaged with mobile activities. A November 2009 Federal Communications Commission study found both Hispanic and black adults to be more active in a wide variety of mobile activities than their white counterparts. A May 2010 Pew Internet & American Life Project survey similarly found English-speaking Hispanic mobile phone owners more active in every content area studied than white or black mobile users.

S. Korean mobile carriers fail to follow marketing fee guideline

South Korea’s telecom companies failed to abide by government guidelines to cap mobile marketing fees to less than 22 percent of wireless revenues in the first half of the year, officials said Monday. According to the Korea Communications Commission (KCC), the country’s telecommunications regulator, major telecom companies and mobile carriers spent a combined 3.12 trillion won (US$2.66 billion) on marketing between January and June, or 26.3 percent of the 11.85 trillion won in combined sales from their wireless businesses. …

Mobile internet penetration to double by 2015

According to a new report by ABI Research, the number of web-enabled mobile phones will double to make up 60% of the market, or 3.8 billion phones, by 2015. The growth of mobile web browsers is following two trends, say ABI. Smart phones carry a fully-enabled web browser, while cheaper “enhanced” or “feature” phones use a proxy-based browser such as Opera Mini, which downloads highly compressed versions of web pages and as such requires far less memory and processing capacity.

 

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Research and Markets: Tips, Tricks & Techniques for Mobile Advertising – What Marketing Executives Need to Know to Capitalize on Mobile Ads

In Tips, Tricks & Techniques for Mobile Advertising, ExecSense examines what marketing executives need to know to capitalize on mobile ads – everything from smartphone apps to interstitial advertising to traditional mobile direct marketing methods such as SMS or MMS messaging, as well as new opportunities such as the iPad.

Advertisers to find new ways to target consumers via mobile Internet

SINGAPORE : Advertisers need to find new and more interesting ways to reach out to regional consumers via mobile internet. In a survey, Internet search engine Yahoo said as much as half of the mobile users in emerging markets in Southeast Asia are surfing the web using their phones these days. More people in countries like Indonesia and Vietnam now have mobile phones to log onto the Internet. And they are using them to access the Internet because of factors like attractive tariffs, more 3G networks and affordable data plans. Mobile Internet penetration in Indonesia – the largest and fastest growing online market in Southeast Asia – jumped to 48 per cent from 22 per cent last year. In Vietnam, mobile Internet access nearly doubled to 19 per cent.

Samsung, Verizon Lead the US Mobile Subscriber Market

According to a new report from comScore, Inc., covering the three-month period ending April 2010, the leading mobile phone maker in the US market was Samsung, which accounted for 22.1 percent of the market. Moreover, the report, which was aimed at the mobile subscribers market, shows that Verizon Wireless was the leader in the carrier area, with market share of 31.1 percent.

Retail sales via mobile internet forecast to more than double in three years

Mobile phone users bought nearly £123million of goods in the UK in 2009 using their smartphones, according to a new report, and this figure looks set to more than double in the next three years. As total online retail spending in 2009 was £21.2bn – or a market share of 0.6 per cent – this means that by 2013, mobile internet sales could reach £275million, or the four per cent of the overall market, claim analysts Verdict and Ovum, who have released a joint study.

Smartphone Usage Set to Dominate Hong Kong Mobile Market

Hong Kong consumers are at the forefront of global smartphone usage. Almost half (48%) of respondents in Hong Kong own a smartphone, more than double the global rate of 23%. “Until fairly recently, smartphone or PDA phones were owned by a very specific group of consumers – mainly tech geeks and business ‘road warriors’”, says Marc de Lange, Director – Technology Sector. “But in the coming year, Hong Kong will reach an important milestone as more than half of all mobile phone owners start to carry a smartphone in their pockets.”

What politicians can learn from mobile marketers

The Obama campaign used SMS, mobile internet sites, apps, mobile video, mobile advertising and Interactive Voice response to get its message through to a previously disinterested, disaffected or disenfranchised electorate; clearly to great effect. It was thought that the Democrats’ use of mobile would change modern political campaigning forever, with political parties everywhere switching to copy them.

Mideast accounts for 5% of world mobile market

The Middle East accounted for five percent of the global mobile telecoms market last year, according to a report released on Wednesday. Last year, the mobile telecoms industry was worth $846bn, down slightly from $848bn in 2008, according to a report by market research firm Dataxis Intelligence. The Middle East accounted for five percent of the global market, or around $42.3bn.

Mideast to see fastest growth in mobile data

Mobile data traffic will be the strongest in the Middle East and Africa (MEA) followed by the Asia-Pacific and North America as revenue from voice gets saturated and operators focus on alternate sources of revenue. According to Cisco’s annual Visual Networking Index (VNI) forecast 2009-2014, the MEA will witness a growth at 133 per cent CAGR followed by the Asia-Pacific of 119 per cent and North America at 117 per cent. Global mobile data traffic will increase 39 times from 2009 to 2014, as per the latest figures from the networking major. By 2014, annual global mobile data traffic will reach 3.5 exabytes per month (or a run rate of more than 42 exabytes annually).

Email marketers ‘should step up to the mobile marketing plate’

Email marketing is undergoing an “exciting” series of changes which marketers need to keep abreast of, an expert has said. Writing for Media Post, Gretchen Scheiman said the changes were being influenced by mobile and social marketing. “While these channels are both far broader than email in many respects, there is a component of each that is simply ´messaging´. That´s where email marketers need to step up to the plate and take some ownership. Both are messaging opportunities that go to an inbox,” she explained.

MMA Publishes Whitepaper On Opportunities Presented By Oversize Mobile Ad Units

The Mobile Marketing Association (MMA) today published a new Whitepaper aimed at providing a comprehensive overview of the opportunities presented by oversized mobile ad units measuring 320 pixels in width or larger. With the growing availability of larger-screened devices like smartphones and tablets- brands, agencies and other members of the mobile marketing ecosystem need to understand the potential of engaging an audience using larger, rich media ads that were once not available on the limited screen real-estate of feature phones and first-gen smartphones.

Mobile social networking growing in US

New figures have shown that social networking is the fast-growing category of mobile-based web use in the US. The statistics from comScore – which could be useful to those deploying mobile marketing campaigns – show 14.5 million users accessed a social networking app in April, up 240 per cent on the same month last year. Online news apps were the second fastest-growing type of mobile app content, followed by those dealing with sports information.

Mobile advertising, a revenue source for telcos

Advertising, in the operator’s share of revenue, is still a very small portion of the pie. In 2009, mobile advertising revenue worldwide was estimated to be US $2 billion. This is expected to increase over the next 4 fours. According to Madan, approximately US $1.3B came from the US and Japan itself. With regard to future projections, Madan said, “There are many estimates. They range varies from US $12 billion to $19 billion, by 2014. It is still nascent so estimates are widely fluctuating.” In the India, the market is expected to be roughly about Rs. 500-600 crores in the next 2-3 years, which means around 500-600 crores in the next 2-3 years.

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Three steps for publishers to monetize mobile traffic

One of the most common questions that publishers ask these days is: How can I increase the monetization of my mobile traffic? Clearly the answer is very different for each publisher, but my goal is to lay out a rough guide to get you thinking about what might work for you. For the sake of discussion, let us say you are a U.S.-based publisher with a sales team that calls directly on advertisers and agencies. Also, let us assume most of your traffic is from the United States, and your international traffic is small, so you are not yet monetizing it.

28% of US Mobile Web Users Go Online Daily

Twenty-eight percent of US mobile phone users access the mobile internet at least once a day, according to a recent consumer survey conducted by ABI Research. Overall Mobile Web Access Rises. Overall mobile internet access rose between December 2008, when the previous ABI Research mobile internet study was conducted, and February 2010, when the most recent study was conducted. The percentage of mobile phone users who have mobile internet access but don’t use it fell from about 30% to about 20%. In addition, the percentage who don’t have mobile internet access on their phone fell from about 28% to about 22%.

Why Retailers Need an In-Store Mobile Strategy

We tell retailers they don’t want to become Amazon’s off-balance-sheet showroom. Mobile can, to some extent, be the revenge of the physical retailers, because they have the investments in these stores, they have people coming into the stores and knowledge of those customers. They have some tremendous new ways of creating affinity with these folks. A lot of the retailers we’re talking with view in-store mobile as a significant differentiation opportunity.

AT&T decision to end unlimited data plans threatens mobile content consumption

If competing carriers follow AT&T’s lead and phase out unlimited data plans, the consumption of paid and ad-supported mobile content may be affected. AT&T spun its new wireless data plans as geared toward making it “more affordable for more people to enjoy the benefits of the mobile Internet,” but the move is clearly about reigning in the heaviest data users, and all-you-can-eat data plans are vital to spur the high levels of mobile content consumption on which publishers, marketers and advertisers thrive.

Mobile Social Networking Grows Dramatically

The number of US mobile phone users performing social networking grew dramatically between April 2009 and April 2010, according to comScore MobiLens data. Social Networking Fastest Growing Mobile App. While the total number of mobile phone users who accessed an application increased 28%, from 54.4 million to 69.6 million, between April 2009 and April 2010, the number of mobile phone users who accessed a social networking application more than tripled.

Mobile Shopping Doubles in 2010

Mobile commerce has been slow to catch on. According to Multichannel Merchant, four in five multichannel retailers have no m-commerce presence. But while consumer usage of mobile shopping is still relatively low, it is increasing, prompting firms such as Coda Research Consultancy to predict a doubling of m-commerce revenues in the US this year, to $2.4 billion.

How to increase mobile paid search campaign performance

By creating mobile-only search campaigns, advertisers benefit in several areas such as control, messaging, targeting and reporting. Advertisers have more control over their mobile budgets and CPCs by splitting their campaigns. They can adjust bids independently from desktop and better target their creative messaging by including a mobile specific call to action such as “call now” in their ad text.  “The same best practices that have been applied to desktop campaigns are also relevant for mobile: separate your campaigns to better manage mobile, theme your ad groups tightly, make creatives and keywords relevant to the landing page…

Carriers’ brand and position in value chain at risk

The mobile Internet is expanding exponentially with the rapid adoption of Internet-centric devices used to consume multimedia content and services.  According to a Forrester Research report released earlier this year, more than one- third of consumers in Western Europe will access the Internet from their mobile phones by 2014.

Twenty-two percent of consumers plan to make mobile purchase: PriceGrabber survey

The latest consumer behavior report from Experian’s PriceGrabber.com on smartphone shopping behavior reveals an increase in consumer mobile shopping activity and a trend toward buying digital content and consumer electronics from a mobile phone. The survey data reveals that 57 percent of consumers who make a purchase with their Web-enabled phones bought consumer electronics. Twenty-two percent of consumers plan to purchase from their mobile device in the next 12 months.

Canadian Mobile Advertising Revenue Continues Rising

The Interactive Advertising Bureau of Canada today announced that Mobile Advertising Revenues in Canada exceeded budgeted expectations of $5.2 million, and grew by 347% over 2007 numbers, to just over $11.9 million for 2008. For 2009, Canadian Mobile Advertising Revenue is forecast to increase by more than 50% again, rising to an estimated $18.0 million. The top 10 Mobile Advertising earners in IAB Canada’s annual Survey accounted for 79% of Total Net Mobile Advertising revenues in 2008.

Advertisers in Africa allot more than 50% of interactive marketing budgets in Mobile

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Some of the biggest success stories in the mobile space came from Africa with advertisers in the region spent more than 50% of its interactive advertising budgets to mobile, Starcom’s Ravi Kiran said.

mobile-marketingThe African region became a hot topic among marketers during the Mobile Conversations 2010 conference in India as Starcom’s Ravi Kiran cited some of the biggest success stories in the mobile space, which actually happened in the region. In an Afaqs article, Mr. Kiran substantiated his points saying that more than 50% of interactive budget for the African region got routed to mobile marketing, compared to Asia (2.5%) and 1.3% to US and Europe regions.

Explaining to this inspiring occurrence, he said that one has to look at the unique mobile marketing services that are being offered in the region. The mobile is also the only pan-African social infrastructure in the region, and how it is connecting the African market nowadays has become a case study worldwide.

There were some other points raised during the conference, and Kiran ended up with an enticing tip saying that a “simplified language is required to convince marketers to invest in the medium”. Whilst mobile marketing is treated as another format of marketing, the principles of traditional marketing have to be applied as well.

He added, “We should tell marketers about how it can be used for marketing instead of talking or explaining the technology behind it. Also, we should encourage marketers to experiment with mobile marketing with scale.”

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Mobile Internet Content Coalition petitions FCC to promote open mobile Internet

The Mobile Internet Content Coalition, consisting of 4Info Inc., Myxer Inc. and mobileStorm Inc., is petitioning the Federal Communications Commission in support of opening up the mobile Internet. The MICC’s comments to the FCC, drafted by law firm Arent Fox LLP, take a stand in favor of providing “consumers access to the content of their choosing without improper interference by wireless providers.” The MICC also proposes that SMS and MMS also be considered under the umbrella of the mobile Internet.

How mobile is evolving the media business

The once-static media landscape is evolving with the advancement of mobile technology, giving advertisers more options. Whether it is through mobile sites, applications or the recent trend of 2D bar codes and image recognition, media brands are taking note and evolving with the ever-changing world of mobile. Publications such as Entertainment Weekly, W Magazine, Golf Magazine, GQ, Wired and Marie Claire have all integrated mobile in some aspect.

Are US carriers finally making mobile marketing a priority?

With their wireline business on the down slope and competition ramping up in the wireless space, U.S. carriers are seeking alternative revenue streams and engaging in mobile marketing like never before. However, carriers are still struggling to figure out which vendors to partner with, how much data to share, which policies to impose and which monetization models and ad units to use. In addition, the explosion of smartphone adoption has been a double-edged sword: increased data revenue but also overburdened networks and the migration of traffic from on-deck to off-deck.

Juniper forecasts retail mobile marketing to exceed $8 billion

Recent research by Juniper Research has found the mobile marketing and retail sector including mobile advertising, smart posters and coupons, will exceed $8 billion globally by 2012. The “Mobile Marketing and Retail Strategies” report found that retailers are already starting to woo consumers via the mobile channel using mobile ads and coupons, and the market for these two activities alone is expected to grow by half over the next couple of years.

Stock Market Panic Brings Surge Of Traffic To Mobile Web

During one of the largest stock market plunges in American history, Online and mobile-based financial sites were brought to their knees yesterday under the weight of worrisome investors scrambling for information and answers. Portals like Yahoo and Google Finance went down hard after news broke that the stock market was losing equity fast for relatively unknown reasons, forcing people all of the world to take to their mobile devices and computers in search of additional information.

Mobile devices set to interact with TV: Analyst

As demand for connected devices expands, Internet-enabled televisions form a category poised for growth. According to new forecasts from ABI Research, the estimated 19 percent of flat-panel TVs shipping with Ethernet in 2010 will grow to 46 percent in 2013, and connectivity is expected to become a mainstream feature. “In terms of mobile devices and the primary screen I would say there are two primary motivations for connecting or linking the two devices,” said Michael Inouye, industry analyst of digital home at ABI Research, Oyster Bay, NY.

Why brands must have a 360-degree mobile Web strategy

A 360-degree mobile Web strategy spans far beyond just a mobile-optimized site and means that brands need to tie mobile to their traditional marketing. For example, email campaigns are generating a lot of conversion traffic for sites. Including a URL to a mobile site will factor in mobile email users and provide them with a better experience than just throwing them onto a wired Web site on their device.

How retailers can leverage SMS for inventory management

One of the most recent trends on the retail scene is the private sale for inventory management, and SMS can serve as a great tool to get customers in for one. Research shows that after 60 days, an item at a retail location has about a 15 percent chance of being sold. After 90 days this number drops to just 5 percent, and that is why retailers are relying on private sales to keep inventory moving.

HBO taps SMS to build database during Mayweather-Marquez fight

HBO used SMS to drive awareness and pay-per-view purchases of a recent Mayweather-Marquez boxing match and to generate opt-ins for its own mobile VIP club.

Mobile Handsets Grow 19% in Q1

Global shipments of mobile handsets grew 19% year-over-year during Q1 2010, according to ABI Research. In total, 303 million mobile handsets shipped worldwide during Q1 2010. This puts annual global mobile handset shipments on pace to reach about 1.3 billion in 2010. Strongest handset shipment growth was seen in the Middle East and Africa (20% year-over-year) followed by the Americas, particularly the US (11%). Europe, on the other hand, is languishing with single-digit growth. It is also notable that 3G handset shipments eclipsed 2G handset shipments globally.

Facebook, Twitter Post Strong March Growth

Facebook and Twitter clearly surpassed all other major social networks in US year-over-year growth during March 2010, according to data from The Nielsen Company. In March 2010, Facebook reported 117.1 million unique US users at home and work. This represented 69% year-over-year growth from 69.1 million unique US users in March 2009. While Twitter only reported 20.1 million unique US users in March 2010, this still represented strong 45% year-over-year growth from 13.8 million unique users in March 2009. It is also worth noting that Twitter had a negligible 520,000 unique users in March 2008.

Low Ad Recall but High Response for Location-Based Services

In 2009, digital advertising solutions provider Eyeblaster set out to go beyond the click and measure user engagement with online ads according to a broader set of actions dubbed “dwell.” Users dwell when they mouse over an ad, or interact with a rich media placement, for example. The company’s “Global Benchmark 2010” report analyzed dwell metrics for billions of rich media impressions served in 2009 and found that high dwell correlated with high engagement, brand-related searches and ultimately conversion.

TheTMSway, the leading mobile company, picks 2 Strategic VP from FOX / Newscorp

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TheTMSway, a Hong Kong based company which provides a platform of services to create, manage, and distribute mobile campaigns in real time from any media (online and offline) to worldwide targeted consumers, has announced today that it has appointed Jonathan Ellis, a Senior Vice President on Sales and Partnership at Fox Asia; and Ben Money, a Vice President on Research and Strategic Sales at Fox Asia to assume roles at TheTMSway, following the recent appointment of jonathanBernhard Glock, a former Media Chief at Procter and Gamble.

TheTMSway welcomes Jonathan Ellis as new CEO of TheTMSway, and Ben Money as Managing Director on Strategic Sales and Data Management. The two are new line ups of the company executives who will be based in Hong Kong. Jonathan Ellis will be in charge of the company’s strategy and business development with Frederick Saurat, Co-Founder of TheTMSway, and Bernhard Glock.

“We are a young company with strong technology assets and a clear vision about the future of the mobile as a medium which must be considered as a real time bridge between brand media campaigns and consumers. I believe the success of a company is largely based on its team and with Bernard Glock, John and Ben we are starting to create a Dream team”, said Frederick Saurat, Co-Founder of TheTMSway.

TheTMSway will also launch this quarter a customization of its platform of services dedicated to Social Network markets, offering brands a mother board to manage their social engagement through different social networking sites (SNS).  The platform will provide the tools to deliver mobile coupons, invitations, and rewards directly from social posts driving the audience to the point of sales or events.

Bernhard Glock and Jonathan Ellis will provide their expertise and vast knowledge in the industry to guide the company towards global growth. Meanwhile, Ben Money will lead the strategic responsibility to organize the TMS metrics and data ‘Factory’.

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Retail Business: Mobile web gained traction to US women, 93% active to promo offers sent through mobile phones

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The US market revealed that women are actively engaging to retail-driven mobile promotions, with 93% of them look out for promo offers sent via mobile phones, the Internet Retailing reported.  retailers

A study conducted by miBuys found that 93% of women are actively looking out for promo offers sent through their phones, or on mobile web. In a report published at Internet Retailing, the study uncovers the women’s attitudes and usage to mobile web, and m-commerce on mobile web in particular, with time spent mostly focused on fashion, clothing, and accessories. The meal category, which was dubbed as lion’s share in the distribution of mobile coupons in the region, went down at third only.

A clear preference to mobile coupons related to retail goods and services went at 53% compared to dining at 16%. The mobile coupons relating to concerts and events became the second option at 21% – pronounced to be the most interesting area.

Meanwhile, Facebook and Yahoo Groups grabbed the top pick in the online community category with an approximate of 52% while 41% went to MySpace, and 23% to others.