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Google Has Spoken: It’s Time For M-Marketing

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November 2nd 2011
Author
Wikus Engelbrecht

GRAPHICMAIL – To be mobile or not to be mobile — that is the question that digital marketers have been squirming over for the last couple of years. Last week, Google finally silenced mobile critics and settled the debate by publishing some impressive numbers from its mobile advertising business. From this report, [...] more...

SMS Marketing in Today’s Retail Industry

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October 31st 2011
Author
Wikus Engelbrecht

GRAPHICMAIL – Today’s consumers are a lot more media-wise than those of the past. Gone are the days when a simple advertising campaign would be far-reaching and appealing enough to drive all your prospects to a store. Instead, we have to compete with the deafening buzz of different media channels and [...] more...

M-Commerce: Adopt and Adapt

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August 15th 2011
Author
David Apple

ADOTAS – According to CTIA – The Wireless Association, there are more than 300 million wireless subscribers in the U.S. as of 2010 – a figure that translates to more than 96% of the total population of the U.S.  That means that beyond wallets or purses and keys, there is [...] more...

Consumer Democracy Now! Hipcricket’s Hasen Talks Social Media CRM in the Smartphone Era

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June 22nd 2011
Author
Gavin Dunaway

ADOTAS – If social media is the customer relationship management tool of the early 21st century, then smartphones and mobile devices that connect to the Internet are its portable extensions. Imagine a vacuum cleaner with a hose add-on for those hard-to-reach spots, except this hose can be carried with you [...] more...

MGD Visualizes Digital Advertising’s Big Shifts

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May 19th 2011
Author
Gavin Dunaway

ADOTAS – Those of us in the digital ad industry are well aware that it’s a fluctuating space, but sometimes it takes a handy visualization to take in the (often mammoth) scope of change. Agency MDG Advertising was kind enough to put this infographic together focusing on the major shifts [...] more...

With Skype, Facebook Could Rule Messaging

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May 5th 2011
Author
Gavin Dunaway

ADOTAS – I still haven’t been invited to try out the decked-out Facebook Messages that CEO Mark Zuckerberg and crew announced back in November. I’d like to think it’s for personal reasons — “Gavin Dunaway?” I imagine Zuck screaming, “I’ll burn my hoodie before I give that forked-tongue bastard any [...] more...

Mogreet Injects Rich Media Into SMS

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December 15th 2010
Author
Gavin Dunaway

ADOTAS – Mogreet CEO James Citron pretty much blew my mind last year when he showed me his company’s technology for putting video ads in SMS. And these weren’t limited to smartphones — at the time of launch, Mogreet supported an estimated 2,300 handsets, meaning ads could be texted to [...] more...

Facebook Launches One Hub to Message Them All

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November 16th 2010
Author
Gavin Dunaway

ADOTAS – I had a weird sense of deja vu during the Facebook announcement of its revamped messaging system as a few of the features were similar to AOL’s new email app released on Sunday, including a conversation history feature and the ability to easily rotate between [...] more...

The New Rules of Mobile Marketing

Written on
October 15th 2010
Author
Bryce Marshall

ADOTAS – Studies indicate the consumer adoption rate of mobile devices (like smartphones) is significantly faster compared to the adoption rates of laptop computers and wired Internet access in the ‘90s. Basic mobile devices are everywhere. Market saturation of Smartphone devices and mobile internet access is not far behind. Consumers who [...] more...

SMS Social Network Shut Down by Indian Government

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September 27th 2010
Author
Gavin Dunaway

ADOTAS – The Indian government seems to have learned a lesson from the Iranian elections, in which Twitter users in Iran spread updates on protests and violence following alleged election fraud. However, India learned that the best preventive action was to cut off the social networks. In the wake of [...] more...



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