Is Twitter Heading For A Meltdown?
The first signs of discontent are appearing among the Twitterati, and this time it’s not to do with the fail whale, Twitter’s crash page, that tells us twitter has once again failed. It goes much...
View ArticleNew Videos Debut on MSG Today, Kicking Off With GyPSii; Why (Location)...
Regular readers will recall that MSG has partnered with bnetTV to cover industry events such as CTIA and, more recently, Mobile World Congress (MWC). The team did an awesome job, producing 200+...
View ArticleEnergized About Mobile Social Media, Social Advertising, Mobile Twitter &...
Super-charged from a super week at ThinkMobile. With 450+ attendees, the inaugural event was a huge success, and a huge part of that is to the credit of Matthew Snyder – ThinkMobile Conference Chair...
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Mobile Advertising For The Masses: Mobile Social Networking Companies Cash In...
Starting this week off with a bang. I arrived back in Germany from ThinkMobile in NYC just in time to put some of the insights I gained from the mobile social media panels during the event to good use...
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Watch For It! RingRing Media, iPhone Stats & MSG Mobile Advertising &...
Checking in before I check out to meetings in The Netherlands after a week packed with pre-CTIA briefings and a few discussions under NDA. More about that next week, along with a string of posts...
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EVENT: Advertisers Put The Move On Mobile Social Networks
Mobile social networks (or at least the clever ones) are mapping out business models that allow them to transition from being meeting places for communities to being marketplaces for commerce. It’s...
View Article“Mobile Is The Future Of Search”; Is Visual Search The Future Of Mobile...
The realization that mobile advertising is ripe for a re-think (and the stark possibility that traditional advertising inventory may be dead on the mobile platform, as Alan Moore, author luminary and...
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What Advertising Really Works In Mobile Social Networks; Operators Are...
UPDATE: DOWNLOAD LINK HAS BEEN FIXED Just two weeks after release and my new white paper (Mobile Advertising For The Masses) counts 500+ downloads. (Again, I am honored that Bango (white paper sponsor)...
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“Superb” Video Interviews With Experts & Judges Highlight What’s Next In...
Regular readers will know I rave about EContent magazine, where I am a Contributing Editor and regular columnist. I am proud to say some of my best work has been for EContent, inspired by the vision...
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RingRing Aims To Get More Bang For Buck; Does Mobile Ad Optimization Deliver...
Where is the money in mobile advertising? Or more specifically: Where is MY money? At European Mobile Media, a conference I chaired in Prague (congratulations to Mart Kikas, Business Development,...
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Will Getting More Passionate About Mobile Advertising Deliver Profits? PLUS...
Between Mobile Advertising U.K and research and interviews I am conducting for MSG’s own MobiAD World Focus project, I am sharply focused on finding answers to the “big questions” in mobile...
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Mobile Social Search Makes Its Mark; Will Group Searching, Sharing &...
Judging from the high level of interest in social search-related companies and concepts – such as Taptu, abphone, and people-powered answers search from ChaCha – expressed by participants at...
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Open Rules! Open Mobile Summit Asks The Right Questions; Special Offer For...
You know the specter of the downturn has hit mobile when a super power like Google claims it can’t attend participate in industry events because of budget constraints. However, smart companies know...
View ArticleContext, Social Media, And Cool Interfaces Rock Mobile Search; MSG Teams Up...
What do you get when you bring together the intellectual resources of Rudy De Waele/ mTrends and dotopen, an open innovation consulting firm known for its insights into the emerging mobile Web 2.0...
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EXPLOSIVE & EXCLUSIVE: Reebok iPhone App Lets People Design, Share, Geo-Tag &...
I can finally come out with the mobile advertising exclusive I have been hinting about since I spoke at a Knowledge & Networking Seminar – an excellent event organized by the Association for...
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Focus On Latest Thinking in Mobile Marketing & Advertising; Week Packed With...
It’s a busy next couple of days as I put the final finishing touches to my mobile advertising webinars. First is my contribution (together with Dusan Hamlin, Managing Director of the agency Inside...
View ArticleDATA POINTS: Mobile Advertising Upswing; Pricey BlackBerry Location Apps;...
A NEW REPORT SUGGESTS MOBILE ADVERTISING WILL INCREASE BY 30+ PERCENT, despite the overall marketing slowdown, because of critical development anticipated by the end of the year. According to a report...
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PODCAST: One Mobile Search To Rule Them All? GyPSii CEO Dan Harple Talks...
Last week the news was all about GyPSii’s new iPhone app. Developed by GeoSentric, GyPSii lets people, and now people who own iPhones ,create and share geotagged content in real-time with friends,...
View ArticleLocation Services Are Not Game-Changing, But Location Data Can Change All The...
The popularity of location-based services applications – particularly their top-notch position in a variety of app stores – indicates that location apps are crowd-pleasers, but are they really...
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DATA POINTS: Taptu Mobile Searches; Mobile Advertising Spend; Opera Browser...
TAPTU MOBILE SEARCH GENERATING 1 MILLION MOBILE SEARCHES a day. The exclusively mobile search engine has revealed new statistics in preparation for the launch of its iPhone application. With 3.4...
View ArticleDATA POINTS: 41 Percent Want Smartphones; Mobile Purchases Considered Safe;...
41 PERCENT OF CONSUMERS WILL MAKE SMARTPHONES their next device, according to Yankee Group research. The report also reveals that trends within the smartphone ecosystem are shifting the balance of...
View ArticleDATA POINTS: Novarra Mobile Internet Use & Segmentation; Local Content Rises;...
QUARTER OF GLOBAL USERS ACCESS MOBILE INTERNET VIA NOVARRA PLATFORM. Novarra announced its Mobile Internet Experience Update with the news that two thirds of U.S. mobile phone users and one quarter of...
View ArticleMSG Wraps Up Mobile Advertising Research U.K. & Gears Up For Mobile Search...
It has been a crazy-busy, exciting week at MSG! The Mobile Advertising Research U.K. report, which combines desk research with extensive primary research and surveys to offer invaluable insight into...
View ArticleNot The Usual Suspects: New MSearchGroove Report Reveals ChaCha Outperforms...
We’re back! It was a bumpy ride, but I used the traditional summer slowdown to move to a new host and connect with an experienced team of professionals specialized in helping businesses develop...
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Mobile Search Is (STILL) Broken; Why Verticals & Social Search Make More Sense
In brief: An analysis on mobile search strengths and shortcomings based on some eye-opening usage stats presented at the recent Mobile Search Masterclass; a summary of key findings from MSG’s own...
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DATA POINTS: Who’s Got The Biggest Reach?; AdMob Hits Another Milestone;...
NIELSEN SAYS MILLENNIAL MEDIA HAS THE BIGGEST MOBILE AD NETWORK IN THE US, MAYBE: the research firm released a list of the five mobile ad networks with the biggest reach in the US, but with the caveat...
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DATA POINTS: Where Most Tweets Are Coming From; Mobile Ad Spending On the...
TWO-THIRDS OF TWEETS COME FROM THE WEB, says a new report from Rapleaf. The big news today is that location information is coming to Twitter, as the service will make location information about its...
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DATA POINTS: Insight Into U.S. Mobile Users; BlackBerry Bigger Than iPhone;...
US MOBILE PENETRATION EDGES UP, says eMarketer, and will reach almost 97 percent in 2013. Meanwhile, they add a number of other stats pulled from other reports: in the first quarter of 2009, US mobile...
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PODCAST: Mobile Groove Continues With Blyk’s Media Strategy, Spotify’s...
In brief: Inma Martinez – a leading digital media strategist, “free radical” and advisor to venture capitalists – is back for the second in the series. Following her last take on Blyk she comes back...
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DATA POINTS: Numbers On The U.S. Mobile Industry; Nokia Talks Ovi Store;...
U.S. MOBILE DATA REVENUES ROSE 31 PERCENT in the first half of 2009 compared to the previous year, according to trade group CTIA’s latest semi-annual industry survey. Data accounted for more than a...
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MOBILE GROOVE PODCAST: Nokia’s Risky Business With Apple & Smart Acquisition...
In brief: We have hard words and constructive advice for Nokia, hone in on what makes Flirtomatic a textbook case of how companies should approach mobile and discuss this year’s deal flow. A preview of...
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Xiam/Qualcomm Study Reveals People Would Buy More Mobile Stuff – If They...
Regular readers will recall that I am sharply focused on tools/technologies and companies providing personalization and recommendations solutions to mobile operators and content owners. My passion...
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PODCAST: Nimble Nimbuzz Sharpens Focus On Context & Community; Will It Go One...
Thanks to all the cool companies for reaching out to me over the last weeks with briefings and product demos. Keep those emails coming and I’ll pick the best to feature on MSG. A company that has been...
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MOBILE MILESTONES: Virtual & Physical Worlds Combine; A Look Back With Tomi...
Today MSG concludes its three-part series dissecting the mobile developments impacting the mobile industry and our society at all levels, as documented in the Netsize Guide. The focus is expansion and...
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PODCAST SERIES: Smaato Mobile Advertising Award Winners Aloqa, Waze & Yoose...
Mobile advertising, location services couponing and crowd-sourcing are just a few of the hot topics we cover in exclusive interviews with the CEOs of Aloqa, Waze, and Yoose, companies that won the...
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CENTER STAGE: Mobile Social Network Flirtomatic CEO Mark Curtis Talks About...
The Netsize Guide 2010 is also creating a stir at CTIA, where several fans have asked me for a copy. But at 200+ pages it really wasn’t the ideal hand luggage to bring on the trip. Instead, MSG and...
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CENTER STAGE: Scanbuy CEO Jonathan Bulkeley Talks Barcodes; Linking...
Mobile 2D barcode scanning is paving the way for a range of exciting and lucrative schemes hyperlinking our physical world of things (all objects including product packaging, printed media, TV,...
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THE MOBILE MOVEMENT Launches, Brings Mobile To Non-Profits; MSG Joins...
In brief: MSG and the Founding Members of a new initiative supporting non-profits – The Mobile Movement – announced today they have formed a coalition committed to bringing mobile capabilities to...
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Permission-Based Mobile Advertising Gains Traction; Jumptap Platform Upgrade...
In brief: An exclusive interview with JumpTap CMO Paran Johar connects the dots in this week’s announcement to support permission-based advertising with a new feature that lets consumers choose mobile...
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