Spammers take aim at mobile phone users

Mobile Commerce

Spamming techniques under a watchful eye. Text messages have become the latest target for marketers who use spamming techniques to reach a broad audience in a similar way to that which has already been filling email junk folders for many years. According to Ferris Research, in 2011, it is estimated that American consumers received approximately 4.5 billion texts with spam ads. This was more than twice the number that was received in 2009, when there were an estimated 2.2 billion spam texts. Though the problem has not yet grown to…

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Taking a look at the mobile marketing industry headliners

Mobile Marketing News

Mobile advertising and marketing has taken the digital marketing industry by storm and the media has not failed to notice. From analytics to SMS and from display advertising to marketing metrics, businesses of all sizes around the world are connecting with current and prospective customers through their mobile devices. In analytics, iLoop Mobile and Webtrends have held the largest headlines recently as the mobile market enabler announced that it has taken on the mobile analytics company as its partner. That said, iLoop Mobile will be gaining a great deal more…

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