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Mobile advertising will overtake newspaper ads next year

09/21/201509/19/2015 Julie Campbell

Newspapers have already been struggling with the competition from computers and now smartphones are here. According to recent predictions in the industry, mobile advertising is lining itself up to become the third biggest ad medium behind television and the standard web, once it surpasses newspapers in 2016. A recent study has shown that if trends continue in the same direction, then newspapers will drop a point next year. The study was conducted by Zenith Optimedia and it revealed that mobile advertising will not only leapfrog over newspapers as soon as…

Mobile marketing campaign success from The North Face

03/04/201403/01/2014 Jorge Gonzalez

The North Face mobile shopping marketing

The company hasn’t missed the lesson from their experience and is now in the midst of a strategic digital shift. The first large mobile marketing push from The North Face was strikingly successful as the company experienced a higher rate of digital engagement in Europe as a result of this campaign. Now, the brand is shifting itself away from its older traditional channels and toward smartphones and tablets. To accomplish this goal, The North Face has partnered with Millennial Media. It was this arrangement that brought about the brand’s first…

The number of mobile gamers in the United States has broken the 100 million mark

03/31/201203/31/2012 Sam Lambert

Newzoo, an international market research firm, has released a new report that is drawing attention to the rapidly growing popularity of gaming over mobile devices. It was entitled “Mobile Games Trend Report”, and it showed that the number of people in the United States who use their smartphone, tablet computer, or iPod Touch mobile devices for playing video games is now greater than 100 million. What Newzoo found was that among the American gamers who played on their mobile devices, 69 percent used their smartphones, while 21 percent were using…

Linking Mobile works to bring transactional QR codes into offline marketing techniques

03/22/201203/22/2012 John Montgallo

Linking Mobile has announced that it is creating an affiliate cost per acquisition (CPA) model that will sell ads based on the use of transactional QR codes through offline marketing channels. The strategy has already been implemented for the first time, in the form of the printing of the barcodes onto 100,000 leaflets that promote the Accident Advice Helpline (AAH), which Double Bubble has been distributing through advertising throughout London. Instead of paying for the printing and the hand-outs up-front, AAH will instead be charged for the advertising using the…

QR Codes on Steroids

03/18/2012 Guest Post

What’s a QR Code? They are those rather odd looking black and white square barcode now appearing in your magazines, newspapers and on your favorite products. By scanning them with an app on your phone they can open websites. Truth is we believe the QR code is just a bit, well, boring. Why not shake it up – perhaps add 3D layers, and sound? That humble QR code can do so much more for you if it’s an onvert™ code. Onvert can do everything a QR can do plus 3D…