Insider’s guides to mobile Web marketing: France, Japan, Canada, Germany, USA, India, UK, Australia, Spain, South Africa, Brazil
Get the lowdown on the top mobile markets worldwide, as regional experts share the statistics and highlight the brands, agencies, publishers, ad networks and associations that lead mobile innovation in guides dedicated to each country.
Join mobiThinking for a journey around the globe. We invite the top experts in each region to introduce us to the highs (and lows) of mobile marketing and mobile Web in their countries.
Whether you are planning a mobile strategy in these geographies or interested in learning from them, these guides are essential reading.
The next guides scheduled for publication are Turkey and China. We welcome any recommendations or help with any guides past or future, email: editor (at) mobiThinking.
The insider’s guide to mobile Web marketing in France
Mobile Web and mobile marketing in France has been dominated by, the three mobile network operators’ (Orange, SFR and Bouygues Telecom) portals and opt-in SMS databases, but during 2010 independent mobile publishers and marketing agencies were gaining momentum.
This guide contains all the latest stats including subscribers, mobile Internet usage, top 20 mobile destinations and top 15 mobile agencies.
Contributor: Benoît Corbin, president of Ocito, a French mobile agency founded in 2002, and president of Mobile Marketing Association France (MMAF).
Published: February 2011
The insider’s guide to mobile Web marketing in Japan
The rest of the world is fascinated by mobile in Japan – but few people really know what's going on. The truth is, quite simply, mind-boggling. This guide is packed with jaw-dropping statistics, enlightening case studies and analysis, while identifying all the movers and shakers in the business.
Did you know? McDonald's Japan mobile site has 16 million registered users (more than 12 percent of the Japanese population) and its m-coupon service is used by 4.5 million.
Contributor: Christopher Billich spent five years as head of research at Infinita in Japan, analyzing mobile trends for international clients eager to emulate Japanese success stories back home.
Published: March 2010
The insider’s guide to mobile Web marketing in Canada
As the Winter Olympics 2010 kicks off in Vancouver, we turn to Laura Marriott, Canadian national, mobile guru and ex-president of MMA to be our guide to mobile in Canada. She taps Canada's top wireless experts for the latest news and views on mobile Web, services and marketing from the world's second largest country (by geography). Discover the latest stats, the top mobile sites and all the brands, agencies, publishers and mobile ad networks that are leading mobile innovation, as the World's top wireless guru, draws on the expertise of her fellow Canadians.
Chief contributor: Laura Marriott, mobile marketing consultant, speaker and former president, MMA
Published: February 2010
The insider’s guide to mobile Web marketing in Germany
Welcome to Europe's largest mobile market – recent estimates put mobile phone subscriptions at 108 million. Germany is home to many global brands such as BMW and Lufthansa that have readily embraced mobile. The brief includes the top 10 mobile sites and all the brands, agencies, publishers and mobile ad networks that are leading mobile marketing in Germany.
Contributors: Gian Fulgoni, chairman, ComScore; Mark Wächter, chairman, MMA Germany and BVDW mobile group
Published: January 2010
The insider’s guide to mobile Web marketing in the US
The US is a market of over 270 million mobile users, collectively spending more on mobile data than anywhere else on the planet. Let the world’s leading mobile ambassador guide you through the ins and outs of the US mobile Web, as she shares invaluable insights, statistics, resources and tips.
Chief contributor: Laura Marriott, mobile marketing consultant, speaker and former president, MMA
Published: December 2009
The insider’s guide to mobile Web marketing in India
With 525 million mobile subscriptions (January 2010) and rising India is the world’s second largest mobile market after China. Cell phone penetration dwarfs both landlines and PCs, making the mobile channel the obvious channel for meeting the growing digital information and entertainment needs of this vast market.
Contributors: Sandy Agarwal, head of Nokia Interactive Advertising, Asia, MMA Asia board; Rajiv Hiranandani, co-chair, MMA India and co-founder, Mobile2Win
Updated: December 2009
The insider’s guide to mobile Web marketing in the UK
The UK has seen tremendous growth in mobile Internet in the past 18 months, as mobile browsing becomes more user-friendly. Almost 27 percent of the UK mobile subscribers now use their phone to access the Internet, according to research from mobileSQUARED.
Contributor: Nick Lane, chief analyst, mobileSQUARED
Updated: February 2010
The insider’s guide to mobile Web marketing in South Africa
With South Africa hosting the FIFA World Cup 2010, an already buoyant mobile Web marketing business should get a massive testosterone boost.
But with such a diverse population, South Africa presents interesting challenges together with the opportunities.
Contributor: Sean Pashley, chief commercial officer, Starfish Mobile
Published: July 2009
The insider’s guide to mobile marketing in Spain
With the highest mobile-Internet penetration in Europe, as well as being one of the world’s Top 10 nations for .mobi registrations, Spain is an attractive bet for mobile marketers.
Our guide hails from Madrid's multi-award-winning agency Mobile Dreams Factory.
Contributor: Alberto Benbunan, co-founder, Mobile Dreams Factory
Published: May 2009
The insider’s guide to mobile marketing in Australia
Many of the top online publishers such as Bigpond (Telstra), Yahoo!7, NineMSN, News Digital Media have seen use of their mobile sites grow rapidly.
With mobile subscriptions at 110 percent of the population and good 3G coverage, Australia is often used by global brands as a test bed for mobile campaigns.
Contributor: Alex Burke, general manager Asia and Alex Hall, chief operations officer, TigerSpike
Published: April 2009
The insider’s guide to mobile marketing in Brazil
Along with Russia, India and China (known affectionately as the BRIC countries), Brazil is eyed as a market of great potential by operators, handset manufacturers and mobile marketers alike. Get the low down on Brazil with the MMA's global chairman and interim CEO.
Contributor: Federico Pisani Massamormile, MMA global chairman, and interim CEO, MMA and CEO, Hanzo
Updated: January 2010
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For Croatia there is only one mobile advertising network and it is brand new. It is called ClickAttack and you can check it out on website http://clickattack.com (do not know if there is any translation on other languages beside croatian, but if not, there will be soon)
Nino
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You have a great guide in web mobile marketing is was indeed very helpful to all those business people out there who are engagingin mobile marketing. This could help them a lot.
Thanks for your comments. We hope to add a lot more insider’s guides in 2011. mobiThinking has been trying very hard to source guides to Russia, China, Philippines, Turkey, France, Singapore, Hong Kong, Kenya among other countries. Fingers crossed, we will be able to make some of these available over the next few months.
Editor.
We would really appreciate if you could include the small country of the Philippines. I can promise you, you'll be surprised of the figures. e.g. SMS/sub, market demographics, mobile penetration, etc
Thank you in advance.
I would appreciate the insider’s guides to mobile Web marketing also for Slovakia, Czech republic, Hungary, Poland, Ukraine, Russia, Croatia etc.
Would be great to see one for South Korea!
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