Win free tickets for MobileSQUARED Roadshow (New York, November 2, 2010)

The MobileSQUARED team has given mobiThinking five free tickets for the New York Roadshow next week to anyone who can answer these questions. All the answers can be found in articles in the MobileSQUARED newsletter.

1. 6.9 percent of US consumers that view a mobile ad go on to purchase the item, but what ethnic group is most likely to make a purchase after viewing an ad: a) African American; b) White; or c) Hispanic?

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Future of Mobile: permission

What is the Future of Mobile? Well from what mobiThinking heard at the conference of the same name in London yesterday, it sounds like it should be permission-led, whatever it is.

An interesting critique of the bustling world where location-based services and social networking meet on the mobile, by serial entrepreneur Andrew Scott, was underlined by his belief that successful mobile web has to be opt-in.

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The MMA Awards, new stats and the president’s swansong

It’s the big shindig for the Mobile Marketing Association in San Diego, US, today. It is also the swan song of outgoing MMA president Laura Marrott. Reading Laura’s in depth interview with mobiThinking brings home just how much the MMA and mobile marketing has come on during her three-and-a-half year tenure. 200,000 air miles a year… that really is above and beyond the call of duty. Laura’s successor – whoever that might be – has big boots to fill.

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Obama mobi mania

mobiThinking has been reading the first wave of coverage of Barack Obama’s use of mobile in his White House campaign.

The publicity should be great news for the mobile marketing business. See: A victory for Obama, a victory for mobile.

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Named and shamed: big sites that look bad on mobile

Bango took a look at the 20 busiest PC sites using common mobiles from the UK and US and in 10 cases they didn’t like what they found. These included cheer leaders for the mobile web.

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Trick or Treat – where are Halloween’s mobile marketing gems?

mobiThinking has been scouring the mobile web for a good fright. So far we’ve been a little disappointed, but the night is still young. We were surprised not to find a trick-or-treat mobile advertising campaign: click on trick to see something scary (like how much you are charged for data by your mobile operator); click on treat and you receive some free minutes... or data preferably; even more if you pass it onto a friend.

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Making the customer pay

If you had to pick one reason why your website should be mobile-friendly, you could do a lot worse that this:

If your website is unnecessarily data / graphics heavy, you may be costing your customer money or unnecessarily exhausting their Internet allowance. Most mobile users do not have unlimited data packages – or employers who unquestioningly pick up the tab – even those that do will end up paying through the nose to visit your site when roaming abroad.

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Will mobile marketing come out of the credit crunch smelling of roses?

Recession is looming, but the mobile business plans to encourage brands to boost mobile marketing spend.

Brands should be spending 5 percent of their marketing budget on mobile, according to AKQA head of mobile Dan Rosen. He said he’s working on initiatives within the Mobile Marketing Association aimed at promoting brand spending on the mobile channel.

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Mobile car insurance taken for a test drive

“An advert on the back of a London bus invites drivers to apply for some car insurance over my mobile. Visit Swiftcover.mobi or text ‘Swift’ to 80231 (which replies quickly with the URL) for a quote in 60 seconds or less.

So we tried it… not while driving as that would be illegal, if not a little daft.
On the homepage Swift’s hen invites us to get a quote, offering a money-back guarantee if cheaper insurance is found elsewhere within 14 days of the start of the policy.

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