The massively fragmented mobile advertising market is now slightly less so. German mobile advertising company YOC has announced it’s intention to purchase a British mobile marketing company, Bluestar Mobile.
There’s basically no information available for this at the moment. Well, apart from the fact that YOC has issued a statement declaring it’s intent to buy the company. But the YOC Group has already had a presence in England since 2005, and has announced it’s that this acquisition is to expand it’s operations in the British market.
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It’s something that Jonathan MacDonald said “fragmentation will take care of itself”. Not just in mobile advertising – we’ve seen closer co-operation between operators, service providers, manufacturers and everybody else along the value chain. In a way, the recession has been great for the mobile industry as a whole. Instead of everybody holding on to their little fragment and trying to do everything themselves, necessity has driven a more open model.
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