One year of Business Confidence Indexes from the Mobile Entertainment Forum - the South is the place to be!

The Business Confidence Index is a bold experiment that the Mobile Entertainment Forum (MEF) began at Mobile World Congress last year. The BCI is compiled from a survey that is sent out every quarter, anonymously answered by Executives at the top levels of member companies of the MEF. And so at MWC this year, I sat down for a juice and miniature doughnut with Rimma Perelmuter, Executive Director of the MEF, to talk about what the BCI has revealed over the last year.

The Mobile Entertainment Forum releases its second Business Confidence Index

We saw a lot of interest in the first Business Confidence Index (BCI) from the Mobile Entertainment Forum (MEF), which we interviewed them about at Mobile World Congress. Today, MEF will be publishing the second in the on-going series of reports - and has found that confidence in the mobile entertainment market has grown slightly in the last quarter

Meffy Awards on Mobile Entertainment - enter now

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(New deadline of 24 April!)

The deadline for the sixth annual Meffys Mobile Entertainment Awards is fast approaching. Due to popular demand, the entry deadline has now been extended to 24 April so companies still have time to submit their entries.
 
Dubbed the ‘Oscars of the mobile world’, [...]

Ralph Simon Guru MEF Music Man on why the MEF is more vital than ever

Imagine meeting a person who has been fighting for your rights and setting the foundations for your own personal business model over the course of the last NINE YEARS, and you’ve only met them just today!

This was my meeting Ralph Simon, MEF Americas Chairman Emeritus and Founder.  The Mobile Entertainment Forum has been setting out [...]

Mobile Music shows it’s strength - consumers are happy with mobile advertising supported downloads

KPMG and the Mobile Entertainment Forum today released results from a mobile music survey performed in the US. They discovered that over 75% of US respondents were happy with their experience downloading and listening to songs on their mobile phone. Not only that, but almost a third were happy to receive mobile ads in return [...]

GoMo 1-to-1: Mobile Entertainment Forum, BCI and Smartpipe initiative

Rimma Perelmuter, Executive Director of the Mobile Entertainment Forum, speaks about it’s Business Confidence Index, and the Smartpipe initiative.

GoMo 1-to-1: Mobile Entertainment Forum, BCI and Smartpipe initiative from Cian Gomo on Vimeo.

MWC 2009: MEF Business Confidence Index for mobile entertainment shows high confidence

The Mobile Entertainment Forum (MEF) has released the findings from its first Business Confidence Index (BCI). The Index is created from an anonymous survey of the 158 member companies of the Forum. It is a look into the sectors of the mobile entertainment industry that are expected to succeed by the MEF during the recession. [...]

Mobile Entertainment Forum appoints music maestro to Global Marketing spot

The Mobile Entertainment Forum (MEF), the global trade association of the mobile media industry, today announced the appointment of Stephen Jenkins as Global Marketing Director. His job will be to create awareness of MEF’s initiatives and activities, which promote mobile entertainment adoption, shape regulation and deliver competitive advantage to its members.

From the release:
Stephen Jenkins says: [...]

TM Forum, MEF Partner To Address Large Losses In Mobile Content Value Chain

MORRISTOWN, NJ – TM Forum and the Mobile Entertainment Forum (MEF) announced today the launch of a joint initiative to address the estimated $5 billion in annual losses experienced by content suppliers across the mobile content value chain. These losses are attributable to incorrect reporting of revenue, and according to MEF calculations, comprise as much [...]

The MEF Mobile Entertainment Forum and huge things coming

  Rimma Perelmuter and Krystal! From the M-E-F Mobile Entertainment Forum.

It was a nice surprise to bump into the M-E-F in Asia as I haven’t heard or spoken or seen them since May. In fact, I did think that they had gone off the radar and that was my first question for Rimma when [...]

Meffys - Upoc, Rimma Perelmuter, Dolby, hiccup and more

I was out till 4am (at my age).
Only proving that the Meffys is great for your social life and lots of networking is still done in the middle of the night.

But I had a great night. I was on the MEF table and I spent most of the night next to Gordon Gould one of [...]

Patrick Parodi and Bena Roberts

Patrick Parodi and Bena Roberts
This is a great bit of fun! I was showing Amobee and the MEF’s Patrick Parodi what Flixwagon live video was. It was actually great talking to Patrick not about Amobee or the MEF - shriek! He actually has a great sense of humour. He was also guiding me on where [...]

MEM 2008 – Mobile Marketing Campaign & Mobile Search Awards Judging

I just would like to extend a warm thank-you to the MEF and Informa for leaving the judging for the Mobile Marketing and Mobile Search and Discovery Awards to be held in Cannes in May 2008 open for me.
After fighting jetlag since my return from CTIA and nursing a fractured finger – I am just [...]

Apply for the Meffys - red hot awards in Mobile Entertainment!

March 17th is the deadline for the Meffy Awards.  The conference is in Cannes in May (MEM).
There are lots of categories and I believe I am a judge so go on – get a move on and apply ASAP.
http://www.m-e-f.org/index.php?id=44  

The MEF: Mobile Entertainment Forum

This morning I had the pleasure to speak to Rimma Perelmuter the Executive Director of the MEF. The MEF is the Mobile Entertainment Forum aka The Global Voice of Mobile Entertainment.

I have attended many MEF events and have met the MEF team (Rimma, Sarah, Suhail and Stephanie) on several occasions – but I still had [...]

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