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Velti wins major gong for mobile advertising

Rating: Won its category in Future Mobile Awards from Juniper

The winners of six ‘Future Mobile Awards’ were announced this week [June 18th 2012] as given by the awards’ sponsor – UK based research and analyst company, Juniper Research. The important award for mobile advertising was won this year by Greece’s Velti. Also highly commended in this category were inMobi and Millenial Media. The Future Mobile Awards are given to companies that Juniper believes have made significant progress within their sector during the previous year, and are now poised to make considerable market impact in the future. Continue reading

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The facts behind user privacy according to Mobclix

Rating: Advertising network issues resolute rebuttal to Channel 4 show

Velti/Mobclix has respond to a story that ran on the UK’s Channel 4 News sounding a privacy alarm on Android apps sharing personal data with advertisers and alluding to the possibility that Mobclix facilitates the storage of private user data. The TV programme provided the basis for this earlier GoMo News story. Mobclix points out that the entire programme only suggests that it’s ‘possible‘ for all kinds of bad things to happen with user data on mobile devices, specifically when users download apps that use networks to target advertising. The reporter cites no actual evidence that a network indeed is compromising user privacy in this way. Continue reading

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Channel 4 claims exclusive interview with Reding on data theft

Rating: Commissions MWR InfoSecurity to prove allegations

Viviane Reding, vp of the European Commission has spoken exclusively to Channel 4 News about smartphone apps developed to mine personal data and pass it to advertisers. A quarter of all UK mobile users are on Android. They downloaded 100,000,000 Apps in January alone.These users grant apps permission to access certain features on the phone and Channel 4 News has discovered that these permissions are then being ‘handed on’ to a network of advertisers. Continue reading

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Velti adds Air2Web to its latest acquisition of Ad Infuse, CASEE and MobClix

Velti will acquire Air2Web.

Air2Web?

Air2Web is a mobile customer relationship management company. It has a global presence but is mostly successful in India, as well as the US. It also has a partnership with SAS the business analytics company to provide analytics for MMS campaigns. Air2Web used mobile advertising techniques such as targeting to enhance its services. So its was mobile CRM with personalisation, targeting and analytics all tied into one.

Velti?

Well, Velti is a well known mobile marketing giant. But it is turning into a mega-beast by swallowing up some strong players in the market.
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Mobile advertising and marketing news: Inception, shopping and Africa

Welcome to today’s round-up of the best in mobile marketing and advertising stories, from GoMo News! Warner Bros. is including mobile in the marketing mix for Inception DVD release; retailers are being urged to go mobile by both 2ergo and Brand Anywhere; InMobi claims Africans are far more receptive to mobile advertiser; and more… Continue reading

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Mobile advertising and marketing hot news: Velti, Korea and prescription drugs

Here’s the Friday morning round-up of the latest mobile marketing and advertising stories from GoMo News! Mobile marketer Velti has bought it’s own ad exchange; Korea’s smallest operator is hoping mobile advertising will help it; and more… Continue reading

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Mobclix gets real-time analysis for its ads

Rating: Thanks to fast database from Aster Data
“I don’t understand this because it’s all Geek to me,” would best describe the latest announcement from Aster Data that Mobclix has chosen its product to deliver that Holy Grail -  high-speed and sophisticated analytics. It has something to do with databases, apparently.
Supposedly, Mobclix can now, “Enhance its [...]

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AdWhirl boasts 200 million ads on its Ad Platform for iPhone developers – GoMo News checks it out

When this PR from AdWhirl hit my inbox yesterday, I thought, good grief. I couldn’t believe what I was reading. Basically some newbie mobile ad network only one monthly old has served 200 million mobile advertisements.  Lies, damn lies I screamed in my head.

The press release states:  
Developers have found ad revenues increase anywhere from 30% [...]

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