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With mobile it’s personal – marketers must respect customer information

Here is a lesson in how not to use mobile as a channel.
I just had an experience that proves to me that some companies still don’t get the personal nature of mobile, and the overarching need to ask PERMISSION to engage.
I won’t name the company concerned because they have removed my mobile number from their [...]

What does the Google behavioural targeting move mean for mobile advertising?

Recently, Google announced that they will start “behavioural targeting” for web searches.
From their announcement:
We think we can make online advertising even more relevant and useful by using additional information about the websites people visit. Today we are launching “interest-based” advertising as a beta test on our partner sites and on YouTube. These ads will associate [...]

User preferences now becoming more important for mobile services

Last Friday I was in the Hospital Club in Covent Garden, where I am a member.
Another guest came up to me and introduced himself – saying he had seen me present at the Every Single One of Us Powwow event in January.
We spoke for a few minutes about a new mobile proposition he was working [...]

David Ogilvy on mobile advertising – what would he have thought?

Sadly “David Ogilvy on mobile advertising” will never be written as the great man passed away in July 1999.  It would be a great companion to his classic 1993 book “Ogilvy on Advertising“, the cover of which is shown on the left.
Having just read the brilliant biography on David Ogilvy “The King of Madison Avenue“ by Kenneth [...]

Publicis works its Mojo in Australia with Myne

I spied an interesting article in the Sydney Morning Herald a few months ago, and this post has been in draft for too long – so time to publish, as it is still relevant.
As an expat Australian who spent a few years at Telstra, and was directly involved with the Publicis Mojo team on the “Just [...]

Ask, don’t tell – the golden rule for mobile advertising 2.0

The above cartoon by Hugh MacLeod is one of my favourites, and my friend and fellow mobile advertising evangelist, Jonathan MacDonald also uses it in his presentations (and pointed me to Hugh’s great work).
It says so much about the state of mobile advertising, and why the critics still say it is not working.  The latest [...]

Mobile Advertising Is Broken – Who Will Fix It?

I have had a long association with Peggy Saltz from msearchgroove and she has invited me to write semi-regular guest posts on her site. The latest of these addresses the issues we currently face with mobile advertising.
Peggy gives a great introduction to the post over on msearchgroove, and Jonathan Macdonald, one of the drivers behind [...]

The 3 P’s of mobile (and social) advertising from Jonathan MacDonald

At the MMA Mobile Marketing Forum in Budapest, one of the most dynamic and challenging presentations was from fellow mobile advertising evangelist Jonathan MacDonald, who is a Senior Consultant at Ogilvy.
Jonathan explained that Ogilvy puts digital, including mobile in the middle of the equation and this is quite unique for an agency with expertise across [...]