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MIPTV in Cannes April 2010 the place to be this year #miptv

I’ve just seen the details for this year’s MIPTV to be held in Cannes April 12 – 16th.
From the conference agenda – where else would you find Shine Group’s Elisabeth Murdoch and Joanna Shields, News Corp’s Jonathan Miller, Sky’s Jeremy Darroch to name just a few in the same room.
MIP Digital kicks off with a [...]

Are social networks creating a generation of techno addicts?

The short answer is no I do not believe so, otherwise I would not have set up @madeleinegrill’s twitter account for when she is older.
Last week I was asked by Sky News to provide comment on the issue of “Techno addiction”, as a result of a report by Northampton University, where a study of 1,200 people carried out [...]

Vodafone Completes Roll Out of Mobile Advertising Services to 18 Markets in 18 Months

Interesting release from the team at Vodafone about their mobile advertising roll-out.
Some of the services coming up from Vodafone I have been personally involved with and it will be good to see Vodafone roll these out in a range of markets.
The full Vodafone release is here.
Vodafone announces today that it has fulfilled its ambition [...]

Only you can save mobile advertising

John Tanner posted an excellent article recently over on Telcomasia.net titled “Only you can save mobile advertising”
I met with John in Barcelona at Mobile World Congress and apparently our discussion there promoted his thinking and this article – glad I helped fuel the debate John.
His byline for the article is “The real value in mobile [...]

Why is mobile advertising treated like a 7 year old?

After announcing the appointment of Tim Hussain as Head of Mobile Advertising for Sky back in August 2008, I finally had the chance to sit down with him today and talk about all things mobile.
Like me, he was been involved in the first internet wave (1994 – 1999) when we had small screens, dial-up internet speeds [...]

Sky appoints head of mobile advertising

As reported over at Brand Republic, Sky has appointed its first head of mobile advertising, recruiting former AOL head of mobile Tim Hussain.
In addition, Sky has promoted David Gibbs to general manager for mobile.
The two appointments follow the recent announcement that Emma Lloyd, business development director at Sky, will take overall responsibility for mobile, in [...]

Mobile social networking meets crowd powered media

I have been writing a lot about mobile social networking lately, and over the past 2 days have experienced the power of it first hand.

Below is a summary of how a few reasonably low resolution pictures of the new Heathrow Terminal 5 on opening day ended up on a new social media website, Now Public.
I [...]