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Most popular content on mobiThinking in 2010
Submitted by Editor on 3 January, 2011 - 23:53.
The top destinations on mobiThinking in 2010 were the Guide to mobile ad networks and the Compendium of global mobile stats with 43,000 and 40,000 page views respectively, followed by the guides to top world’s top mobile markets, mobile agencies and mobile awards.
In 2010 mobiThinking enjoyed 77 percent growth in visitor figures compared with 2009. We attribute this to the quality of the content we received from our many contributors in the form of interviews, guides, country profiles, agency and ad network profiles. Thanks for all your support in 2010.
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Mobile world capital: so what is the DNA of a truly mobile city and which cities really vie for the title?
Submitted by Editor on 25 November, 2010 - 15:28.
The GSMA announced this week that the city that hosts its annual conference from 2013 to 2017 will also be crowned Mobile World Capital. The shortlist includes six European cities that would make great places for a big conference, but aren’t necessarily the first places that mobiThinking would have expected to be Mobile World Capital: Amsterdam, Barcelona, Cologne, Milan, Munich and Paris.
Carnival of the Mobilists (No 243): music, psychology, consumer behavior, apps, ads, movies, handset share and more
Submitted by Editor on 16 November, 2010 - 13:12.
Welcome to Carnival of the Mobilists (COM), your round up of the best mobile and wireless blogs and one completely average one. Last week the itinerant COM was hosted by Antoine RJ Wright, next week COm drops in at MJelly. If you want your blog to be considered, submit it to mobilists@gmail.com.
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Mobile in Pakistan: a must-watch video from the founder of Mobile Monday Karachi
Submitted by Editor on 8 November, 2010 - 19:41.
mobiThinking was recently sent this video of a presentation given by Rehan Allahwala, the founder of Mobile Monday Karachi at the recent Mobile Monday 10-year Anniversary Summit in Helsinki. We hope to be hearing a lot more on mobile in Pakistan from Mr. Allahwala, in the meantime we highly recommend watching this video. It puts things into perspective.
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Win free tickets for MobileSQUARED Roadshow (New York, November 2, 2010)
Submitted by Editor on 27 October, 2010 - 08:04.
The MobileSQUARED team has given mobiThinking five free tickets for the New York Roadshow next week to anyone who can answer these questions. All the answers can be found in articles in the MobileSQUARED newsletter.
- 6.9 percent of US consumers that view a mobile ad go on to purchase the item, but what ethnic group is most likely to make a purchase after viewing an ad: a) African American; b) White; or c) Hispanic?
Three lessons from Design For Mobile 2010 (Chicago) – an event report from Ian Homer, Bemoko
Submitted by Editor on 26 September, 2010 - 19:18.
The next best thing to attending an excellent event is receiving a blow-by-blow report of the conference highlights.
Ian Homer, director of services – and design guru - at mobile agency Bemoko, fills us in on lesson’s learned at last week’s Design for Mobile… It seems we missed an “inspirational conference”.
• Also see this guide to mobile design with tips from the speakers at this event:
Which are the world's biggest and best mobile agencies?
Submitted by Editor on 4 July, 2010 - 10:51.
Buoyed by the popularity of our Guide to mobile ad networks, we have launched a new guide:
• The mobiThinking guide to mobile agencies.
Meet the biggest South African mobile sites – top 10 shows that on mobile the World Cup host nation is football (soccer) crazy
Submitted by Editor on 11 June, 2010 - 07:27.
As the World Cup host nation kicks off the first match of the tournament today (Friday morning in America, Friday afternoon in Europe/Africa, Friday night in Asia/Pacific) versus Mexico, so commences a fascinating case study in mobile Web.
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FTC allows Google to purchase AdMob, but the investigation contributes little to collective understanding of the mobile
Submitted by Editor on 28 May, 2010 - 12:50.
With so much media attention on the Google/AdMob investigation, you might expect the FTC to go to some lengths to justify its conclusion that Google's US$750 million purchase of AdMob should go ahead. After all, it believes these networks to be number one and two (that's news, by the way). The hope was that in explaining itself, the FTC statement might help to shed some light on the emerging market of mobile ad networks.
Mobile money will make the world go round
Submitted by Editor on 21 May, 2010 - 10:52.
The world has gone m-tastic… m-commerce, m-banking, m-coupons, m-tickets, m-wallets, m-travel, m-retail and many other things pre-fixed with an “m-” (for mobile). All those that are money-related – or should we say m-money – fall into two categories: using a mobile device to a) do banking-type things with cash (deposit, transfer funds, withdraw, get paid, pay bills) and b) purchase things (physical and digital goods, travel and entertainment either on the mobile Web or at the store/venue/station.
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