Posted on 27 November, 2008 by Philip Buxton
Extract: “If the online journey is – as iCrossing believes – about conversation or navigation, then Twitter faces two approaches: to seek to attach a value to its audience’s conversations (e.g. become a paid-for research tool) or to the way in which Twitter users help in navigation by directing their followers to useful products and [...]
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Posted on 26 November, 2008 by Philip Buxton
Extract: “I’m positive that mobile ad banners will grow as a revenue source. But I’m equally positive that their value to advertisers will diminish – just as they have on the web – and soon prove an unprofitable format to support. Understanding that digital is about service, not content, will help media owners avoid that [...]
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Posted on 17 November, 2008 by Philip Buxton
Extract: “First, no apology, for writing about handsets. For media types, this might sound irrelevant, but the handset – in planet mobile – is everything. As forecast, the iPhone has forced everyone to raise their game so that, not long from now, everyone who matters to advertisers will have a handset in their hands that [...]
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Posted on 13 November, 2008 by Philip Buxton
Extract: “IAB chief executive Guy Phillipson is wearing his favoured combination of grey suit and coloured accessories so we must be ready for IAB Engage 2008! With a great big collective intake of breath we’re off, though we’re all still slightly confused about the dancers in scrubs in the foyer…” Read the full post here
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Posted on 10 November, 2008 by Philip Buxton
Extract: “The standardisation of mobile operating systems has truly begun as Motorola says all its future devices will have either Windows Mobile or Android as their base system.” Full post here
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Posted on 4 November, 2008 by Philip Buxton
Extract: “It’s been said that if you can think of it, then there’s already a magazine about it. The relaunch of the MMA is a reminder that you can also bet there’s at least one trade body to represent its interests. And so it is in mobile. Consider online advertising. Control over that particular space [...]
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