20-Year Industry Veteran Brings Proven Expertise in Wireless and Digital Advertising Markets to Drive Continued Ringleader Digital Growth

NEW YORK – Ringleader Digital, the only mobile third-party ad-serving network, announced that Rachel Walkden has joined Ringleader Digital as the company’s Senior Vice President of Product Management and Operations. Walkden brings more than 20 years of business and product management success to Ringleader Digital, which includes focused expertise in wireless and digital advertising. She has held a series of senior management positions for companies including Operative Media, Inc. and Lucent Technologies, Inc., where she directed innovation and managed growth while holding varied roles in product marketing, business development and global operations.

At Ringleader Digital, Walkden will be responsible for setting product strategy, defining major corporate initiatives, and managing the ad operations and marketing strategies for the organization.
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Quattro’s Mobile Ad Network to Collaborate with Microsoft Advertising to Promote Integrated and Simplified Mobile Advertising Planning

WALTHAM, Mass. – Quattro Wireless (www.quattrowireless.com), North America’s premier mobile ad network, announced a strategic relationship with Microsoft Advertising to help advertisers and agencies plan, buy and execute mobile advertising as part of their integrated marketing campaign.

Quattro’s sophisticated ad targeting platform and premier publisher inventory will have the ability to accept traffic from Microsoft Advertising’s Atlas Media Console buy-side ad serving technology, which will offer advertisers and agencies an efficient option in setting up, tracking, billing and measuring an integrated mobile campaign.
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ATLANTA – LSN, Inc., Local Solutions Network, with the nation’s largest local mobile advertising network, announced the availability of their LSN Local Content Widgets in Yahoo! Go (http://go.yahoo.com), leveraging Yahoo! Blueprint, Yahoo!’s mobile development platform.  Starting today, Yahoo! Go users will be able to access local news, weather, sports, school closings and much more from LSN’s affiliate network of 140 local media partners, including ABC, NBCU, Telemundo, McGraw Hill, Cox, Gray, Raycom, and other leading media.

Yahoo! Go is Yahoo!’s award winning all-in-one mobile application, available on more than 280 devices across 19 countries.  Yahoo! Go lets users enjoy the best of the Internet on their phone.  Users can send email, upload photos, download a map, search for answers, check stock quotes, or get breaking news—all from one application on their mobile device.
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Eyeblaster’s Ad Campaign Manager syncs online and mobile channels under one platform

New York, New York (December 9, 2008) — Today, MediaCom London launched the world’s first third-party-served mobile campaign, representing a major breakthrough in mobile advertising. MediaCom used Eyeblaster Ad Campaign Manager (ACM) to serve ads across the Nokia Media Network. The campaign, promoting the latest services from mobile operator T-Mobile, spans across multiple mobile and online publishers.

Channel Connect for Mobile, a new offering from Eyeblaster, allows agencies and advertisers to seamlessly integrate mobile into the digital marketing mix, making mobile campaigns easier to plan, create, execute and measure alongside other channels.
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NEW YORK – Reportlinker.com announces that a new market research report related to the Wireless industry is available in its catalogue.

Mobile Media Advertising Opportunities: The Market For Advertising

Personal, always on, ubiquitous and connected, mobile has the potential to become a potent advertising medium. However, some factors are slowing down the development of the market. The report provides basic metrics relevant to the take-up of mobile advertising and gives an overview of the players involved in its value chain. The report then provides a recap of recent consolidation and funding in the industry, before providing analysis and forecasts for advertising tied to four mobile content types: TV, VoD, user-generated content and games. It also examines advertising within search and communication services, and provides insight on operators’ strategies.
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Limbo’s Quarterly Study Reveals that Mobile Advertising Industry Passes Landmark Threshold, Largely Driven by Text-based Ads

BURLINGAME, Calif. – Limbo, one of the largest mobile social networks in the US, and GfK Technology, a leading market research agency, released their latest joint Mobile Advertising Report (MAR). The third quarter report reveals that mobile advertising awareness grew 33 percent in nine months against a backdrop of six percent growth in cell phone usage. This suggests an increased allocation of advertising dollars to mobile formats through the first nine months of the year.

“In economic slowdowns, advertisers typically divert budgets from branding media to direct marketing channels and it appears that mobile media is benefiting from this in 2008,” says Limbo CEO Jonathon Linner. “Mobile offers advertisers a way to reach their core audience in an interactive and cost-effective medium. We anticipate these numbers will continue to grow as more and more advertisers experience firsthand the benefits of mobile advertising.”
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Geo-targeted, Advertiser Exclusive, Allowing Companies to Launch SMS Text Interactive Marketing Campaigns Quickly

ATLANTA – Launching SMS text mobile marketing campaigns with interactive capabilities is now as easy as 1-2-3, thanks to GO WITH SMS!®, a turnkey Web-based program available exclusively from LSN, Inc., Local Solutions Network, the largest local mobile advertising network in the United States. The GO WITH SMS!® program provides all of the tools companies need to rollout an interactive mobile promotion, at a low cost, within a short timeframe.

Companies simply select a platform from eight promotion categories, using one or more of the LSN short codes, add an exclusive keyword and then write the SMS text message. LSN’s GO WITH SMS!® requires no long-term contracts or sign-up fees and offers three pricing options. Companies can launch a mobile campaign for as little as $199/month with an allocation of 1-1,500 text messages per month. Other plans include 1,501-10,000 text messages per month for only $759/month and 10,001-25,000 text messages per month for only $1599/month.
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Traffic growth averaging 30% per month, demonstrating the phenomenal growth of the device and its browsing prowess

San Mateo – July 10, 2008 – AdMob, the world’s largest mobile advertising marketplace, today released metrics on their iPhone ad unit. The company has seen an explosive increase in traffic over the past few months, faster then the rate of mobile browsing worldwide.
- Since the announcement of the iPhone ad network back in July 2007, AdMob as served over 249 million advertisements worldwide.
- AdMob’s iPhone network served 51.8 million ads in June Worldwide, a 32 percent increase from the 39.1 million ads served in May.
- AdMob served 34 million ads in the US in June, up by 31 percent from the 25.9 million ads in May.
- The most traffic on the iPhone has come from the following countries in order of magnitude – United States, Philippines, United Kingdom and France (see chart below).
- Major advertisers that have run iPhone ads exclusively with AdMob include Land Rover, Jaguar and Fox (see video links below).
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