"Mobile 365 today announced a partnership with digital communications pioneer, Hyro. The Mobile 365 and Hyro partnership opens the way for true convergence of Web and mobile, enabling marketers to conduct high-value mobile marketing campaigns that connect with Websites, customer databases, loyalty programs, and ITV applications."
They mention how the convergence of web and mobile is creating new ways for businesses or campaigns to promote themselves. This is relevant to both of my campaign ideas. Firstly in terms of the "Health Awareness Campaign" this convergence of the websites and mobile technologies could make it possible for users to select their shopping online and then receive a critique on their diet direct to their mobile phones.
"With GPRS, MMS, and 3G handsets more widely available, rich media content via the mobile phone is a reality. Mobile 365 assists our customers in delivering highly effective interactive campaigns utilising mobile technologies. Customers and end-users can now experience a new level of interactivity via mobile campaigns that incorporate colour pictures, video, audio, and animation," said Cameron Franks, Mobile 365 Country Manager. "We are very excited about the long term partnership with Hyro. Hyro works with major brands across a variety of sectors, and has the right unique mix of commercial, creative and technical skills to deliver on their wireless strategies."
The "Heritage Week" campaign seems viable when you consider that GPRS and mobile technologies can be combined, and with the added support mentioned for picturea and animation then perhaps it would be possible to have a map on the mobile screen generated by the GPRS with a moving elements to define a consumers location in relation to the spot of interest they are attempting to navigate to. They mention that they work with many major brands, this kind of collaboration could prove beneficial in promoting GPRS and other interactive technologies as standard on consumers mobile phone screens. This in turn can only be beneficial for the success of the "Heritage Week" campaign in the future.
"Mobile 365's platform is a perfect fit for Hyro's cross platform marketing services, enhancing Hyro's ability to deliver a comprehensive set of mobile services ranging from SMS marketing to sophisticated application development and content management for the latest colour screen mobile handsets," said Chris Flintoft, Group Manager, Wireless & Broadcast, Hyro. "As a regional business, Mobile 365's ability to deliver reliable connectivity across our Asian footprint, particularly in Southeast Asia—as well as a suite of world-class 'out of the box' applications—was critical in choosing them to assist us."
They seem to be focusing on the posspossibilities of mobile technologies providing businesses with a new platform for maremarketing and advertising to consumers. They mention the use of SMS marketing, which i had considered as an approach to my "Health Campaign Event." By targeting users with SMS messages critiquing their diet and offering advice.
"Mobile 365's Application Manager Platform helps companies deliver a broad range of multimedia services, including SMS, MMS, video, and WAP. In one simple package, the platform enables access to global markets, advanced financial clearing and settlement, and robust reporting. This makes it easy for customers to create revenue-generating mobile marketing and entertainment campaigns including voting, alerts, interactive and subscription services, live event contests, and more. Mobile 365, previously Mobileway, was the first global player to set up an office in Australia in January 2001."
The development of such platforms for supporting these new services on mobile technologies is crucial to the success of both of my suggested campaings. If the consumers mobile technologies cannot accomodate such interactivity then it will be hard to market such service based interactive campaigns toward them. This article is very encouraging and reiterates the benefits in marketing terms for such technologies and what we can offer consumers via mobile technologies. No longer are we only targetable in our homes via TV, we could effectively be exposed to advertising wherever we go via cross platfrom technologies, that we can essentialy take anywhere with us.
What is Possible with Emerging Technologies: Campaigns and Applications
Using an intuitive Web interface, you can:
- Configure a variety of interactive campaigns, such as voting, trivia, competitions, subscription, alerts, and broadcast services
- Modify campaign parameters on-the-fly to enhance/change participant interaction
- Build subscriber databases by exporting the participant list from each campaign
- Monitor live campaign progress and traffic volumes
- Track historical performance, and analyze campaign and subscriber behavior
- Create and upload mobile content, including text, images, sounds, and rich mobile applications for delivery via SMS, MMS, and WAP/GPRS
- Categorize and organize content in convenient folders
Using an intuitive Web interface, you can:
- Automatically trigger content delivery to subscribers from the Web interface or from a third-party server using Content Manager's remote API
- Store "handset-ready" content (according to handset templates) that enables Content Manager to "intelligently" deliver the correct version of content to known handsets
- Content Manager links to Sybase 365's Application Manager, enabling a rich and compelling mobile experience
- Content Manager also links to Sybase 365's distribution gateway to facilitate billing, reporting, and message sending
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