Monday, May 4, 2009

Tips for Mobile Marketers

A couple of tips for mobile marketers: bite-sized chunks of entertainment work. Ask users to send in photos from their mobiles. Offer an incentive.

Incentives such as access to weather, news alerts, local event information, mobile content or even a coupon increase take rates and consumer participation. 

And many campaigns take advantage of interstitial time; those short blocks of time that happen all day when users have a couple of minutes of downtime or waiting. 

Late last year, the Army National Guard launched a nationwide in-theater advertising campaign featuring "Warrior," a two-and-a-half minute music video by Kid Rock, and an appearance by NASCAR driver Dale Earnhardt, Jr. 

As part of the campaign, a mobile Web site allowed movie watchers to access and interact with the "Warrior" site on their mobile phones while sitting in the theater.

"Warrior" appeared for a two-month period before PG-13 and R rated movies in more than 3,000 theaters nationwide. During the campaign, the mobile site saw over 50,000 page views and an impressive level of engagement from mobile users who often downloaded and viewed the multimedia content multiple times as well as shared it with friends.

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