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Mobile, at least there’s something to be bullish about
Posted by Chris Miller, Group Management Director, Interactive, Draftfcb Chicago
 
I continue to be more and more bullish on the so called third screen, the mobile phone. I’m up to 10 pages full of icons=app’s on my iphone and while some are played with and casually tossed away, most are becoming a daily part of my life.
 
The area I’ve most be intrigued about is location services. Sure there’s dopplr and brightkite and app’s like Loopt, Cellspin, etc. as well as service app’s that don’t just connect you to people but to product like Where and Urban Spoon. But when Google gets into the game with a service like Latitude, you know the game is changing.
 
As an advertiser and marketer for my clients, data is becoming increasingly important. Well not just the data but the analysis, use and marketing through it, that’s the important part. For years we’ve talked about: the right message, in the right place, at the right time to the right person. It would seem marrying: mobile, data and, on the fly/flexible creative messaging are we’re just about there.

Sure it’s a little bit out there and not the least annoying to others unless those voices are in your head (or bluetooth headset) is the advertising scene from minority report. But are we really that far away from it.
 
Take a read to the latest Business Week article for their take on mobile marketing, privacy and where it’s going.


Comments

Stacey Subject

From one young marketer to one professional marketer, when I read something like this it makes me question how great it really is. I can see how easy it is to get caught up in the new and exciting possibilities that this technology opens up for marketers but as we are consumers too, do you ever think that technology will become too intrusive? Minority Report is looking like a hop, skip and a jump away but is that a good thing?
stacey.subject at 3/11/2009 10:52 PM

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