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iPad advertising will create amazing opportunities for B2B brands

by Yannis Marcou |August 12th, 2010

We have been commissioned to create some engaging interactive advertising for a global B2B brand that will run on a publisher’s iPad application. Having spent some time reviewing the best and most adventurous advertising on iPad apps it feels like we are back in the late 90s when a few pixelated GIF banners went on to profoundly transform the advertising industry. At the moment most iPad app ads are simply print ads that magically rearrange themselves when the iPad changes orientation. Some brands have started experimenting with more interactive formats but so far they are the exception.

The opportunity for B2B brands is enormous

Demos of solutions or products are very often a critical part of the B2B marketing and sales process of many organisations. But what does it take to stick a prospect in front of the product/solution demo you spent days creating? If you go through your usual sales process it might take months of hard work to set up the demo meeting; if you advertise on your industry’s portal, you’d be lucky if more than 0.3% of users click to see your online demo; if you try to gather a crowd for a Webinar, the reach is extremely limited.

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5 steps to transforming your consumption of B2B news with mobile RSS

by Yannis Marcou |May 17th, 2010

Search for “B2B Marketing” on Google and this is what you get:

  • 390,000 results in the last 30 days
  • 124,000 in the past 7 days
  • 18,700 in the past 24 hours

This staggering flow of information consists of content such as  white papers, research, agency solutions, advertorials, case studies, blog posts, editorial stories, news and real-time content. You’d be forgiven for feeling intimidated, out of the loop, ill informed or left behind. I asked a number of industry professionals, clients and business friends how they keep up with B2B marketing and industry news each week; most can manage just a quick flick through a magazine and a skim  through a couple of email newsletters.

Enter mobile RSS. I switched from web-based to mobile RSS a year ago and it has transformed the way I consume business-related content. Mobile RSS has allowed me to browse and read more content, to easily archive and retrieve items of interest and to constantly optimise my list of feeds so that I read what’s relevant to me and weed out what’s not.

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RingRing Media appoints Skyron to push proposition with new website

by Robert Anderson |April 25th, 2010

Ring Ring Media logoRingRing Media, the fast growing international mobile media agency, has appointed  Skyron to shape and promote their brand, proposition and services to a global audience with a new website. The website will convey the company’s ethos, global reach, multinational clients  and focus on delivering value via a visually rich interactive experience.

RingRing Media manages international multi-million dollar mobile campaigns for some of the world’s largest brands.

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Do you need a mobile website yet?

by Yannis Marcou |April 7th, 2010

Unless you just landed from outer space, it is very likely that you have been following the media obsession with the iPhone (and now with the iPad). You are probably wondering if thousands of fingers, styluses and makeshift pointing devices trawl through your content, case studies and event registration pages every day. We asked the same question about our clients’ websites: is there enough mobile traffic to justify the cost of developing a mobile website?

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Toyota ad: wrong place, wrong time

by Yannis Marcou |April 6th, 2010

This appreared on a Google Reader feed a few days ago…

Toyota Ad