USA (place of the Mobile Marketing Forum this week) is the leader in the global inventory of Smaato’s network that spans over 220 countries. The top region is Asia followed by EMEA.

Read the entire PR here, at Mobile Entertainment or at MobileMarketing.

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“We are excited to partner with Smaato the leading global mobile ad network aggregation platform. Together with our analytics tool and Smaato’s SOMA platform, we enable mobile publishers to better analyze and monetize their mobile inventory”, stated John Forese, CEO of Motally.

The new Smaato Mobile Analytics features are incorporated into the SOMA platform that is easily integrated by registering at www.smaato.com/signup

Many app developers and mobile website publishers have serious issues to track the usage of their properties across different platforms. Smaato Advanced Mobile Analytics provides a comprehensive set of tools that enable mobile publishers to optimize their inventory for iPhone, Android, Symbian and the upcoming iPad to maximize user experience and insights. In addition Smaato’s SOMA platform adds visibility and aggregated reporting across all major mobile ad networks worldwide.

“We are glad to partner with Motally on adding more value and insights for our mobile publisher and developer partners. By integrating Motally in the SOMA platform, we add additional free benefits to analyze usage behavior of apps and mobile websites“, stated Ragnar Kruse, CEO & Co-Founder, Smaato Inc.

Feature Overview:

- Sophisticated Dashboards: See mobile traffic at a glance or dive into traffic with detailed stats and charts
- Precise User/Visitor Analysis: Gain important insights on publisher’s users (location, device, carrier…)
- Detailed Traffic Tracking: Understand Usage Patterns of mobile inventory (click flow, top pages…)
- Customizable Events: Define specific events to track conversions or bugs, do A-B testing, etc.
- Easy Integration: SDKs and code snippets for apps and mobile websites make the magic happen in minutes
- Best in Class Monetization: Maximize publisher revenues through Smaato’s SOMA platform

Smaato analytics are now part of the SOMA platform and mobile publishers can sign up today to get better reporting for free as part of their SOMA registration at: www.smaato.com/signup

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DAY 1
“Nearly 50.000 visitors are expected to visit the GSM Association’s Mobile World Congress and Expo with 1,300 exhibitors spread across 130,000 square meters. It was raining yesterday, but I am sure everyone is relieved to be out of the snow in for a couple of days.

The much anticipated App Planet, having evoked a fantasy of a real huge scene event, is hosting real cool exhibitors. But the physical architecture of the “planet” is not more than standard fair boxes – beg your pardon, booths. Hall 7 is where mobile advertising networks such as AdMob, Mojiva and Smaato are situated, as well as Skype, serving the best coffee at MWC by far.

The Mobile Premier Awards (twitter tag: #mpa10) were presented yesterday by Rudy deWaele and hosted by dotopen in the wonderful venue, Palau de la Musica.

It was the fifth time the awards were hosted at MWC in Barcelona.

In total, eleven awards were presented in a five-hour ceremony in seven categories: entertainment, innovation – early stage startup, female entrepreneurship, marketing, innovation – emerging startup, user experience and social change. (…)”

Read the entire article at MobileMarketer

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DAY 2
Many exciting things happened yesterday at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.

“Queen Rania of Jordan explained in her amazing keynote how the mobile industry can contribute to make this world better, providing education for everyone.

Her Majesty introduced 1GOAL, a global campaign she is chairing with support of singer Bono, President Clinton and the FIFA for the Soccer World Cup 2010 in South Africa.

Google CEO Eric Schmidt: Mobile First!
The afternoon keynote of Google CEO Eric Schmidt was titled “Mobile First” and transmitted live on http://www.mobileworldlive.com.

Google is now shipping 60,000 Android phones per day, Mr. Schmidt said. He said cloud computing was going to be key Google’s future.

Mr. Schmidt also announced that Google is working on new technology to improve security and enhance authentication to better protect data. He concluded his session by saying, “Mobile is pretty much the answer on everything,” announcing a major shift in strategy.

Puma launches solar-powered smartphone
Global sports marketer Puma yesterday issued a branded phone. The Puma Phone is the first phone designed to reflect the values of a global brand from the inside out.(…)”

Read the entire article at MobileMarketer

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DAY 3
“The Android developer community seemed to have tripled within hours yesterday at Mobile World Congress. When rumors spread that Google was giving away Nexus One phones for free, hundreds of businessmen pulled their pride aside for a moment and stood in line for an entire hour and a half. Why? Well, just to attend an Android developer session.

And why would non-developers want to attend such a session? The answer was easy. Because at the end of the session, each attendee got a brand-new Nexus One phone – or Motorola Droid, if you asked for it- for free. Google gave away 1,000 Nexus One phones in ten sessions. A clever and focused way to create buzz with the right people.

The Android-phone giveaway made waves across the hall, where Sony Ericsson also showed off new devices and hosted its developer day with creative workshops.

Meanwhile, GSM Association CEO Rob Conway said in his opening speech that the demand grows constantly while innovation continues to surprise.

Actor Stephen Fry, a known technophile, echoed Feb. 16’s words of Queen Rania of Jordan, calling this the “best time in history to care about how we share and communicate.”

Mr. Fry introduced the GSMA awards with a summary of the happenings in the mobile world.

“What does an Italian say when using a Samsung phone running Microsoft OS?” he asked. “Bada bing!”(…)”

Read the entire article at MobileMarketer

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DAY 4
“The Mobile World Congress 2010 closed its doors with a big fanfare about mobile applications and a total of 49,000 visitors from 200-plus countries. An upbeat industry gathering, sunshine in the end – and from where I sit, we are right in the middle of the high-tech tornado of a hyper growth mobile market.

The last day of the show found strong competition in a sunny and warm spring day, and some show visitors might have preferred the sun’s glare over the brightest AMOLED display in Samsung’s Wave, exposed in Hall 8. Not only competing with the spring light, the Samsung Wave and the new Windows phone, Motorola Blur and others should not be underestimated as major game-changers in mobile advertising.

You need no app for that – oops, where can I place my banner?
One major challenge comes from the industry’s stronger focus on user experience, which leads to a decline in the usage of applications for everything.

Personal status updates, pictures and messaging from various platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, Google Buzz and MSN are converging into so-called social hubs where all of these updates are being placed around the user’s contacts, instead of being scattered across several applications. (…)”

Read the entire article at MobileMarketer

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The new ‘SOMA SDK for Android’ from Smaato grants access to now 35 mobile ad networks worldwide to serve display ads within apps and mobile websites on Android handsets. The monthly published Smaato Metrics showed a significant uptake in click-through rates from Android phones (http://metrics.smaato.com) for January 2010.

Smaato will enhance the upcoming releases of SDKs and the SOMA mobile web API with a free analytics and reporting dashboard to visualize usage data and keep track of advertising revenues.

More partnerships with ad networks

Smaato is strengthening its mobile advertising technology and adding more partnerships with ad network partners of the SOMA optimization and mediation platform. More targeting data, better forecasting tools and media buying features will be made available in future SOMA platform releases in order to enhance the value for ad networks partners worldwide.

In this context, Smaato is announcing the 35th ad network partner for the SOMA platform: adsmobi Inc., based in New York. adsmobi (www.adsmobi.com) will use the Smaato services already available to SOMA ad network partners today and is focusing on providing a media buying platform working with advertisers and media agencies.

Smaato Award winners & Free iPad at Smaato booth

Smaato Mobile Advertising Award winners Aloqa, Flirtomatic and waze will present their apps and mobile web services at the Smaato booth 7C38 in Hall 7 (app planet). In addition, new publishers signing up during Mobile World Congress will have a chance to win a free Apple iPad if they use the easy registration at: www.smaato.com/signup with the promocode “ipad2010”.

More insights on mobile advertising are provided in a free, new white paper: “Global Choices in Mobile Advertising” available at www.smaato.com/whitepaper.

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iPhone Doubles Up Android On Mobile Ad Click Rates; Both Destroyed By Symbian

When you think about mobile advertising, you might think the iPhone or Android are the hot platforms (thanks to ads like this). But you’d be wrong. Some new December data from the mobile advertising company Smaato suggests that it’s actually Symbian that kills both the iPhone and Android. (…) the numbers are for the all-important click-through rates on the various platforms. (…) with the average CTR on ads for all mobile platforms set to 100, Symbian led the way by far with a 161 score. This was followed by the iPhone (and iPod touch) with 119. Android? They’re way down the list with a 65. Only Palm and BlackBerry fared worse. (…)

Mobiele advertenties: iPhone-gebruikers niet meest fanatieke klikkers

Bij mobiele advertenties gaat het er vaak om, dat zoveel mogelijk mensen op een linkje klikken. Je zou misschien denken dat iPhone- en Android-gebruikers de meest fanatieke klikkers zijn, maar dat blijkt niet het geval. Uit gegevens van Smaato blijkt dat Symbian-bezitters veel vaker op mobiele advertenties klikken. Dat kan eraan liggen dat ze qua aantallen veruit in de meerderheid zijn. Maar in statistieken voor mobiel internetgebruik scoort Symbian gemiddeld veel lager dan iPhone en Android. Als je de gemiddelde CTR (click through rate) voor alle mobiele platformen op 100 zet, blijkt Symbian met 161 bovengemiddeld te scoren. De iPhone eniPod touch scoren ook bovengemiddeld. Wil je iets verkopen, dan kun je beter niet op Blackberry en Palm richten en eigenlijk ook niet op Android, want daar wordt opmerkelijk weinig geklikt. (…)

IPhone Doubles Up Android On Mobile Ad Click Rates; Both Destroyed By Symbian

TechCrunch 14 hours ago

When you think about mobile advertising, you might think the iPhone or Android are the hot platforms (thanks to ads like this). But you’d be wrong. Some new December data from the mobile advertising company Smaato suggests that it’s actually Symbian that kills both the iPhone and Android. Now, I know what you’re thinking: that’s because Nokia, despite the buzz surrounding the sexier smartphone devices, remains the biggest mobile player in the world. But actually, the numbers are for the all-important click-through rates on the various platforms.

Mobile Ad Click Rates: Symbian Destroys iPhone

(via TechCrunch) When you think about mobile advertising, you might think the iPhone or Android are the hot platforms (thanks to ads like this). But you’d be wrong. Some new December data from the mobile advertising company Smaato suggests that it’s actually Symbian that kills both the iPhone and Android.

Smaato releases the first Smaato Mobile Advertising Metrics

Today, Smaato Inc. (http://metrics.smaato.com) published the Smaato Mobile Advertising Metrics. The Smaato Metrics reveal for the first time a Click Through Rate (CTR) Index by handset operating system. In addition, the Smaato Metrics show a comparison of mobile ad network fill rates worldwide and for the USA. These metrics are based upon 3 Billion ad requests served in the Smaato Network in December 2009.

iPhone Doubles Up Android On Mobile Ad Click Rates; Both Destroyed By Symbian

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Some new December data from the mobile advertising company Smaato suggests that it’s actually Symbian that kills both the iPhone and Android.

Smaato releases the first Smaato Mobile Advertising Metrics

Quattro Wireless (recently acquired by Apple) and Millennial Media are the top performing mobile ad networks in the USA according to the Smaato Metrics. Both ad networks performed equally with 83% fill rates for mobile publishers in the Smaato Network.

Smaato releases the first Smaato Mobile Advertising Metrics

Today, Smaato Inc. (http://metrics.smaato.com) published the Smaato Mobile Advertising Metrics. The Smaato Metrics reveal for the first time a Click Through Rate (CTR) Index by handset operating system. In addition, the Smaato Metrics show a comparison of mobile ad network fill rates worldwide and for the USA. These metrics are based upon 3 Billion ad requests served in the Smaato Network in December 2009.

Smaato releases the first Smaato Mobile Advertising Metrics

(…) “The Smaato Metrics provide key findings for the mobile advertising market: The performance of iPhone and iPod touch over the Android platform handsets is twice as good in regards to response rates (CTR). In regards to CTR, Symbian phones perform best and show twice as good performance over Feature Phones.” Ragnar Kruse, CEO of Smaato said.

Smaato releases the first Smaato Mobile Advertising Metrics

(…) “For mobile ad network performance, the Smaato Metrics show that the average worldwide fill rate is only 35%, which means that mobile publishers need multiple ad networks to monetize their inventory. Quattro Wireless and Millennial Media were the top performing ad networks in the US with a fill rate of 83% after optimization by Smaato – this demonstrated a very strong holiday season 2009 in Mobile Advertising,” Ragnar continued.

Mobile advertiser Smaato releases the first metrics report

Smaato is a mobile advertising network that optimises ads for a wide variety of networks, mobile devices and device OSs. That gives it the opportunity to gather a lot of data – and today, for the first tie, it has released a metrics report from that data. Let’s have a look!

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The recent London discussion was recorded by Intruders.tv and you can see it here:

The Future of Mobile – Smaato Roundtable London from Smaato on Vimeo.

The thought leaders covered subjects such as what the future holds for mobile advertising, the significant acquisition activities in the industry (like Google’s deal with Admob followed by Apple’s acquisition of Quattro Wireless this week) and the difference between US and European VCs.

“Great content and apps are coming to phones by more and more developers from around the world, which will differentiate those apps further. One of the things we’re most excited about for 2010 is continuing to work with those great companies and helping them to monetize and standardize on advertising, so it’s a scalable business model across multiple countries and regions”, stated Smaato CEO & Co-Founder Ragnar Kruse.

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• How many apps do you think will hit the app stores in 2010?!

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This event for the UK will build upon discussions started at an engaging and insightful roundtable gathering of influential people in the mobile industry held in San Francisco in October. Smaato held the San Francisco roundtable to gauge the temperature of the industry and to get the experts in one place to debate the mobile issues affecting them right now in the US.

Since the first roundtable, dramatic events have taken place in the mobile industry and there are optimistic revenue figures being projected for the mobile advertising industry for 2010. The New Year also promises significant sales of new handsets, with Android generating excitement, and VC investment money continues to be put towards mobile businesses.

At our London roundtable, we’ll be discussing the future for mobile, and, with our guests, be able to hear from mobile developers on how they are working to stand out from the crowded marketplace where 100,000 mobile apps compete for attention and we’ll also discuss the impact Google’s purchase of AdMob will have on the industry.

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