Smaato Blog » Flirtomatic http://www.smaato.com/blog Mobile Advertising Thu, 09 Sep 2010 12:43:53 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8 en hourly 1 Smaato Mobile Advertising Award 2010! VC Partners and Nominees shortlist 2010 announced http://www.smaato.com/blog/2010/07/29/smaato-award-vc-partners/ http://www.smaato.com/blog/2010/07/29/smaato-award-vc-partners/#comments Thu, 29 Jul 2010 14:45:36 +0000 SMAATO http://www.smaato.com/blog/?p=1212 Smaato Mobile Advertising Award 2010

Smaato Inc., the leading mobile ad optimizer and mobile advertising company, is delighted to announce the VC partners and first set of nominees for the Smaato Mobile Advertising Award 2010. Publishers have time until end of day, August 20, to add their cool app or website to the growing list at www.smaato.com/award.

Frank Boehnke (Wellington), Tim Chang (Norvest Ventures), Niall Davis (aeris CAPITAL), Tim Draper (Draper Fisher Jurvetson), Jörg Sievert (SAP Ventures) and Frédéric Veyssière (Innovacom) will meet the Smaato Award winner.

Here is a first look at some of the nominated mobile apps and websites from leading companies:

4Square Labs, AccuRadio, AccuWeather.com, aka-aki, Aloqa, AroundMe, audioBoo, Barcode Scanner, Brightkite, Bubble, Bump, Buzzd, bWeather, Cellfire Grocery Coupons, City Sense, Compass, cooliris, delivr.com, Doodle Jump, eBay Mobile, eBuddy Messenger, Evernote, Facebook, Fandango Movies, FishLabs, Flirtomatic, Foursquare, Fring, Google Sky Map, Gypsii, Handmark Pocket Express, iCarly: Sam’s Remote Lite, ICQ, iheartradio, imeem Mobile, itsmy, Jumbuck, Kyte, Last.fm, Layar Reality Browser, Liquid Air Labs, Lufthansa, MapQuest 4 Mobile, Meebo IM, Mobiluck, moblr, Moco Space, moTweets, My Tracks, NearbyNow, Nimbuzz, NYTimes, Orbster, pageonce, PandaHome, Pandora Radio, Qeep, Qik Video Camera, RadioTime, RjDj, Rummble, Seesmic for Twitter, Shake, Shazam, Sherpa, Shozu, Skyfire Mobile, SMS2.0, Smule, SPB Mobile Software, Spotify, Squace, Tonchidot, TuneWiki, TV.com, virtual, Twidroid for Twitter, Twikini, unlike networks, USA TODAY, Venista m-Joy, Waze, The Weather Channel, Worldmate, Yelp, YomoMedia.

“Since the success of last year’s Smaato Award, the mobile market has truly blossomed with innovative apps and websites. The introduction of Apple’s iPad and the explosion of Android have given developers further scope and opportunity for innovation and the nominations we’ve had so far are a testament to this. It’s going to be an extremely tough job trying to pick the finalists for each category, let alone an overall winner!”, stated Ragnar Kruse, CEO & Co-Founder of Smaato.

The Smaato Award jury members are:

Andy Favell (mobiThinking), Bena Roberts (GoMoNews), Carlo Longino (WIP Mobile Jam), David Murphy (Mobile Marketing), Derek Kerton (Kerton Group), Frederic Lardinois (ReadWriteWeb), Giselle Tsirulnik (Mobile Marketer), Heike Scholz (Mobile Zeitgeist), James Cameron (Camerjam), Jim Cook (MobiAdNews), Kei Shimada (Infinita, JP), Lubna Dajani (Mobile Monday, NYC), Mark Wächter (Mobile Monday Germany & MMA), Matthäus Krzykowski (VentureBeat), Matthew Snyder (ADObjects), Michelle Sklar (bnetTV), Peggy Anne Salz (MSearchGroove), Ragnar Kruse (Smaato), Rudy De Waele (dotOpen/mTrends), Tim Green (Mobile Entertainment).

Read the entire PR here.

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]]> http://www.smaato.com/blog/2010/07/29/smaato-award-vc-partners/feed/ 0 Smaato Mobile Advertising Award 2010! Now Open for Global Entries http://www.smaato.com/blog/2010/06/17/smaato-award/ http://www.smaato.com/blog/2010/06/17/smaato-award/#comments Thu, 17 Jun 2010 16:29:10 +0000 SMAATO Derek Kerton]]> Frederic Lardinois]]> http://www.smaato.com/blog/?p=1200 Smaato Mobile Advertising Award 2010

Smaato Inc., a leading mobile ad optimizer and mobile advertising company, announces the launch of the Smaato Mobile Advertising Award 2010. After the success in previous years, the award aims to find the coolest ad-enabled mobile content on the planet. This year, Smaato has divided the competition into seven categories: iPhone & iPad, Android, Windows Phone, Samsung Bada, Symbian, RIM, mobile websites, branded games & apps and best mobile campaign. Entry and participation is free and more information is provided at www.smaato.com/award.

Smaato will invite the overall winner to participate at Mobile World Congress, the world’s premier mobile event, taking place in Barcelona, Spain in February 2011. At Mobile World Congress, the winning company will be given the chance to show its services in front of the world’s mobile community. If that wasn’t enough, Smaato will also make a number of introductions to VC’s at partner level.

Additional prizes are: a booth at M-Days in Munich, Germany in January 2011, a booth at M-Publishing in New York in November 2010, handsets, free tickets for Mobile World Congress and many more.

“The Smaato Awards have brought together some of the most talented developers from all platforms in one place. The diversity of people, content and countries represented, goes to show how vibrant the world of mobile truly is”, stated Rich Wong, VC partner at Accel.

“The Smaato Award is a very well thought through package: not just the very welcome PR and profile that it confers, but also the very valuable presence at MWC and VC contacts that proved to be excellent introductions”, stated Mark Curtis, CEO of Flirtomatic (one of the Smaato Award winners 2009).

“We’re proud that the Smaato Award provides developers the recognition they deserve for their work and highlights some of the coolest content on the planet. We are expecting entries from around the world and we are looking forward to see really fresh ideas and great innovation in content and services. It’s amazing to see the diversity and the brilliance of content in the mobile world,” stated Ragnar Kruse, CEO & Co-Founder of Smaato Inc.

The Smaato Award 2010 features a world-class jury of leading influencers in the mobile community:

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]]> http://www.smaato.com/blog/2010/06/17/smaato-award/feed/ 1 M-Days: Smaato panel “Start-Ups in Applications” http://www.smaato.com/blog/2010/02/05/m-days-smaato-panel/ http://www.smaato.com/blog/2010/02/05/m-days-smaato-panel/#comments Fri, 05 Feb 2010 16:29:54 +0000 SMAATO http://www.smaato.com/blog/?p=822

On January 28-29, the M-Days expo and conference, hosted by 11prozent communication at BMW World in Munich, brought together 60 exhibitors, 120 speakers, and 1650 visitors, being one of the largest mobile industry events in Germany.

Smaato partnered the event and presented eight cool startup companies in a panel called “Start-ups in Applications”, representing a broad variety of geolocal and social based apps like mobile chatting and flirting, mobile navigation, mobile couponing, mobile tv and games, as well as mobile advertising and information services. The panel included Udi Jacobi (Flirtomatic), Christian Geissendoerfer (Yoose), Marc O. Schmöger (7P),  Johannes Martens (Aloqa), Vince Staybl (Itsmy), Ralph Rieke (aka aki), Till Issler (Geovoucher), and Marcus Thielking (Skobbler).


Here are the slides:

M-Days 2010 Smaato Harald Neidhardt App Panel

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You can download the slides of our panelists from the M-Days website here, as well as the slides from all congress presentations here.

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]]> http://www.smaato.com/blog/2010/02/05/m-days-smaato-panel/feed/ 0 2010: A Million Apps in App Stores?! Check the answers from the experts at Smaato Roundtable http://www.smaato.com/blog/2010/01/07/smaato-roundtable-london/ http://www.smaato.com/blog/2010/01/07/smaato-roundtable-london/#comments Thu, 07 Jan 2010 20:47:00 +0000 SMAATO http://www.smaato.com/blog/?p=691 Mobile advertising leader Smaato invited international mobile experts to roundtable discussions in San Francisco and London towards the end of 2009. As expected some fascinating insights emerged from the discussions, including regional and industry trends and what everyone is most excited about for 2010.

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.

Download the entire PR here.

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