Smaato Blog » Smaato Award http://www.smaato.com/blog Mobile Advertising Fri, 30 Jul 2010 16:01:26 +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 PODCAST: Smaato Mobile Advertising Award Winners Aloqa, Waze & Yoose http://www.smaato.com/blog/2010/02/15/podcast/ http://www.smaato.com/blog/2010/02/15/podcast/#comments Mon, 15 Feb 2010 11:32:55 +0000 SMAATO http://www.smaato.com/blog/?p=936

MSEARCHGroove recorded a serie of podcasts on Smaato Mobile Advertising Award winners: Aloqa, Waze and Yoose.

MSEARCHGroove wrote:

Mobile advertising, location services couponing and crowd-sourcing are just a few of the hot topics we cover in exclusive interviews with the CEOs of Aloqa, Waze, and Yoose, companies that won the prestigious Smaato Mobile Advertising Award 2009.

In this series – a collaboration between MSG and Smaato, a mobile ad optimizer and mobile advertising company – the companies speak out on key mobile advertising trends and what we can likely expect from MWC this week. They also comment on the meetings with eight top-notch VCs – introductions that are a big part of the Smaato Award.

By way of background, the winners were chosen in October by a world-class jury of leading influencers of the mobile community. With about 250 nominees and registrations from all corners of the world, it was tough to choose from such a diverse range of apps and content from a mix of cultures and ethnicities. The good news is mobile advertising innovation and good ideas are percolating around the world in countries such as Brazil, Africa and India. It’s an industry unlikely to be dominated by the usual suspects.

As mobile author and authority Tomi Ahonen put it in a press statement at the time: “I was very impressed by the very high level of quality of the entrants to the Smaato awards and in particular how many of the services have achieved considerable commercial success, wide adoption and use.”

See the entire and listen to MSEARCHGroove podcasts with:

Sangeev Agrawal
CEO of Aloqa

Noam Bardin
CEO of Waze

Christian Geissendoerfer
CEO of Yoose

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]]> http://www.smaato.com/blog/2010/02/15/podcast/feed/ 0 Smaato Mobile Advertising Award: Nominees shortlist 2009 announced http://www.smaato.com/blog/2009/10/08/smaato-award-nominees/ http://www.smaato.com/blog/2009/10/08/smaato-award-nominees/#comments Thu, 08 Oct 2009 17:39:44 +0000 SMAATO http://www.smaato.com/blog/?p=392 Smaato Mobile Advertising Award 2009Smaato Inc., the leading mobile ad optimizer and mobile advertising company, is delighted to announce the Nominees for the Smaato Mobile Advertising Award 2009. Publishers have until the closing of CTIA San Diego, Friday October 9, to add their cool app or website to the growing list.

The list of Nominees so far can be found here.

“The variety of the nominees to the forthcoming Smaato Awards shows the impressive innovation happening with mobile apps and websites across the globe. It’s going to be a really difficult job for the judges to decide on a winner from the forthcoming finalists with such a great selection of companies.”, said Ragnar Kruse, CEO & Co-Founder of Smaato.

The jury members are: Bambi Francisco (vator.tv), Bena Roberts (GoMoNews), Caroline Lewko (WIP), Giselle Tsirulnik (Mobile Marketer), James Cameron (Camerjam), Jim Cook (MobiAdNews), Jörg Sievert (SAP Ventures), Kei Shimada (Infinita), Lubna Dajani (Mobile Monday, NYC), Mark Wächter (BVDW), Matthäus Krzykowski (Venture Beat), Matthew Snyder (ADObjects), Michelle Sklar (bnetTV), Peggy Anne Salz (MSearchGroove), Ragnar Kruse (Smaato), Rudy De Waele (mTrends), Tim Green (Mobile Entertainment), Tomi Ahonen (Author), Trey Harvin (mobiThinking).

Download the PR here.

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]]> http://www.smaato.com/blog/2009/10/08/smaato-award-nominees/feed/ 0 Winner of Smaato Award 2008 Lands Carrier Deal http://www.smaato.com/blog/2009/10/07/dialplus-lands-carrier-deal/ http://www.smaato.com/blog/2009/10/07/dialplus-lands-carrier-deal/#comments Wed, 07 Oct 2009 10:21:00 +0000 SMAATO http://www.smaato.com/blog/?p=377 Smaato Award 2008DialPlus, the winner of Smaato’s Mobile Advertising Award in 2008 – a competition to search for the most innovative ad-enabled mobile content and applications – has released their first commercial DialPlus application, which is now available via T-Mobile USA’s web2go service on a variety of Windows Mobile and Blackberry Smartphones. A free downloadable version of their application can also be downloaded from the DialPlus website starting next week.

DialPlus enriches the standard phone call experience by automatically and simultaneously providing dynamic, contextually relevant visual information about the called or calling party before the call is answered, during the call and after the call is over.

Congratulations DialPlus. We are proud that the winner of the first Smaato Award has been so successful with T-Mobile and that it is the first Smaato ad-enabled application to be rolled-out on deck with a major US carrier. The idea of this competition is to give young mobile start-ups global recognition and visibility with VC’s and the media as well as providing introductions to key influencers in the industry – it clearly helped last year and we hope that this year’s winner will be equally as successful as DialPlus, said Ragnar Kruse, CEO & Co-Founder of Smaato Inc.

We were honored to be selected by the judges as the winner of the Smaato Mobile Advertising Award 2008. This was a strong validation of the DialPlus product vision that incorporated mobile advertising and winning the competition opened many doors for funding and business opportunities, said Lisa LeVasseur, CEO of DialPlus.

Read the entire PR here.

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]]> http://www.smaato.com/blog/2009/10/07/dialplus-lands-carrier-deal/feed/ 0 Smaato Mobile Advertising Award 2009 Gains Support From 7 Top VC Partner’s http://www.smaato.com/blog/2009/09/29/smaato-mobile-advertising-award-2009-gains-support-from-tim-chang/ http://www.smaato.com/blog/2009/09/29/smaato-mobile-advertising-award-2009-gains-support-from-tim-chang/#comments Tue, 29 Sep 2009 14:01:42 +0000 SMAATO http://www.smaato.com/blog/?p=358 Tim Chang of Norwest Venture Partners joins a great line up of first class VC partners as a “prize” for the winners.

Here is the complete line up of the VC partners that the winner of the Smaato Mobile Advertising Award 2009 will meet:

  • Frédéric Veyssière (Innovacom)
  • Jörg Sievert (SAP Ventures)
  • Mark Kvamme (Sequoia Capital)
  • Niall Davis (aeris CAPITAL)
  • Rich Wong (Accel)
  • Tim Chang (Norwest Venture)
  • Tim Draper (Draper Fisher Jurvetson)

Read the entire PR at businesswire.com

More informations about the Smaato Award 2009 click here!

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]]> http://www.smaato.com/blog/2009/09/29/smaato-mobile-advertising-award-2009-gains-support-from-tim-chang/feed/ 0 Smaato Mobile Advertising Award 2009 http://www.smaato.com/blog/2009/09/09/smaato-mobile-advertising-award2009/ http://www.smaato.com/blog/2009/09/09/smaato-mobile-advertising-award2009/#comments Wed, 09 Sep 2009 13:51:25 +0000 SMAATO http://www.smaato.com/blog/?p=346 Smaato Mobile Advertising Award 2009After the success of last year’s competition, Smaato is again opening entries to find the coolest ad-enabled mobile content on the planet.

The Smaato Award is searching for outstanding mobile applications and mobile websites and passionate mobile entrepreneurs that lead this new medium with their content offerings. From Smaato’s own experience in the early days of a start-up with a promising new product, there are things that help publishers grow: buzz, connections and media attention … oh and yes: a meeting with a venture capital firm.

This year, the competition will be broken into three categories:

* iPhone
* Mobile Website
* Applications and games running on all other platforms

Submit your entry today to win fabulous prizes:

* Fly to Mobile World Congress 2010! Free booth participation, including flight and hotel for winners of all three categories
* Meeting with VC partners
* Booth at M-Days, Germany, 2010
* Free tickets for Mobile World Congress 2010

Registration is now open! click here!

There are no entrance fees!

For further information how to join, jury, eligibility and downloads of the award, please visit our award page at: www.smaato.com/award or download the press release here.

Jury Members 2009:

Bambi Francisco (vator.tv)
Bena Roberts (GoMoNews)
Caroline Lewko (WIP)
Giselle Tsirulnik (Mobile Marketer)
James Cameron (Camerjam)
Jim Cook (MobiAdNews)
Kei Shimada (Infinita, JP)
Lubna Dajani (Mobile Monday, NYC)
Mark Wächter (Mobile Monday, Germany & BVDW)
Matthäus Krzykowski (Mobile coordinator, Venture Beat)
Matthew Snyder (ADObjects)
Michelle Sklar (bnetTV)
Peggy Anne Salz (MSearchGroove)
Ragnar Kruse (Smaato Inc.)
Rudy De Waele (dotOpen/mTrends)
Timothy Chang (Norwest Venture Partners)
Tim Green (Mobile Entertainment UK)
Tomi Ahonen (Author, HKG)
Trey Harvin (mobiThinking)

The jury will look at: unique approach, traction in the market, idea, originality, company positioning and branding to name a few.

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