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Article: MOBILE : The Cellular Sell ; The mobile phone holds much promise as a marketing and advertising tool, but it's a medium that has so far failed to reach its full potential. Simon Hendery investigates.
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- AdMedia
- Article date:
- May 1, 2008
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Hold the phone. New Zealand's fledgling mobile marketing industry
took a step forward this month with the launch of a new service
pushing out targeted video ads for viewers to watch on their
cellphones.
Since its launch in late 2006, mobile marketing company HooHaa
has built up a database of more than 65,000 cellphone users willing
to receive text ads, and - for their trouble - a payment of 10 cents
per message they read.
Now HooHaa has taken the next logical step: Offering advertisers
the chance to send video ads to their subscriber base. There are a
few provisos on the service, however, which pretty much mirror the
limitations currently hampering the wider NZ mobile marketing
industry.
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