Virgin Mobile enters mobile advertising - will display banner ads to users

Looks like it’s the season of banner ads. After Google, Third Screen, AdMob, Yahoo, and most recently Microsoft, Virgin Mobile USA has announced that it will display banner ads to its mobile users who surf the web in their cell phone.

Virgin Mobile will use AOL’s mobile advertising system to display banner ads to users. This is the first time Virgin Mobile is entering the mobile advertising market. However, the CEO of Virgin Mobile has made it clear that they are being very cautious with these ads. These banner ads will be displayed on an experimental basis and depending on the response they get, they might think of expending their territory further.

The way I see it, this is a perfect partnership. Virgin Mobile’s growth has been not so impressive recently due to various reasons and AOL is the classic example of an erstwhile famous company trying to come to terms with the fact that it’s struggling. These two entities have joined hands. So, if things work out well, it might be good for both of them.

Categories: Cell Phone Advertising, All things mobile phones.

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Gumiyo brings classified ads to your mobile phone

Classified pages in newspapers and magazines might soon become obsolete. Gumiyo.com provides a simple and yet novel way to post ads which connect these two entities. As a one-of-its-kind classifieds site, Gumiyo lets you buy or sell what you want through your mobile phone. The website is accessible both from a web browser and a mobile phone and provides a marketplace that helps in connecting buyers and sellers in real time.

As a seller, you can post ads in the site right from your mobile phone. It’s free and it’s easy. You can capture pictures using your mobile phone’s camera or use MMS messages along with text to create ads. As your ads will be sent to targeted customers, you’ll get plenty of business inquiries and you’re sure to make a sale.

As a buyer, you can simply find what you want on this site. To make things easier, you can create alerts for your preferred products/services. Whenever the product/service you’ve mentioned is available, you’ll get a text message. You can set alerts for multiple items and manage through your mobile phone.

With more and more such useful technologies coming into the mobile space, the mobile phone is slowly becoming a multipurpose device which we can’t live without.

Categories: Cell Phone Advertising, All things mobile phones.

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