MobiAd - a new mobile advertising service in the Middle East

Zain, a very famous mobile phone service provider in the Middle East and Africa, has joined hands with Javna, a software and wireless solutions firm, to launch MobiAd – a one-of-a-kind mobile advertising service.

People behind this collaborative effort are very confident about their mobile marketing service. In MobiAd, customers can choose the ‘channel’ they are interested in. It could be sports, consumer electronics, marketing, or technology – you can choose the channel and you will get mobile ads accordingly. As a customer, you will also be rewarded with freebies like free local calls, free international calls, free text messages, and random gifts to appreciate your taking part in the mobile advertising service.

This news is very important for a reason. The Middle East market is considered one of the most lucrative markets for mobile advertising and this launch can have a great impact in future. In fact, the mobile advertising market share in this part of the world is estimated at around a whopping $7 billion annually.

This is great news for mobile advertisers in the Middle East. As we already know, Asia is a little ahead of other markets in terms of mobile advertising technologies and the revenue generated. But with efforts like this, other markets are catching up very fast, which is good for the mobile advertising industry as a whole.

Categories: Cell Phone Advertising, All things mobile phones.

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uVuMobile and GoGo Mobile Media to take on Southeast Asian and Middle East mobile segment

uVuMobile, a well known mobility software and services company, has formed a strategic alliance with GoGo Mobile Media, a famous video and audio content distribution company, in a move to grab a share of the rapidly burgeoning mobile advertising industry in Southeast Asia, particularly India, and the Middle East.

Now, this might have been yet another M&A news in the mobile advertising industry, had it not been for the fact that the parties involved are interested not in the western market, but in the eastern market. For those of you that don’t know, India is considered the fastest growing mobile phone market in the world with over 220 million users. And the number is increasing by the day rapidly. Similarly, other countries in Southeast Asia and the Middle East are also fast catching up with the mobile phone revolution, thereby making it a ripe market for mobile content distributors and advertisers.

Also, Asians use premium services like SMS, MMS, mobile internet, mobile video, and mobile email features a lot more extensively than their western counterparts. So, it will be a hell lot easier for the advertisers to reach out to customers in say India, than the ones in the U.S., thanks to the different options of mobile advertising they have (read text messages, banner ads, video ads, mobile web ads) in the Asian market. One thing’s for sure. The U.S. needs to catch up a lot when it comes to mobile usage.

Categories: Cell Phone Advertising.

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