The MMA Smarties Awards is the world’s only global mobile marketing awards program honoring innovation, creativity, and success – highlighting the teams and talent that push the boundaries of mobile marketing to reach and engage with consumers like no other media channel. Gain recognition worldwide and be counted amongst the best in the mobile marketing community. The Smarties recognizes regional winners, country winners and Global winners in addition to Industry Awards. You can select from a combination of global, regional and local options. Enter a single campaign in multiple categories.

• What the top mobile signals are for branding, by vertical.
• What signals marketers are employing, based on KPIs.
• How the purchase funnel really works. (Hint: It’s not a funnel.)
• What marketers feel is their biggest challenge when it comes to leveraging data to improve marketing performance.

The introduction of ad-tech platforms, big data and the cloud into a mobile-enabled population coupled with the growing adoption of mobile internet in media dark areas have unlocked new possibilities for brands in India. To help marketers understand the characteristics of effective mobile campaigns, Kantar Millward Brown partnered with the Mobile Marketing Association (MMA) on the 2016 Smarties™ Award and examined the drivers that make for truly compelling work.

The increasing penetration of smartphone in Vietnam presents a wealth of opportunity for marketers to develop impactful mobile campaigns that resonate with their audiences. Kantar Millward Brown partnered with the Mobile Marketing Association (MMA) on the 2016 Smarties™ Awards to understand the drivers that separate winning campaigns from the rest.

As media spend in China continues to shift from traditional to digital at a rapid pace, marketers are focusing on how to connect with consumers in an ever-changing online world. To help marketers understand the characteristics of effective mobile campaigns, Kantar Millward Brown partnered with the Mobile Marketing Association (MMA) on the 2016 Smarties™ Awards to understand the drivers that make for truly compelling, powerful and award-winning work.

The MMA encourages all of our members to become familiar with these guidelines, as the changes included will promote improved digital advertising measurement and better align all digital impressions with the viewability standard. The revised guidelines will shift both mobile in-app and mobile web from a “count-on-download” to a “count-on-begin-to-render” ad impression measurement standard.

Mobile has had an outsize influence on the way consumers interact with each other and with brands, make decisions, transact and shop. This has significantly impacted the way companies and brands connect with their consumers and do business, and marketers need to keep a continuous pulse on the way consumers interact with and use their mobile phones. The Smartphone Usage and Behaviour report provides an unbiased and insightful view on the evolution of mobile usage In India.

While screens have been central to consumer experience for decades, few among us – even a decade ago – could have foreseen a world in which consumers shift seamlessly throughout their daily lives from smartphone to TV to desktop to tablet. Although consumers have quickly embraced a cross-device world, marketers are struggling to catch up. The MMA’s new white paper gives marketers a practical look at where cross-device marketing stands today, its promise for the future and how it can be a part of the marketing arsenal - revealing much more about the customer journey than ever before!