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The Mobile Surface Area: A Landscape of Opportunity

The Mobile Surface Area: A Landscape of Opportunity

We’ve established that mobile engagement is crucial to the success of your app and therefore business value and brand, but how and where does mobile engagement happen? 

Release Date: 
November, 2015
Category: 
Guidelines, Best Practices

Winning in Mobile: 8 New Principles for Today’s Marketers

Marketing has changed. Your customer is in control; you are not. Businesses must adapt to this new reality. 

Traditional marketing and advertising have reigned for decades, but they are no longer the only way, or even the best way, to reach your customers today. Today’s consumers don’t want advertising hijacking their attention. They want effortless experiences served up to them, guiding them through daily life and solving their problems. They want magic. 

Release Date: 
November, 2015
Category: 
Best Practices
MMA Mobile Native Advertising Best Practices

Mobile Native Advertising Best Practices

Successful advertising is noted for standing out, clear and distinct from your competition. But this goes against the very nature of native ads, which are all designed to “fit in”. The notion that advertising must grab attention raises a pertinent question in the mind of every marketer who plans to go native - will it really deliver on its lofty promises? The answer lies in truly understanding the intent behind native advertising, and then implementing it the right way.

Release Date: 
November, 2015
Category: 
Guidelines, Best Practices, Educational Documents

Push Notification Guide by MMA France

The Push Notifications User Manual is produced and developed by the MMA France Messaging Marketing Committee. With this Guide, Mobile Marketing Association France intends to demystify push notification, a tool which we believe already to be essential, given that: 

  • mobile web traffic is on its way to exceeding computerbased web traffic
  • apps account for 86% of this mobile traffic
  • and push notifications are by far the best tool to incite users to revisit an application
Release Date: 
June, 2015
Category: 
Best Practices

What Differentiates Winning Mobile Campaigns in APAC?

Release Date: 
June, 2015
Category: 
Perspectives, Best Practices, Educational Documents

Guidance Report: Location Audience Targeting

No longer just a tool for "in the moment" targeting, major brands are now leveraging the rich contextual information that location provides to create highly-targeted audience segments, enabling them to strategically target consumers at specific points in their day, not just when they're within close proximity of a brand's store or restaurant.

This is a great resource for Brands, Retailers, Agency Creative and Analytics vendors and experts.

Key Insights & Takeaways

Release Date: 
June, 2015
File Size: 
594 KB
Category: 
Guidelines, Best Practices, Educational Documents

Leveraging Location Data

Produced by the MMA NA Location Committee Audience Working Group, this white paper shares how major brands are using location data for more effective audience targeting. Titled, "Using Location for Audience Targeting", the paper reveals how user location and place data is evolving from a tool used primarily for "in the moment' targeting, to an essential component in the creation of accurate audience segments. Please read the full press release here.

Read the Press Release: 
New MMA White Paper Reveals How Top Brands in Retail, Restaurants and Non-Profits Are Using Location Data for More Effective Audience Targeting
Release Date: 
February, 2015
Category: 
Best Practices, Educational Documents

UMAP v.2.0: Mobile Phone Creative Best Practice from IAB

Read the Press Release: 
IAB and MMA Issue ‘Mobile Phone Creative Guidelines’ to Reduce Industry Fragmentation and Empower Creatives
Release Date: 
April, 2013
Category: 
Guidelines, Best Practices

A Marketers Guide to Messaging: Trends and Best Practices

A Marketers Guide to Messaging: Trends and Best Practices

This white paper is designed to provide marketers with an overview of the best practices and trends when marketing to consumers on mobile devices, via text messaging aka SMS (short message service), MMS (multimedia messaging service), push notifications, or any other mobile messaging media.

Release Date: 
March, 2014
Category: 
Best Practices
Mobile: The Relationship Channel

Mobile: The Relationship Channel

The global ad market is on a path of steady recovery, with growth of 3.5% forecast for 2013, followed by 5.1% in 2014 and 5.8% in 2015, according to the latest ZenithOptimedia forecasts. This growth is being driven by digital innovations, with mobile, by some distance, the fastest-growing segment of internet advertising. As the consumer attention shifts to the screens held in the hand, logic therefore dictates that advertisers also spend their efforts where their consumers are—the mobile channel.
Release Date: 
April, 2014
Category: 
Guidelines, Best Practices

Mobile Marketing Roadmap

Release Date: 
May, 2013
Category: 
Best Practices
Topics: 
Mobile, Marketing, Roadmap, Next Generation Consumers, Interviews

U.S. Consumer Best Practices for Messaging (Version 7)

The MMA Consumer Best Practices (CBP) for Messaging, for the United States market, provides a guide to implementing short code programs. This guideline document is a compilation of accepted industry practices, common wireless carrier policies, and regulatory guidance that have been agreed upon by representative member companies from all parts of the off-deck ecosystem. This is the last and FINAL document of its kind to be released by the MMA. All future inquiries should be directed to the CTIA.

Release Date: 
October, 2012
Category: 
Guidelines, Best Practices