Mobsta Appoints Its First Chief Revenue Officer

London-based geolocation company Mobsta continues its expansion with Maxwell Brown appointment.

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Mobsta UK Commercial Director Maxwell Brown has been promoted to become the company’s first Chief Revenue Officer.

Brown joined Mobsta three years ago from London-based advertiser Collective (Now TI Media) and will be directly responsible for all of Mobsta’s existing sales- and revenue-driving departments. 

While he will continue to work closely with Mobsta’s product and strategy divisions and its client, media-owner partnership and operational teams, he will have an increased focus on P&L and day-to-day management. 

Over the past nine years, Mobsta has matured and evolved into one of the leading plays in the geo and location data space in the UK and was recently recognised by Forbes as one of the leading companies in the space due to its pioneering work with 5G. 

The company was also first to rise to the implementation of GDPR and is expected to make a raft of positive announcements over the rest of 2019.

Talking about Brown’s promotion, Mobsta Co-Founder Darren Kietz said that Brown had proved himself to be a talented leader and an unrivalled contacts book in the industry.

He has been instrumental in ensuring the sales team has become recognised as a thoroughly professional and first rate outfit. More importantly, the number of formal trading partnerships has increased 500% under his lead which is testament to his ability and commitment

Brown is looking forward to bring more value to the company after growing the London office and opening new offices in Manchester.

Thanks to the support of our agencies and clients, I’m looking forward to taking Mobsta into the next phase of growth as we start to harness the effectiveness of operator intelligence with brands.

The news follows a year of growth for Mobsta, which was recently certified by ABC for successfully completing audits and being certified for Good Practice and Standards for digital ad trading.

 

Geolocation, geolocation, geolocation?… Mobsta leads the way

London-based location targeting company Mobsta has come top in an independent ranking of geolocation providers in the UK, conducted by MediaCom, one of the world’s leading agencies.


MobstaThe mobile world has undergone several transformations since the mobile phone went mass market and at every stage of that development there have been Wild West situations.

Rather like a wagon train being surrounded by First Nation Americans, it has always been a business for explorers and not all of them honourable.

Mobile advertising, mobile games, mobile technologies… they’ve all attracted hucksters and bullshitters and not the new game in town is geolocation. An ecosystem is emerging, but there are no real regulations and standards for brands and agencies to refer to.

Fortunately, things are changing for the better and a recent independent ranking of geolocation providers in the UK. run by MediaCom, which can across three client brands, finally offers some form of yardstick.

The report was designed to determine the validity of the claims of many of the companies that they offer the best reach and accuracy and winner was… London-based location targeting company Mobsta.

Out of the nine participants, Mobsta, which employs Placecast’s programmatic technology, came first in both scale and accuracy tests. Out of the 15 providers were originally invited to participate in the test, nine companies declined to take part. I wonder why THAT was, maybe they shouldn’t have made it into the wagon train anyway.

“There are many companies who offer compelling targeting and measurement solutions but it’s difficult to know whose story is real and how accurately they can deliver on location targeting.

“We wanted to have confidence in our recommendations to clients, so created this test to help us cut through the claims, and offer definitive advice on how accurate hyper-local targeting is,” said Owain Wilson, Data Strategy Director at MediaCom.

Mobsta is a specialist in location targeting and audience profiling techniques and has the exclusive rights to the Placecast mobile data management platform (DMP) that aggregates location data and user behaviour across different devices in the physical world.

The company translates it into audience segments that can be targeted through mobile advertising campaigns via its Demand Side Platform (DSP). The platform delivers a understanding of the relationship between users and locations over time, enabling them to make smarter marketing decisions.

“With the ever-increasing use of mobile advertising and changes in format, we see a real opportunity for brands to use geolocation and welcome efforts like these to help brands navigate the crowded market place. Third party validation is key and we hope that this study will encourage more brands to invest in the technology to improve their campaigns,” concluded George Dixon, Strategy Director, Mobsta

For EURO 2012 the future is Orange for the app, not so clear for the England football team

The England football team may be losing players to injury on a daily basis, but in direct disproportion EURO 2012tm sponsor Orange seems to be adding features to its tournament app. At least one of them will qualify for the next stage.

UEFA and Orange have now added geolocation and augmented reality features to help fans enjoy the tournament. The augmented reality functionalitly can be viewed through the phone’s camera and mates can be found using the app’s Friend Finder.

There are numerous other features available, but don’t take it from me, download the app here, you don’t even need to be an Orange customer. Future app improvements such as exclusive video of the winning England team are highly unlikely to ever be available.

Forget about wasting money at trade shows, spend it on training instead

Trade shows have changed a lot over the years. I remember going to several where I would sit transfixed with boredom but at least I could smoke at the table. Ah, those were the days.

I’ve attended trade shows in Miami, Cannes, London, Brighton, Barcelona, San Francisco, Madrid and many less glamorous cities. Apart from getting pissed on free posh drink at (usually male-only) parties I can’t remember ever getting much out of them except the sight of men in suits trying to dance. Continue reading