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M-commerce Summit 2012, State of Mobile Commerce – Morning Update

Thursday, May 3rd, 2012

Manolo Almagro, Weekly Columnist

Posting live from New York City today, at the M-Commerce Summit 2012. Zappos keynote highlights tablet app has always been the priority; iPhone and android were released after. Customers prefer a richer experience over the small mobile screen when shopping.  The iPad users have the biggest shopping basket and order value, followed by the iPhone and [...]

#IDSD Interactive Day, San Diego

Friday, April 6th, 2012

Manolo Almagro, Weekly Columnist

IDSD is San Diego’s leading one-day digital conference, featuring industry thought leaders from Amazon, comScore, Living Social, Pandora, R/GA, SEOmoz, Starz Entertainment, Google, Twitter and more! I know that Adrian was asked to participate but I understand that he had to decline as he will still be in Tokyo on the day it takes place, [...]

#dse2012 What Happens In Vegas Is Posted Here

Sunday, March 11th, 2012

Manolo Almagro, Weekly Columnist

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Live (Indeed) From @MobileFirstLook’s Mobile First 2012 Strategy Conference

Thursday, January 19th, 2012

Manolo Almagro, Weekly Columnist

I’ll be providing real-time posts on tumblr and twitter from the Mobile Marketer’s ‘Mobile First 2012 Strategy Conference‘ today… Follow me on twitter: @manolo_almagro or on my tumblr: http://reimagine.tumblr.com/

#CES – Top 3 Insights (The Rise of the Machines)

Friday, January 13th, 2012

Manolo Almagro, Weekly Columnist

Sadly, my attempts to live tweet/post from #CES this week were severely hampered with limited access to fast internet on my lame T-mobile 4G hotspot, not to mention finding a good mobile signal in some of the exhibit hall zones was an epic fail. Good news is: I’m back from Vegas and uploading all of [...]

Mobile Engagement Via QR Codes, NFC + Sonic Triggers

Friday, December 16th, 2011

Manolo Almagro, Weekly Columnist

This week we highlight three very different engagement technologies that provide ways for mobile shoppers to use their devices to move from off-line to on-line properties. Getting people to engage with your brand in-store continues to be the toughest part of a campaign. Lately however, getting people to use their mobile devices as part of [...]

Three Is A Magic Number

Tuesday, December 6th, 2011

Manolo Almagro, Weekly Columnist

Greetings readers of the DailyDOOH. My new format for weekly posts will be based on ‘the power of three’  or ‘three is a magic number’ data chunking principals. Today I start with CyberMonday Kicks Ass, GoogleMaps Moves Indoors, and QR Code shopping for the holidays. Why three? Well because people comprehend information better in chunks [...]

Parallel Worlds: The DSA’s Awesome Asian Adventures…

Thursday, July 21st, 2011

Manolo Almagro, Weekly Columnist

It’s been a very busy few weeks for the DSA. Bob Michaels and yours truly kicked off a short – two city tour of DOOH conferences, all in the span of 3 days. 13-14 July, Singapore – Palmes Asia/Digital Display Tech Conference at the Marina Bay Sands Conference Center. The DSA sponsored a 1 day [...]

Parallel Worlds: What Privacy Concerns?

Thursday, March 24th, 2011

Manolo Almagro, Weekly Columnist

‘Internet Privacy Concerns Prompt Advertisers to Increase DOOH Ad Spend‘ wrote Jason M. Kates over on the usually quite good Digital Signage Expo site a week or so ago. This post should raise a few eyebrows. The Chairman, CEO and founder of rVue reports a surprising trend; it seems (he writes) that advertisers are turning [...]

Parallel Worlds: Integrated Campaigns, The Funnel and the Customer Journey

Tuesday, February 15th, 2011

Manolo Almagro, Weekly Columnist

The “Marketing Funnel” has been the mainstay for mapping consumer behavior and where brand’s should focus the majority of their media spend. We as an industry created a mashup version of the Funnel + the Customer Journey – to rationalize where digital OOH fits in the path to purchase. “The right message, at the right [...]