History of Mobile Marketing

For the last years sms became the seriousmarketing with use of short number has been spent
advertising channel. This fact was promoted by thatby the company Labatt Brewing in 2002. Since then
many companies had own databases with telephoneuse of short numbers on which it is necessary to
numbers of clients, and have counted not onsend sms, became popular and an effective remedy
electronic letters, and on mobile technologies. Pioneersof dialogue with consumers. Many companies began
of a steel two organisations - the Interactiveto use short numbers as original the mobile domain
advertising bureau (IAB) and Association of mobilefor the brand. Use of short numbers allows
marketing. They have set the basic direction ofconsumers by means of SMS to set questions, to
branch and advanced idea about advantage of mobileparticipate in events, to remain in a course of news
channels among experts in marketing. And thoughof the company and many other things.
mobile marketing made the big success in the NorthOne of key criteria for carrying out of actions of
America, the Western Europe and some othermobile marketing is the consent of the subscriber to
countries, a mobile spam (dispatch of sms withoutreception of the information or participation in the
the consent of the addressee) still remains aaction. In Europe mobile operators demand to give to
considerable problem. Usually it appears because ofthe subscriber possibility of the formal reply from
unconsciousness of some companies which sell thedispatch or the termination of participation in the
databases to the third parties.action at any moment. These requirements even are
Mobile marketing by means of SMS has quicklyincluded in special the Arch of recommendations for
extended in Europe and Asia as the new channel ofcarrying out of actions of mobile marketing to which
achievement of target audience. However very soonexperts in marketing in the USA follow.
SMS spam and not authorised dispatches connectedFor today, on the one hand, experts in marketing
with sale of telephone databases, have causedsearch for new channels and ways of interaction with
negative reaction of subscribers. Nevertheless, afterconsumers, blase traditional advertising. On the other
mobile operators have entered spam restrictions, andhand, consumers - especially young - switch attention
there were corresponding laws later, SMS dispatchesfrom traditional mass-media to interactive media, and
became the most popular kind of mobile marketing.with a view of maintenance of contact to them
Only in Europe every month it is dispatched moreadvertisers give special attention to new
than 100 million advertising SMS.environments.
In the North America the first action of mobile