Mobile Advertising - A New Wave in the Ad World

Mobile advertising has become one of the mostcompany. Mobile advertising also paves the way for
widely used forms of marketing in Asia. The mobileviral marketing as being short in length, these can be
phone revolution has not only changed the way theeasily forwarded among family and friends and this is
people interact but also given a birth to one of theanother effective angle to the whole story.
most effective advertising model. Few years back,Bulk SMS are mainly used for brand building and to
we all knew that this glitzy device is here to stay butmaintain a constant presence in the minds of the
we didn't know it will be used for marketing productsaudience regarding a certain product or service. For
and services. SMS gateway India is a growingmany companies, mobile advertising has been very
phenomenon because most of the Indian marketerseffective and has also delivered great responses
have opted for bulk SMS which through this gatewayfrom the audience. This relatively new marketing
reaches faster to the target audience. This low coststrategy follows a personalized and direct approach
and result oriented medium of advertising iswhich is quintessential to make any advertising
witnessing a huge surge and with facilities like bulkmessage successful. It offers a new marketing
SMS, it becomes more accessible by the marketers.technique that a lot of people will find fresh and
Another interesting form of mobile advertising isnovel. In India mobile advertising is growing with each
cross media advertising. Since short codes are therepassing day and that has called for the SMS gateway
to send SMS, the companies can also advertiseIndia. Through this gateway sending SMS to varied
through print or radio stations. If we take intoset of people with varied networks can be sent
consideration the number of people using mobileeasily.
phones, the marketers can easily recognize theWith the growing demand of smart phones in the
potential of this medium.market, it is expected that by 2013 every second
Advertising through mobile phones has revolutionizedphone will be a smart phone and then mobile
the advertising world and it has become a veryadvertising will be on a different height altogether and
powerful tool to execute a well-targeted andbusinesses will grow rapidly. Through SMS gateway
well-designed marketing campaign. SMS gateway IndiaIndia many establishments will be benefited including
is a useful means to send messages across theschools, colleges, professional educational institutions,
target audience and the service enables even thosesocieties, communities, groups, associations and guilds.
who do not own mobile phones or SMS enabledThis new wave is the advertising world will sweep
phones. Talking in the Indian context, bulk SMS canthe business from other medium of sending
be send to inform people about natural disasters likeadvertising messages and if this trend continues to
hurricane, tornado, earthquake or flood and othergrow, then the day is not far when businesses will
important messages to the employees of amake remarkable profits through mobile advertising.