Articles Tagged ‘Jeff Hasen’


Mobile goes dark on Super Bowl Sunday

February 5, 2013

Super Bowl Sunday on Feb. 3 in New Orleans was a dark day for mobile marketing and mobile advertising. That had nothing to do with the Mercedes-Benz Superdome blackout that stopped the game for 34 minutes.


Lowe’s exec: Mobile represents 20pc of Web traffic

January 31, 2013

SAN FRANCISCO – A Lowe’s executive at the 2013 Mobile Marketing Association Forum San Francisco said that mobile represents 20 percent of the company’s Web traffic, showing how the medium is increasingly becoming a bigger priority.

Obama, Romney campaigns drive donations via text

August 28, 2012

United States consumers will soon be able to donate to their presidential campaign of choice by texting a keyword to a short code on their mobile phones for the first time.

London Olympics’ “live” NBC coverage: Dead on arrival

August 13, 2012

Pointing to the large number of viewers via television, PCs and mobile devices, NBC considers Olympics critics the loud minority. Count me in the unhappy camp.

MMA Forum reflected strides in mobile

June 15, 2012

The world’s memory champion spoke at the MMA Forum this week in New York. I cannot remember his name.

How Procter & Gamble’s CoverGirl could improve its mobile coupon program

June 7, 2012

Although Procter & Gamble’s cosmetic line CoverGirl is on the right track by using SMS messages to alert consumers about coupons, the effort falls flat on several levels without a clear call-to-action.

Trumpeters and trombone players made noise at CTIA Wireless 2012. No one else did

May 11, 2012

Some 40,000 executives and hundreds of exhibitors are said to have descended on the International CTIA Wireless show this week in New Orleans. And yet that did not cut the mustard for one discerning delegate.

3 pieces of advice for including mobile in integrated marketing plans

May 9, 2012

Words of wisdom from some of those who were the first to include mobile in their integrated marketing plans.

Macy’s taps SMS to bolster exclusive clothing sales

March 22, 2012

Macy’s is sending out SMS messages to its customers that promote exclusive looks from NBC’s “Fashion Star” show and let consumers shop them through their mobile device.

Super Bowl XLVI: How marketers dropped the mobile ball – yet again

February 7, 2012

Despite a huge, captive audience that actually eagerly anticipates these commercials, for mobile marketers, the overarching theme has been “missed opportunities.”