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Public Council Teleconference: Application Rationalization — Hidden Costs and Smart Decisions
November 17 at 11:00 am US/Eastern (GMT-5)
Join Honorio Padrón, of The Hackett Group, who will share the drivers for companies to tackle application rationalization and the results of research that define the hidden cost of complexity. Additionally, we will discuss key decision milestones—to start or not, holding the course steady and fulfilling expectations.
Virtual Desktop Cost-Benefit Analysis — Michael Jacobs, Catlin Group
The analysis contained in this presentation measures the cost of everything from the machines and licenses to the infrastructure for virtual vs. traditional desktop environments.
Honor your best senior team members - Apply for the CIO Ones to Watch Award
Get well-earned public recognition for your top up-and-coming team members, your IT organization and your enterprise. Award winners will be announced, publicized and feted in May 2010, great timing to help attract new IT recruits to your company.
Learn more about the CIO Executive Council »March 21, 2008 — IDG News Service —
Advertisers are just beginning to get their feet wet in mobile advertising, but there's a lot of splashing going on, according to some people in the industry.
"Every single client wants to buy it," said Elizabeth Ross, president of Tribal DDB West, an online advertising agency. For example, Tribal client Pepsi-Cola North America is examining mobile ad possibilities for all of its brands, she said. However, that doesn't mean all those clients are committed to the mobile medium, she added.
"Mobile is the thing most every client wants and is thinking about ... but also is confused about," Ross said. "How do they do it, what do they buy, who do they buy it from?"
What's not clear is how best to use phones for advertising, according to Ross and other participants at the Mobile Ad Degree symposium Thursday in San Francisco. The potential is huge, but the market is still small, they said.
In January, mobile research company M:Metrics found more than 120 brands, from a broad cross-section of industries, advertising on the 100 Internet domains most visited on mobile phones, analyst Seamus McAteer said.
"This is a real medium. There are real dollars being spent on it," McAteer said. The actual number of dollars is not yet that great, he acknowledged: Mobile display advertising in the U.S. was an approximately US$200 million industry last year. But he expects spending to at least double this year, even in a weak economy.
The ads on phones aren't just mobile-oriented and geared toward getting users to sign up for a service or download something on the spot, speakers at the event said. In addition to those "direct response" ads, there are now an increasing number of ads for brands, a sign that mobile advertising is maturing, said Brian McDonald, vice president of sales at Mywaves, a mobile video provider.
Cell phones are a good place to reach consumers because they generally belong to one person and there is a lot of information available about that user, said Pete Distler, general manager of Sprint Mobile Media Network at Sprint Nextel.
An automaker recently bought ads targeted at certain kinds of Sprint subscribers in Chicago and Houston and let them make appointments to test-drive a car at the local dealer, Distler said. Hundreds of subscribers made those appointments on their phones and kept them, he said. The campaign was later repeated in several other large markets, according to Distler. Another advertiser on Sprint, a brewery, was able to display its beer ads only on the phones of subscribers who were over 21 years old, the legal drinking age in most of the U.S., he said.