Best Conference Paper Award: 2013 MAG Scholar Global Business, Marketing and Tourism Conference Dubai, United Arab Emirates, November 10 – 14, 2013. Presented to Robert Davis and Ahsan Ali Chaudhri for the paper entitled: Integration of Simultaneous Media Channel for Modelling Interactivity in Ubiquitous Campaigns.

Best Conference Paper Award: 2013 MAG Scholar Global Business, Marketing and Tourism Conference (http://www.magscholar.com/joomla/), Le Meridien, Airport Road, Dubai, United Arab Emirates, November 10 – 14, 2013. Presented to Robert Davis and Ahsan Ali Chaudhri  for the paper entitled: Integration of Simultaneous Media Channel for Modelling Interactivity in Ubiquitous Campaigns.

Americans spend 58 minutes a day on their smartphones (© 2013 Experian Information Solutions, Inc. All rights reserved)

Some interesting findings: “New data from Experian Marketing Services’ Simmons® ConnectSM mobile and digital panel sheds light on the way smartphone users spend time using their phone, with the average adult clocking 58 minutes daily on their device. On average, smartphone owners devote 26% of the time they spend on their phone talking and another 20% texting. […]

American Academy of Advertising, 2013: THE LOOP MODEL: MODELLING CONSUMER INTERACTIVITY IN CAMPAIGNS COUPLING SIMULTANEOUS MEDIA By Robert Davis : Presented at American Academy of Advertising, 2013, Conference Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States of America

THE LOOP MODEL: MODELLING CONSUMER INTERACTIVITY IN CAMPAIGNS COUPLING SIMULTANEOUS MEDIA By Robert Davis Presented at: American Academy of Advertising, 2013, Conference Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States of America [Paper] [Presentation] ABSTRACT Based on the responses of 498 consumers, this research simulates the LOOP Model, the consumer’s experience of interactivity when interacting with campaigns simultaneously coupling the ubiquitous mobile channel (e.g., mobile/smartphone/iPhone/iPad) with […]

comScore and Brave New World: Measurement

Placing the importance on measurement: I agree comScore. See also the work from 2003 in this space culminating in: Robert Davis and Laszlo Sajtos (2008), “Measuring Consumer Interactivity in Response to Campaigns Coupling Mobile and Television Media.” Journal of Advertising Research 48 (3): 375–391 . Just the start and can be extended to many channels coupled. From comScore […]

"Facebook Is a ‘Mobile Company,’ But Is That a Good Business? (Bloomberg)": YES: Facebook is the new Google (Davis).

The results just came out for Facebook showing that 23% of their revenue is now from mobile ad (up from 14%). The question is; is this good news? The full article is here (Facebook Is a ‘Mobile Company,’ But Is That a Good Business? by Bloomberg) My view is yes. For two reasons: 1. Consumers […]

CMON GT^ Campaign

To be nostalgic I am posting some material (word in progress) on a campaign I did in 2007.  See here.  It is also a great opportunity to put some of the 100’s of photo I have of the Vodafone Warriors who were sponsors of CMON GT^ and I took some to schools to promote the campaign. […]