Mobitainment continues to set the benchmark for mobile marketing in Africa. The leading mobile agency was again recognised for brilliance in mobile innovation, this time at the sixth annual AfricaCom Awards in Cape Town where it walked away with the award for Best Mobile Marketing Campaign for Excella Cooking Oils & Mayonnaise. Africa’s largest communications […]
Transcending the boundaries between traditional marketing and advertising channels in ways that still resonate with the synergy of a campaign, translates into successful reach while solidifying a brand’s reputation. Mobitainment did this for Excella and won a Mobile Merit Award for Cross-Media Integration in the Mobile Marketing category while placing as a finalist in the […]
We implemented a mobile competition to educate South Africans on colds & flu this winter from your Friendly Pharmacist courtesy of Adcock Ingram. Entry was via USSD or mobisite and we gathered info on what products they bought, where, and more info on themselves like language and location. 69% of entrants were via USSD and […]
Shower to Shower ran a campaign to “be the voice in our next radio ad!” Customers had to SMS their bar code to a Short Code and got a call back with instructions to record their very own ad… then they could share it with their friends and got them to vote for it to […]
Reach out to students at national road-shows to taste the Amazon Monsta Pop and sing the jingle! Entry was via Free Messaging Service (FMS) to get an automated call back from the Monsta Pop singing the jingle and asking you where your closest roadshow was. On the mobisite (www.monstapops.mobi) you could find free downloads, and […]
Designed to reach out to Mom’s and families to buy the TFG Gift Card for Mother’s Day, we used (amongst other mobile marketing tools like a mobisite, SMS and MMS) a free Interactive Call Back Ad which generated an AVM call back from a celebrity featured in popular magazine ads informing them of gift ideas […]
Boston City Campus and Business College wanted to reach out to prospective students to tell them about their new internship programme, Experience it! What better way than to talk to them where they are @ social & mobile media! Through an SMS Short code call to action driving profiling on USSD, referrals on mobisite (www.experienceit.mobi) […]
AVBOB, in providing funeral and insurance services to South Africans, wanted to show their prospective and existing customers that “AVBOB is here for you in your time of need” . We reached the target audience through a mobile call to action on traditional media using mobile mediums such as SMS, SMS Short Code, USSD and […]
Surf required Mobitainment to recruit contestants who bought Surf for a TV game show. The challenge was that Surf wanted the entry mechanism to be free to the consumer. Mobitainment pioneered the FMS (Free Messaging Service) where customers could send a free prompt to call back from their cell phone, with a voice reply from […]
Vaseline Men wanted an easy entry mechanism on mobile that would provide contestant information to be able to shortlist them to compete in the 12 week Strength-to-Strength Challenge. Mobitainment set up an SMS short code and USSD number to log entrants and shortlist compatible contestants in each province based on age, weight and height.
