Friday 14 November 2008

Friday: Golden Gekko picks up three mobile marketing awards in San Diego

Mobile applications that help guys seduce women wins global award for best use of mobile marketing in mobile branding campaign 2008

14 November 2008: Golden Gekko, the leading mobile applications developer for creative marketing campaigns picked up three awards at the Mobile Marketing Awards in San Diego Thursday. The awards include Absolut Vodka in partnership with Great Works for best use of mobile marketing in a branding campaign in North America, Lynx Effect for BBH for best use of mobile marketing in a branding campaign in EMEA and Lynx Effect for best use of mobile marketing in a branding campaign globally.

- This shows that mobile marketing campaigns that go beyond text messaging and WAP-sites can have an amazing impact in terms on brand perception, said Magnus Jern. In both of the award winning campaigns it was the end-user that chose to engage with the brand rather than being pushed into it.

During the last year we’ve seen an explosive growth in downloads of mobile applications and widgets much thanks to the enhanced user experience in comparison to browser based mobile services. The trend has been boosted by the iPhone application store but also by Nokia, Motorola, Blackberry and Sony-Ericsson who all encourage developers to produce applications for their handsets and users to download “cool” applications. Golden Gekko was one of the early advocates of leveraging the application trend in branding campaigns and we now see that it’s paying off as millions of users are consuming mobile marketing applications in a similar way to watching youtube videos by major brands.

- The Lynx campaign is definitely our greatest success so far with the Absolut Drinks application as a close contender. We get calls from media agencies every week who ask if they can use them as industry best practice examples of how mobile marketing should be done, said Jimmy Nordbeck, Marketing Director and Co-founder.

Campaign: Lynx ‘get in there’ mobile tools
Agency: BBH
Client: Unilever/Lynx
Video available here: http://www.goldengekko.com/Videos/LynxEffect.mpg
Mobile site: http://m.lynxeffect.com
Launched in January 2008 for Lynx in the UK the campaign consists of a mobile website and 5 downloadable applications that help the men ‘get in there’ with the women including instruction videos. The campaign has been a massive success with hundreds of thousands of downloads, great viral distribution effect and most importantly, a massive positive response from the men who are now obviously much more successful in the mating game.


Campaign: Absolut Vodka Mobile Drinks
Agency: Great Works
Client: V&S/Absolut Vodka
Mobile site: http://m.absolut.com

The Absolut Drinks mobile campaign launched in the US October 2007 is available to download for free and includes 1000+ drink recipes, top lists of most popular drinks, random drinks, a home bar search function and videos with famous bartenders mixing drinks. The service was launched exclusively to registered members on absolutdrinks.com and had about 50.000 active users in the first 12 months.


For more information, please contact:
Jimmy Nordbeck
Marketing Director
Tel: + 46 708 20 58 00
Email: jn@goldengekko.com


About Golden Gekko
Golden Gekko is a leading international provider of mobile marketing solutions. The company develops award-winning mobile applications and services that run on billions of phones worldwide, including the iPhone. Golden Gekko has already delivered successful projects to leading global brands including Absolut Vodka, Accenture, Cadbury’s, Coca Cola, Novartis, Paramount, Perfetti, Sara Lee, Unilever and Vodafone. Golden Gekko has offices in the England, Sweden, Spain, Cambodia and US. Information about Golden Gekko and its services can be found at www.goldengekko.com

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