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Smaato Mobile Advertising Awards 2010: Now open for global entries

06-18-2010 08:54 AM CET | Media & Telecommunications

Press release from: Smaato Inc.

/ PR Agency: IF Communications
Smaato Mobile Advertising Awards 2010: Now open for global

Awarding the innovation of mobile developers and publishers for the third year

Grand Prize: Free Booth during Mobile World Congress, Barcelona 2011

San Francisco, CA – June 17, 2010 – Smaato Inc., a leading mobile ad optimizer and mobile advertising company, announces the launch of the Smaato Mobile Advertising Award 2010. After the success in previous years, the award aims to find the coolest ad-enabled mobile content on the planet. This year, Smaato has divided the competition into seven categories: iPhone & iPad, Android, Windows Phone, Samsung Bada, Symbian, RIM, mobile websites, branded games & apps and best mobile campaign. Entry and participation is free and more information is provided on Smaato's website.

Smaato will invite the overall winner to participate at Mobile World Congress, the world’s premier mobile event, taking place in Barcelona, Spain in February 2011. At Mobile World Congress, the winning company will be given the chance to show its services in front of the world’s mobile community. If that wasn’t enough, Smaato will also make a number of introductions to VC's at partner level.

Additional prizes are: a booth at M-Days in Munich, Germany in January 2011, a booth at M-Publishing in New York in November 2010, handsets, free tickets for Mobile World Congress and many more.

Rich Wong, VC partner at Accel stated: “The Smaato Awards have brought together some of the most talented developers from all platforms in one place. The diversity of people, content and countries represented, goes to show how vibrant the world of mobile truly is.”

“The Smaato Award is a very well thought through package: not just the very welcome PR and profile that it confers, but also the very valuable presence at MWC and VC contacts that proved to be excellent introductions”, added Mark Curtis, CEO of Flirtomatic (one of the Smaato Award winner 2009).

“We’re proud that the Smaato Award provides developers the recognition they deserve for their work and highlights some of the coolest content on the planet. We are expecting entries from around the world and we are looking forward to see really fresh ideas and great innovation in content and services. It’s amazing to see the diversity and the brilliance of content in the mobile world,” said Ragnar Kruse, CEO & Co-Founder of Smaato Inc.

The Smaato Award 2010 features a world-class jury of leading influencers in the mobile community: Andy Favell (mobiThinking), Bena Roberts (GoMoNews), Carlo Longino (WIP Mobile Jam), David Murphy (Mobile Marketing), Derek Kerton (Kerton Group), Frederic Lardinois (ReadWriteWeb), Giselle Tsirulnik (Mobile Marketer), Heike Scholz (Mobile Zeitgeist), James Cameron (Camerjam), Jim Cook (MobiAdNews), Kei Shimada (Infinita, JP), Lubna Dajani (Mobile Monday, NYC), Mark Wächter (Mobile Monday, Germany & MMA), Matthäus Krzykowski (VentureBeat), Matthew Snyder (ADObjects), Michelle Sklar (bnetTV), Peggy Anne Salz (MSearchGroove), Ragnar Kruse (Smaato), Rudy De Waele (dotOpen/mTrends), Tim Green (Mobile Entertainment, UK), Tomi Ahonen (Author).

The jury will looking at companies for: unique approach, traction in the market, idea, originality, company positioning and branding to name a few.

Deadline for submissions is August 20th, 2010. The winner will be announced during CTIA San Francisco, October 6- 8, 2010.


ENDS

About Smaato Inc.

Smaato is a pioneering mobile advertising company that operates the mobile ad optimization platform called SOMA (Smaato Open Mobile Advertising) and partners with mobile publishers, developers, ad networks and operators. More than 5,000 publishers have signed up with Smaato as a partner to monetize their content in 220+ countries and Smaato is managing 7 billion ad requests per month.

SOMA’s unique feature is the aggregation of 40+ leading ad networks globally to maximize mobile advertising ARPU. SOMA can be easily integrated with ad networks, ad inventory owners (publishers, developers and operators) and 3rd party ad technology providers.

Smaato is an active member of the Mobile Marketing Association and the German Digital Media Association BVDW. Smaato received a Top 100 Private Company Award by AlwaysOn Media (2009 & 2007) and was recently named a “company to watch” in 2010 by Financial Analyst company GP Bullhound, among other awards.

Smaato Inc. is based in Redwood Shores, California. The privately held company was founded in 2005 by an experienced International management team. The European headquarters are in Hamburg, Germany and the Asia-Pacific presence of Smaato has been established in Singapore.

Harald Neidhardt
CMO & Co-Founder
harald@smaato.com
@hneidhardt

Neil Robertson
IF Communications
neil@if-communications.com
@neil_robertson
+447739322503


Smaato Inc.
3 Lagoon Drive, Suite 170
Redwood Shores, CA 94065
Phone (USA): +1 (650) 286 11 98
Phone (Europe) +49 (40) 35 71 83 88
www.smaato.com
@smaato

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