Poynt Corporation Presents at MMA Forum Singapore
- Presentations Offer Insight into the Latest Mobile Marketing Strategies and Consumer Behavior
Management of Poynt Corp. believes that as emerging markets such as Asia understand how to leverage the power of mobile advertising, global brands will become more eager to capture the spending capabilities of the buyer. By 2030 it is estimated that 85% of middle class consumption of goods and services will come from Asia. Mobile is used by 77% of the world's population, of this 73% comes from emerging markets(1).
“With an increasing number of sites and mobile apps competing to help consumers find local businesses, the key to success is putting the user first and making sure they have the highest quality data available,” said Glover-Campbell. “In selecting top tier partners such as Timescity.com, Yellow Pages and toptable, we are able to deliver the most accurate, high quality data.”
Recent research from Implied Intelligence(2) indicates that yellow pages sites outperform Google, Foursquare and Yelp in local search and accuracy, despite all of these services scraping their local data from yellow pages directories. It is partnerships and deep data integration with these yellow pages directories that has allowed Poynt to provide its user base with the most accurate and robust data. Users now expect this information to be delivered at top value, and this will be a notable theme at the MMA Forum in Singapore.
“The MMA Forum will present new opportunities for brands and marketers to use context, indirectly connecting with customers through hyper-local consumer engagement,” added Glover-Campbell. “The MMA Forum will offer valuable perspectives in providing quality data along with mobile marketing strategies for effectively targeting today's consumers through location-based services and mobile search.”
On Monday, April 23, 2012 at 1:00 p.m. SGT, Ms. Glover-Campbell will participate on a workshop panel entitled “Insights Into Mobile Marketing Strategies and Tactics for Effectively Targeting Today's Consumers.” The panel will create peer-to-peer discussions and will share strategic insights and tactics on what is working and what is not working in mobile marketing across marketing sectors, including the critical importance of context in delivering mobile marketing services. Joining her on the panel will be Alex Burke, managing director of Asia Pacific at Tigerspike, and Jason Chiu, chief executive officer at Cherrypicks. Hanis Harun, Global Executive Director of Consumer Insights and Innovation at Nielsen, will moderate the panel.
On Wednesday, April 25, 2012 at 12:50 p.m. SGT, Ms. Glover-Campbell will present a case study entitled “In a Saturated App Market, What Makes an App Stand Out and Become a Consumer Favorite?” The presentation will provide insight into understanding how consumer behavior is dynamic and demonstrate how brands can connect directly with the consumer in a contextually relevant manner to influence purchasing decisions.
For more information on MMA Forum Singapore, please visit: http://www.mmaglobal.com/events/forums/singapore2012/overview.
About the Poynt Platform
Poynt is a convenient and timesaving GPS-enabled mobile local search and advertising platform that connects consumers to local offers, businesses, events, restaurants, movie theatres, gas prices and weather information at the moment they are looking to buy or acquire products or services. Poynt provides consumers with the ability to move beyond discovery of their local area to view movie trailers and reviews, buy movie tickets, click-to-call businesses, get directions, browse listing websites, read reviews and book dining reservations or find and interact with local coupons and offers.
Poynt provides contextual and relevant advertising to users performing local queries and its revenue model is based on user queries, page views, advertising and transactions within the platform. Each user query generates several page views, which are monetized through display advertising and sponsored listings paid for by advertisers. These advertising placements generate revenues on a cost per thousand impressions (CPM) basis or on a cost per click (CPC) basis. Transactions, such as ticket sales and restaurant reservations, also contribute to revenues on a fee for service basis.
About Poynt Corporation
Poynt Corp. (about.poynt.com) (TSX VENTURE: PYN)(OTCQX: PNYTF) is a global leader in the mobile local advertising space. Its Location Based Search (LBS) and advertising platform, Poynt (www.poynt.com), enhances a user's ability to connect with the people, businesses and events most important to them. Poynt is available on Android, iPhone, Windows Phone and Nokia devices, along with BlackBerry smartphones and BlackBerry PlayBook Tablets in Canada, the United States, Europe, India and Australia. Poynt Corp. entered the mobile publishing space with the acquisition of an advertising publishing platform in January 2011. Whether through the Poynt Local Search Platform or the Ad Publishing Platform, Poynt Corp. simplifies connecting consumers with businesses, retailers and events. Headquartered in Calgary, AB, Canada, Poynt Corp. trades on the TSX Venture Exchange under the symbol PYN and in the United States on the OTCQX under the symbol PNYTF.
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(1) http://mashable.com/2012/04/11/mobile-advertising-developing-world/
(2) http://searchengineland.com/yellowpages-sites-beat-google-in-local-data-accuracy-test-118467?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed-main
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