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Velti: Strong Year For Velti As Mobile Advertising And Marketing Comes Of Age; Velti's Full-Service Technology Platform Brings Mobile Into The Marketing Mix For Global Brands; Provides Operators With a Means To Monetize Services(M2 PressWIRE Via Thomson Dialog NewsEdge) RDATE:05032008 London, UK -- Velti, (LSE-AIM: VEL) a mobile marketing and advertising technology service provider, announced a very successful 2007, with revenue up 75% on the previous year. At Mobile World Congress 2008, Velti announced the launch of the latest version of its Mobile Marketing Platform version 4 (MMP 4.0) along with significant new customer wins and updates including Johnson & Johnson, Microsoft, LMVH's Hennessy, Pepsico, Colgate-Plamolive, Ferrero, Barcardi, MTV, CBS, Vogue Magazine and Mastercard. "2007 was the year when the mobile channel started to move into the mainstream advertising and marketing mix," explains Alexandros Moukas, CEO of Velti. "At Velti, our market-leading full service mobile technology platform allows clients to manage more than seventy types of campaign solutions from development through to delivery and measurement. This holistic approach gives our customers the ability to deploy the right campaigns for their audiences to the timescales and across the regions they need." MMP 4.0 features enhanced advertising and marketing solutions spanning multiple mediums including mobile communities, games and applications. Using MMP4.0, advertisers and operators can offer consumers a unique, personalised mobile marketing experience using loyalty schemes, mobile coupons, social networks and other interactive activities Adds Moukas: "The global media industry is looking at mobile marketing as the next big advertising platform. Velti is continually driving the market, looking to bring social networking, user generated content and digital communities into the mobile marketing mix while also enabling customers to maximise their investment in traditional media spend." Besides the Version 4.0 launch, Velti is also announcing significant customer wins and contract extensions. Its work with Johnson & Johnson for example, includes a mobile advice-based community for mothers-to-be; in this case Velti MMP was used to design and execute an integrated mobile marketing and advertising campaign targeting the Hispanic U.S. market. In another very interesting mobile campaign, new client Kellogg's has launched an on-pack short code promotion for instant win prizes with very successful results. Moreover, in 2007 Velti has created a number of brand loyalty building campaigns for major Operators in Europe, such as Orange UK. The leading UK mobile operator partnered with Velti to launch an online and mobile music community which offers a priority mobile ticketing notification and purchasing service. The campaign is aimed at engaging and developing a direct and interactive relationship with customers, allowing users to receive notifications regarding their favorite artists' concerts and reserve tickets via the mobile. Velti's work with mobile operator MTEL on a short code competition led to the country's most successful mobile campaign with over 12.5m messages from a subscriber base of just 4.5m while a Bacardi campaign for mobile invitations to parties had to close early due to its success. Finally, in 2007, Velti and the Interpublic Group (NYSE:IPG), one of the world's leading advertising agencies and marketing services groups, announced the launch of Ansible, their joint venture which has formed a dedicated mobile marketing agency. Ansible operates in North America and Europe, with plans to open full-service offices in Asia and is using Velti's MMP to offer mobile strategy, creative development and campaign management, leveraging best-in-class technology and expertise. Ansible has made excellent progress since its commercial launch in September 2007, having signed up 5 Fortune-50 customers for mobile campaigns in North America, Europe and Asia. "Velti has more than seven years of experience working with mobile operators and ad agencies," says Velti's COO Chris Kaskavelis. "We have been around from the start of the industry and have a deep understanding of our customers, their business practices and customers. We can show operators a way to monetise new data services. We give ad agencies another channel to offer their clients and we bring media companies new channels through which to maximise the revenue from their intellectual property. But more than that, with our technology and commitment with R&D, we offer our customers clear line of sight into the technologies and campaigns that will provide new revenue channels as the mobile advertising industry develops." Velti is offering demonstrations of its innovative Mobile Marketing Platform at its booth 7C86 in Hall 7. About Velti Velti's market-leading mobile marketing technology platform, coupled with its experience in the mobile advertising industry, enables clients around the world to deliver an extensive range of highly targeted marketing campaigns. With operations in 16 countries: UK, USA, Greece, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Philippines, FYR Macedonia, Romania, Bosnia, Turkey, Ukraine, Armenia, France, Germany, China and Russia, Velti has implemented projects reaching an estimated 570 million consumers (not including China, which will go live later in 2008). Velti's unique Mobile Marketing Platform (version 4.0) manages the full cycle of planning, execution and monitoring of multiple campaigns across differing mobile formats and channels, offering customers more than 70 above and below-the-line mobile marketing and advertising formats, which can be managed from one user interface. Velti is a publicly traded company listed on the London Stock Exchange (AIM), with sustainable growth in revenue and profits. The company is heavily investing in its customers' future needs, especially in the mobile advertising and mobile content enablement market. Velti's Board of Directors is comprised of leading professionals from the United States and the European business community such as: D. Mann (Former Group CEO of LogicaCMG plc),, N. Negroponte ( Non-Executive Director of Motorola, Inc, and MIT Professor & founder of Media Lab),, D. Hobley (Non-Executive Director of Orange) and J. Goldstein (former Executive Director and Board Member of Citicorp Investment Bank in London). CONTACT: Beth Meszaros, Weber Shandwick Tel: +44 (0)20 7067 0518 WWW: http://www.velti.com ((M2 Communications Ltd disclaims all liability for information provided within M2 PressWIRE. Data supplied by named party/parties. Further information on M2 PressWIRE can be obtained at http://www.presswire.net on the world wide web. Inquiries to [email protected])). Copyright ? 2008 M2 Communications Ltd. |