Tijdens de 3GSM-beurs in Barclona werden de GSM-awards uitgereikt. Één van de winnaars was Bluecasting-bedrijf Qwikker. Het bedrijf had tijdens V-Festival bluetoothreclame gemaakt voor Virgin en was daar zeer succesvol mee. Om de potentie van het systeem te zien is het aardig om de beschrijving van de actie te lezen.
“Virgin Mobile called on Qwikker to assist with the launch campaign of the new “boredom busting” Virgin BITES service- a new mobile site dedicated to keeping Virgin Mobile customers entertained. As part of the promotion, Virgin Mobile wanted to reach beyond their own subscriber base -whilst simultaneously promoting acts which were performing at this year’s V-Festival- through the distribution of highly desirable, high quality mobile content via a fast, reliable and user-friendly platform. Qwikker provided its interactive marketing services at one of the two sites of the V-Festival. Virgin Mobile was looking for compelling results which would demonstrate the benefits of using Bluetooth marketing solutions in their other event marketing campaigns, as well as across the whole V-Festival in future years. As the music market becomes increasingly more fragmented, Virgin Mobile sought also to leverage the mobile phone as a unique and growing medium of music distribution, wanting furthermore to improve on current WAP models of distribution, which do not support free downloads and are too slow to enable delivery of a diverse range of content.
Virgin Mobile estimates that in the region of 73,000 individuals attended the Chelmsford site over 3 days. Using Qwikker’s Bluetooth delivery platform, which is compatible with 85-90% of all handsets, Virgin Mobile were able to reach almost any festival-goer with a mobile phone, even those subscribing to competitor networks. Qwikker deployed 33 Bluetooth transmitting service points (Jacks) in 9 ‘high dwell-time’ areas across the site, including the main stage, 2 campsites, bars and VIP area. Over the three days of the campaign Qwikker connected with almost 30,000 mobile devices- just over 41% of the target audience.
Each one of Qwikker’s Jacks is able to connect remotely to a central server (via Ethernet or GPRS), allowing Qwikker to closely monitor the activity of each Jack. This enables Qwikker to offer clients comprehensive reportage of each campaign, and provide extensive statistics including most popular downloads, the busiest locations and the number of downloads per handset, allowing clients to spot trends, and adapt content accordingly in future campaigns. Over the 3 days, Qwikker’s Jacks detected 29,547 mobile devices, which were invited to opt-in to the campaign. 12,410 (42%) responded, with a total of 4,840 individuals downloading Qwikker’s Virgin Mobile-branded menu of content. Although Morrissey were the headline act, a video by Kasabian was by far the most popular download, accounting for 34% of all downloaded content. This highlights the benefits of offering consumers a selection of content, and allowing them to download what they want. Consumers were clearly encouraged by the offer of free downloads, and content which was contextually relevant, highlighted by the fact that 45% of consumers downloaded more than one piece of content.
Qwikker’s Bluetooth service points were live and set to deliver content throughout the festival on 18th, 19th & 20th August 2006 in nine areas of the festival site in Chelmsford (3 stages, 2 campsites, Union Bar, Union Tent, Virgin Mobile Roadshow and the VIP Louder Lounge). Festival-goers were encouraged to make use of the free service through a series of posters, flags and stickers spread across the site. In addition to these calls-to-action, 4,000 visitors received an SMS introducing the service.”
Bron: www.gsmawards.com