STEVE SMITH
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  • House Odds
    State lotteries are long shots indeed, but here's an inside tip: Adverti ...
  • 1998 Meets 2006
    Last week's Mobile Marketing Forum, put on by the Mobile Marketing Associatio ...
  • Following the Interested
    While MSN, Google, and Yahoo lurch towards incorporating some kind of behavior ...
  • How Much Entertainment Can We Afford?
    Think gas prices are inflated? Worried about the housing "bubble"? While economis ...
  • A Little Video Will Do Ya
    You have to give Amp'd credit; it's got balls. In a wirele ...
  • 'It's a Free Concert from Now On'
    If you are old enough to remember those famous lines by Woodsto ...
  • E-mail And BT: Where Everybody Knows Your Name
    What happens when behavioral tracking techniques join e-mail delivery systems, when onli ...
  • Texting: The Medium We Hate to Love
    One of the things I love about mobile media is that consume ...
  • Back In the Game
    The announcements about mobile in-game advertising came out of last week's Electron ...
  • BT Learns to Swim, In-Stream
    Someday, when technologies like IPTV, personalized search, set top boxes, DVRs, a ...
  • Speaking Up For Voice
    Ironically, the most under-utilized part of the mobile phone for marketing ...
  • Nudging The Envelope
    Now that every marketer worth his or her salt has a sho ...
  • EMarketer: The $2 Billion BT Game
    David Hallerman is bullish on BT. In his new report from eMarkete ...
  • Xero's Sum Game
    By giving college student users some free wireless airtime in exchange f ...
  • Game Changers: The Next Generation
    Where ITV, WebTV, and countless Internet-to-home-theater schemes have failed, monstrously popular vid ...
  • Closing the Ad-Support Deal
    Months ago, we started this column predicting that a fully ad-subsidized wirele ...
  • Car Marketers Ask 'Why?'
    No one understands the nuances of consumer behavior quite as extensively ...
  • CTIA: Texting It In
    Vegas doesn't have much for me. I don't drink, don't smoke, don ...
  • Nonlinear: Directories
    MONDAY: THE BOOK A freelancer on insane deadlines engages the clichéd "pizza+zi ...
  • A Few Of Our Favorite Things
    One of the original aims of this column was to highlight go ...
  • The Meaning Detectives: Behavioral Heats Up Offline
    Way beyond the clickstream analysis and user tracking that informs online ...
  • A Pocketful Of Coupons
    Using mobile phones as couponing devices was one of the first go ...
  • Meanwhile, Back in the Podcasting Lab...
    As video podcasting and cell phone media evolve on parallel tracks, ...
  • MySpace + NPR + BT = Gather.com
    It was just a matter of time before the new wave ...
  • Too-High Hopes?
    OK, OK, we get it. Major brands are speed-dialing into mobile marketi ...
  • Getting In The Mobile Game
    Mobile advergaming has that air of inevitability. It is not a matt ...
  • Laser-Target the Creative; Micro-Measure Your Results
    As many agencies continue merely to dabble and test, test and dabb ...
  • Reach, Frequency, Brevity
    I'll keep this appropriately short. Anyone contemplating in-stream mobile TV or rad ...
  • Stephen King Phones It In
    Stephen King gave me a call the other day. Well, we're n ...
  • In Search of BT
    Behavioral targeting is about to become part of consumers' and advertisers' sear ...