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mBlox Announces Smart Groups: Automated Contextual Targeting for Mobile Applications
New features enable brands and enterprises to increase application usage and customer loyalty through relevant, targeted messaging and push notifications.
London, UK, 1 October 2012 - mBlox, the leader in global mobile engagement, today announced the addition of Smart Groups to mBlox Engage(TM), a cloud-based mobile engagement platform which enables companies to create, automate and measure meaningful marketing campaigns for their mobile application users. Smart Groups make it easy to automate the delivery of highly targeted, contextually relevant messages and push notifications to consumers by auto-populating their membership in campaigns based on their real-time behavior, location and local time.
Smart Groups are auto-populated in real-time based on predefined conditions, such as where the user is located, what they've done in the application, when they did it and how often. A series of quick menu selections in the Engagement Manager web interface provides powerful segmentation that can reinforce consumer behavior and optimize marketing effectiveness over time. Brands and enterprises of all sizes can now automate mobile marketing campaigns for their application users without having to embark on expensive, lengthy IT projects.
"mBlox has a long history as the global leader in business-to-consumer SMS messaging, which enables us to really understand what businesses need for mobile engagement. We have used our expertise to extend our platform, enabling better contextual targeting in order to provide brands with a mechanism for higher consumer loyalty and better application ROI," says Steve Love, CEO, mBlox. "We're the only company with a complete global mobile engagement platform supporting interactive text messaging, rich media messages, push notifications and geolocation."
Most mobile applications are rarely used after their initial download. While brands and developers typically focus on new installs as a metric of success, what really matters is the time and frequency with which people use an application, thereby building a relationship with the brand. mBlox Engage and its intuitive web-based UI, the Engagement Manager, make it easy for mobile marketers to send targeted promotions, offers and updates at the right place and time. Smart groups helps to automate this process.
Saitech Dynamics, a leading provider of business solutions, is using the Engage platform with mobile applications currently in development for clients, including Indian cricket star Sachin Tendulkar and the Sai Baba Temple. "Engage presents a way to really maximize the value of mobile apps for our clients, by enabling the ability to push relevant content to their users at appropriate times. Smart Groups will reduce the time and effort our clients spend on managing their campaigns and will improve the relevance of the content going to their users." said Kamal Singh, Director, Saitech Dynamics.
mBlox has also unveiled a new global Partner Program to team with other mobile and marketing industry leaders to build a comprehensive ecosystem of solutions that can help enterprises, brands and solution providers to most effectively connect with their customers. Email partners_program@mblox.com for more information.
About mBlox
mBlox, the leader in mobile engagement, helps brands, agencies and solution providers create meaningful connections with their customers on mobile devices anytime and nearly anywhere. Our network of more than 800 mobile operators around the world enables businesses to engage nearly 5 billion consumers. We make it easy to use interactive text message campaigns, push notifications and geolocation in order to drive revenue, lifetime customer value and ROI.
