Millennial Media Blog

Day 4 of Creative Week – Activision’s Call of Duty

Written by
Marcus Startzel, General Manager, North America

Today is the final installment of “Millennial Media Creative Week,” and today’s example from www.millennialmedia.com/brands is a UK campaign that advertised Activision’s Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3. Leading up to the game’s release, Activision wanted to build buzz and drive pre-orders, and to do this, they created a multifaceted campaign that gave consumers a… Read More


Creative Week Continues – Patagonia’s Engaging Mobile Video Campaign

Written by
Marcus Startzel, General Manager, North America

Today’s feature campaign from www.millennialmedia.com/brands is an engaging Interactive Video campaign from Patagonia. The campaign was for the “Patagonia Music Collective,” which is a charitable initiative Patagonia undertook with top musical artists to raise money for environmental groups.  The specific campaign goals were to drive app downloads and direct sales of Patagonia music songs. Mobile… Read More


Creative Week: Westin Uses Rich Media Ads to Engage Audiences

Written by
Marcus Startzel, General Manager, North America

As Millennial Media Creative Week continues, we are featuring Campaign Summaries daily from www.millennialmedia.com/brands, and today we highlight an engaging rich media campaign from Westin. Westin used mobile as a creative way to extend their digital “Elements of Well Being” campaign, and give consumers a new environment to interact with images of comfort and relaxation that… Read More


Mobile Intel Series Volume 3: A Spotlight on Finance

Written by
Jamie Fellows, SVP of Product

Today, we’re very happy to release the latest edition of our Mobile Intel Series. In each Mobile Intel Series guide, we take an in-depth look at a specific vertical or consumer segment, and in this edition, we focus on Finance, which is currently the leading global vertical on our platform. The changing mobile landscape has… Read More


Creative Week: Brands Succeeding in Mobile Creativity – Day 1

Written by
Marcus Startzel, General Manager, North America

At Millennial Media, we see innovative creative executions every day, and in the spirit of Creative Week, the week-long celebration of creativity in the advertising and digital media industry, we wanted to highlight some of the great brands succeeding in mobile creativity. This week we’ll be spotlighting campaigns from www.millennialmedia.com/brands, and today, we’re happy to… Read More


An update to our self-serve solution mMedia

Written by
Henry Tam, Vice President, Self-Service

Earlier this year, we announced that mMedia, Millennial Media’s self-serve tool, emerged from beta, providing advertisers and developers the opportunity to manage their own campaigns and reach over 300 million global users across our platform of mobile apps. This week, we rolled out another update to mMedia, which includes an Impression Forecaster and Bid Price… Read More


Mobile Madness – A special edition of S.M.A.R.T.

Written by
Jamie Fellows, SVP of Product

For our April S.M.A.R.T.™ report, we decided to take a slightly different approach and focus on a single event last month that made a noticeable impact in mobile – the NCAA basketball tournament. To do this, we partnered with the IAB to commission a Harris survey, and then married that with consumer data from our… Read More


Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 – UK Mobile Campaign

Written by
Gavin Stirrat, Managing Director, EMEA

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 is the top selling video game of all time. Leading up to the release, Activision worked with Millennial Media on a mobile ad campaign that drove both awareness and pre-orders in the UK. The rich media mobile ad campaign ran cross-platform, and to highlight Call of Duty’s unique gameplay,… Read More


S.M.A.R.T. Celebrates its Third Year Anniversary – 2011 Year in Review Report

Written by
Jamie Fellows, SVP of Product

In March 2009, we released our first monthly S.M.A.R.T. ™ report, with the goal of educating brand advertisers about the capabilities of mobile reach, targeting and engagement. Today—as we come to the third year anniversary of S.M.A.R.T. ™, we are proud to say that we have now released over 60 mobile intelligence reports, including S.M.A.R.T…. Read More


Proud to Carry the IAB Badge

Written by
Marcus Startzel, General Manager, North America

Earlier this week, we were thrilled to receive an official “Sales Excellence” award from the IAB, honoring Millennial Media as having the top sales team based on our knowledge, innovation/creativity, and customer service. The IAB worked with Advertiser Perceptions to develop a customer feedback survey that, in their words, would “identify the sales organizations and… Read More