Mobile

The Top 8 Instagram Photos From the USA Cycling Professional Road and Time Trial National Championships
June 3, 2013Posts by Ryan Russellby Read More

Last weekend, Chattanooga hosted the USA Cycling Professional Road and Time Trial National Championships, which was lauded as a tremendous success by many people involved. NBC [...]

 
Gene’s Links: Big Data and Cloud Bursts, Visual Content Optimization, and a Lame Blame Game
May 21, 2013Posts by Gene De Liberoby Read More

Gene de Libero, Chief Strategy Officer at AREA203, regularly collects must-know resources from around the web for marketers. How cloud, big data and mobile will [...]

 
Gene’s Links: Behavio, Luke Wrobleski, & Content Marketing
April 18, 2013Posts by Gene De Liberoby Read More

Gene de Libero, Chief Strategy Officer at AREA203, collects the best of the web for marketers. Social prediction startup Behavio joins Google Startup Behavio announced [...]

 
Gene’s Links: Facebook Home, Giveaways, & Skype
April 10, 2013Posts by Gene De Liberoby Read More

Gene de Libero, Chief Strategy Officer at AREA203, collects the best of the web for marketers. Clayton Christensen Talks Venture Capital, Crowd Funding, And How [...]

 
What To-Do Lists Teach Us about Content on a Mobile Device
April 2, 2013Posts by Brady Callahanby Read More

Keep It Simple Stupid – or KISS – should be familiar to all of us by now. But today, we struggle with keeping even the [...]

 
Two-Step Authentication is Back
March 26, 2013by Read More

And this time, it’s for real! Old Authentication Processes Remember movies from the 90s that showed people using fancy key fobs with constantly changing access [...]

 
10 Must-Have Apps for Android
February 22, 2013Posts by Brian Rayby Read More

Being a developer, I like the openness of Android. For an app to get on the iPhone store, it goes through rigorous testing. Because of [...]

 
Q&A203: Should You Use Apple’s Passbook App?
October 17, 2012Posts by Brian Kelleyby Read More

Introducing the newest blog series from AREA203 Digital: Q&A203. Each Q&A203 post explores industry insights from AREA203 minds. Q: Should you be taking advantage of [...]

 
Mobile Matters: The Mobile Marketing Strategies Summit
October 11, 2012Posts by Louise Elliottby Read More

Twenty-nine percent of consumers say their cell phone is the first and last thing they look at during the day, and most people keep it [...]

 
An Event Apart: Optimizing Website Content and User Experience
September 17, 2012by Read More

  An Event Apart is an intense, three-day learning session for passionate practitioners of standards-based web design. Web design professionals learn best practices for creating the right [...]

 
Are Your Marketing Efforts Reaching the New Media Jackpot?
September 10, 2012by Read More

Many marketers are missing out on a very valuable audience that makes up a large portion of the U.S. population — Hispanics. In 2020, the [...]

 
What Can We Expect from (the Rest of) 2012? [INFOGRAPHIC]
August 20, 2012by Read More

I recently attended the “Costa Rica TMT 2012″ conference with my colleague Christopher Smith. The conference was organized by Deloitte, a well-known consulting firm that [...]

 
U.S. Hispanics in the Digital Age [INFOGRAPHIC]
June 6, 2012by Read More

According to the 2010 U.S. Census, the Hispanic population in the United States rose to more than 50.5 million Hispanics, making up 16% of the total [...]

 
Bigger Than the Instagram Deal: Google Buys Motorola Mobility
May 24, 2012Posts by Ryan Russellby Read More

While the recent Facebook purchase of Instagram might have gotten the big press, I think this deal will be the most consequential of the quarter. Google [...]

 
Facebook Acquires Instagram for $1 Billion
April 9, 2012by Read More

Earlier today, Mark Zuckerberg announced Facebook’s purchase of the mobile app Instagram. The app offers a fast way to edit and share photos and is [...]

 
Bringin’ the SoLoMo-jo at SMAC
April 3, 2012Posts by Casey Knoxby Read More

I had the pleasure of delivering a crash course on the blending of social, local and mobile marketing known as SoLoMo at a meeting of [...]

 
The Digital Advertising Revolution
February 22, 2012Posts by Rona Hutchisonby Read More

Technology has and continues to quickly evolve and change the way of life for all of its users.  It is now hard to remember how [...]

 
“Stache-ing” for a Cause
November 11, 2011by Read More

October has ended and we have celebrated a month of breast cancer awareness for women, and now it’s time for the men to celebrate their [...]

 
Mint.com – Mobile Budgets Made Easy
November 2, 2011by Read More

Keeping track of your finances can be difficult depending on how you want to approach it. After learning some Excel formulas, I thought that I [...]

 
A New World of Mobile Marketing
October 15, 2011Posts by Rona Hutchisonby Read More

We are living in a mobile world.  According to a recent mobile infographic released on the Microsoft Tag blog, there are four billion mobile phones [...]

 
The Power of… One Conference
September 23, 2011by Read More

AREA203 Digital was one of the 3,000+ marketers that attended ExactTarget’s Connections 2011, one of the largest interactive marketing conferences in the country (hosted in [...]

 
Latest Apps from Uncle Sam
September 1, 2011by Read More

Whether you want to calculate your BMI, search for the most popular baby names, or find the closest post office, the government has many FREE [...]

 
Out with Old Wrist Watches, In with New Wrist Phones
August 19, 2011by Read More

Think back to the very first wrist watch you owned. You were probably quite young and the watch had bright colors and cartoon characters and/or [...]

 
Web Apps vs Mobile Apps
August 11, 2011Posts by Donny Stiefelby Read More

A survey conducted by Ask.com and Harris Interactive shows that 69% of smartphone users in the US have downloaded a mobile app as of October [...]

 
The Rise of Online Deals [INFOGRAPHIC]
August 2, 2011by Read More

“Couponing” has been in existence for years as consumers have searched for the best discounts, but only recently have digital coupons made a giant stride [...]

 
Spotify Digital Music Streaming Invades the U.S.
July 22, 2011by Read More

Music lovers rejoice! Spotify has finally arrived in the United States. The hottest digital music streaming service from Sweden (which has already gained popularity in [...]

 
It’s a Smartphone World

I recently purchased my first smartphone. Some would say that I am way behind the curve to have just entered the world of mobile. I [...]

 
A Mobile Lunch: Interview with Matthew Newberry
June 2, 2011by Read More

I’ve only been back in Chattanooga for a month now, and I’ve been playing catch up with childhood friends as fast as I can. It’s [...]

 
Supercell or Super Cell Phone?
April 28, 2011Posts by Donny Stiefelby Read More

What were you doing on April 27, 2011? Well, if you lived anywhere in Alabama, Northwest Georgia, or Tennessee you were most likely taking shelter [...]

 
Mobile Has Arrived
April 27, 2011Posts by Sylvia Cintrónby Read More

  “There isn’t a left turn on Bolling… can someone look-it-up on your phone… I just can’t make sense of these printed directions.” You’ve been [...]

 
The Facts About Apple Tracking
April 26, 2011Posts by Donny Stiefelby Read More

In my opinion the media never “fully” tells a story. Instead, it relies on what will generate the most buzz and creates sensational headlines that [...]

 
5 Great iPhone Apps for Marketers
April 8, 2011Posts by Courtney Gardnerby Read More

Marketing professionals rely on effective, efficient software of all varieties to ‘get the job done’. And most would agree that mobile versions make software that [...]

 
Mobile Website: The Time Is Now
March 16, 2011Posts by Courtney Gardnerby Read More

“Do I need a mobile website?” Businesses the world over are now pondering this question as mobile phones offer web browsers and search capabilities. A [...]

 
“Juvie” Mobile Exposure
February 7, 2011by Read More

These days, it seems that wherever you are at any given point in time, the person next to you is devoting 90% of their attention [...]

 
All I Want for Christmas is 7
December 24, 2010by Read More

We’re going to be brutally honest. Even though smart phones and tablet computers have been around for quite a while, some of us still use [...]

 
Lufthansa Sustains Social Media Savoir Faire
December 16, 2010by Read More

Airlines around the world seem to be scrambling to catch up with other brands when it comes to social media. While just about all of [...]

 
Must-Have Apps for Holiday Travelers
December 6, 2010by Read More

At around this time, each year, many of us begin to prepare for the sometimes torturous process of getting from point A to point B [...]

 
The Future for Businesses on Mobile Marketing
September 20, 2010by Read More

Today is a very different world of interconnectivity.  With the popularity of media devices like the iPhone, iPad, Droid, and Blackberry, more and more people [...]

 
How to Create Memorable User Experiences
January 19, 2010Posts by Rina Hatcherby Read More

As a child, I would wake up on weekend mornings to the voice of Marty Stouffer. The memory of that experience is one of my [...]

 
“Please Turn Off Your Cell Phone. I’m Allergic.”
January 18, 2010by Read More

No, it’s not just a good line to use on a date. A man in New Mexico sued his neighbor because she refused to turn [...]