Mobile Messaging

RCS Pilot Campaign with SONIC® Drive-In Proves Effectiveness with Significant Lift in App Downloads and Registrations without Incentives Mobivity Holdings Corp. a global provider of personalized customer engagement solutions that drive customer frequency and spend, announced the results of SONIC Drive-In’s pilot campaign using Google’s RCS Business Messaging. Using Mobivity’s Mobile Messaging, the SONIC pilot broadcasted interactive and engaging messaging through RCS about its restaurant app, targeting customers across…

SMS marketing leader EX Texting adds capabilities for businesses to send and receive personalized messages from landlines and mobile devices EZ Texting, the #1 SMS marketing software for business, announced two new ways for businesses to communicate via text messaging with their customers. New services include direct two-way business text messaging, which features an easy online self-service sign-up process to quickly convert your existing business phone number to send and receive text messages. Additionally, EZ Texting…

Simphony Users Can Now Effectively Create 1:1 Guest Engagement and Improve Return on Marketing Spend (ROMS) Mobivity Holdings Corp. a global provider of personalized customer engagement solutions that drive customer frequency and spend and an Oracle PartnerNetwork (OPN) member, announced its Recurrency platform integration with Oracle MICROS Simphony POS at Oracle Food and Beverage Connect event. With this integration, IT executives, tech leaders and multi-location restaurant operators can significantly increase their…

"SEO will also give you new story ideas. So you can figure out what’s being searched, create stories around while answering your community and reaching new audiences thanks to Google searches." Journey into Tech  Hi Fara, tell us about your role and journey into Technology. What inspired you to take up the role at ManyChat?  Great question. I never imagined being in the world of technology. However, over the years, I’ve had to learn how to use various technologies to improve content creation efficiency and distribution.…

The interaction between organisations and consumers is set to become revolutionised with all-new Rich Communications Services (RCS), the latest development in the evolution of mobile messaging. The next generation of SMS is set to surge in 2020 – with predictions that it will create a market worth more than US $74 billion by next year, according to GSMA. Brands searching for innovative and new ways to engage their end-users will be able to unlock the benefits of RCS to their advantage. The pioneering technology provides a…

New Mobile App Delivers Personalized Consumer-Grade Experiences for Global Employees Topia, the leading provider of Global Mobility Management (GMM) software, announced the release of the Topia Go mobile app. The new app delivers a consumer-grade experience that enables employees from Marketing, Sales and other high-speed teams to manage their relocations and assignments while on the move, whenever and wherever they are. At the time of this announcement, Sten Tamkivi, Topia's Chief Product Officer, said, "Our goal is to…

Tell us more about your role at Viber and Viber’s e-commerce platform. Viber is the third-largest messaging app in the world with 1 billion registered users. Viber provides a secure platform for private conversations—we’re end-to-end encrypted by default, meaning that we can’t and don’t read or monitor private conversations or listen to private calls happening between users. On the e-commerce side, we work with brands to advertise directly to consumers who consent to engagement. We don’t give brands access to our users’…

Sequoia Led Series B Funding Round for Attentive, a Personalized Mobile Messaging Platform to Rapidly Scale Customer and Employee Growth, Changing the Way Consumers Interact with Businesses Mobile messaging has come a long way. Today, mobile messengers are far more interactive, personalized and marketing-friendly. In a major boost to further improve personalization in mobile messaging, Attentive announced its Series B funding earlier this week. With Attentive, brands can seamlessly grow a list of subscribers, send highly…

Infobip, a global, cloud-based communications company, and a leader in omnichannel engagement, provides mobile messaging solutions for eCommerce companies such as Daraz – a leading online marketplace that operates in 5 countries – Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal. Sri Lanka and Myanmar. For retailers to have effective communication with their customers, they need to ensure that relevant messages are being conveyed through communication channels that customers trust. By using Infobip's messaging solution, Daraz is able to choose…

The OM Platform Pioneers a New Type of Conversation Between Brands, Marketers, Publishers, Advertisers and their Customers You never have to leave your messaging app with OpenMessage Works across WhatsApp, WeChat, Apple Business Chat, and Google RCS Appoints New CCO to lead enterprise sales and business development OpenMessage, the world's only mobile messaging engagement platform driven by conversational commerce, announced new customer wins, expanded company partnerships and the appointment of its first Chief Commercial…

In the age of the 24/7 consumer, the smartphone has become an essential tool, enabling us to achieve an ever-expanding range of tasks while on the go; from banking to shopping to booking a holiday. Therefore, as consumers our never-ending quest for convenience means we naturally gravitate towards apps or services that make our lives more efficient and convenient. This trend is changing the way we use smartphones. Mobile app use is in decline and the types of app we most frequently use is evolving. We’re now spending…

Optimove Will Also Be Sharing More Details About Mobile Messaging and Its Recent Momentum at ShopTalk in Las Vegas Later This Month Optimove, the science-first relationship marketing hub, recently announced the addition of mobile messaging capabilities to its platform, enabling brands to communicate more seamlessly with their customers through pop-up, in-app and push notifications. After introducing e-mail marketing capabilities to its core platform in 2017 with OptiMail, this mobile enhancement is another step in…