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DCB Fraud Working Group

A global cross-stakeholder working group of DCB, VAS and Fraud experts host monthly working group calls to share use cases, fraud attacks and develop best practices The group is developing a fraud framework to define the fraud types, user impact and solutions be they technical or non-technical e.g. regulatory climate.…

MEFMay 21, 2020

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Covid19 Updates

In these unprecedented times MEF is working to gather and share opinions and reactions from across the Mobile ecosystem to the current health crisis and discover how the industry is harnessing innovative mobile technologies to help aid the fight against the global pandemic. An expert panel discuss the use of…

MEFApril 15, 2020

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COVID19: Fake news hits mobile masts, real news shows mobile value

Un-founded conspiracy theories have gone global on the web claiming 5G communication cause COVID19 In the UK two separate incidents saw arsonists setting fire to 5G towers based on this claim Mobile services are helping people in this hard time: mobile payments, advertising, games, business communications are in strong demand

Dario BettiApril 7, 2020

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MEF Sessions @ Barcelona 2020

Despite the cancellation of MWC Barcelona, many members still travelled to Barcelona and MEF hosted a series of discussion and networking sessions across our programmes. This page brings together the presentations, recordings and interviews from the week that without the need to run from Hall 1 to Hall 8 allowed…

MEFFebruary 28, 2020

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The 3-Minute Digital Marketing Test

Ira Cohen, VP of Marketing and business development at MMD Smart, discusses why SMS remains an incomparably effective marketing tool for brands, and why the industry needs to focus on educating digital marketers about the benefits of mobile messaging.

MEFFebruary 6, 2020

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TIK TOK under review by European Privacy authorities

The Italian authority for Privacy (GPDP) has launched a co-ordinated action to review the risks linked with the TikTok app – an attempt to protect children’s privacy rights. TikTok is a social network that allows creating and sharing audios, videos, and pictures, used by millions of mostly young users worldwide.…

Dario BettiJanuary 29, 2020

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MAD//Fest: Can eye get your attention?

Clicks seem like a clunky way to gauge the effectiveness of digital ads. Can eye tracking do better by measuring what people notice, not just what they do? Visitors to the MAD//Fest conference pondered the question. Tim Green observed… Every marketer knows we are living in the attention economy. In…

Tim GreenJanuary 22, 2020

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RTB advertising: ICO threatens punishments, more work to be done

Six months after its first warning the UK Privacy Regulator (ICO) is making clear that the issues with RTB online advertising have not gone away, and it is now threatening to punish companies that are misbehaving. The analysis from ICO shows that sensitive personal information is shared by some advertising…

Dario BettiJanuary 21, 2020

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Consumers are 35x more likely to open mobile messages than emails

Sinch’s latest research report: Mobile Consumer Engagement 2020 highlighted that not only do consumers welcome many different kinds of personalized mobile messages from businesses, but also that they’re 35x more likely to open them than emails. Yet despite this, businesses have been slow on the uptake and are not providing…

MEFDecember 12, 2019

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MAD//Fest: Digital-only banks prepare for the mainstream

More than 4,000 digital marketing execs crammed into a former brewery in East London for the sell-out MAD//Fest conference. Many tuned into a special MEF session: Conversational Commerce: A Two Way Street. Tim Green was there… Millions of people have opened accounts with new mobile-focused banks. But most of them…

MEFDecember 11, 2019