Smith Micro launches MMS digital scratch cards

Published by Ewan on Monday 26th March 2007, 16:03 | Related | Filed Under

Link: Smith Micro Announces Its New ‘Paperless’ Mobile Sweepstakes Generator: Financial News - Yahoo!
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Smith Micro announced it’s new Mobile Sweepstakes Generator, an intuitive ‘digital scratch card’ technology that transforms a one way marketing program into a dynamic interactive experience via MMS.

Smith Micro’s Mobile Sweepstakes Generator can power advertising promotions in a secure, imaginative and cost-effective manner by allowing the consumer to engage with the company sponsoring the sweepstakes via their mobile phone. This “paperless sweepstakes” technology not only drives increased SMS cell phone usage for carriers, but also serves as a complimentary channel to more traditional media including print, broadcast, mail and online.

Well… I think this is a good evolution of the medium.

I’ve got a slight issue — it’s very geeky though. It’s not… well, it doesn’t seem as ‘random’ as a physical scratch card. Because I know that MMS has been pre-programmed to either be a ‘winning’ one or not BEFORE I receive it.

I think it’s a paper vs technology thing with me. Very cool nonetheless.

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