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It's getting easier to run mobile marketing programs. Dream on. It still takes about two months to get a major carrier like AT&T or Verizon to approve a text program. And that, according to Gene Keenan, vp-mobile services at Isobar, San Francisco, and vice chairman of the Mobile Marketing Assn., Denver, is "ridiculous.""You can by a URL and have a Web site up in two hours," Keenan said. "It's still way too hard for brands and agencies to do a mobile." Even worse: "Until it's easier for big brands to participate, you won't see the big money."Keenan and experts like him have likened carriers to walled gardens: nice to be part of, but good luck getting in. They exert authoritarian control over their on-deck content (that's the proprietary stuff available only to subscribers) and move with Soviet-style bureaucratic slowness in approving marketing programs.For instance, WAP sites and banner ads have to be customized by handset and by carrier. "It introduces a lot of complexity," Sharma said. "You can't press a button and have a program launch nationwide. You have to negotiate everything and get your content approved."But stay tuned; fantasy might turn to reality by this time next year. "You can get over the wall," Hadl said. "You'll get hot and sweaty doing it, but you can get over. AOL already proved that this [walled approach] is a model for failure."REALITY The mobile ecosystem is evolving rapidly. Quick as the pace of technology is, sometimes it never seems quick enough. But mobile advocates hamstrung by tools that haven't kept pace with their marketing dreams may soon be doing a high-tech jig. In November, Google announced Android, a new Linux-based operating system for mobile. Microsoft just inked a deal with Nokia that'll bring its Silverlight platform to mobile. And this quarter, Yahoo! will launch what it calls onePlace, a mobile bookmarking tool that will allow better control of information. These developments come on the heels of AOL's '07 purchase of Third Screen Media, a company that serves banner ads to a mobile Web sites. Nokia bought the a mobile agency Enpocket last year, too.All of it, said Sharma, means that "there's a cautious optimism" out there. "Optimism, because of the uniqueness and reach a mobile presents. Caution because of the enormous fragmentation in the industry."FANTASY There is one killer application. Just like Gilda Radner and Dan Aykroyd debated whether New Shimmer was a floor wax or a dessert topping (it's both!) on Saturday Night Live, each marketer seems to have his own miracle claim for a mobile marketing. And so far, nobody's quite nailed it.Take GPS-enabled initiatives, which some see as the potential holy grail of mobile marketing. CBS Mobile announced a test earlier in the year that'll pinpoint ads to customers based on where they happen to be standing, and Burger King's Lang has been lovingly nurturing the idea of "serving customers an ad at lunchtime, asking them if they're hungry." The problem? "Those kinds of things are fantasy."Hardly the only one. "My fantasy is offering Pepsi Smash [music programming] as video-on-demand optimized for the third screen for millions to view," Vail said. P&G, General Mills and others are currently in test with Cellfire, a company whose technology allows customers to store e-coupons on their cell phones.There's the dream of direct-to-consumer mobile video, alive in the mind of BMW Mini as it kicked off a program with mywaves in January. Still others are excited about mobile search; more than 46 million used their phones to search for information in the third quarter of last year, per Nielsen Mobile.Alex Muller will tell you that GPS-driven mobile marketing won't be a fantasy for much longer (then again, he's CEO of GPShopper, which enables mobile-using customers to track down the best deals on stuff they want to buy.) "There will be a point," he said, "where flipping through a paper circular won't make sense."
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