Christian Louca
Latest addition to the YOC network extends advertising opportunities into social networking
London, UK – 10 March 2010: Full service mobile solutions provider YOC today announced that Moblica owned Snaptu, the first truly successful manifestation of cloud-based “virtual” applications has joined the YOC media network. As part of the partnership, YOC will provide brands and advertisers with advertisements across the Snaptu mobile application portal which includes Twitter, Facebook, Flickr, AccuWeather, the Guardian, ESPN Cricinfo and other major news and sports outlets. YOC will work with Snaptu across Germany, France, Spain, Italy, Austria, Belgium, Switzerland and the UK.
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Snaptu’s free, fast and intuitive suite of services runs very quickly and simply on most GPRS/3G mobile phones. Snaptu will sit alongside a number of other publishers in the YOC premium media network including 3 Favourites, Getjar, PC Advisor, Macworld, Stuff.tv, Perez Hilton, Elle UK and Digital Spy.
Simon Davies, Managing Director of Europe at Moblica said of the partnership: “YOC came highly recommended by every reference we took. We were impressed by their experience working with brands and advertisers across Europe and its track record in providing high quality inventory to its customers. Growing at over 1million users a month and topping the bill on most quality app stores such as BlackBerry’s AppWorld, Ovi and Play Now arena, Snaptu can offer YOC’s advertising clients not only great reach but also access to a number of specifically targeted demographic groups.”
Since its launch in July 2008, YOC’s UK media has grown significantly and now receives more than 600 million monthly page impressions and reaches over 35 million unique mobile users.
“Snaptu’s access to a number of hugely successful social networking applications, portals, news sites and content is very attractive to our brand and advertiser customers,” said Christian Louca, Managing Director of YOC UK. “Working with Snaptu, one of the most exciting applications in the market, we can help advertisers to target several million mobile users on a number of devices all across Europe.”
About YOC Group:
YOC Group is one of Europe’s leading full service providers of mobile advertising, mobile marketing and mobile internet services. YOC Group’s mobile services span an extremely broad client base across global brands, media owners, social networking businesses, mobile phone manufacturers and networks, retailers and financial service providers. YOC Group employs over 180 employees across the UK, Germany, France, Spain, Austria and Belgium. Clients include: Coca-Cola, News International, Mercedes-Benz, Nike, Kraft Foods, Walt Disney Studio Motion Pictures, Motorola, BILD, Guardian Media Group, IDG Media, Haymarket Consumer Media, and Bacardi Global Brands.
For more information about the YOC Group, please visit http://en.group.yoc.com/
About Snaptu:
Snaptu’s flagship product, Snaptu, is one of the most popular applications on the mobile web. Growing at over 1m users a month it has users in more than 100 countries. Using groundbreaking virtual application technology, Snaptu provides a fast and elegant user experience in partnership with various media brands such as Sky, ESPN, Guardian, Teletext as well as most of the top handset vendors and operators. Launched just over a year ago and backed by Sequoia Capital, Snaptu is headquartered in Israel, with offices in London and Silicon Valley.
For more information, please contact:
Becca Daniel or Robert Haslam
Mi liberty Ltd
P: +44 20 7751 4444
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