Media Cube company, Furious Tribe has been awarded the mobile app accounts for global brands Citibank, EMI Music and Royal Sun Alliance.
“The craze that we are witnessing among users of apps will have a huge impact on the way companies market themselves going forward,” explained Patrick Leddy, managing director of Furious Tribe.
“As more people access information ‘on the go – anywhere’ through their mobile phones, fewer will use their desktop to log on to the internet.
“Then as many more newspapers and broadcast media will use the App Store to publish content, the onus will be on the marketer to look at innovative ways to promote their brand through the mobile platform. Or be left behind!”
Leddy claims that mobile apps users tend to be more willing to pay for their content and are more responsive to branded messages than the average online web user.
Because of this he says: “Companies who do not feature on the App Store will lose out big time. But the secret to a good app must be to ensure that the content is simple, creative, stimulating, informative and entertaining.
“More importantly, it must deliver the information the user wants – and not ‘hard sell’ messages that the company wants to ‘push’ at the user. This approach just won’t work,” Leddy warned.
