Jace one of our games reviewer from BestWP7Games.com has put up a short Fan made ad for Windows Phone. It highlights the fact that we have a lot of the stuff people use integrated right in to the OS like Facebook, Twitter, Bing Vision, etc.
A couple of new Microsoft ads has popped up on youtube , they are from the new Family Series of ads by ad agency Cripin, Porter + Bogusky , The ads show how familes can interact with Windows PCs, Xbox, Kinect, and Windows Phones !! The ads are part of a new campaign to promote Windows, Xbox, and Windows Phone, and a new website at www.microsoft.com/family
And here are the video for the ads “Epic Share”, and “Dog.ppt”
Microsoft has been pushing Windows Phone 7 in any way they can, I am still upset they didn’t try to air an ad during Super Bowl, but they have been steadily pushing WP7 through various media and social channels, including various TV shows. Today we look at some of the TV show and superheros who seem to love Windows Phone 7 ;)
Smallville WP7
Smallville – is an television series revolving around the teenage years of Superman and how Clark Kent becomes SuperMan. The series was know to carry Product placement for Windows Mobile so its no surprise WP7 will often make itself visible in this series. Check out some video time that WP7 got in the hands of Lois Lane in this video
Chase WP7
Chase - Chase is a police procedural drama television series which follows a U.S. Marshals fugitive-apprehension team, based out of Houston, Texas. Chase revolves around Annie Frost, a deputy U.S. Marshal, and her high-priority fugitive-apprehension team that track down dangerous criminals in South Texas. Video ( can’t embed )
One of the latest ads to surface for the WP7 platform gives a very good impression of the possibilities with your WP7 phone. The ads are increasingly concentrating on trumpeting the Phones capabilities as opposed to trashing other players. Also we seem to be moving towards carrier branded ads. Good job Microsoft!
AdDuplex used to allow wp7 app developers to show off ads for their apps via the other developers app and now they have started accepting advertisers to join the network so they can buy impressions on the various WP7 apps that run AdDuplex ads in the app / game. So now AdDuplex join other ad network like AdMob and Microsoft’s own Ad Network ( which is limited to Us publishers ) Its nice to see many advertising options are becoming available for WP7 developers.
With the free wp7 games being the preferred choice with users many developers have gone with the free model for their games and were doing quite well with ads from Microsoft pubCenter. Its only available for publishes in the US and many devs who happen to be from the US were making a decent secondary income from it. One developer mechaghost a.k.a Elbert Perez who has 9 free games even plans to quit his day job to be a full time WP7 developer.
But recently a few devs have noticed that the eCPM’s have been going down. In an forum thread about the issue a Microsoft Employee was quick to respond saying they were on it. ( If any of you have used Google Adsense , you would know how difficult it it to get a reply from Google regarding any issue , I haven’t used Google AdMob and cant comment on it but I would not keep my hopes high. In Google defense it a much larger network that the Microsoft’s offering )
Sweet: I already have the beta of this app . METROFIED [Posted from the 1800PocketPC app]
AppTastic: Yanko – thanks for the concept! We’re looking forward to getting a lot more feedback from the users here. We’re committed to making AppTastic the best marketplace...
Tony: Looks so good. Please make a paid app – no ads.
Twimagic: http://www.Ringer.org is the best ringtone maker I’ve ever seen! Completely free, online, no registration!
Andrew Chobaniuk: Thanks for the heads up! [Posted from the 1800PocketPC app]
Emiel Zuurbier: I would like to see the posibility of making a trip that uses different kinds of transportation as from train to bus, bus to subway, subway to train. With a map and directions,...
MrVamosMuchachos: Nice idea. You could take some ideas from the application “SBB”. It is the public transport app from switzerland. [Posted from the 1800PocketPC app]