Vibes Media is a mobile marketing company in the United States. The company builds campaigns that involve interactive text messages as well as other types of mobile marketing content. The company was founded in 1998 and is presently headquartered in Chicago, Illinois.
While text messaging has long been popular in other continents of Asia and Europe, it is only recently that the practice of sending SMS has caught on in America. It is estimated that at present around 12 billion text messages are sent monthly. This makes text messages an attractive method of marketing where information about the product reaches potential customers directly. Vibes Media was one of the first agencies in the United States to make use of text messages in marketing campaigns.
Some of the mobile marketing products launched by Vibes Media are the iRadio, Text-2-Screen, TextTV, Sports Mobile GM, Text Games, Text-2-Win, Pix-2-Web, Pix-2-Screen and many others. Among these Text-2-Screen has proved to be hugely popular both with companies seeking to market their products as well as fans who wish to see their messages displayed on huge concert screens. A related product is the Text-2-Win in which fans send text messages to a 5-digit code and stand to win prizes.
Pix-2-Web and Pix-2-Screen are other marketing products from Vibes Media which provide entertaining and effective ways for companies to promote their products among fans at sporting events or concerts. Other than these Vibes also offers a wide-ranging MMS technology. This enables companies to provide consumers with wall-papers, ring tones, games and other types of fun content, either free or as paid products.
The mobile marketing programs developed by Vibes Media have found favor with a wide range of businesses. Consumer brands, sports teams and wireless carriers are some of the businesses which have made use of and profited by marketing practices involving text or picture messaging. Among the most high-profile clients of Vibes are McDonalds, Samsung, Motorola, Coca Cola, various entertainment channels, movies and famous concert events.
The history of Vibes Media goes back to 1998 when it was founded by two men in their early twenties. The founders Alex Campbell and Jack Philbin launched their agency from a small apartment at Wrigleyville at a time when mobile phones did not even have the capability of sending text messages. Campbell and Philbin thus started out with a targeted message system for pagers until the agency caught on the potential of SMS as an effective marketing method.
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