May 15 and 16 will find Brendhan Hight, Sponsormob’s VP of Business Development for North America, in New York for AppNation NYC. The two-day event is part of Internet Week New York, a week-long event celebrating the Big Apple’s internet scene. Leaders in the field of app development and marketing will be talking about the latest trends in the industry, and networking will also be a big part of the event.

If you are planning on attending AppNation and would like to meet with Brendhan, please contact him to set up a time and place to meet. Until then, we are looking forward to seeing you in New York!

June will see us visiting Paris once again to attend the Online Expo. Online Expo is a conference and exhibition for online marketing (E-commerce, M-commerce, rich media, social networking, and more). Conference topics cover all the bases as well, from building mobile campaigns to apps and the use of social media. The event takes place June 13-14 at the Porte de Versailles in Paris. The Online Expo is a new event for us, so we really don’t know what to expect, but we certainly look forward to meeting new people and connecting with new companies in the French online market.

Our Business Development Manager for France, Gauthier Peter, will be attending the exhibition and meeting with partners. Anyone interested in meeting with Gauthier to find out more about a possible partnership with Sponsormob can send him an email. See you in Paris!

We recently exhibited at ad:tech in San Francisco. Ad:tech is one of the leading events for digital marketing, and it takes place annually in cities such as London, New York, Sydney, and elsewhere. We’ve exhibited there several times and always enjoy a reason to go to sunny California. We were able to meet with several of our partners in the Bay area while we were there. As we are headquartered in Berlin, events are a great opportunity for us to have face-time with clients, as most of our communication is done remotely. Of course, meeting with clients will now be a lot easier, as we have a new office in Austin, Texas.

A highlight of this year’s event was having a ready-made stand that was built for us and ready to go at the start of the show. Our usual event prep includes climbing on chairs to put together a stand, and climbing on those same chairs to dismantle it and pack everything back up after the show. So showing up at the show with nothing to build was most definitely nice.  Another high point was, of course, the pub crawl. The pub crawl took place on-site, with several beer stations set up throughout the show floor. You can see photo of two of the Sponsormob team enjoying a beer, as well as other photos of the event on our Flickr page.

This year we will once again be exhibiting at Dmexco, Germany’s largest digital marketing event, which is held annually in Cologne. This year the event takes place September 12-13 at the Koelnmesse, and several of us from our Berlin headquarters will be there. We don’t yet have the stand number, but as soon as we receive detailed information from the event organizers, we will update you. In the meantime, mark your calendars and plan to be in Cologne in September!

March was a busy month for us at Sponsormob – not only did we open a new office in Austin, Texas, but we also attended several events here in Germany and abroad. The end of the month had us in three places at once, and we’ll tell you a little bit about them here. Photos can be seen on our Flickr page:

• Mobile National Day Breakfast, London – This event is sponsored by 11 Prozent Communications and is held semi-annually. It was focused on the mobile advertising market in Germany. The event was moderated by freelance journalist, Paul Skeldon, and speakers included representatives from various companies working in app and mobile advertising. The main theme, of course, was the multi-million dollar German mobile ad market, and the growth that is expected to continue over the next several years.
• Mobile Tech Awards, Munich – Part of the Mobile Tech Conference in Munich, the Mobile Tech Awards were created to honor the best in Germany’s mobile industry. Although we did not win the award, we were finalists for the best Mobile Company award. Our PR assistant, Sarah Christansen, attended the award ceremony in Munich and enjoyed her first visit to the home of Oktoberfest.
• Internet World, Munich – The Berlin sales team was also in Munich for the Internet World event and to meet with partners. Internet World is one of Germany’s largest e-commerce events, with exhibitors and attendees from around the world and it is an event we will continue to participate in.

So yes, those were the recent places to be for Sponsormob – at the moment, our ad:tech team is on its way back from San Francisco and we are also in Paris at Buzzness Mobile. Updates and photos from those events are still to come, so stay tuned!

We are up for one of the MobileTech Awards, part of the MobileTech Conference taking place next week in Munich. We are one of five finalists for the Mobile Company Award, and with new technologies such as Real-Time-Bidding for mobile, as well as the being the first network to offer Click-to-Call advertising on mobile here in Germany, we definitely deserve this honor. If you think so too,  vote for us!

Awards ceremonies tend to be entertaining, so we look forward to meeting new faces in the industry and having a good time in the capitol of Bavaria. Our assistant public relations manager, Sarah Christiansen, will be at the awards ceremony ready to take home the prize – see you there!

Sponsormob will head south to Munich the end of this month to attend Internet World,  a conference for E-commerce being held March 27-28. The event takes place at the Internationales Congress Center München, and you can register for the event here. The focus this year is mobile commerce, with speakers discussing conversion optimization, social media, online marketing, and more. The two Sponsormob-ers attending the event will be Heiko Kasper, Director of Business Development, and Thuong Nguyen, Junior Sales Manager.

As always, we love to meet with anyone who will be at Internet World and is interested in discussing a possible partnership or finding out more about what we can offer – please contact us to schedule a meeting. Looking forward to it!

It’s that time of year again … the time we gear up for ad:tech San Francisco! This will be our third year in a row exhibiting at the ad:tech event in San Francisco, and we are looking forward to it as always. This year we will be on the first floor of the exhibition hall at stand #1311. Our ad:tech team will consist of Verena Witkowski, Head of Publishers, Joe Niederberger, US Business Development Manager, and Andrew Santos, US Account Manager.

Ad:tech is a great place to learn more about the latest goings-on in the digital industry, and the networking opportunities are endless. If you haven’t registered to attend yet, visit the ad:tech registration page to do so. If you would like to meet up with us at ad:tech, please email us to set up a meeting.

Sponsormob will be heading to Paris the beginning of April for Buzzness Mobile, an event for mobile marketing, mobile commerce, and mobile payments taking place at the Porte de Versailles April 3-5. We were able to visit the event last year and are happy to attend this year as well. Buzzness Mobile is a relatively small but very nice event with companies from across the mobile industry. The conference and exhibition have a natural focus on the mobile market in France, but several international companies participate as well.

This year, our Business Development Manager for France, Gauthier Peter, will be at the event from April 4-5. Anyone attending the conference and/or exhibition who is interested in meeting with Sponsormob can email us to set up a time and place to meet.

We have had a busy several weeks with some good events and speaking opportunities here in Germany and abroad. We exhibited at M-Days in Frankfurt the beginning of February. The exhibition was busy, and Heiko Kasper, Director of Business Development, was given the opportunity to speak on mobile advertising on the exhibition floor to a large and surprisingly lively crowd (a few photos can be seen on flickr). He was also interviewed by GFM Nachrichten, sharing insights on what mobile looks like this year, and whether 2012 is yet another year of mobile (watch the interview on YouTube here).

This week two team members from Sponsormob also visited Barcelona for the Mobile World Congress, which is a massive event for mobile held annually in Spain. The event was huge, visited by 60,000 professionals in the mobile industry. It was informative and busy, and we look forward to next year’s MWC as well.

We were also in Las Vegas earlier this week at LeadsCon, where a team of two exhibited, discussing advertising opportunities on mobile with hundreds of new contacts. We would like to thank everyone who stopped by our stand at LeadsCon, making it a great event for us!