Tonight, the Mobile Marketing Association (MMA), announced the winners 7th Annual Global Mobile Marketing Awards for Innovation, Creativity and Leadership, now called "The Smarties™. Comedian Elon Gold was master of ceremonies of the event at the SLS Hotel in Beverly Hills, California.
The 2011 MMA Mobile Marketing Awards winners are:
MOBILE MARKETING ACADEMIC OF THE YEAR
- William F. Humphrey, Jr., MBA; Debra A Laverie, Ph.D. for “Brand Community and Location Service Social & Mobile Research” USA/NA.
MMA AWARD FOR OVERALL EXCELLENCE
- Global Winner and NA Regional Winner: Old Navy and Crispin Porter + Bogusky for "Old Navy Records" USA/NA.
PROMOTION
- Global Winner and NA Regional Winner: United Airlines and Barrie D'Rozario Murphy for "Promotion for Travel Options" USA/NA.
- First Runner-up and APAC Regional Winner: Coca-Cola and UM and McCann Worldgroup Ltd. for "Coca-Cola Summer Campaign" Hong Kong/APAC.
- Second Runner-up: Mars Canada and Proximity Canada for "M&M's Find Red" Canada/NA.
- EMEA Regional Winner: Pepsi Co. and Rabarba for "Pepsi-Content In a Bottle" Turkey/EMEA.
- LATAM Regional Winner: TIM Brazil and Upstream for “101 Carros TIM” Brazil and USA/LATAM.
RELATIONSHIP BUILDING
- Global Winner and NA Regional Winner: Nike+ and R/GA for "Nike+ GPS App" USA/NA.
- First Runner-up: National Healthy Mothers, Healthy Babies Coalition (HMHB), with Syniverse and Voxiva, for "Text4baby Campaign" USA/NA.
- Second Runner-up: Dressbarn and MSLGROUP Americas for "Dressbarn Mobile Fashion Club" USA/NA.
- LATAM Regional Winner: Unilever and F.biz for “Vital MMS” Brazil/LATAM.
- APAC Regional Winner: Idea Cellular, Ltd. and Mindshare India, for “Idea - Breaking language barriers” India/APAC.
- EMEA Regional Winner: Mobitainment for “AVBOB Funeral Services" South Africa/EMEA.
INNOVATION
- Global Winner and NA Regional Winner: Old Navy and Crispin Porter + Bogusky for "Old Navy Records" USA/NA.
- First Runner-up and APAC Regional Winner: Coca-Cola and UM and McCann Worldgroup Ltd. for "Coca-Cola Summer Campaign" Hong Kong/APAC.
- Second Runner-up: Converse and R/GA for "Converse The Sampler" USA/NA.
- EMEA Regional Winner: InMobi for “Samsung Galaxy S II; 3D campaign” USA/EMEA.
- LATAM Regional Winner: Ginga and NOO Mag for “NOO Mag” Brazil/LATAM.
SOCIAL IMPACT
- Global Winner and EMEA Regional Winner: YoungAfricaLive & Praekelt Foundation for “YoungAfricaLive” South Africa/EMEA.
- First Runner-up and NA Regional Winner: Giorgio Armani and R/GA for " Aqua di Gio Armani Drops for Life App" USA/NA.
- Second Runner-up: TakePArt/Participant Media for “Waiting for 'Superman' Social Action Campaign” USA/NA.
- APAC Regional Winner: Busday and TELiBrahma for "Busday gets buzzier" India/APAC.
BRANDING
- Global Winner and APAC Regional Winner: Coca-Cola and UM and McCann Worldgroup Ltd. for "Coca-Cola Summer Campaign" Hong Kong/APAC.
- First Runner-up and North American Regional Winner: Converse and R/GA for "Converse The Sampler" USA/NA.
- Second Runner-up and EMEA Regional Winner: OMO washing powder and BRANDTONE for "OMO 'DOOR TO DOOR CHALLENGE' - BRANDTONE mobile engagement" South Africa/EMEA.
- LATAM Regional Winner: Petrobras and FingerTips for “Brasileirão Petrobras” Brazil/LATAM.
CROSS MEDIA INTEGRATION
- Global Winner and NA Regional Winner: Old Navy and Crispin Porter + Bogusky for "Old Navy Records" USA/NA.
- First Runner-up and EMEA Regional Winner: Coca-Cola GmbH and Scholz & Volkmer GmbH for Coca-Cola "Snowglobes" iPhone Application Germany/EMEA.
- Second Runner-up: Pringles and Crispin Porter + Bogusky for "Pringles Crunch Band App" USA/NA.
- LATAM Regional Winner: Nike, Groupo.mobi and F/Nazca Saatchi & Saatchi for “Case Nike #coisadaboa” Brazil/LATAM.
- APAC Regional Winner: Coca-Cola and UM and McCann Worldgroup Ltd. for "Coca-Cola Summer Campaign" Hong Kong/APAC.
DIRECT RESPONSE
- Global Winner and EMEA Regional Winner: Garanti and Rabarba for "Garanti-The Last Person on Earth Who Doesn't Use Online Banking" Turkey/EMEA.
- First Runner-up: Situation Sthlm and Mobiento for "Sms is King!" Sweden/EMEA
- Second Runner-up and NA Regional Winner: Pepsi MAX for "Cut to Max - Clubhouse in the Corn" USA/NA.
- APAC Regional Winner: Vodafone Essar Ltd. And Maxus India for “Vodafone VAS - 'X' spends = 3 'X' revenue” India/APAC.
- LATAM Regional Winner: TIMWE and Vivo; Claro; TIM; Oi and Globo for “Torpedão Campeão” Portugal/LATAM.
PRODUCT/SERVICES LAUNCH
- Global Winner and NA Regional Winner: Lawry's and R/GA for "Lawry's Digital Dinner Bell" USA/NA.
- First Runner-up: HBO and PHD and BBDO for "HBO GO" USA/NA.
- Second Runner-up and EMEA Regional Winner: MINI / MINI and MOBILE DREAMS FACTORY for "MINI COUNTRYMAN" Spain/EMEA.
- APAC Regional Winner: Nokia India Pvt. Ltd. and Maxus India for “Over 30;000 personalized demos CONCURRENTLY!” India/APAC.
Visit http://awards.mmaglobal.com/gallery2011 to view the 2011 awards winners gallery.
Sponsored this year by presenting sponsor Motricity and supporting sponsor Millennial Media, The Smarties, is the world’s only global mobile marketing awards program recognizing and celebrating outstanding achievement within the industry. The MMA Global Award Winners were reviewed and chosen from hundreds of entrants by an all-star judges panel of international marketers and agency leaders.
This could be another recognition that is given to all deserving people behind Global marketing with regards to MMA. Congratulations.