bmcoforum (Broadcast Mobile Convergence Forum) is an international lobbying association, providing a discussion platform for companies and institutions dealing with the development of a worldwide open market for mobile broadcast services. bmcoforum has been founded in September 2005 and represents more than 110 members from all parts of the mobile broadcast value chain. Some current work items deal with spectrum and regulation lobbying, profiling DVB-H/IPDC and OMA BCAST standards, network design, generic business models as well as content and service. www.bmcoforum.or
The dotMobi Advisory Group (MAG) is a dotMobi accredited independent not-for-profit industry forum with the goal of ensuring that the dotMobi Top Level Domain (.mobi) is operated in the best interests of the global dotMobi community and the Internet at large. The MAG enables its members to keep in touch with market trends to understand, assess and prioritise the needs of the mobile internet community and acts as a vehicle for mobile stakeholders to network and discuss issues contributing towards the betterment of the mobile experience. Please visit http://advisorygroup.mobi
The MPEG Industry Forum (MPEGIF) is a not-forprofit organization with the following goal: "To further the adoption of MPEG Standards, by establishing them as well accepted and widely used standards among creators of content, developers, manufacturers, providers of services, and end users." With over 40 member companies representing broad worldwide interests in all aspects of digital video, the MPEG Industry Forum was established to further the understanding and adoption of MPEG-4, MPEG-7, MPEG-21 and other emerging MPEG standards. MPEGIF serves as a single point of information on technology, products and services for these standards, offers interoperability testing, a conformance program, marketing activities, and is present at international trade shows and conferences. Please visit www.mpegif.org
The European Association of Communications Agencies (EACA) is a Brussels-based organisation whose mission is to represent full-service advertising and media agencies and agency associations in Europe. EACA aims to promote honest, effective advertising, high professional standards, and awareness of the contribution of advertising in a free market economy and to encourage close co-operation between agencies, advertisers and media in European advertising bodies. For further information please visit; www.eaca.be
Mobile Marketing Magazine is an online magazine focused on mobile marketing. The site launched in November 2005, and is updated daily with news, interviews, case studies, opinion pieces and lots more besides. It’s searchable and broken down into categories so for anyone just starting to investigate mobile as a marketing or CRM channel and looking somewhere to start, it’s as good a place as any. The site attracts over 21,000 unique users per month.