AirG drives youths to mobile for free ride
Dianna Dilworth
March 13 2007
Urban car shop West Coast Customs, former star of MTV's Pimp My
Ride reality series, pre-pay mobile phone network Boost Mobile and
mobile marketing platform AirG recently partnered for a mobile
marketing campaign that drove more than 1.5 million entries from
mobile phones.
The Get Hookt Up With a New Ride campaign, which ran from Oct. 15,
2006 through Jan. 15, 2007, targeted urban youths. It asked them to
use their pay-per-use cell phones to enter a contest to win a new,
fully customized Dodge Charger.
It was a multichannel-type approach that was pushed through the
mobile phone, national radio campaigns, Web sites and MySpace, said
Frederick Ghahramani, director at AirG, Vancouver, Canada. A brand
as strong as West Coast Customs actually got a lot of interactivity
from customers on their mobile phones.
The campaign was promoted through multiple onl
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