Have you entered the Smaato Mobile Advertising Awards?

Harald Neidhardt is very well known around the mobile world as the CMO and Co-Founder of mobile advertising powerhouse, Smaato. Smaato are doing some really smart things to help out mobile developers (particularly with inserting advertising within applications and services). To this end they’ve just announced their awards. Harald dropped me this email with more details.

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Hi Ewan:

How are you?

I thought I send you a quick update on the Smaato Mobile Advertising Awards.

We have added a great line up of first class VC partners as a “prize” for the winners.
Mark Kvamme (Sequoia), Rich Wong (Accel) from Silicon Valley join Joerg Sievert (SAP Ventures) and our VC supporters from last year that included: Tim Draper (DFJ), aeris CAPITAL and Innovacom. How do you like that?

We really thought hard on what a young and passionate mobile developer could want to get recognized and possibly a chance to get funding. So we thought a chance to meet 6 VC partners for the winners would be a great push and chance to get ahead of the game.

We also added some great, new benefits to all finalists: they will receive free deviceatlas.com enterprise license from mtld.mobi (the dot.mobi company) which is a great value an immidiate updates to the most accurate mobile device recognition solution around.

Here is some more detail on the Smaato Mobile Advertising Awards – deadline is approaching fast: October 9 for this contest!

We’ve built upon the success of last year’s awards (we had over 100 entries) and think we’ve come up with something bigger and better. This year, we’ve opened it up into three categories:

iPhone
Mobile website
Applications and games on all other mobile platforms

We’re trying to find the people who are making the coolest mobile content on the planet and when they’re found, by our panel of expert judges, they will of course receive some fantastic rewards. We are really proud of the jury this actually: the mobile influencers and shakers from all around the world!

For starters the winners will be whisked away to Mobile World Congress in February, we’ll book the flights and hotel so there’s no need to worry. We’ll introduce them to a number of VC’s on a partner level from Europe and the U.S. There loads of other prizes on offer too, including a booth at M-Days in Munich, Germany in January and free tickets to Mobile World Congress.

So, I’ve been talking about all that you can win, but how do you go about entering? It’s really, quite straightforward. All you need to do is head over here http://www.smaato.com/award-register/ choose your category and fill in the required information:

Entry to the awards is open now and closes on October 9th end of the day PST and the winners will be announced at the Mobile 2.0 conference in San Francisco on October 15th. You can find all the information on the awards here http://www.smaato.com/award

Hopefully we’ll see you out there Ewan, if not before hand!

Speak soon

Harald

P.S. We had a kick-a** Kick-Off Party during MMA Forum on 9.9.9 at 9PM – Sorry you missed it 😉
P.P.S: I will be in London this week for the TechMediaInvest event. Are you planning to attend?

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I will be at TechMediaInvest Harald, so I’ll see you there — I’m looking forward to it — and I’m sorry I missed your 9.9.9 event!

I’m particularly pleased to hear that you’ve also added VC super-star, Tim Chang of Northwest Venture Partners to the awards roster. Nice one!