Hypertag
| Industry | Marketing technology software |
|---|---|
| Founded | 2001 |
| Successor | Proxama Ltd. |
| Headquarters | Norwich |
| Products | Wireless technology digital content |
 | This article contains content that is written like an advertisement. (October 2010) |
Hypertag was a British marketing technology company founded in 2001, and purchased by Proxama Ltd in 2011.
History[edit]
Established in 2001 and headquartered in Norwich, Hypertag supplied proprietary proximity marketing technology to brands.[1][2][3] The company aimed to market to consumers' mobile phones based on their proximity to a physical location through utilization of short-range mobile wireless technologies including Bluetooth, Infrared, Wi-Fi, and NFC.[1]
Hypertag's offered free downloading of digital content directly to consumers' mobile phones such as wallpapers, video clips, games, music clips, vouchers, documents, web links, or mobile applications. Hypertag also attempted to integrate its systems with certain third-party infrastructure providers, such as in-store advertising display screen providers, and was utilized by brands like O2, Vodafone, Peugeot, and CNN. The company also implemented its systems at visitor attractions owned by the Royal Institution and English Heritage.[citation needed]
As an example campaign in 2005, posters advertising a new Gorillaz single DARE were established in Sydney and Melbourne, Australia in September 2005. The posters contained Hypertag technology allowing passers-by to download a 40-second ringtone of the song DARE to their mobile phones.[citation needed]
The technology was also used by the band New Order in advertisements for their album Waiting for the Sirens' Call, and in 2008, Hypertag won a gold award for best location-based advertising technology at the Mobile Advertising and Marketing Awards.[citation needed]
Hypertag was bought by Proxama Ltd on 14 January 2011.[4]
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ a b "Mobiles reach out to the web". BBC News. 26 January 2003. Retrieved 13 October 2020.
- ^ Sandhana, Lakshmi (7 October 2003). "Cell Phones, Billboards Play Tag". Wired. Retrieved 13 October 2020.
- ^ Zamboni, Claudio (30 July 2003). ""Hypertag", dal muro al palmare lo spot viaggia via infrarossi". La Repubblica (in Italian). Retrieved 13 October 2020.
- ^ "Hypertag bought by contactless technology company". Loyalty Magazine. 25 January 2011.
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