Google’s mobile vision: “integrated marketing campaigns” for” Fortune 1000 companies”

Google, as we have said previously, deserves praise for its work on open spectrum. But its motives are more aligned with plans to expand its interactive data collection and targeted marketing business. Here’s an excerpt from Google’s job listing for “Team Manager Mobile Advertising, Google Mobile Advertising:
“As a Google Mobile Team Manager, you’ll serve as a mini-CEO responsible for developing and implementing strategies to sustain and increase a multi-million-dollar revenue business in the mobile industry. You’ll hire, train and lead your team, which will work closely with many internal Google divisions to develop integrated marketing campaigns and present them to Fortune 1000 companies. A crucial focus will be to understand how the mobile area fits into cross-media campaigns.”

or perhaps you are interested in: Senior Account Executive, Google Mobile Advertising:

“The Mobile Advertising team that operates within Advertising Sales was organized to fortify the company’s mobile objectives in search, branding and measurement. We do this by striving to identify our clients’ business challenges, to collaboratively shape solutions that drive their strategic initiatives and to keep them educated and informed in the ways that our products can enhance their online and/or offline presence…
Senior Account Executives drive revenue by selling Google’s mobile solutions to top-tier advertisers. This is a high-energy job requiring persistent and persuasive interactions with clients, deep mobile and Internet expertise, proven sales skills, the ability to work collaboratively with internal sales teams, closing deals, strong communication skills and a broad base of mobile industry contacts.”

Author: jeff

Jeff Chester is executive director of the Center for Digital Democracy. A former journalist and filmmaker, Jeff's book on U.S. electronic media politics, entitled "Digital Destiny: New Media and the Future of Democracy" was published by The New Press in January 2007. He is now working on a new book about interactive advertising and the public interest.

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