For the first time in Bangladesh an organize meet up event for themig33 users was arranged on 24th November, 2009. The event was hold inChittagong - the port city of Bangladesh. It was organized by all twocertified official merchant from Chittagong division of Bangladesh-megh_balok43 and fire-gun. Other organizing team members wereabdullah2ice, pervez, mp3---, just.die.in.ur.arm. The planning for theevent was taken long ago and the soul purpose of the event was to leteveryone know about mig33 and create a field for mig33 users to knoweach other and make them real life friend. mig33 forum was the media partner of this event.
Mig33 bots are placed and displayed at different location of port city,Chittagong to spread the knowledge on mig33 among people. Advertisementfor the event and mig33 through posters, facebook, blogs, forums andother social networks was successful to spread the news and informationnot only on the event but also about mig33. The management team workedhard and was able to gain around 80 passionate mig33 users on the eventday. Among them there was 5 indian users, one of them from Delhienigma_1) and others from Jambu Kashmir. At the event day, from earlymorning, management team members acted really fast & hard todecorate the event venue. There was a green bot, a pink (female) botand a Bangladeshi bot was reviewed which has a Bangladeshi flag on it.Users started to gather at 02:00 P.M. (Bangladeshi time) and the eventstarted at 03:00 pm by the opening announcement by management teammember abdullah2ice. After that official merchant megh_balok43 andfire-gun came on the stage and talked about the merchant programme andthe process to become a merchant. After that everyone had a deliciouslaunch and all had a great time by chatting and knowing each otherwhile sweet rhythmic music played all along.
At around 05:00 P.M. (Bangladeshi time) a lottery was drawn and 5 luckywinners were announced and each of them got 100 credits. At the end ofthe event everyone left the venue with a glimpse of happiness and asmile on their face.
About mig33
mig33 is the world's largest mobile-first community, providing communications and entertainment services for more than 25 million members and their mobile devices worldwide. With mig33, members in more than 200 countries engage in vibrant chat communities, instant messaging, email, photo sharing, virtual gifting, profile building and sharing, and more. The service is available worldwide, optimized for more than 2,000 handsets. In mid 2009, mig33 partnered with Indonesia's largest mobile retailer, PT Trikomsel Oke, to begin offering mig33 payment vouchers in OKE's more than 800 retail outlets. Founded in 2005, mig33 is backed by Silicon Valley venture firms Accel Partners, Redpoint Ventures and DCM. For more information, please visit www.mig33.com.
JAKARTA, Indonesia, Aug. 28 /PRNewswire/ -- PT Trikomsel Oke Tbk. (Trikomsel), Indonesia's well known telecommunication company that has just listed its shares in the Indonesian Stock Exchange (IDX) back in April 2009, today announced a partnership with mig33, the world's largest mobile community and the top mobile destination in Indonesia.
Under the agreement, the two companies will form a voucher distribution partnership to develop new opportunities for mobile Indonesian consumers. In the near term, Indonesians will for the first time be able to buy vouchers for a mobile application - mig33 - directly from a national retailer.
The partnership teams two of Indonesia's well known and popular mobile entities, within one of the most mobile populations in the world. Indonesia is one of the largest mobile internet markets outside of the United States, with 110 million active mobile device accounts among 240 million residents. Trikomsel is an established presence in 145 cities along the Indonesian Archipelago with its 802 stores as of June 2009 while mig33 is Indonesia's most popular mobile community and maintains over 25 million users worldwide.
"Trikomsel's partnership with mig33 is part of our commitment to providing consumers with the best telecommunications services in the world, particularly in Indonesia," said Sugiono Wiyono, President Director of Trikomsel. "mig33's worldwide mobile community has proven to be immensely popular, particularly within Indonesia, and as such we are thrilled to form this partnership and explore even more ways in which Trikomsel and mig33 can develop and market new mobile opportunities for consumers here."
"mig33 welcomes this opportunity to work closely with Trikomsel in bringing new, exciting and valuable mobile services to the Indonesian market," said Steve Boom, Executive Chairman, mig33. "Partnering with a company of Trikomsel's caliber not only affords us a huge retail opportunity for mig33's premium offerings, but opens up many strategic opportunities through which both companies can continue exceeding the needs of consumers and strengthening their respective market positions."
About Trikomsel
PT Trikomsel Oke Tbk. was established in 1996 where it has started its cooperation with international and reputable mobile phones, such as Nokia, followed by Sony Ericsson in 1997 as their Authorized Distributor. Recently, Trikomsel has also appointed as distributor for Blackberry and iPhone. Among those, Trikomsel also distributes leading major operator products. Trikomsel has a strong presence in 145 cities in Indonesia through its retail shops "OkeShop" and 108 Distribution Centers. Wide network of distribution includes 11,522 Independent Retailers throughout the country. This span of distribution centers puts Trikomsel in a strong position to gauge the pulse of the local market accurately and quickly, and to react accordingly. For more information, please visit www.oke.com
About mig33
mig33 is the world's largest mobile-first community, providing a variety of communications and entertainment services for more than 25 million members and their mobile devices worldwide. With mig33, members in more than 200 countries engage in vibrant chat communities, instant messaging, email, photo sharing, virtual gifting, profile building and sharing, and more. The service is available worldwide, optimized for more than 2,000 handsets. Founded in 2005, the company is backed by Silicon Valley venture firms Accel Partners, Redpoint Ventures and DCM. For more information, please visit www.mig33.com.
This post is taken from mig33 forum.
Mig33, a company that lets millions of users communicate on mobile phones via IM, chat rooms, and photo sharing, says it’s the most popular downloaded mobile application ever.
You’d hardly know it, though. Chances are, if you live in the US, even if you’re tech-savvy, you’ve never heard of Mig33.
Sounds like the Russian fighter jet, right?
Most of its users are on the hundreds of millions of low-end phones sold by Nokia and other Java-based phones that have most of their distribution in developing countries. Mig33 is increasingly popular on Windows-based phones, and Blackberries, but is not on the iPhone, and has yet to make a real dent in the U.S.
Still, it says it has been downloaded more than 50 million times and has 20 million “registered” users, or those who have actually signed up for membership for the service. The company does not reveal how many “active” users it has, i.e, the number who have used the site within the last 30 days. Steve Boom, the company’s chief executive, says that number is in the “millions” and that from his best estimates, that make Mig33 “the biggest” app period.
On the iPhone, exact numbers of downloads aren’t released by Apple, but from available data from Apple and Comscore, Boom estimates the top apps (game like Tap Tap Revenge and social networking app Facebook, and Google Earth and music company Pandora) have about 11 million downloads or so.
Now here’s a dirty little secret about Mig33’s success: The company pays Getjar, a company that runs a mobile application store, to market the Mig33 application on its portal. It does so through a “Pay Per Download” program, whereby Mig33 bids in an auction for favorable placement on Getjar’s screen: Users who come to Getjar to peruse cool apps see Mig33’s app featured, and then click to download it. Getjar once accounted for half of Mig33’s overall downloads, though that number is down to about 20 percent recently — after Mig33 expanded its other marketing efforts.
Mig33’s Boom won’t say how much he has spent overall on the Getjar campaign. However, Getjar’s chef executive Ilja Laurs tells me companies bid in a range between 1 and 50 cents per download, and the average bid costs about 5 cents in the developing world and 20 cents in the developed world. That means Mig33 spent somewhere south of $1 million for its more than 10 million downloads from Getjar, based on my back-of-the-envelope math.
To be fair to Mig33, it doesn’t rely solely on traffic from paying Getjar. The overwhelming majority of its users have come virally — from users telling other users about the service, according to Boom. Although the company’s based in Burlingame, Calif., its main base of users is in Asia. It has expanded its offerings lately, including selling virtual goods.
(Note: Getjar devotes about 20 percent of its screen space to feature pay-per-download applications, of which Mig33 is just one. Nimbuzz and eBuddy, which offer competitive applications to Mig33, have also paid for a huge number of downloads from Getjar. Mig33 is only the second most popular application on GetJar. Opera Mini is the most popular at 19.1M downloads, and Opera hasn’t paid for those downloads. Also, Getjar’s traffic is actually growing at a faster rate than ever, despite the emerging competition from the iPhone: In May, Getjar had 32 million downloads a month, up from 20 million in January, says CEO Laurs. It has 15 million unique users. The question is, how long will that leadership position last? Already, Apple has sold 40 million iPhones and iPod-Touches globally, and so visitors to Apple’s App Store may already outnumber visitors to Getjar. We don’t know for certain, because Apple doesn’t release such figures.)
Mig33 was a winner of our Tesla award for top 10 best mobile startups at our MobileBeat conference last year. The company has raised more than $23.5 million in two rounds of funding from Accel Partners, DCM, Redpoint Partners and TVP.
This post is taken from mig33 forum.
mig33 Announces a Partnership With Indosat in Indonesia, Reflecting Growing Importance of Mobile Communities
mig33, the leading global mobile chat community, announced its partnership with Indonesia's leading telecommunication and information service provider Indosat, to further drive growth for both companies in Indonesia, which has the fourth biggest population in the world.
At the ICS Consumer Show in Jakarta yesterday, mig33 and Indosat officially announced their partnership at a cooperation ceremony. mig33 is now available on Indosat's wap portal, and will be supported by a number of marketing events. In addition, mig33 has launched a mobile group for Indosat's youth brand 'IM3' within their community, where Indosat's users on mig33 can join to get access to special features and content.
As mobile usage continues to evolve, mobile communities have become widely adopted, and mig33, with over 20 million registered users globally, is the largest of these mobile communities. It allows users to connect with friends around the world, meet new people, exchange emoticon expressions, send virtual gifts and have fun. It also connects members to other instantmessengers like Yahoo Messenger, GoogleTalk, MSN Messenger and AOL.
"At this moment, we already have millions of mig33 users in Indonesia. We are confident that this number will increase, and our partnership with IM3 will deliver much value add to Indosat's customers; especially those with IM3. mig33 has many communications and entertainment services for mobile users, helping ensure that members are connected with peers both in Indonesia and on the other side of the world," said Steve Boom, CEO of mig33.
"We hope this cooperation will encourage Indosat mobile data users, specifically with the IM3 brand, to become mig33 members. Given the importance of mobile communities in Indonesia, Indosat also hopes to gain more customers by reaching this new community through this cooperation," as stated by Guntur S. Siboro, Marketing Director Indosat, at the Indosat/IM3 and mig33 cooperation ceremony.
Indosat subscribers can go to m.mig33.com/indosat on their mobile to join the IM3 'Groov3' group on mig33. All other users should go to m.mig33.com on their mobile phoneto join.
About mig33
mig33 is the leading mobile community with more than 20 million registered users globally. mig33 provides a choice of communications and entertainment services for users to connect on mobile. In over 200 countries, members engage in the vibrant chat community, instant messaging, email, photo sharing, virtual gifting, profiles, as well as calls and SMS. The service is available to any mobile phone user and is optimized to work with more than 2,000 handsets. Founded in 2005 and located in Burlingame, California, the company is backed by Silicon Valley venture firms Accel Partners, Redpoint Ventures and DCM.
For more information, please visit www.mig33.com
About Indosat
Indosat Tbk is a leading telecommunication and information service provider in Indonesia that provides cellular services (Mentari, Matrix and IM3), fixed telecommunications or fixed voice service (IDD service such as IDD 001, IDD 008 and FlatCall 01016 and fixed wireless access such as StarOne and Indosat Phone). Indosat also provides fixed data (MIDI) services through Indosat and its subsidiary companies, Indosat Mega Media (IM2) and Lintasarta and also provides satellite services. In addition, Indosat provides 3.5 G cellular service with HSDPA technology. Indosat's shares are listed in the Jakarta and Surabaya Stock Exchange (JSX:ISAT) and its American Depository Shares are listed in the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE: IIT).
This post is taken from mig33 forum.
