In 2013, Virgin EMI utilized MMS to promote Swedish DJ Avicii's new single "Wake Me Up." The record label sent out an animated MMS to 100,000 dance fans in the style of an alarm clock. Using time-targeting capability, the campaign woke dance fans up at 8am on Sunday — after they were likely to have heard the single on club dancefloors the night before. The campaign achieved a 9.8% click-through rate and helped push the single to the top spot of the mid-week singles chart. Virgin EMI digital marketing manager Stephen Fraser commented: "Mobile is central to our digital marketing strategy and an area in which Virgin EMI is constantly looking to develop and innovate. The Avicii 'Wake Me Up' MMS campaign ticks all these boxes by effectively reaching our target market on their target device in a way — such as an alarm — which has never been done before".
The first entertainment-based MMS messages proved that consumers possessed an insatiable appetite for on-the-go media. This early experiment changed consumer behavior, training the public to view their mobile devices as primary endpoints for news and entertainment.
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While the concept of delivering rich media to phones was revolutionary, the execution during the early 2000s faced steep technical hurdles:
China emerged as one of the early markets to make MMS a major commercial success. This was partly due to the modest penetration rate of personal computers in the country, while MMS-capable cameraphones spread rapidly. The chairman and CEO of China Mobile stated at the GSM Association Mobile Asia Congress in 2009 that MMS in China was now a mature service on par with SMS text messaging. In 2013, Virgin EMI utilized MMS to promote
In 2004, Chrysalis Radio became the first UK radio group to launch a multimedia messaging campaign through its Galaxy station. The campaign invited listeners to send in photos of themselves and their friends doing "weird and wonderful things," with the funniest pictures published on Galaxy's website. Abigail Taylor, interactive services manager at Chrysalis Radio, noted: "For the first time we can see what our listeners are doing while they are listening to Galaxy".
Neil Papworth sent the first-ever text message ("Merry Christmas") via computer, laying the groundwork for mobile messaging protocols. 2002 (MMS Introduction):
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Deploying the first-time MMS for entertainment media required overcoming massive technical hurdles:
The year 2002 marked a watershed moment for MMS, with several operators launching services within months of each other. On August 30, 2002, Czech operator Eurotel launched its MMS service, giving contract customers their first chance to send photos, pictures, sounds, or simple animation between mobile phones. Terrence Valeski, Eurotel's CEO, described it as "the natural evolution of SMS technology" that would take mobile communications "a major step closer to 3rd Generation technology". Eurotel began selling two MMS-ready mobile phones — the Nokia 7650 and the Sony Ericsson T68i — and offered unique entertainment services including news, weather, illustrations, animated postcards, and images with soundtracks.