Location-based advertising platform POIdo is announced one of six winners of Geo-Loco Startup Competition and one of 20 finalists of the MobileBeat 2010 Startup Competition
San Francisco – July 1, 2010 –
Finalists of the MobileBeat 2010 Startup Competition and winners of the Geo-Loco Startup Competition have been announced. Nick Mikhailovsky, POIdo CEO, will first present POIdo platform to over 450 influencers, investors, and press on July 12-13 in San Francisco at The Palace Hotel, and then will pitch the platform to 100s of Geo-Loco professionals on July 21st.
POIdo is a pay-per-action location-based advertising (LBA) platform providing ads targeted to users’ precise location, context and behavior in applications on mobile phones and internet sites.
POIdo is the world’s first LBA platform that creates a competitive marketplace where the price of advertising is determined by the market (advertisers compete for ad visibility).
POIdo is the world’s first LBA platform where virtual billboards can be placed at optimal locations, not just the business location.
The user sees the ad message within the application in use when approaching a virtual billboard or as a result of searching for a nearby address.
About POIdo
POIdo is an advertising platform displaying geocontext–targeted ads based on a user’s precise location, context and behavior in applications on mobile phones, portable navigation systems and internet sites.
POIdo was launched in March 2010 and offers its services to businesses of Moscow region. LBA services
will be available in other regions and countries shortly.
For more information please contact us:
phone: +7 (495) 649 89 36
e-mail: info@poido.ru
pr@poido.ru
About MobileBeat 2010
Hosted by VentureBeat, MobileBeat 2010 is taking place July 12-13 in San Francisco at The Palace Hotel. This year’s theme is “The Year of the Superphone and Who Will Profit” with top executives from AT&T, Google, Facebook, Samsung and many others sharing their thoughts.
MobileBeat is known as Silicon Valley’s premier mobile event, bringing together 500 of the industry’s top VCs, mobile execs, journalists and entrepreneurs. Many previous winners of the Startup Competition have gone on to become mobile juggernauts, including AdMob, Loopt and Touchnote.
There is still time to register for MobileBeat and see POIdo present in person. For more details please visit:
http://events.venturebeat.com/mobilebeat2010/
About Geo-Loco Startup Competition
The six winners of Geo-Loco Startup Competition get an opportunity to pitch their geo-location companies to the Geo-Loco conference attendees comprised of 100s of Geo-Loco obsessed VCs, angel investors, executives from startups and large companies, and media at the 2010 Geo-Loco conference on July 21st in San Francisco, CA.
More info on the Geo-Loco Startup Competition can be found at: http://geoloco.tv/
