aimm News

Announcing our 2020 Board

Posted on by Andrea Putnam-Moorcroft

We are pleased to welcome our new aimm Board!

Following the call for nominations during the month of February we received 5 nominations for the vacancies which had 6 spaces available. As such there will be no necessity to go to a vote.

We are pleased to announce that our nominated members are duly elected to the Board. We would ask that you join us in congratulating them.

The aimm Board now comprises of :

Candidates:

Abi Hillman – ITV

Jonny Brown – sb7

Kevin Dawson – DMB

Nick Millward – mGage

Oliver Cooke – IMImobile

Learn more about our 2020 candidates.

They will be joining our existing Board:

Neil Johnson  – aimm Chair

Toby Padgham – aimm Executive Director

Joanna Cox – aimm General Manager

Rob Weisz – Fonix (Vice Chair)

Eric Feltin – Safari Mobile (Vice Chair)

Alan Partington – Telecom2

Caroline Press – Three

Chris Newell – Donr

Claire Taylor – Telefonica

Joel Stern – Global (co-opt)

Kerry Howard – BBC Children in Need (co-opt)

Alex Haffner – Fladgate LLP (co-opt)

Our new Board members will officially start their roles on the 1st April and will be at our next Board meeting, and we look forward to working with them.

We would also like to take this opportunity to thank James Macfarlane at PM Connect for all his hard work and support during his time on the Board, and who has now stepped down due to other commitments.

Kind regards

aimm Executive Team

PSA publishes discussion document for review of Code of Practice

Posted on by Andrea Putnam-Moorcroft

The Phone-paid Services Authority (PSA) has published the discussion document for its Code of Practice review. This is the first opportunity for stakeholders to provide input into the review of the PSA’s regulatory framework.

The discussion document provides an overview of the review and includes a summary of:

  • the review’s objectives and scope
  • an assessment of the market and consumers’ behaviours, experiences and expectations
  • the PSA’s proposed assessment framework
  • the PSA’s early thinking on its future regulatory strategy.

aimm will be reaching out to members next week regarding this document and asking for feedback and views. The full discussion document can be found on PSA’s news page.

Heart Launches ‘HEART’S MAKE ME A MILLIONAIRE’ – the Biggest Game on UK Radio

Posted on by Andrea Putnam-Moorcroft

 

Heart, the UK’s most loved commercial radio brand, is giving away the biggest single prize on UK radio – one million pounds!

Launching today, Heart’s brand-new game, Heart’s Make Me A Millionaire, will see one lucky listener walk away with an unbelievable sum of money at the start of May. However, before contestants are entered into the enormous cash giveaway, they will be faced with a huge decision to be in with a chance of winning the life-changing cash.

Every weekday morning on Heart Breakfast with Jamie Theakston & Amanda Holden, listeners will have the chance to win a daily cash prize by identifying when a specific artist is played on air. They will then have to choose whether to keep the money or go into the draw to win an incredible one million pounds.

After 11 weeks of Heart’s Make Me a Millionaire on Thursday May 7th, Jamie and Amanda on Heart Breakfast, the biggest show on commercial radio with 9.5 million listeners, will announce the winner of the massive cash prize.

Heart Breakfast’s Amanda Holden said: “This is so exciting – we’re so thrilled to kick off the biggest game on the radio! Thanks to Heart, one amazing listener will walk away with an incredible one million pounds… bring on the final!”

Jamie Theakston said: “This is the largest amount of money we’ve ever given away to one listener on Heart. This is life-changing cash, making an instant millionaire – we can’t wait to make and meet the lucky winner!

Tune into Heart on 96 – 107 FM, on DAB digital radio right across the UK, on mobile via the Heart app or Global Player, online at heart.co.uk, on your smart speaker by saying “play Heart”.

For more details about how to play Heart’s Make Me a Millionaire visit www.heart.co.uk/win/make-me-a-millionaire/

@thisisheart

#HeartMillionaire

MWC 2020 is cancelled

Posted on by Andrea Putnam-Moorcroft

“With due regard to the health and safety environment in Barcelona and the host country, the GSMA has cancelled MWC Barcelona 2020 because the global concern regarding the coronavirus outbreak, travel concern and other circumstances, which make it impossible for the GSMA to hold the event.”

However as discussed in Telemedia Online this week, many of those who were due to attend the conference still plan to go out to Barcelona and will attend an unofficial MWC. Are you one of them, and if so what are your plans?

GSMA Statement on MWC Barcelona 2020 from John Hoffman, CEO GSMA Limited

Next-generation energy switching management, with Bounce – from Global and Ideavate

Posted on by Andrea Putnam-Moorcroft

Global, the Media & Entertainment Group have launched an innovative energy switching and management service, under the new brand Bounce, with the service built and operated by technology business Ideavate.

Bounce is a white label version of Ideavate’s Energy Switching Solution, and provides first to market capabilities in a number of ways, all designed to make the consumer’s life easier:

  • Consumers are able to securely provide access to their current energy account, so that they don’t need to figure out their current tariff and consumption.
  • Consumers are provided with a free energy report, which visually shows the impact of switching on their monthly costs.
  • As well as helping consumers save money right away, they have an unprecedented set of options for managing ongoing switches, so they can overcome the hassle of switching and never overpay in future.
  • Consumers can choose from:
    • Self-service: automatic reminders at the right time to come back to the app and switch
    • Auto-switch: be automatically switched once the criteria are met (amount of savings available, customer service rating, renewable energy source, etc.)
    • One-click switching: receives texts or emails in future with deals which meet their criteria, and upon confirming they wish to go ahead, the switch is automatically undertaken.

Check out how to switch with Bounce here.