| Industry | Marketing technology software |
|---|---|
| Founded | 2001 |
| Successor | Proxama Ltd. |
| Headquarters | Norwich |
| Products | Wireless technology digital content |
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Hypertag was a British marketing technology company founded in 2001 and purchased by Proxama Ltd in 2011.
Established in 2001 and headquartered in Norwich, Hypertag supplied proprietary proximity marketing technology to brands. [1] [2] [3] The company aimed for consumer's mobile phones based on their proximity to a physical location through the utilization of short-range mobile wireless technologies including Bluetooth, Infrared, Wi-Fi, and NFC. [1]
Hypertag's offered free downloading of digital content directly to consumer's mobile phones, such as, wallpapers, video clips, games, music clips, vouchers, documents, web links, or mobile applications. Hypertag also attempted to integrate its systems with certain third-party infrastructure providers, such as in-store advertising display screen providers, and was utilized by brands like O2, Vodafone, Peugeot, and CNN. The company also implemented it's systems at visitor attractions, owned by the Royal Institution and English Heritage.[ citation needed ]
As an example, campaign in 2005, posters advertising a new Gorillaz single DARE were established in Sydney and Melbourne, Australia in September 2005. The posters contained Hypertag technology allowing passers-by to download a 40-second ringtone of the song DARE to their mobile phones.[ citation needed ]
The technology was also used by the band New Order in advertisements for their album Waiting for the Sirens' Call , and in 2008, Hypertag won a gold award for best location-based advertising technology at the Mobile Advertising and Marketing Awards.[ citation needed ]
Hypertag was bought by Proxama Ltd on 14 January 2011. [4]
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