Jessica VincentPartnership & Sponsorship Manager
Antenna International
Where is the low-hanging fruit?
And why aren’t we picking it?
Antenna’s perspective
• mobile interpretation for 1200 cultural sites across the world• award-winning audio & multimedia content• pre-visit, in-visit and post-visit experiences• bespoke devices & user owned personal devices
The museum mobile landscape
Their reach…in the cultural sector…• 62 million people take an Antenna tour every year• Currently 66 apps available to download from iTunes &
Android Appstores
Personal mobile usage• 5.9 billion mobile subscribers world wide• 8 trillion text messages sent in 2011• 1.2 billion mobile web users worldwide
podcasts
sponsorship vehicle
audio tours
smartphone
Apps
tablet apps
multimedia tours
mobile web
e-commerce vehicle
social
networks
Re-purposing Content: The National Gallery
• 280k downloads
• 75 countries
• extensive press coverage
• free for first 3 months
• english only
• 210MB
Extending content reach: The Royal Academy
• audio only guide available on-site• multimedia app to download from iTunes Appstore• images provided by client • 170MB
Making money- free vs paid apps
• consumers will pay for content!• find the right price point
or
• give them a freebie and they will pay for more if they like it
Making money- Freemium Model
A sponsorship & commercial platform
• on-site and online presence• interactive engagement• on-selling & up-selling
Click to BuyClick to Buy
So before we start picking the fruit…
• motivations? • assets?• commercial appetite? • operations?• audience?
Thank you!