02 Apr 2012
| by Sarah Shearman
Skype is embarking on its largest consumer marketing push to date, with a $12m (£7.5m) global...of global marketing at Skype, told Marketing that the campaign, created by Pereira O Dell, aimed to demonstrate the "much richer communications experience Skype can deliver, and how it can bring people together ...
for the campaign.
The ads feature bold text such as Your One-Way Ticket Back to Reality , featuring the Skype ...
16 Feb 2012
| by Sarah Shearman
Microsoft has started to sell ads on Skype's mobile app for the first time in the UK as it ramps up...Lloyds TSB is the first advertiser to roll out a campaign on Skype with a campaign for its mobile banking service, bought by MEC.
Microsoft has been selling Skype s mobile and desktop ad inventory ...
for the first time, Microsoft Advertising UK is also selling desktop ads for Skype. The mobile ads will appear ...
10 Oct 2011
| by Daniel Farey-Jones
video-calling service Skype....executive Steve Ballmer said: "Skype is a phenomenal service that is loved by millions of people around ...
connected to family, friends, clients and colleagues anywhere in the world."
The following month Skype ...
20 Jul 2011
| by Ivan Fernandes
get together, marketers should be listening.
Facebook s deal with Skype opens up a range ...
is that Facebook is working with Skype to introduce video calling.
Essentially, it lets you video call all your friends directly via Facebook rather than having to open up the Skype platform.
So what does this mean ...
07 Jul 2011
| by Loulla-Mae Eleftheriou-Smith
Facebook's founder Mark Zuckerberg has struck a deal with internet telephony provider Skype...The partnership will create a Skype widget within Facebook, allowing two people to talk face-to-face.
The widget does not require Facebook users to download a specific service from Skype before video calling ...
apps like video chat can just flow across that.
"It's not the case like with traditional Skype ...
21 Jun 2011
| by Ben Bold
Skype, the internet telephony provider, has unceremoniously booted out chief marketing officer Doug...The news was reported yesterday by Bloomberg , in a follow-up of a report on blog Skype Journal , and quickly led to speculation that Skype wanted to eject its executives before their stock options grew ...
and general manager for Skype Business; Christopher Dean, head of consumer market business development; Russ ...
18 May 2011
| by Ed Owen
Microsoft aims to disrupt the mobile market with its shock purchase of Skype for $8.5bn (£5.2bn...Skype, the internet-based video phone, teleconferencing and messaging service, fetched more than ...
-calling at the heart of its network.
Operating since 2003, Skype has 170 million active users, and is one ...
Friis, using a team of Estonian programmers.
EBay bought Skype for $2.6bn in 2005, but then sold ...
10 May 2011
| by Ed Owen
Skype will help Microsoft to create the "future of real-time communications", Microsoft's chief...users, and generating significant new business and revenue opportunities."
Ballmer said: "Skype is a ...
and colleagues anywhere in the world."
Fortune estimated that ad revenues for Skype could top $200m a year , but opportunities for brands now change as Skype becomes part of Microsoft's communications network ...
10 May 2011
| by Ed Owen
Microsoft will announce today it has agreed to buy Skype for between $7bn and $8.5bn (£4.3bn-£5.2bn...-based Skype was bought by eBay for $2.6bn ( 1.6bn) in 2005, but the internet auction site subsequently sold a 70% stake to a clutch of private equity firms.
Skype is the market leader in internet calling ...
it software.
The deal will add Skype to the Windows Live network, and give significantly more ...
13 Apr 2011
| by Sarah Shearman
Doug Bewsher, chief marketing officer at Skype, wants the telecoms brand to be a valued part...For a communications company, Skype's offices in London's Soho are eerily quiet. That could have ...
explains. It all fits nicely into Skype's brand proposition of 'being able to do things together when apart ...
Francisco, Bewsher was offered the Skype job eight months ago, while working in Singapore for mobile social ...