Cape Town, South Africa and Beverly Hills, USA – 9 July, 2015
NXT\ Digital Innovation, an integrated digital agency and Ping Media Group, a global mobile marketing company, today announce an exclusive licensing partnership that will combine and expand Ping’s powerful and robust mobile marketing technology platform with NXT\ Digital Innovation’s fully-integrated digital products and services. This will enable brands, companies, and agencies to plan, execute, measure, and manage ongoing consumer digital engagement more effectively than ever before via a complete digital suite.
Ping offers a broad range of mobile solutions and services including SMS/MMS, Digital Media Planning and Buying, Mobile Display Advertising, Mobile Application Development, Mobile Web/WAP Site Development, Email, 3-D CUBE, IVR & Voice Broadcasts and Location-Based Technologies. The solutions are also supported with an award-winning team that guides brands through strategy, user experience, measurement, and compliance.
NXT\ also provides brands with digital and creative services, including: strategy, insights and analytics, graphic design, social media and community management, gamification and animation marketing, app and web development, Search Engine Optimization, media buying and planning, as well as hosting solutions.
The combined digital suite will be provided exclusively in North America, Israel, and Australia with the ability to also offer the services elsewhere.
“This partnership will enable Ping to bring brands and their customers together in multiple digital environments such as mobile, web, SMS, and display, seamlessly, under one partner, while being able to measure and report on all activity. Now that is powerful and exciting.” said Thom Jordan, CEO of Ping Media Group.
Ping and NXT\ Digital Innovation are partnering under this licensing agreement to jointly support these exciting new combined offerings. Both companies are planning to jointly open and staff a “PingNXT” office in New York City later this year under this partnership.
“The New York office will be an exciting next move for us,” stated Wayne Levine, CEO of NXT\ Digital Innovation. “We look forward to establishing a solid presence in such an inspiring city, as well as with the new clients which we’ll be working closely with.”
“NXT\ is an ideal partner,” stated Rudolph Lowy, Chairman of Ping Media. “The products NXT\ adds to the combined Ping-NXT digital suite will provide marketers with the ability to better identify, reach and engage their target audience,” added Mr. Lowy.
"This partnership is compelling on many levels for us," explained Mr. Levine. "Ping’s assets and complimentary market presence enable us to expand globally, while maximizing our speed and profitability."
About NXT\ Digital Innovation
In 2007 NXT\ was founded as NXT Mobile by Wayne Levine, Eunene Levine (then Sucevic) and David Oosthuizen; respective leaders in the fields of mobile communication, innovation and Information Communication Technology (ICT).
NXT\ Digital Innovation provides a host of digitally-lead services and products to a growing number of clients and has won a number of awards and accolades in the process. NXT\ Digital Innovation’s team prides themselves on their CICLOPS methodology, an original approach that they established in which everything they create is done with reporting and measurement in mind. NXT\ Digital Innovation has offices in both Cape Town and Johannesburg, South Africa.
About Ping Media Group
Founded in 2006, Ping Media Group is the parent of Ping Mobile. Ping Mobile's mission is to power the mobile phone as today's primary marketplace communication tool through the delivery of high-customer-valued interactive content. As the longest standing full service mobile marketing company of its kind, Ping's robust mobile platform, award winning team, and creative ingenuity have empowered numerous Fortune 500 brands, agencies, and SMBs to tell their story to the connected mobile user. Ping Mobile is headquartered in Beverly Hills, CA
www.pingmobile.com
For More Information Contact:
Africa Wayne Levine
Wayne@nxt.co.za
North America Thom Jordan
Thom.Jordan@pingmobile.com
Australia Simon Swanson
Simon.Swanson@pingmobile.com
Europe & Israel Ofer Mizrahi
Ofer.Mizrahi@pingmobile.com