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THE BIG GUY Paul Skeldon paul@telemedia-news.com ART DIRECTOR Victoria Wren victoria@wr3n.com CONTRIBUTORS & CONSULTANTS Nick Lane Elson Sutanto Jarvis Todd Tim Green SALES & MARKETING info@Telemedia-news.com PRODUCTION DIRECTOR Annika Micheli annika@Telemedia-news.com PUBLISHER Jarvis Todd jarvis@Telemedia-news.com TO SUBSCRIBE www.TelemediaOnline.co.uk CIRCULATION ENQUIRIES Geraldine Lawton - O’Sullivan Geraldine@Telemedia-news.com WHAT WE’VE BEEN LISTENING TO Green Tambourine, The Lemon Pipers Drinking Every Day, Rumkicks WHAT WE HAVE BEEN READING The Satsuma Complex, Bob Mortimer WHAT WE HAVE BEEN AMUSED BY Bob Mortimer WHO WE’VE BEEN FOLLOWING @RealBobMortimer WINTER 2023 WILL BRING… Convergence of telemedia services TELEMEDIA MAGAZINE is published five times a year and circulated in print to qualified readers and downloaded in digital format to 12,000+ requested readers. BUSINESS ADDRESS: Ground Floor, Virginia Cottage, Nash Lane, Scaynes Hill, West Sussex, RH17 7NJ, UK. Web: www.TelemediaOnline.co.uk Overseas subscriptions and non qualified readers can obtain Telemedia Magazine with an annual subscription rate of £15 / 20. Refunds on cancelled subscriptions will be provided at the publisher’s discretion, unless specifically guaranteed within the term of subscription. © World Telemedia Ltd. All rights reserved. No part of Telemedia Magazine may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying and recording on any information storage or retrieval system without the written consent of the publisher. The contents of Telemedia Magazine are subject to reproduction in information storage and retrieval systems. Print by Borpi, S.L. (Borpisa).
Pity the fool that underestimates telemedia To paraphrase Hannibal Smith in The A Team, I love it when a plan comes together. As World Telemedia Marbella revealed – and how this issue of Telemedia magazine attests – messaging, content and payments are all now forming one offering. If proof were needed, turn to page 8 of this magazine to see how Dynamic Mobile Billing and engagement company Spoke are working under the name Viveri to create an engagement and payment powerhouse to offer media companies, charities and anyone else who may be interested the ability to engage, sell and monetise pretty much anything. This chimes with recent changes across Europe as to how DCB is being used, with many mainstream businesses
starting to see it as a viable way to on-board users to a range of services (see pages 1-4). In Germany in particular, the MNOs have got together to give carrier billing its own brand name and logo, while German payment platform InternetQ has now garnered a licence from the German regulator to use DCB to sell physical and quasi-physical goods (see page 10). The importance of DCB and content and VAS all working together is further showcased by the shifting demand for highquality content subscriptions seen across the market (see page 16), which finds that not only are consumers demanding a much higher volume of much higher quality content (see page 18), but also that DCB is proving to be the most convenient way
for them to pay for it – across Europe and in MENA and beyond (see page 19). SMS continues to shape how many consumers engage with brands and merchants (see page 12). But with the likes of WhatsApp growing its reach into this market (see page 14), it won’t be long before we see all messaging types playing a pivotal part in generating content use and offering payments from message. With issues around scams and fraud being addressed across the world (see pages 22- 26) telemedia is definitely set to see some action and adventure in 2024. telemediaonline.co.uk @telemediaTweets Paul Skeldon. editor
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