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25 MAR 2021

Why do merchants need to view payment channels as user acquisition partners?

POSTED UNDER Bundling Digital Goods Digital Wallets Direct Carrier Billing Mobile Marketing Payments Physical Goods

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Mattias Liivak

Head of Marketing & PR, Fortumo

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2020 was a great year for e-commerce and digital content merchants. Lockdowns meant people spending more time at home, buying household goods and entertainment through digital channels. As life returns to normal, some of this growth will fade off. How to keep up the pace? The single biggest growth opportunity for any company doing business […]

23 MAR 2021

Muslim Kids TV launches local payments in Indonesia with Fortumo

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Mattias Liivak

Head of Marketing & PR, Fortumo

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Muslim Kids TV, the world’s leading educational entertainment platform for Muslim families, is today announcing the launch of carrier billing and mobile wallet payments through the mobile technology company Fortumo. Families can now unlock access to tens of thousands of videos, games, eBooks, and DIYs (Do-It-Yourselves) by charging the payment to their mobile operator bill […]

18 MAR 2021

White paper: why digital wallets are critical for merchants

POSTED UNDER Digital Wallets Payments White Paper

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Martin Lips

VP of Business Development

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Digital wallets have become an increasingly important part of the day-to-day lives of many consumers, offering them a way to pay for purchases across multiple use cases. While wallets can be online or mobile, increasingly, mobile is taking a primary role in revolutionizing the way consumers make payments. The importance of digital wallets is evident […]

11 MAR 2021

Market report: global overview of direct carrier billing

POSTED UNDER Direct Carrier Billing Market Report Payments Web Payments

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Martin Lips

VP of Business Development

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This report gives an overview of the direct carrier billing landscape globally during 2020. The report is based on combined data from Boku & Fortumo carrier billing platforms for 91 countries. The following regions are represented in the report: Asia (22 countries), Western Europe (18 countries), Middle East & Africa (21 countries), Central & Eastern […]

4 MAR 2021

White paper: better bundling results for telcos through bundling-as-a-service

POSTED UNDER Bundling Digital Goods Mobile Marketing Streaming White Paper

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Mattias Liivak

Head of Marketing & PR, Fortumo

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Modern bundle partnerships between telcos and digital content merchants started taking off in around 2013. There was one major VOD service (Netflix) and one major music streaming service (Spotify) on the market. Bundling was simple for telcos. One partner in both segments helped reach the goals of service differentiation, subscriber stickiness and incremental revenue growth. […]