Today is a Bank Holiday here in the UK so the Mobile Marketing team will be spending the day in our back gardens exchanging text messages with our families and checking our emails on our phones when no one is looking.

Normal service will be resumed tomorrow, but in the meantime, here are a few stories from the past few weeks you might have missed that you might want to check out.

M&C Saatchi Mobile’s Eric Mugnier on why social networks are the next big mobile advertising platform. Read

Watch the video highlights of our recent Mobile Retail Summit. Watch

Kirsty Styles talks to Christian Hernandez, director of UK and pan-Euro at Facebook, about the social networking giants latest mobile push, Facebook Home, as well as its position as a global ad leader. Read

The RNIB’s Steve Jones on why brands are missing a trick if they ignore the needs of the blind and partially sighted when creating mobile apps. Read

Ad industry legend Maurice Saatchi on why mobile advertising is set for a bright future. Read

Whether you’re working or relaxing today, have a good one.

David Murphy
Editor