A new iOS spp that combines the personal connection of voicemail with the visuals of Instagram. Dave Malkoff has this first look at SeeMail with the CW Remodeled & World Modeling Mogul Paul Fisher, Recording Artist Wendy Starland & SeeMail Founders Ward Chandler & Kent Speakman.

I am really happy to be the co-founder of this very exciting new app! Hope you enjoy it!

SeeMail, LLC is the creator of the mobile phone application SeeMail, available now in the App Store.  SeeMail is a revolutionary new mobile app for photo sharing.  SeeMail adds something special to your photos … your voice!™ We are the first to add voice to photos using our patent-pending AudioT.ag™ technology.

Seemail moves mobile photo sharing to the next level by adding the emotion and feeling of the human voice to the photo sharing experience.  SeeMail is personal, intimate, beautiful, fun, and easy to use.  SeeMail appeals to all ages, has thousands of uses, and has a cool retro vibe with mailbox icon, location postmarks, and vinyl record imagery.

“Every now and then a technology breaks the surface that begins as a bubbling brook between friends, before exploding across the landscape as a disruptive force. It’s an addiction that leaves you feeling ‘what did I do before?’”  Dean Donaldson on SeeMail, Global Head of Innovation, MediaMind

Product: SeeMail is a free mobile application available for download in the iTunes App Store. Our proprietary patent pending technology allows users to record an AudioT.ag™ with a photo and share the SeeMail directly with others via the app or by posting to popular social networks such as Facebook.

Team: The SeeMail team has extensive knowledge and experience in business, management, technology & social media. SeeMail Founder Ward Chandler brings 25 years of experience, leadership, insight, vision & public company office. Co-Founder and PO Engagement Kent Speakman is a recognized expert in social marketing (Top 10 Digital Marketer of 2011) and brings 15 years of marketing and management experience.  Our Technology team combined brings 50 years of web and mobile technology development, composed of a team of IOS developers and designers committed to building SeeMail into the next social media powerhouse.

Market Landscape:   Mobile photo sharing is a dominant market driver of social media.  As the market for mobile & photo sharing apps continues to grow and expand, the need to create communication clarity and establish deeper connections between users becomes a critical success factor.  Snapping a photo and emailing it to friends is out of favor.  Posting and sharing of photos on Facebook is huge – so huge that it has become noise.  It is impossible to keep up with all our friends posts, shares and tweets in an overcrowded stream of data.  An opportunity exists to fill the current gap in photo sharing with a creative and fun new format.

Solution:   SeeMail is personal.  Seemail is a visual message that is funny, loving, moving, beautiful, important, or just plain cute.   And SeeMail is much more than a photo – it is the Story Behind The Photo.  And to make it even more personal, SeeMail adds something special to your photos – your voice.   No other app has ever blended photos, captions, locations, and audio like SeeMail.

SeeMail establishes a personal connection that no other photo sharing app provides.  Whether the SeeMail is sent from one to one, or from one to millions, it is from one person to another directly through the app.  SeeMail is not another endless stream of photo sharing.  It is about connection. It is about one person speaking to another.  It brings the voice back into the equation.   And while SeeMail is personal, it also has key social elements.  Conversations are created around each SeeMail by recipients, and every SeeMail can be shared to popular social streams like Facebook and Twitter as a way to draw more people into the experience.

Our Users: Our users are non-technical mobile app enthusiasts who enjoys photo sharing. This market is very large. The photo sharing app Instagram now boasts over 50 Million users and has shared more than 1 billion photos.   SeeMail was designed from day one to be super simple to use.    Over 800 hours of user experience design was built into our first version of the app and we have consulted with everyone from A-List Celebrities to members of the Navy to ensure we have built a product to deliver.    Our goal is to make SeeMail friendly, fun, beautiful, and easy to use.  We have a great start in our first two versions of the app and we will continue to build toward that goal.  With users as young as 5 years old and as old as 70 we have a product that everyone is falling in love with.  Billions of digital photos are shared through mobile apps, and every one of them has a story.  SeeMail has very strong personal use cases between family and friends, and equally strong business use cases between professionals and clients.  Real Estate and Design are emerging as two early popular business use cases for SeeMail.

The recent $1 Billion Instagram acquisition by Facebook has shed even more light on the mobile app market, and the photo sharing vertical in particular.  SeeMail sits in the sweet spot of that market and is perfectly timed to ride that wave of popularity and publicity.

Advantages: Most photo sharing apps provide a silent public stream of images, which is in distinct contrast to the way in which SeeMail can not only be shared peer to peer or publicly, but also with unique verbal descriptions. SeeMail is engineered to be simple, fun and engaging. Our patent pending AudioT.ag™ system is the first to add voice to photos in a peer to peer mobile app. Celebrity users are already sharing content while engaging with other users in ways never possible before.

Cost: SeeMail creates immediate value for our users with the free version of the app.  The free app is fully functional and a pleasure to use.  Paid features have become available the second week of May. Within the app enhancements are longer recording times, increased sharing options, and fun pay-as-you-use viral features are coming soon.

Marketing:  Prior to its launch SeeMail ran a successful social media campaign resulting in over 20,000 twitter followers and over 10,000 Facebook fans.  SeeMail had a “Quiet Launch” on March 31, 2012 with no marketing or publicity to allow for public testing of the app in full release.  This proved very beneficial, with user comments and feedback being incorporated into Version 1.2 of the app – approved and released by Apple April 26.   Version 1.3 is  complete and has been submitted to Apple for approval.  With these two follow-ups, SeeMail is fully featured, tested and ready to push to a large audience.   The SeeMail Ambassador Program is kicking off this spring with numerous actors, musicians, authors, models and other influences already signing on board.  SeeMail is also participating in technology and targeted business conferences, music and concert events such as Bonnaroo and Coachella, and of course a marketing campaign that will involve our celebrity partners.

To learn more about SeeMail or to set up an interview, please contact Kent@SeeMail.com

Web: www.SeeMail.com

Twitter: twitter.com/SeeMailMe

Download SeeMail today in the Apple App Store

The App Spotlight is shining on SeeMail at SxSW 2012 and it can shine on you too.

1. Take a fun photo at SxSW
2. Post it to Facebook.com/SeeMailApp
3. Share The Story Behind The Photo in the description of your photograph.

The best stories will receive an invite to the SeeMail beta so you can share the story in your own voice.

The Best Photo Story of the Conference will win a New iPad!

Full details can be found at www.SeeMail.com/SXSW

A big congrats to film maker Jason Russell for putting together what I believe will be the most talked about film of 2012. #Kony 2012

KONY 2012 is a film and campaign by Invisible Children that aims to make Joseph Kony famous, not to celebrate him, but to raise support for his arrest and set a precedent for international justice.

HOW TO HELP:
Join TRI or Donate to Invisible Children: bit.ly/yp5Ffv
Purchase KONY 2012 products: invisiblechildrenstore.myshopify.com/
Sign the Pledge: causes.com/causes/227-invisible-children

Here is an interview I did with Bethany Simpson from iMedia Connection at the iMedia Agency Summit in Phoenix. We discussed some of the cool new mobile applications I am personally using… and started to hint at some of the stuff you will see with a cool new app we are very excited to be working on called SeeMail.

If your looking for a beta invite and premium upgrades when the app launches visit www.seemail.com and sign up today!

Here is an interview I did with Bethany Simpson from iMedia Connection at the iMedia Agency Summit in Phoenix. We discussed the #ScanYYC campaign we were happy to be a part of putting together.

How it works:
When the QR haircut has been scanned, audiences will be prompted to make a $5 donation by text message or credit card. In return for their support, participants will receive free REDKEN products, exclusive mobile coupons at Edges Salon & Spa locations and be entered into a mobile contest with further Edges Salon Gifts.

To show support & donate: ensure mobile device is equipped with a QR code scanner. To download a QR scanner, text the word ‘SCAN’ to the 5-digit number 70734

Calgary, Alberta, December 2, 2011 – Engageia, a privately held interactive and digital engagement agency has received top honors as a finalist in the iMedia Agency Awards in the Best in Social Media Category.

The iMedia Agency Awards is the premier industry awards show dedicated exclusively to recognizing the key role of agencies in advancing digital marketing. The inaugural iMedia Agency Awards will debut at the upcoming iMedia Agency Summit, December 4^th to 7th, and will highlight the most innovative agencies of the year, as well as those agencies leading the pack in strategic areas such as social media, video, mobile, and more.

The awards ceremony is taking place at the prestigious Camelback Inn, a JW Marriott Resort & Spa in Scottsdale, Arizona, following in conjunction with the iMedia Agency Summit. CMOs and their marketing teams from Fortune 500 brands will be attending among people such as Linda Cronin: Coca-Cola, Beverly Jackson: The Recording Academy/The GRAMMY Awards, Dave Friedman: Sears Holdings and Nick Sheth: The Gap, to name a few.

“iMedia is so excited to launch this yearly iMedia Agency Awards event spotlighting a spectacular list of agency finalists known for their industry-leading accomplishments. Regardless of who wins on Tuesday night at the iMedia AgencySummit, these agencies represent an extraordinary body of work that is driving digital marketing to new heights.” – Josh Messinger, VP Online, iMediaConnection.com

Engageia had a fantastic year for growth, working with clients in the public markets, start-up, hospitality, entertainment, liquor and technology sectors. They also worked with a handful of celebrities and public figures as their social media coaches. Engageia’s product incubation & development division is also developing some disruptive technology platforms and is anticipating taking the first 2 into the market in Q1 of 2012.

“The award nomination comes as a huge honor for us, being named amongst respected peers: 22Squared, imc2, Converseon and BGT Partners in the social media category and at the same awards ceremony with the most established agencies in the world: Rockfish Interactive, Starcom, OMD, BBDO, Crispin Porter + Bogusky, Digitas and R&R is a very exciting and rewarding for our team” Says Kent Speakman, President & Managing Partner of Engageia. “We look forward to continuing to grow organically through excellent work, working with new client/partners as well as taking some of the digital products we have been working on such as mobile apps and a contesting platform into the market in 2012.”

Engageia has, in part, been demonstrating their thought leadership in the digital space through the speaking engagements of one of the Founders & President Kent Speakman. In September of 2011 he led a panel at the Toronto International Film Festival on Social Media’s Role in the Entertainment Industry with Entourage Star: Adrian Grenier, MoboVivo President: Trevor Doerksen and Minggy.com President: Frank Sinopoli. Following the Canadian event he participated in mediamind Digital Experience Day in San Francisco the following week. Visionary thought leaders such as Futurist Patrick Dixon, Mark Carlson – SR Creative Director McDonalds Corporation and Dean Donaldson – mediaminds Global Director of Media Innovation spoke on the changes to come in digital media.

Engageia’s Kent Speakman participated in a panel debate on the future of Television and Apps with some of the brightest and well respected leaders in the industry including Catalyst: SF’s CEO John Durham, mediamind DG’s SVP Amit Rahav, Neoganda’s Creative Director Matt Cooper, MediaSmith’s CEO Dave Smith, and Visible World’s EVP Claudio Marcus.

Engageia also believes in giving back. In 2011 they donated time, consulting advice and/or event awareness campaigns for NGO’s and charitable organizations such as Project Peace on Earth, Give Back Entertainment, Rick Hansen Institute, Youville Residence, and GoPrintGo. This December they have teamed up with Edges Salon, Redken 5^th Ave, and Hollow Earth Media to support the same charity Matt Damon and Adrian Grenier support, oneXone. The group is launching an innovative campaign using QR Codes that are shaved into people’s heads in conjunction with SMS, and social media to drive awareness and donations for the cause. More information on the campaign can be found by visiting www.engageia.com/blog or www.facebook.com/ScanYYC

About iMedia
iMedia Communications, Inc. is a trade publisher and event producer serving interactive media and marketing industries. The company was founded in September of 2001 and is a subsidiary of dmg world media. Visitwww.imediaconnection.com or follow @imediatweet on twitter.

About ENGAGEIA
Engageia is an interactive, social media and technology agency who believes in thinking differently, challenging the status quo and delivering results through thought leadership and innovation. Kent Speakman, the President and Managing Partner, was recently honored on the iMedia List of the Top Ten Digital Marketers of 2011.

Visit www.engageia.com - www.facebook.com/Engageia or follow @Engageia on twitter.

CONTACT:
Engageia.com
Kent Speakman
888.838.8247
Kent@engageia.com

The event is taking place at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and will feature speakers from around the globe including leading futurist Dr. Patrick Dixon, Dean Donaldson, MediaMinds Global Director of Media Innovation and McDonalds SR Creative Director Mark Carlson.

The topics of the day at Digital Experience Day will be social, desktop, mobile, multi-channel consumer mindsets, analytical tools creative innovations and technologies that will build bridges in the multi channel world of the future.

“I am very excited about participating in this discussion with thought leaders in the space, from traditional TV to digital marketers and the variety of topics and challenges that the industry must overcome as we move into this new frontier.” said Kent Speakman in regards to panelists John Durham, Matt Cooper, David Smith, Claudio Marcus and moderator Amit Rahav.

“I have always been excited to see the day when traditional TV became digital and offered advertisers the ability to target the viewer in a more relevant way. With Smart TV, a whole new world of brand engagement and community can be built around the programs and products we all love.”

Digital Experience Day is put on by MediaMind and will be holding events globally in San Francisco, London and Singapore. More information about the conference can be found by visiting the website.

About ENGAGEIA

Engageia is an interactive, social media and technology agency who believes in thinking differently, challenging the status quo and delivering results through thought leadership and innovation. Kent Speakman, the President and Managing Partner, was recently honored on the iMedia List of the Top Ten Digital Marketers of 2011.

Visit www.Engageia.com or follow @Engageia @KentSpeakman on Twitter.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

September 1, 2011 – Calgary – Engageia, an innovative technology incubation, interactive and intelligence agency, is pleased to participate in the Teenage Paparazzo film screening and panel on Social Media and Entertainment, taking place Thursday September 8th, the opening night of Toronto International Film Festival. The film was produced by Adrian Grenier (star of Entourage) and Evan Ferrante (producer at Reckless Productions) and stars Grenier as he documents the true story of his relationship with a 13 year-old paparazzo, Austin Visschedyk.

Following the screening there will be a Q&A session and panel discussion on how social media and Apps are changing the way we watch and interact with our favorite shows and celebrities. Grenier, one of social media and a technology enthusiast along with Kent Speakman, Engageia President and Managing Partner, Trevor Doerksen, Mobovivo’s founder and CEO, and Evan Ferrante, Reckless Production Producer, will discuss with other panel guests and the audience how technology is empowering independent film producers and fans in the App age.

“I am looking forward to this discussion with thought leaders in production and distribution arenas, who both embrace and foster building communities and engage in audience building strategies utilizing Social Media” said Kent Speakman in Regards to Grenier, Ferrante and Doerksen. “I have long been a strong advocate of independent producers having both the responsibility and gift of leveraging social media to build a following in Pre-Production, Production and then throughout the films lifecycle.”

The Teenage Paparazzo Experience is also providing an occasion for students, the next generation of filmmakers, to participate in a film screening and Q&A on the film, Adrian’s experiences as an actor and producer and future of the industry.

“We are very excited to be back in Toronto and able to share the Teenage Paparazzo Experience with film students and industry leaders” said Adrian Grenier. “We are really looking forward to having a great discussion on where the movie business is going with new technology and social media.”

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About ENGAGEIA - Engageia is an interactive, social media and technology agency who believes in thinking differently, challenging the status quo and delivering results through thought leadership and innovation. Kent Speakman is the President and Managing Partner and recently was honored on the iMedia List of the Top Ten Digital Marketers of 2011.

Visit Engageia.com or follow @Engageia @KentSpeakman

More information:

Kent Speakman

(888.838.8247) or

Kent@engageia.com