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Campaign Monitor for your mobile

February 03, 2010

Today we're super excited to announce a new mobile optimized version of Campaign Monitor that gives you and your clients quick access to great looking reports on any campaigns you've sent. It's fast, looks great and is available now. Just head to your account on any popular mobile device like an iPhone or Android and the mobile version will be shown by default. You don't need to install anything, because it is a web application, not a native phone application.

Here's a quick preview of how it looks on an iPhone.

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A focus on reporting

When deciding what functionality to include in the mobile version, we've been keeping a close eye on our customers. It turns out that the most popular section of your account accessed by a mobile device is campaign reporting, so that's where we focused our efforts. More than 95% of all mobile visitors also come in on an iPod or iPhone variant, so we put a lot of work into making sure the experience was perfect on these devices in particular. It's a really nice way to get the latest stats on a campaign you've sent in a couple of thumb presses.

Great for resellers

One of the biggest issues that stopped us from building a dedicated iPhone application (as opposed to a mobile optimized web version) was that it wouldn't be any use to our customers who were reselling Campaign Monitor to their clients. We'd have to mention the name Campaign Monitor for starters.

By taking the web application approach, we can keep everything private label. When you or your clients log into their account, there is no mention of Campaign Monitor. We even honor the color scheme you've chosen in your account and use that same theme in the mobile version. It's a great new feature you can pitch to your clients, especially if they're iPhone addicts like most of our office.

Launch it like a real application

One great thing about the iPhone is that you can launch web applications just like a traditional app you've bought from the App Store. By heading into your account with Safari and adding it to your Home screen, you have a dedicated button that will load your latest reports with a single click. We even provide a nice icon and loading screen for you and your clients while the latest stats are downloading.

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There is lots of cool technology under the hood of our mobile version, and I'll be sure to share some of the more interesting details in a future post.

Easy switching

While the mobile version is all about your campaign reports right now, you can still switch to the full version of Campaign Monitor and access all our functionality with a single click. At the footer of every page is a link to switch to the corresponding page in the full version of the app. We'll automatically switch you back to the mobile version the next time you log in.

Tell us what's next

We've got lots of our own ideas on other features that would be handy in the mobile version. With the first release out the door, we'd love to hear what else (if anything) you would like to see in future updates.

Posted in: New Features & Updates

86 Comments

Simon
February 4, 2010 10:09pm

I can’t see it in the app store.

I’m only kidding, I just wanted you to all to bang your head against the wall thinking ANOTHER person hasn’t read your blog posting properly. ;-)
Finge
February 4, 2010 10:14pm

Supercool! Have been waiting for this.
Torbjoern Karlevid
February 4, 2010 11:39pm

Looks very promising now I need some clients ;)
David
February 5, 2010 12:32am

what is the mobile address for those on a Palm Pre, as you for some reason don’t recognize that platform.
Vince
February 5, 2010 2:26am

It’s easy for most to get confused thinking it’s only for the iPhone.

You may want to change the title from “... for your iPhone” to something else :-)
Maybe even change the picture so it doesn’t just display an iPhone - 3 times! ;-)
Mathew Patterson
February 5, 2010 5:27am

@David you can just go to your normal login and add /m on the end to manually choose the mobile version.
David Greiner
February 5, 2010 6:16am

David, like Mat said, just add a /m to the URL to see the mobile version. We’d also love to know how the app renders on a Palm Pre (haven’t had one available to test yet), so please let us know if you spot any issues.
K,C,
February 5, 2010 2:05pm

as a reseller, this is a great application and it will be great to help market my service to my clients.

Are there any marketing assets available for this add-on, like html pages, descriptions, flyers, etc.?
Ros Hodgekiss
February 5, 2010 2:39pm

Hi KC, not at present. We’ll be looking at what marketing assets we can create for this and other features in the coming months. Please keep the suggestions coming as we’d like to provide our resellers with more white-label content they can present to their clients.
James
February 5, 2010 8:55pm

Great web app. As for future updates, perhaps the ability to upload a custom icon .png for those we resell under their own brand?
Derek
February 6, 2010 4:10am

YEAH!!
Andrew
February 9, 2010 7:22am

Ok so where do I get it? Did a search on ITunes Stores and couldn’t find it?
Mathew Patterson
February 9, 2010 7:47am

@Andrew - this is a web application, you don’t need to install anything, just visit your normal login page on your phone.
jak
February 9, 2010 11:36am

sweet
Ros Hodgekiss
February 9, 2010 1:16pm

Hi folks, as a result of your excellent feedback on this post, we’ve updated the web application. Here’s a short write-up on the improvements.

We’re still listening to your suggestions, so please keep sending them in! As always, your input is pivotal to making Campaign Monitor more useful and enjoyable for all involved, so thank you for your efforts so far.
Jon M
February 9, 2010 5:20pm

Great news about taking the comments onboard guys - will give it a whirl now!
Peter Collins
February 11, 2010 9:12am

This is fantastic, and I’ll be making my client aware of this in the morning. One thing which would be great, and carry on from the way that it’s rebrandable, is would it be possible to create both a favicon for general web browsers, and also an iPhone icon for saved sites? If I could upload my own designs for those files, that’d be wonderful.

Great work though, with this and the other simplifications of importing and creating campaigns.
Ros Hodgekiss
February 11, 2010 9:29am

Cheers for the feedback, Peter! I’ll pass it on to our team, that would be a neat addition. Thanks again for giving our latest improvements a whirl, it’s much appreciated.
Jrock
February 11, 2010 11:24am

Great new feature! Looking forward to the next version!
shimul
February 12, 2010 10:58pm

Hi I just visited http://demo.webapp-net.com/ , my question is, is jQtouch transitions are smooth as like as http://demo.webapp-net.com/ ?? if yes then how , because I now the jqtouch page transitions are not smooth like that one
Dan Oersnes
February 16, 2010 2:13am

Really impressed with the first edition. Looks promising. Can’t wait for updates. I will be using this a lot :-)
Ian Hunter Gray (Rock and Pop Tours)
February 20, 2010 2:17pm

Excellent! Love all you do and this someone on the run like me is perfect as I have 10 different things on the go at once. This is invaluable. Thanks people. Ian Gray (Rock and Pop Tours)
Michael Dakwa
February 23, 2010 12:29am

<amazed>!!!!!!</amazed>
Brian
March 3, 2010 1:23am

Love the use of css3. Nice job!
Barbara Zaccone
March 3, 2010 3:43am

I have to say I am thrilled with this addition. Our company BZA just started offering mobile web design so this fits in perfectly with our new line of services. Thank you Campaign Monitor!!!
JohnONolan
March 3, 2010 4:18am

Major props for doing this in the browser, AS IT SHOULD BE! :)
Nate
March 3, 2010 4:31am

Awesome, it looks great on the Palm Pre once you add the /m to force view the mobile site.

Dunno if this html will show the screenshot, but I’ll try it.
http://i489.photobucket.com/albums/rr257/brne4x4/photos-temp-0jpg.jpg

Great job!
Craig
March 3, 2010 4:47am

Had this set up and working on an iPhone - now when I tap to open the ‘app’ I get a Safari error stating, “Cannot Open Page - Safari cannot open the page because too many redirects occurred.” Anyone else seeing this?
mike
March 3, 2010 5:06am

i like it but would like it to save my login details when i log in.. is this possible?
Alexander
March 3, 2010 5:12am

Great stuff! Looks very nice on my N900, although I had to add the /m to the URL as my device behaves more like a “grown-up” computer (which in turn means I can also access the full version just fine, including the graphics). Anyway, I love the new mobile web app - any chance you’d like to add a “switch to mobile” link to the regular login page for users like me?

Two issues I’ve encountered:
The label text is a bit short, so the names of some clients and the titles of some campaigns were cut off at the end.
The “View campaign” link did not work for me, got a 404 from your server

Thanks again! :)
Fernando Lopez
March 3, 2010 5:28am

Wow, once I was on vacation and I need to send a campaign, thanks to this tool, it’ll be easy wheter you’re in the office or out, thanks.
James Noble
March 3, 2010 9:57am

On my way to the studio this morning while looking for change in my bag to buy a tram ticket. Pulled out yesterdays Taxi receipts from meeting clients. Its times like this I can turn on my iPhone, add these expenses and not forget once the day has begun. Excellent work people, excellent!
SEO Strasbourg
March 3, 2010 5:37pm

Great News ! Hope to see one day the real standalone application, that brings cache and offline view better than a web app ;-)
5050shop.nl
March 3, 2010 6:30pm

Also a blackberry version would be nice!

And when can we use this..
Ros Hodgekiss
March 4, 2010 9:05am

Hi 5050shop, it’s available now when you head to your account. I’m not sure what Blackberry device you’re using, but I’d say that this should be available if you have a recent Blackberry browser.
Mike
April 12, 2010 8:07am

4:20. Eh, Campaign Monitor?

(I like.)

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