It looks like another ambitious move into the ‘services’ market from a company that used to just make handsets.

Nokia has already announced various schemes to sell mobile music (having bought music provider Loudeye) and is expected to do the same in gaming as part of its re-launch of the N-Gage platform.

The two ad launches move Nokia into an extremely hot mobile sector, populated at present by pureplays such as Screentonic and Admob, as well as web giants like Yahoo.

Nokia Ad Service is a fully managed service aimed at the advertising community, which provides ‘planning, deploying, optimising and reporting’ for client campaigns. It supports interactive content such as banner ads in browsing services, ads embedded in applications and videos. The launch is scheduled imminently in Europe and globally in the second half of 2007.

Nokia Advertising Connector helps partners serve the right ads to the right devices. It acts as an ‘intelligent switch’ selecting between text, visual, audio and video ads depending on the user’s context. As such ads will be closely tied to specific applications, such as watching mobile TV, listening to music or looking at maps. Nokia Advertising Connector supports the CPA (cost per action) model. 
 
The service will run several pilots during the coming months and is planned to become commercially available by the end of 2007.

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