Company

Mobile marketing leaders since 1998

At Vibes, we connect marketers and publishers directly with their customers. We do this using the power of mobile devices, allowing us to connect our clients with their customers at just the right time and just the right place. That’s mobile marketing.

Co-founders Jack Philbin and Alex Campbell started Vibes in 1998 when you couldn’t even send a text message in the U.S. Driven by the vision that phones would soon be used for messaging, they entered the mobile industry the only way they could—through paging. Using capcodes and over the air (OTA) programming, they were able to create sophisticated, targeted messaging campaigns.

As data capabilities started to take off in the U.S., Vibes worked with a number of wireless carriers to help promote data services and urge customers to start using their phones for more than just voice calls.

Vibes delivered some of the earliest mobile marketing programs in the U.S., including Text-2-Screen, Text-2-Win, Text Adventure and the award-winning iRadio platform. When it comes down to it, Vibes has been in the mobile marketing industry since day one. And this has positioned us as one of the few companies capable of effectively leveraging the vast mobile marketing opportunity in the U.S.

As technologies have advanced, so has our expertise, client list and office space. Over the past three years, Vibes has grown from 25 employees to nearly 90 in order to attack the rapidly growing demand for mobile marketing and mobile CRM.

Today, we work tirelessly to set the industry standard for best practices and offer an ever-expanding selection of effective mobile marketing programs. We’re also recognized by the Common Short Code Association as a Tier 1 aggregator and are the largest licensor of short codes in the United States. What does it all mean? We like to think it all points to one thing: We know mobile.

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Vibes quick facts:
  • Headquarters: Chicago, IL
  • Employees: 85
  • Founded: 1998
  • Clients: 432
  • Messages delivered:
    1.5 billion
  • Campaigns run last year: 124,335
  • Beer on tap: Guinness