Type Limited company Industry Mobile Marketing Motto Business mobile messaging Number of locations 2 Parent organization IMImobile | Traded as Textlocal Headquarters Chester & Malvern Founded 2005 Number of employees 45 (May 2016) | |
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Founder Alastair Shortland, CEO
Darren Daws, Chairman Products Bulk SMS, SMS marketing, Messenger and Mobile marketing Profiles | ||
Who are textlocal
Textlocal is a mobile communications company founded in 2005 with offices based in Malvern and Chester.
Contents
- Who are textlocal
- Textlocal the 1 business mobile messaging product
- History
- Products
- Recent awards
- References
In 2005, Alastair Shortland and Darren Daws decided they wanted to transform the way businesses, individuals and groups communicate using mobile. Txtlocal Ltd was then formed.
Since then, with the development of their Messenger product, it has allowed over 165,000 users to communicate via SMS, MMS and Mobile Web. Its services include Inbound and outbound SMS and MMS communications using a web based control panel, SMS Gateway and MMS API, mobile web page creation, mobile forms and surveys, SMS attachments and mobile vouchers and loyalty cards.
They are members of the Chartered Institute of Marketing, Institute of Direct and Digital Marketing, Direct Marketing Association and Federation of Small Businesses.
Textlocal the 1 business mobile messaging product
History
Txtlocal Ltd was formed in September 2005 as a provider of bulk SMS for businesses. In 2011, Txtlocal Ltd rebranded to become Textlocal, with a new website and branding. In 2012, Textlocal launched a new iteration of their Messenger platform, Messenger 2.0. Created by the team of in-house developers, the new platform added a number of new features and a more streamlined interface. In 2013, they released their Attachments tool, which allowed users to attach documents to an SMS through a combination of file hosting and shortened URLs. This was the first product of its kind in the mobile messaging market. This technology enabled the development of subsequent features, including mobile forms and surveys in 2013 and vouchers, tickets and loyalty cards in 2014. In 2014, IMImobile purchased Txtlocal Ltd. In 2015, Messenger 3.0 was launched, updating the platform, and then allowed the launch of Textlocal India.