Thomas Husson

VP, Principal Analyst serving Marketing Leadership PROFESSIONALS

Thomas is a vice president and principal analyst, serving Marketing Leadership professionals.  Thomas's research focuses on the integration of mobile into marketing and digital strategies; the disruptive role of mobile in bridging the digital and physical worlds; the evolution of the mobile ecosystem; the convergence of mobile and social; and the impact of mobile devices and technologies on people's attitudes and behaviors. His coverage includes mobile marketing and advertising, mobile Internet and applications, and mobile commerce and payments. Thomas is widely cited in publications including International Herald Tribune, the BBC, The Economist, Reuters, AFP, Les Echos, and Le Monde.

Previous Work Experience

Thomas has 15 years of experience in the mobile and digital industries. Prior to joining Forrester in August 2008, Thomas spent four years at JupiterResearch as a senior mobile analyst, and six years at Bouygues Telecom (the third-largest French operator), first as Internet product manager and then as mobile multimedia marketing manager. Thomas also brings experience from the financial services sector, working in Milan for a year and a half. Thomas has served as a judge for the Global Mobile Awards at Mobile World Congress since 2008.


Education

Thomas holds degrees in international marketing/strategy and finance from EM Lyon (Lyon School of Management) and Science Po Paris (Institute of Political Science).

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  • Thomas Husson
  • Past 18 months
  • For Marketing Leadership Professionals

    Report:Don't Confuse Tablet And Mobile Marketing

    Contextual Marketing Demands A Unique Approach To Tablets

    Too many marketing leaders still lump tablets and smartphones in the same mobile bucket. That's a mistake. Why? Because tablets are not primarily mobile devices. Instead, they are mostly used within...

    • Downloads: 277
  • For Marketing Leadership Professionals

    Report:Mobile App Discovery: Best Practices To Promote Your App

    Most brands would love to have their apps among the top 25 most downloaded apps on the Apple App Store or Google Play. With more than one million apps available, there's a great risk that your app...

    • Downloads: 251
  • For Marketing Leadership Professionals

    Report:How Extended Packaging Will Redefine Relationships Among Brands, Retailers, And Customers

    A European Perspective On Mobile Bar Codes

    You've seen them everywhere: in the corners of print ads, across billboards, on buses, or in pieces of direct mail — those small blocks of even smaller squares. Marketers are increasingly using...

    • Downloads: 135
  • For Marketing Leadership Professionals

    Report:The European Tablet Landscape

    A Technographics® Data Essentials Document

    2012 was undoubtedly a pivotal year for tablets. With double-digit growth in tablet uptake across Western Europe, about one in seven online Europeans now owns a tablet. And with further double-digit...

    • Downloads: 53
  • For eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals

    Report:2013 Mobile Trends For eBusiness Professionals

    Landscape: The Mobile eBusiness Playbook

    With more than 1 billion smartphones in consumers' pockets at the beginning of 2013, mobile is driving a second Internet revolution that's even more profound than the first one. Mobile creates new...

    • Downloads: 720
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  • For Marketing Leadership Professionals

    Report:2013 Mobile Trends For Marketers

    Multiyear Strategies And Larger Investments Define This Year

    With more than 1 billion smartphones in consumers' pockets at the beginning of 2013, mobile is driving a second Internet revolution that's even more profound than the first one. Mobile creates new...

    • Downloads: 1127
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  • For Marketing Leadership Professionals

    Report:How To Start Bridging The Mobile Monetization Gap

    Use Mobile Engagement To Extend Existing Business Models

    Facebook, Groupon, Pandora, Path, Rovio, and Twitter are companies that get a lot of media or investor attention and have a common denominator: Each has a large mobile audience but an unproven...

    • Downloads: 487
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  • For Marketing Leadership Professionals

    Report:NFC: What Lies Beyond Contactless Payments

    How NFC Will Enable New Product Experiences By Bridging The Physical And Digital Worlds

    Forrester estimates that close to 100 million Near Field Communication (NFC) devices will ship in 2012. As it finally moves past the chicken-or-egg stalemate of the past five years, the contactless...

    • Downloads: 853
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  • For Marketing Leadership Professionals

    Report:Best Practices: How To Implement A Mobile Product And Service Road Map

    After jumping on the iPhone and Android app bandwagons, some global brands are beginning to realize that participating in the fragmented world of mobile comes at a high cost. Mixing the right mobile...

    • Downloads: 618
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  • For Marketing Leadership Professionals

    Report:The Mobile Application Life Cycle

    Refine Your App Strategy In Anticipation Of The Second Wave

    The Apple App Store and Google Play have recently passed the threshold of 40 billion cumulative apps downloaded. The smartphone boom is driving exploding usage of mobile apps across the globe....

    • Downloads: 1245
    • Comments: 3
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  • For Consumer Product Strategy Professionals

    Report:Forrester's Mobile Maturity Model

    Forrester's Framework Benchmarks Mobile Capabilities And Provides A Road Map For Progress

    Everyone needs a mobile strategy, but what is the right approach and what are the appropriate objectives and metrics? To help product strategists and executives in charge of defining their company's...

    • Downloads: 1154
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  • For eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals

    Report:2012 Mobile Trends For eBusiness Professionals

    Talk of "the year of mobile" is not only passé but also irrelevant. The disruptive forces of mobile arrived more than two years ago and will fundamentally change businesses in the decades to...

    • Downloads: 2561
  • For Marketing Leadership Professionals

    Report:Drive Product Innovation To Mature Your Mobile Strategy

    Mobility is at the core of global digital disruption trends, and product strategists are best positioned to anticipate how smartphones open up new opportunities for product and service innovation. To...

    • Downloads: 564
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  • For Marketing Leadership Professionals

    Report:2012 Mobile Trends For CPS Professionals

    Talk of "the year of mobile" is not only passé but also irrelevant. The disruptive forces of mobile arrived more than two years ago and will fundamentally change businesses in the decades to...

    • Downloads: 732
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