Category: Mobile Marketing

Mobile commerce is beginning to blend with marketing

Mobile technology is beginning to have a major impact on marketing and commerce around the world. Consumers are beginning to rely more heavily on their smartphones and tablets, allowing them to participate in commerce in new ways and experience advertising in a way they never have before. A new report from the Yankee Group aims to highlight the affects that mobile technology is having on these two fields. The report addresses the emerging trends that are being seen in the mobile commerce and mobile marketing arenas.

Report highlights the poor performance of loyalty programs

According to the report, some 40% of consumers make use of some kind of mobile shopping application or mobile coupons. While consumers are interested in shopping apps and coupons, the mobile loyalty programs that exist today are not having the impact on consumers that brands are hoping for. The report suggests that brands will have to take the mobile space more seriously if they want their loyalty programs to succeed in the future.

Mobile marketing beginning to play a bigger role with larger companies

The report also notes that mobile marketing is beginning to play a major role with large companies. These companies have taken note of the increasing importance of mobile technology and have been making moves to engage consumers in a new way. These companies have also been showing strong interest in mobile commerce, and some have begun to introduce marketing elements into their mobile commerce applications in order to better engage consumers.

Mobile commerce set for rapid evolution in the future

The report suggests that mobile commerce is set to evolve at a rapid pace. That is to say that mobile commerce may operate in a different fashion than it does today. New regulations and business practices could make mobile commerce more convenient for consumers. The report suggests that the further integration of marketing, as well as social networking, with mobile commerce is likely to continue well into the future.

Recent research is indicating that consumers in the U.S. have greater tolerance for this method than others.

According to a mobile marketing study that was just published, consumers in the United States are considerably more “tolerant” to smartphone video ads than their counterparts in Canada and Europe.

The study indicated that that more than a third of consumers in all three regions don’t pay much attention to the ads.

The research was performed by QuickPlay Media in the form of a survey. It determined that 40 percent or more of consumers in all three of the participating regions don’t pay all that much attention to the mobile marketing videos when these ads are displayed while they watch content on their devices. They also stated, however, that they are not irritated by the ads.

American viewers have the least likelihood of becoming irritated with video mobile marketing.

The study indicated that 62 percent of American smartphone content viewers are unlikely to become irritated with mobile marketing in the form of video ads when they are looking at content on their devices. This was compared to 40 percent of Canadians and 49 percent of British respondents.

Among all three of those countries, 20 percent or more of consumers were willing to pay between $5 and $7 per month in order to be able to gain access to television shows, movies, events, and other content without advertising.

At the same time, when it came to the relevant messaging form of mobile marketing, consumers in all three areas felt that the majority of ads were primarily irrelevant and did not appeal to their own unique interests. In the United States, consumers expressed that less than a third (29 percent) said that they felt that the ads that they saw were at least somewhat relevant to them. In the United Kingdom, that figure dropped slightly to 25 percent. However, among Canadians, only 12 percent felt that the ads that they saw were relevant to them.

According to the QuickPlay Media CEO and president, Wayne Purboo, who discussed the mobile marketing survey, “As more options for watching premium video content emerge for consumers, their particular preferences when it comes to viewing are also coming into focus.”