Category: Mobile Marketing

The Liberal Democrats have been hoping to use location based tech to target floating voters.

In the United Kingdom, the Liberal Democrat party has chosen to go the high tech route by employing geolocation technology in order to be able to gear the content on the party’s official website specifically toward the local issues of the individual who is viewing it.

This is all being implemented ahead of the next general election in the hopes of appealing to a target group of voters.

This makes the Liberal Democrats the first among all of the parties to take advantage of the hyper local potential of geolocation. They have worked with Digital Element in order to put this technology into place. The tool that was created for them is able to determine an individual’s location at a sub-regional level so that they will automatically view the campaign literature of the candidate who is closest to them.

Through the use of geolocation technology, voters will see information about the issues most relevant to them.

That said, despite the fact that users will automatically be presented with local material, this doesn’t mean that they won’t be able to access the national messages that have traditionally been posted on the party website. That will still be available to them, but upon initially accessing the site, they will first see the local content, issues, and candidate information displayed.

For example, someone in southeast London will initially see information about the candidate named Simon Hughes, for Old Southwark and Bermondsey, but that individual would also be able to check out the broader national information, as well. This could potentially have greater appeal and relevance to that person.

According to the head of digital communications for the Liberal Democratic party, Bess Mayhew, when speaking about the implementation of the geolocation technology, “Viewing web content that is more personal and less generic can really impact the way people vote, and small margins can make a huge difference to the final result. In this election in particular, we’re going to see a lot more marginal seats, so those few extra votes can really make the difference.”

Some of eMarketer’s latest stats are now showing that this year will already reach $15.5 billion in SMM ad revenue.

It is no great surprise that social media marketing is increasing in its use, but according to research from eMarketer, this form of advertising is also consistently breaking spending records and will continue to do so for the foreseeable future.

Advertising over SMM is expected to reach a tremendous $36 billion by the year 2017.

This represents a tremendous amount of growth from what is predicted for this year. The research from eMarketer also indicates that the social network that will be experiencing the greatest benefit from this advertising trend will be Facebook. As the popularity of these networks continues its increases among consumers, advertisers are catching on to the potential at a growing rate. This is causing them to spent more in order to be able to make contact with their target market in a more meaningful and effective way.

This year, advertisers around the globe wills spend nearly $24 billion on social media marketing.

The eMarketer research has predicted that this will represent an increase of 33.5 percent over the spending for social media advertising, last year. In only two years from now, the use of social media for ads and marketing will make up 16 percent of the worldwide digital ad spend.

The top spenders on SMM will be located in the United States and Canada, where it is anticipated that marketers will be boosting their payments to the various social networks by a whopping 31 percent in 2015, alone. This will bring the amount of spending on that medium up and beyond the $10 billion mark for the first time in history.

When looking at it from the perspective of the breakdown for individual users, this actually represents a spend of over $50 per user throughout the social networking universe. That amount has been predicted to rise to reach $71.37 per user within the span of the next couple of years, said the data and forecasts in the eMarketer report.

The market that will come in second for social media marketing spending in that time will be the Asia-Pacific region, where there will be a predicted spend of $7.4 billion. Third place will belong to Europe, where they will spend $4.74 billion.