Tag: smartphone marketing

Mobile marketing makes up 1 in 3 digital ad dollars

| June 19, 2013

One third of online ad spending is directed toward smartphone and tablet using consumers.

According to the latest eMarketer study that has created a profile of the global industry for the first time ever, mobile marketing is an industry that is now worth $16 billion globally, and Google has the lion’s share of it at 55 percent.

The report also indicated that advertising over this channel represents a third of all of the global digital spending.

The eMarketer report indicated that in fiscal 2013, Google brought in over $8.8 billion in from mobile marketing. In second place, far behind Google, was Facebook, which drew $2 billion, which was an increase of just under a half billion from the year before. The third largest was Pandora, followed by the online version of Yellow Pages, YP. Last among the top five was Twitter.

As companies see increasing benefits from mobile marketing, they are redirecting their online spend toward that channel.

Mobile marketing digital ad dollarseMarketer pointed out in its mobile marketing report that “After making nearly half a billion dollars worldwide on mobile ads last year, Facebook—which had no mobile revenue in 2011—is expected to increase mobile revenues by more than 333% to just over $2 billion in 2013.”

This most recent year represented the middle of a new and powerful online and mobile marketing push for Twitter, which was seeing a global market share of less than 2 percent. This is expected to increase to the point that it will break the 2 percent mark this year. However, in the United States, it will hold a much larger space at 3.6 percent.

The mobile marketing dominance at Google has recently been the focus of the FTC and its competition regulators. As that massive company continues to grow and expand, it is also absorbing a larger amount of the advertising business over smartphone and tablet channels. At the same time, it is managing to keep a solid hold over to portion of the desktop advertising business.

eMarketer’s global mobile marketing report pointed out that Google will be boosting its revenues faster than the overall market’s growth over the upcoming year as a result of “continued monetization of YouTube and growing adoption of mobile advertising.”

Augmented reality plays important role in Meredith campaign

| June 19, 2013

The mobile marketing effort is being made in the hopes of reaching the Millennials generation.

Augmented reality is a form of technology that is gaining a much higher level of attention, lately, as it is proving its worth in mobile marketing and advertising, particularly in the younger smartphone carrying generation.

As a growing number of companies advertise over mobile, new and interesting methods are needed.

As the competition for attention becomes more intense over mobile, it is taking new and unique approaches to stand out from the crowd. This is especially true among consumers in the Millennials generation, who use their devices the most and are hit with the largest amount of content over that channel. This is why Meredith has decided to use augmented reality.

By choosing augmented reality, Meredith is hoping to stand out to moms in the Millennial generation.

Augmented reality app targeted to momsAccording to the Meredith Parents Network president, Carey Witmer, evp, despite the fact that Millennials have greatly embraced technology, there hasn’t been much of a depletion of the readership of its print publication. Witmer pointed out that “I don’t know anyone who has ditched print altogether,” and she added that “We see a very stable base of print readers.”

The augmented reality feature is not meant to try to replace the print version of the publication, which Meredith Parents Network feels is as strong as ever. Instead, it is showing that it has embraced the changes that have been made in the average lifestyle of many parents, and is offering additional content that reflects that because it is smartphone or tablet compatible.

The Mom+ app has now been available over several weeks to help to enhance the experience for its readers. Witmer declined to say exactly how many downloads it had received, but she did say that she is encouraged to see that a sweepstakes that requires the app saw over 25,000 entries.

This may seem like a small figure, considering that the augmented reality and mobile strategy from Meredith is a scale play, and the publication has a monthly delivery of 36 million consumer touch points, but the app provides important information as Meredith is looking to roll out a similar model for some of its other brands, such as Every Day and Better Homes and Gardens.