Mobile marketing is taking off faster than other digital ad channels

In the United States, smartphone and tablet users are being targeted at a rate that is more rapid than other categories.

According to a recent report by BI Intelligence, mobile marketing is growing at a faster rate than advertising over any other digital channel in the United States, as a rising amount of the overall ad budget by marketers is being allocated to catching the attention of an increasingly large number of users who look to their smartphones and tablet screens first.

Traditionally, there has been a considerable gap between the amount of time spent on mobile devices and the ad money for the channel.

The users of smartphones and tablets have been spending a rapidly rising amount of time on those devices, to the point that it is very significant, and it is still growing. That said while the amount of money spent on mobile marketing is also on a rapidly rising path, it remains quite tiny when compared to the amount of time that users are spending on the devices. The BI Intelligence report shows that this disparity is about to start to narrow, as marketers start to more readily embrace mobile optimized advertising formats.

Among these optimized types of mobile marketing are native ads and interactive rich media.

As the improvement of targeting continues, says BI Intelligence, there will also be an increase in the number of advertisers that will discover the ways in which the mobile advertising platform can effectively be utilized.

The prediction from the report was that by 2018, the mobile ad spend in the United States will reach almost $42 billion. This will be the result of a 43 percent five year compound annual growth rate starting in 2013.

The report examined some of the most important and successful mobile marketing formats, which include the user of social, video, search, and display. The report provided considerable insight into the firm’s predictions with regards to the areas that will see the largest amount of spending from a mobile advertising budget, while looking at the overall performance that may be expected from the ads produced for smartphone and tablet screens.