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TheTMSway Weekly Radar on Mobile Marketing and Business

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Survey: Retailers focusing on mobile site optimization and in-store technologies DENVER, Colo. — Retailers remain conservative when it comes to financial investments in mobile and tablet initiatives despite the industry buzz, according to a survey by Shop.org and Forrester Research. In the "2012 State Of Retailing Online" survey, 50% of the retailers surveyed said they spent less than $100,000 on smartphone investments in 2011, and 74% spent the same on tablet initiatives. One year later, the numbers remain conservative, but companies are increasing their investments: On average retailers plan to invest $207,000 in 2012, compared with an average of $55,000 spent in 2011. Asia-Pacific Poised to Dominate World Ad Market Digital g... Read more -->

TheTMSway Weekly Radar on Mobile Marketing and Business

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Digital advertising grows despite market slowdown Many of the retailers I meet tell me they want to reach “Millennials.”  Why is this demographic so important? Millennials – also called “Gen Y” – are defined as the 50+ million Americans ages 18-29 who are the first generation to pass into adulthood in the new millennium.  According to Pew Research, this generation has a defined personality:  “confident, self-expressive, liberal, upbeat and open to change.” Mobile optimised websites increase dwell time Marketing campaigns are an absolute must to try and generate more leads for companies be it through B2B email marketing social media or direct mail. However, there are some things to take into account before g... Read more -->

Asia leads in the world’s mobile web traffic

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The Asian region takes an impressive lead in mobile traffic for two consecutive years with data tripled since 2010. Asia grew by more than 192%, from 6.1% to 17.8%, according to Pingdom’s analyzed data fromStatCounter. Based on said study, the figure outstripped that of North America which recorded 8% and Europe at 5.1% of this year. Africa, on other hand, came second and a bit closer to Asia, with a 155.6% record over the period (14.5%). The UK was leading in Europe with 10.7% while the US got the chart at 8.6%. Among Asian countries, India had the highest share of mobile traffic wherein total mobile browsing has acquired 48.9%. The top 10 in the record chart, however, is dominated by African countries, but Brunei and Laos made the... Read more -->

Mobile Market: Samsung takes over Nokia as world’s top mobile seller

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For the first time, Samsung takes over Nokia from the latter's reign as world leader in mobile sales after hitting a record at $4.4 billion in first quarter profits and a staggering 267% increase in Smartphone sales. The International Data Corporation (IDC), according to Industry Week, has confirmed the speculation via its Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker report with regards to Samsung's lead against Nokia at a wide margin. Samsung’s Galaxy Note and Galaxy S II smartphones, accordingly, have had huge contribution to its achievement in mobile sales. For 14 years, Nokia has been dubbed as the world’s top seller but the company was not able to capture its market share after it posted $1.2 billion loss in the last quarter. Fro... Read more -->

Can Publishers Survive in the Post-PC World?

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Mobile is a tiny market but it’s growing quickly, and with Smartphone proliferation that grows in popularity, advertisers in effect made a shift towards mobile to acquire revenue, said lead industry analyst and media specialist Agata Kaczanowska. In a compiled data from journalism.org, it revealed that mobile made up advertising revenue from newspaper publishers. In fact, 0.9% of digital ad revenue last year was generated from mobile, a factor that shows newspaper’s primary reliance on the web as source of digital revenue. The mobile ads constituted 0.1% of the total ad revenue in 2011, which although small, represents nearly 2000% year-to-year increase. Many publishers including the NY Times, Wall Street Journal, and The Financia... Read more -->

Mobile marks a record on Internet Ad Revenue, Mobile Ads the future

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The 2011 report on Internet Ad Revenue marks the year of mobile with impressive growth, said the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB). The research revealed the mobile listed for the first time as a standalone category for good reason. Accordingly, the growth in mobile advertising was the fastest of all IAB’s category, up 149% to $1.6 billion in year 2011; and recently, it's accounting to 5% of all internet ad revenue compared to email (1%), sponsorship and rich media (same at 4%), while search is the largest category at 46.5%. The IAB stressed that due to the proliferation of tablets and Smartphones, the tremendous growth in mobile will continue as said screens become more crucial to marketing mix. Meanwhile, the PwC US said that b... Read more -->

Robust mobile ad spend in Spain, local mobile ad revenues up in the US

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The mobile ad spending in Spain is projected to break the €100 million ($138.8 million) barrier in 2012 after a climb to 67.4% in 2011 to €63.6 million ($88.3 million); and it maintains the levels of growth till year 2013, according to March 2012 report by MMA Spain and Accenture. Accordingly, the telecom and internet industry in Spain is tied to mobile and has developed the most sophisticated mobile marketing plans to propelling the said market. The Mobile World Congress, in which Spain is a host country yearly, is another advantageous factor viewed to has contributed marketers’ taking of advantage to mobile’s ubiquity in the region. Meanwhile, in the US market, a report revealed growth to $5.01 billion in 2016 in the regi... Read more -->

TheTMSway Weekly Radar on Mobile Marketing and Business

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With an Inherently Local Ad Base, Publishers Can Take the Mobile Lead With mobile advertising experiencing 10-20% growth year-over-year, focus can be the big challenge for most people involved in the mobile space. With expansion is going to come diversification, as increasingly niche long-tail approaches will add depth to a field that till now has been in its infancy. Mobile advertising is currently largely national or online brands and products—especially with the explosion of ads in games advertising for other games. Local advertising makes up only a small percentage of mobile ad buys, and there’s little sense in this. Yet it’s not going to be local businesses themselves that correct this imbalance—it’s traditional loc... Read more -->

TheTMSway Weekly Radar on Mobile Marketing and Business

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Mobile Marketing Association Forum New York, Announced for June 11-13, 2012 The Mobile Marketing Association (MMA) today opened registration for The MMA Forum New York: The Mobile Experience, the premier North American Forum event of 2012. Held June 11-13 at The Roosevelt Hotel, the event is a convenient opportunity for journalists, analysts and bloggers to learn from and network with leaders from across the mobile ecosystem, including: Hotel Industry Poised for 2012 Growth 58% of global hotel accommodation owners and managers worldwide believe their business will be either a lot more profitable (13%) or a little more profitable (45%) this year, according to [pdf] results from a TripAdvisor survey released in February 2012.... Read more -->

TheTMSway Weekly Radar on Mobile Marketing and Business

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Why mobile TV is the linchpin for advertising success For broadcasters and networks, mobile is becoming a necessary part of their distribution channels to meet the needs of consumers who want television content to be available on multiple platforms. Here lies the opportunity for brand advertisers. With the increase in networks and broadcasters looking to mobile to give users additional bits of content and live streaming, marketers also have an opportunity to target mobile campaigns in new, non-traditional ways. The new slew of mobile initiatives also has implications for cable providers looking to lock consumers into TV services across multiple screens. Mobile Device Users Highly Connected With Entertainment Ads Two-thirds of... Read more -->