As telcos, retailers, brands, media houses and agencies descend in Barcelona for the world’s largest gathering for the mobile industry, Lovely Mobile News will be looking back and celebrating the year that was in mobile marketing at an exclusive, invite only party during the Mobile World Congress. Held at the iconic El Born Centre de Cultura i […]
Retailers need to embrace next generation technology such as artificial intelligence (AI) and augmented reality (AR) if they want shoppers to continue using their apps, new research has found. The study found that nearly 30% of consumers would like to see more innovation in mobile apps, so that they provide a better, more personalised shopping […]
People in the UK are connecting to the web on their phones via WiFi almost three times more frequently than on 4G, according to new research by mobile data platform Ogury. But, with the UK telecoms regulator setting a timetable for the launch of 5G services by 2020, Ogury is calling for the telecoms industry […]
MAGNA, the intelligence, investment and innovation unit within IPG Mediabrands, and IPG Media Lab, its creative technology arm, announced the results of a scientific media trial that analyzed audience behaviours around ad skipping and identified critical steps to help advertisers maximize the impact of their skippable video ad campaigns. The report, entitled Turbo Charging Your […]
Two-thirds (66%) of marketing professionals no longer include mobile apps in their marketing campaigns, according to new research. The State of Digital Commerce report, launched by Episerver, examines the retail and e-commerce trends set to shape 2017. The report analyses the mobile presence of 100 top UK retail brands and draws on research with 1,200 […]
Internet usage grew slightly faster than it did in 2015, while social media users more than doubled in a year, spurred on by mobile, according to a comprehensive global report from We Are Social. The report also found that the rate of growth for unique mobile users increased by more than half compared to last […]
Chinese online retail sales via a mobile phone are expected to reach $1 trillion in 2020, according to new data from Forrester. As the world’s largest online retail market, China is expected to be the first market to reach this milestone driven by its saturated smartphone market and the explosion in mobile commerce. Chinese consumers […]
Mobile gaming is enjoying unprecedented annual growth across the board racking in more revenue than the global box office takings from the leading movies, according to data from SuperData Research and Unity Technologies. In 2016, the global mobile market generated $40.6bn in revenue on the back of 18% annual growth (a mammoth spurt which saw […]
Consumer goods brands are increasingly looking at direct-to-consumer (DTC) opportunities, according to Warc, the global marketing intelligence service. Research suggests that cutting out or minimising the retailer ‘middleman’ allows brands that previously had no direct relationship with their customers to develop one. David Tiltman, Head of Content at Warc, says, “Low-cost start-ups have disrupted established […]
According to the latest market study released by Technavio, the global mobile augmented reality market is expected to grow at a CAGR of more than 77% during the forecast period. The research report — ‘Global Mobile Augmented Reality Market 2017-2021’ — provides an in-depth analysis of the market in terms of revenue and emerging market […]