In 2016, mobile-driven commerce will reach an estimated US$972.25 billion across the 46 markets where Euromonitor International conducts this digital research. Most impressively, mobile payments are expected to reach US$3 trillion by 2021. While that is a lot of transacted money across these small-screen devices, mobile-based payments will equate to only an estimated 11 percent […]
IPG Media Lab, the creative technology arm of IPG Mediabrands, in partnership with Thinknear, a leading location-based marketing platform, today announced the results of a quantitative media trial examining how location based audience targeting (LBA) compares versus more traditional methods such as designated market area targeting (DMA) in mobile. The resulting infographic, Harnessing the Power […]
Apsalar, the Mobile ROI platform that helps mobile-first marketers drive extraordinary growth, and Thomvest Ventures, a Silicon Valley-based venture capital firm, released the results of a global survey of enterprise mobile app marketers, focused on how these business leaders are investing their marketing dollars. The survey, conducted in July/August 2016, queried app marketers from around […]
Sorry people. But the year of the mobile is never going to come. But not for the reasons you think. Let me explain, and then feel free to disagree. Ever since I first became interested in these things, the famous and fabulous Mary Meeker has publisher her overview of the world’s internet. It’s an amazing […]
Everyone hates mobile ads – even advertisers. In the midst of the advertising industry’s annual summit in New York last week, agency directors, media buyers and other ad-world professionals were up in arms about ad-blocking software expanding and improving beyond their capability to defeat it. Many admitted they have no one to blame but themselves. […]
The Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) released an in-depth survey of 3,800 mobile users in 19 countries around the world, including Asian countries such as Singapore, China, and Japan. Announced during the IAB MIXX Conference, the survey revealed that Asia Pacific (APAC) consumers take the lead in frequent mobile purchases. Globally, nearly a quarter of mobile […]
Mobile shopping and purchasing have become the norm across the globe, according to “Mobile Commerce: A Global Perspective,” an in-depth survey of mobile users from 19 countries around the world, released today by the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) at the IAB MIXX Conference. Just over three-quarters (76 per cent) of smartphone and tablet users in […]
This September, dating app Tinder will celebrate its fourth anniversary. Since September 2012, more than 40 million people have downloaded the app and swiped right on potential matches, with wildly varying degrees of success. Every single day, there are 1.6 billion swipes on Tinder and 26 million new matches formed. Having started as an experiment […]
It’s starting to look more and more likely we’ll someday tell our grandchildren bedtime stories about the strange boxes in our homes on which we watched videos. That’s because — and this really shouldn’t come as a surprise — Gen Z, which native advertising software firm Sharethrough defines as the generation born after 1995, likes […]
Social platforms are providing longer ad units, but bigger isn’t necessarily better, writes a strategy team from Possible Earlier this year, Instagram and Twitter announced something odd: longer ad units. Twitter enabled skippable 30-second ads, while Instagram cleared the way for gargantuan 60-second Super Bowl-style ads. One can, perhaps, see an argument for this. Mobile […]