Tag Archives: Advertising
So many ad-funded apps, so few ad dollars to support them
September 1, 2011, by mobiThinking
Flurry, a mobile app analytics outfit, predicts that “US app inventory is not only growing at a staggering rate, but also poised to absorb the equivalent of the entire US Internet display advertising spend by the end of this year.” That means that there is so much ad space within mobile apps that even if every one of the $12 billion spent on Web advertising in the US was channeled into in-app advertising, there would still be unfilled ad space... Read More
Why your ad agency likes mobile appswhy that might not deliver the best ROI for you
July 12, 2011, by mobiThinking
Industry awards tell you a lot about a business. In recent years, the trends at Cannes Lions – the biggest date in the advertising world’s calendar – show a growing appetite from ad agencies for mobile campaigns. The latest plat du jour is mobile apps for niche audiences, displacing messaging, mobile Web, mobile ads, QR codes, Bluetooth and all the other tools in mobile’s box. It seems the trend is away from campaigns that integrate mobile with other media such as outdoor or magazines, towards mobile app-only campaigns... Read More
Global mobile statistics 2011: all quality mobile marketing research, mobile Web stats, subscribers, ad revenue, usage, trends
July 7, 2011, by mobiThinking
Please find the new and improved Big compendium of mobile statistics here: http://mobithinking.com/mobile-marketing-tools/latest-mobile-stats Please change your bookmark. Sorry for any inconvenience... Read More
Mobile advertising stats: Asia will dominate mobile ad spend 2011-2015, but N. America and W. Europe are catching up – Gartner
June 22, 2011, by mobiThinking
Of the $3.3 billion that will be spent globally on mobile ads this year, almost half (49.2 percent) of that will come from Asia, mostly from Japan and South Korea, according to Gartner. By 2015 global mobile ad spend will sky-rocket to $20.6 billion, of which Asia’s share will be one-third (33.6 percent), as North America and Western Europe start to eat into Asia’s lead... Read More
The false economy of vanity apps and the people who are growing fat by not telling their clients the truth
December 12, 2010, by mobiThinking
This blog post attempts to explain three things about mobile marketing, mobile ad networks, apps and analysts that have puzzled - and irritated - mobiThinking throughout 2010. With the help of a briefing with an ad network (Millennial Media), one awards dinner (The EMMAs) and some pre-Christmas drinks and chat, mobiThinking has reached a conclusion. This conclusion, if correct, is a worrying one, as the answers/causes of these puzzles are closely and intertwined, creating a dangerous and self-perpetuating false economy. While Apple and the iPhone have benefited greatly from this false economy, the blame falls, mostly, elsewhere with collective responsibility lying with everyone else who is getting fat off the back of it. It’s not a conspiracy, but there is too much silence from people who ought to know better. mobiThinking doesn’t expect this opinion to be popular. And those that have been riding the mobile app gravy train are not going to like this prediction for 2011: “Sorry, but it ain’t going to last.”... Read More
