Mobile marketing is going to make some major moves in 2013 - just not how most imagine.
Following up on our list of Top 10 Mobile Marketing Initiatives of 2012, it's time to look at some trends we'll see emerge and/or evolve in the year ahead.
Among the most prominent (not necessarily in this order):
5. Mobile Advertising Picks Up Speed (For A Time)
According to Forrester Research, mobile ad spend will boom next year - to $15 billion. Why? Because consumers now spend 10% of their media consumption time on mobile devices, yet mobile attracts less than 10% of ad dollars. The firm reasons that the old school Internet's ad growth from 8% of spend to 22% of spend means mobile must follow course (even though marketers get less and less from that increased Internet spend). But, the firm says, even a small step toward closing the gap will mean big dollars for this medium.
I'm not completely convinced. As a marketer, I find mobile advertising a bore (even some of the newer, much hyped expandable ad units). As a consumer, I find it all a snooze fest.
Mobile's far more powerful than just trying to replicate ad models from the old school Internet and... Read more
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David Shim on December 28th, 2012 at 4:16 pm
Retail metrics during the holiday season are typically focused on aggregations like overall retail sales are down 0.7% year over year, or activity on Black Friday, Super Saturday, or Christmas Eve was above or below last years numbers. While this macro level of reporting is interesting, it is limiting in terms of competitive insights and actionablity.
Placed recently released its Holiday Shopping Insights providing in-store activity reporting down to the retailer. As part of this analysis, Placed looked at the busiest days for some of the largest retailers in the US including Walmart, Target, Toys 'R' Us, Macy's, Best Buy, and Kohl's.
This analysis highlights that a single days performance does not make or break a retailer's Christmas. Rather these insights highlight consumers' retail preferences are variable based on time of year. For example, Target's busiest day was Christmas Eve, while for Best Buy is was December 22nd. The ability to look past macro retail trends and dive into retailer level insights enables marketers to react in season to offline behaviors of consumers.
As consumers retail preferences change based on time to Christmas, marketers are able to leverage consumer behaviors to drive incremental sales. The ebbs and flows in terms of relative in-store visits were... Read more
Tags: analytics, location, mobile, retail, solomo
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Brands got serious about fun and games this year - on a number of different platforms.
Among the trends we liked this year - promotional games that bridged the digital and the physical, without requiring consumer devices to play. Not that we wouldn't be amped to try Google's Ingress augmented reality game if we get the chance. And Ingress aside, Google made our list this year, along with several major brands.
One interesting note: Many of our top pics this year mixed so many elements - social, mobile, location and so on - so well, that they made some of our other lists, too.
So without further delate, our list of favorite branded games for 2012. We'd love to know which made your list, too.
10. Google Wants to Rock, Tilt & Roll Your World in New Branded Game
Google wants you to go ga-ga over its new game.
9. Kit Kat Launches GPS-Based ‘Golden Ticket’-style Promo in UK
Kit Kat wants to do a heck of a lot more than just give you a break.
8. Mercedes ‘You Drive’ – A TV Campaign You Drive, Via Twitter
Call it a crowdsourced cliffhanger.
7. Magazine Cover Becomes Interactive Video Game
This is one way to make print relevant in... Read more
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Posted by
David Shim on September 22nd, 2012 at 10:32 am
Analyzing user data is standard practice for pretty much every website out there — large or small, consumer or B2B. In April 2012, Google announced that over 10m sites were using Google Analytics, and many more are using enterprise-focused solutions like Omniture, Coremetrics, and WebTrends.
The scale of adoption in web analytics highlights the direct benefits businesses see in measuring site activity — including key metrics like visitors, visits and page views, traffic source metrics like keywords and referring sites, as well as optimization metrics like conversion rates. And as companies have introduced services around mobile analytics, they’ve tried to create similar context for mobile measurement.
But while using similar metrics across web and mobile may feel more familiar for many businesses, it also discounts what makes mobile unique: location. Location data on the web is coarse, and limited to dimensions like country, state, and city — location analytics for mobile is different, in that it allows for a level of precision down to meters, and context down to place.
Inventory Availability Based on Location
Mobile location data, if used appropriately (and in connection with mobile analytics), can help drive revenue for both the publisher and the marketer by enabling mobile inventory to be sold against more granular, premium... Read more
Tags: geofencing, location, location based advertising, location based service, mobile, mobile analytics
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Will consumers and brands really tune into social TV over the long term?
The whole field is getting a lot of buzz these days, from startups like Miso and GetGlue, to high-profile initiatives at this year's Super Bowl that included a branded app from Chevy and Coca-Cola's interactive Polar Bear experience on Facebook.
I have not seen solid figures on viewer engagement with the Chevy app, but the fact that GM announced this week it will sit out Super Bowl 2013, it stands to reason the initiative wasn't a touchdown.
Coca-Cola's experience, however, was another thing entirely. At last week's Social TV conference, Coca-Cola revealed some astonishing engagement figures for its Polar Bowl. Turns out that while Coke thought they'd engage a couple million people for an average of 2.5 minutes, the Bears - which reacted in real time to the game and even Super Bowl spots from other advertisers - attracted 9 million viewers who spent an average of 28 minutes with the brand.
In the conclusion of our May 2012 Mobile Roundtable, Dorrian Porter, CEO of longtime sponsor Mozes; Julie Fajgenbaum, vice president of brand and social media for American Express; and Rachel Pasqua, executive director of mobile marketing for Organic weigh... Read more
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