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TheTMSway Weekly Radar on Mobile Marketing and Business

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Forecast: Mobile retail marketing spending to reach $15B in 2012

Marketers will spend $15 billion globally on mobile retail campaigns in 2012–a 50 percent increase over 2011–according to a new forecast issued by Juniper Research. The firm adds that mobile retail marketing spend is accelerating faster in North America and Western Europe than it is in the Far East and China.

Global market for mobile video $30bn by 2017

GIA (Global Industry Analysts) says the market for mobile video services is projected to reach $30 billion by 2017, primarily driven by factors such as continued deployment of high-speed mobile networks, increasing availability of sophisticated mobile phones that enable users to download and play videos, introduction of economical data plans by service providers and growing popularity of social networking sites among mobile users. Robust demand from developing markets such as Asia-Pacifica and Latin America also augurs well for the market.

Mobile Shopping Creates a $15bn Opportunity for Retail Marketing and Advertising in 2012

A new report from Juniper Research has found that value of mobile retail marketing will reach $15 billion globally by 2012 as digital adspend moves to mobile and mobile coupons gain acceptance. This is a growth of 50% over 2011. The New Face of Shopping The report found that the smartphone, and more recently the tablet, has increased the capabilities of both the modern shopper and the mobile retail marketer. The marketer now has new marketing channels to attract the mobile shopper, but equally the shopper has more access to competitive product and pricing information before making a purchase.

Android, Samsung top U.S. mobile phone market

Android has widened its lead as the top smartphone OS in the U.S., according to the latest stats from ComScore. For the three months ending September, Google’s mobile platform grabbed 44.8 percent of the market, an increase of almost 5 points from the prior quarter. Apple’s iOS retained second place with a 27.4 percent share of U.S. smartphone owners, up slightly from the previous period.

Mobile ad market growing strong

S. KOREA – With the number of smartphone users in Korea on the rise, the mobile ad market is expanding amid signs of a broader shift in the advertising industry toward portable devices. While conventional ad markets for newspapers, magazines and TVs remain sluggish, smartphone users here are now exposed to 1,000 ads per month, promising new territory for advertisers and media firms.

Survey: Publishers Continue Cross-Media Diversification, Begin to Monetize Mobile

Magazines and newspapers in the U.S. and Canada are becoming more confident in their strategic mobile plans as they diversify their offerings and discover new ways to derive revenue. According to a new survey from the Audit Bureau of Circulations and ABC Interactive, “Going Mobile: How Publishers Are Maturing and Monetizing Their Offerings,” the number of publishers who say they have a well-developed plan for the mobile market rose to 59 percent, up from just 28 percent in 2009. And 67 percent said it was important to their strategic future to earn revenue from both ads and subscriptions.

Google Mobile Ad Sales See $2.5B Run Rate

Google’s mobile ad run-rate is a cool $2.5 billion and growing. But will mobile search revenues continue to double or swell greater? One of Google’s (NASDAQ:GOOG) big future bets is paying off well in the present, as the search engine’s mobile ad revenues are tracking to bank $2.5 billion in 2011

Mobile Brings New Opportunities for Local Retailers

Ecommerce sales are growing fast, but the vast majority of consumer spending still takes place offline in local stores. A large portion of those sales are influenced by online research, most of which is conducted on the desktop. But increasingly, consumers are taking advantage of the sophisticated capabilities of smartphones to do more of this online research while in a store or on the go.

TheTMSway Weekly Radar on Mobile Marketing and Business

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Sizing the Mobile Payments Market

Mobile payments, though they have yet to take off substantially in North America, are a hot topic, with major companies like Google joining startups in the space and hoping to grab a slice of billions of dollars in potential transactions. Research firms disagree on the current size of the nascent market, but project strong growth in mobile payments and their users.

Fueled by smartphones, daily deals, merchants embrace mobile marketing in a big way

Retailers can no longer rely on the flashing neon sign or the “clown on the corner” to draw in customers who are walking past the storefronts with their heads down looking at their mobile devices. That’s the message from Borrell Associates, which says it is seeing a dramatic shift in how small and mid-size businesses are embracing mobile advertising and mobile promotions. Mobile advertising is fast becoming the go-to choice for local businesses across the U.S., thanks to the fast spreading of social media, smartphones and daily deals and coupons…

Global Location Based Advertising Market to Reach $12.8 Billion by 2017

GIA announces the release of a comprehensive global report on Location Based Advertising (LBA) markets. The global market for Location Based Advertising is projected to reach $12.8 billion by the year 2017. With mobile Internet gaining in popularity and the proportion of smartphone sales increasing, LBA market holds enormous potential. The market is driven by favorable factors including spurt in number of GPS and Wi-Fi enabled phones, increased merchandising and shopping activity among consumers, growing popularity of mobile commerce, and increasing usage of Location based Social Network Services.

Smartphone Users Most Engaged with Ads While Shopping

Different mobile activities lead to different behaviors and engagement levels. With smartphones able to perform a variety of tasks, from communicating to information-seeking to shopping and beyond, consumers are spending more time with them than ever. And marketers have more chances than ever to reach them via mobile.

Smartphone growth changing mobile habits

As more Americans make the upgrade from traditional cellphones to smartphones, mobile habits are changing significantly – a development that should not be lost on businesses and their marketing departments. According to recent figures from research firm comScore, 234 million Americans ages 13 and older used a mobile phone during the three month period ending in July. Of those, 82.2 million owned smartphones, a 10 percent increase over the three month period ending in April.

Consumers Demand Personalized Messaging Across All Verticals

Brands of all stripes are working toward delivering personalized messages to their target audiences. Despite their best efforts, however, consumers say certain industries are not meeting their needs. Service providers, such as cable and utility companies, and regulated companies, such as insurance and finance brands, appear to be behind the curve in terms of delivering personalized digital experiences.

Asia-Pacific leads the world in smartphone use: Google/Ipsos study

ASIA-PACIFIC – It seems then when it comes to mobile phones, and smartphones in particular, there is no market quite like the Asia-Pacific. The region is ahead of the world’s most advanced economies in terms of smartphone and overall mobile phone penetration, a joint study by Google and Ipsos has found. The report, Smartphone Research on Mobile Internet and Market Trends, spanned 30 markets globally and 11 markets in Asia-Pacific. It found that the region as a whole had the highest mobile phone penetration in the world and a willingness to use those phones to shop and play that outstrips other markets.

Mobile internet – driver for mobile

The mobile communications market has been experiencing a global upswing. Smartphones, in particular, are appealing to even more consumers. This year, it is anticipated that around 400 million smartphones will be sold around the world. Above all, in Western industrialized nations, this boom is occurring at the expense of feature phones, which do not offer the diverse range of smartphone functions. These are the latest GfK Retail and Technology findings prepared for IFA 2011, which is taking place in Berlin.

Mobile internet use doubled in two years: ONS

Six million people accessed Internet over mobile phones for the first time. A new study by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) has revealed that the number of people connecting to the Internet using a mobile phone has nearly doubled in the past two years. The study showed that there were 17.6 million mobile phone Internet users in 2011, representing 45% of Internet users, compared to 8.5 million users (23% of all users) in 2009.

Global mobile shipments to hit 1.77 billion, Asia Pacific leads at 836 million

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The mobile shipment worldwide is expected to hit 1.77 billion in 2016. Such a strong performance is unlocked by an impressive growth in mobile users in the emerging markets and the proliferation of broadband-enabled handsets, according to recent report. Ovum’s principal analyst Adam Leach said that the increasing consumer appetite for Smartphones was a major factor in driving growth in the market for mobile broadband handsets.

Operators, who switched to 3G and 4G mobile broadband networks, are also seen to play a role to success. Ovum’s forecast shows that shipments of mobile broadband-enabled handsets will grow by a compound annual growth rate of 15.1 per cent from 2010 to 2016, to reach 962 million units.

Meanwhile, in Asia Pacific alone, it is anticipated that mobile shipments will hit 836 million. The big three Asian markets of China, Indonesia, and China are reported to continue being the growth engines for global mobile connections and handset shipments. Ovum’s forecast shows that shipments of mobile broadband enabled handsets will grow by a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 16.7 per cent from 2011 to 2016, to reach 372 million units in AP.

TheTMSway Weekly Radar on Mobile Marketing and Business

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How to choose a winning mobile strategy

The executives who make the decision on strategy already have first-hand experience and an existing relationship with their phone. They understand the importance of mobile and are constantly reminded by friends and family that its influence is becoming increasingly broad on all levels. Secondly, the numbers are simply impossible to ignore. Businesses are moving their strategies in line with the evolving user behavior and companies of all sizes and sectors are putting mobile at the center of their business strategy.

comScore Reports June 2011 U.S. Mobile Subscriber Market Share

The study surveyed more than 30,000 U.S. mobile subscribers and found Samsung to be the top handset manufacturer overall with 25.3 percent market share. Google Android continued to gain ground in the smartphone market reaching 40.1 percent market share in June.

Nokia still top mobile maker in Q2, but Apple grows 142 percent y-o-y

According to the IDC’s worldwide mobile phone tracker, vendors shipped 365.4 million units in 2Q11 compared to 328.4 million units in the second quarter of 2010. The 11.3-percent growth was lower than IDC’s forecast of 13.3 percent for the quarter and was also below the 16.8 percent growth in 1Q11. The feature phone market shrank 4 percent in 2Q11 when compared to 2Q10.

Nielsen Data Points to Continued Android Dominance in the US Smartphone Market

Google’s Android operating system isn’t backing down amid growing competition within the US smartphone market. Android now represents 39 percent of the US smartphone ownership market as of June 2011. That information comes from the latest Nielsen data. The data largely backs up the claims made three weeks ago by Google CEO Larry Page, who says Android-powered devices are being activated to the tune of 550,000 units a day.

8 in 10 Mobile Users Browse Products/Services

About eight in 10 (81%) US smartphone/tablet users browse or look for products and/or services with their mobile devices, according to the July 2011 Prosper Mobile Insights mobile survey. This was slightly more than the 80% who use their mobile devices to locate a store or store hours (more than one answer permitted). The top two choices among the eight offered respondents were about twice as popular as any other response. The next-most-popular mobile activity, researching specific products (56%), was performed by 43% fewer smartphone/tablet users. The only other activity performed by more than half of respondents was receiving text messages with special offers (53%).

Mobile Users Expand Their Search Habits

More than 91 million US consumers will use the internet through a mobile device at least monthly by the end of this year, eMarketer estimates, and research shows that the increase in on-the-go web usage goes hand in hand with more search activity for local content. According to research from comScore and the Local Search Association, 22% of all US mobile owners used search on their phone in January 2011, up from 16% a year earlier.

Apple Tops Nokia, Samsung to Become World’s Top Smartphone Maker

As evidenced by the fact that Apple now has more cash on hand than the US Treasury, Apple’s unprecedented growth continues and it doesn’t appear that even Nokia and Samsung can slow the momentum. According to a new report published Friday by Strategy Analytics, Apple is the new king of the global smartphone world.

Marketing is ‘moving to mobile devices’

Businesses aiming to achieve a complete customer view for marketing have been advised that more advertising spending is moving to mobile devices. Windsor Holden, the principal analyst at Juniper Research, said that while mobile advertising, which covers tablets, smartphones and cells, really took off in 2010, its potential has still yet to be realized.

Nigeria to pioneer mobile marketing in Africa, MMA

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Nigeria is expected to pioneer mobile marketing in Africa, taken from its record of more than 90 million mobile phone users and over 50% penetration.

In the gradual growth of mobile marketing in Nigeria, the Mobile Marketing Association (MMA) is said to align with those in the marketing chain to structure the market, segment mark and move further for the expansion of the media as channel to marketing.

Prior to its plan of establishing a West Africa office, MMA has told African paper, Business Day, that it would brief stakeholders in the region on the benefits of the council and would conduct forum for telecom operators, senior marketing management on how to create revenue generating service to stimulate advertising and marketing income. Roundtable and panel discussions on strategic issues on short codes, regulatory matters, SMS best practices, and other relevant topics on West Africa will also be expected.

The body also organizes basic course that entails the principles of marketing. According to MMA, the course doesn’t turn the participant into an expert but it gives him/her formal understanding of mobile marketing including location marketing, where the marketer can actually confine the message to a geographic zone.

Advertisers in Africa allot more than 50% of interactive marketing budgets in Mobile

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Some of the biggest success stories in the mobile space came from Africa with advertisers in the region spent more than 50% of its interactive advertising budgets to mobile, Starcom’s Ravi Kiran said.

mobile-marketingThe African region became a hot topic among marketers during the Mobile Conversations 2010 conference in India as Starcom’s Ravi Kiran cited some of the biggest success stories in the mobile space, which actually happened in the region. In an Afaqs article, Mr. Kiran substantiated his points saying that more than 50% of interactive budget for the African region got routed to mobile marketing, compared to Asia (2.5%) and 1.3% to US and Europe regions.

Explaining to this inspiring occurrence, he said that one has to look at the unique mobile marketing services that are being offered in the region. The mobile is also the only pan-African social infrastructure in the region, and how it is connecting the African market nowadays has become a case study worldwide.

There were some other points raised during the conference, and Kiran ended up with an enticing tip saying that a “simplified language is required to convince marketers to invest in the medium”. Whilst mobile marketing is treated as another format of marketing, the principles of traditional marketing have to be applied as well.

He added, “We should tell marketers about how it can be used for marketing instead of talking or explaining the technology behind it. Also, we should encourage marketers to experiment with mobile marketing with scale.”

B2B mobile marketing spend to reach $106M in 2014, study

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Mobile marketing has become one of the hottest news hitting across Asia-Pacific, America, and Europe. In fact, some regions like Latin America, Africa (Nigeria), and Canada are expected to embracing the trend to better serve their business industry players. Australia is most likely to adapt mobile advertising, M-commerce, and M-payment granted that some issues from its telephony infrastructure  are  addressed and settled.

Recently, mobile marketing again enters the hot spot with the huge possibility of business-to-business (B2B) players to increase its spending, in which according to Forrester Research’s latest study, it has to quadruple its mobile marketing spending over the next 5 years, rising to $106 million by 2014 – a high rise from last year’s $26 million.

According to Forrester’s New York-based analyst, Michael Greene, mobile marketing can be as much about building deeper relationships with existing customers as it is about attracting new ones. Furthermore, mobile can also be a useful channel for company’s sales force, saying that the channel’s greatest strength is as an engagement tool. In reaching customers, if generating sales is a fantastic goal, Forrester said the mobile channel can help that along. Read more