What? How can a penetration rate be greater than 100%? It turns out that, when it comes to mobile, a high penetration of subscribers does not necessarily translate into a high penetration of users. Which means that, in Latin America, where subscriber penetration is currently already at 109%, there’s plenty of room for even more growth. Read →
A recent survey by artegic looks at the growth of mobile social networking in Germany, where eMarketer estimates there are 25.7 million social network users. Predicting a 13.7% rise to 29.2 million social networkers in Germany by the end of 2012, social networks will soon reach over half of Germany’s internet users (one-third of the total population). Read →
Twitter has announced that it will be adding in-stream Promoted Tweets to its Twitter for iPhone and Twitter for Android mobile apps–an important step given that more than half of active Twitter users access the platform via their mobile device. To date, iPhone and Android mobile users have been exposed to Twitter’s Promoted Products only via the search function–search for a topic and a Promoted Tweet is likely to appear at the top of the search results. With the most recent app updates, however, Twitter now is including the ability to see Promoted Tweets as part of the user’s stream. Read →
A recent study measured tweets throughout the African continent to create the first comprehensive report on Twitter use in the region. Reviewing more than 11.5 million location-tagged tweets and conducting a survey of the region’s 500 most active Twitter users, “How Africa Tweets” revealed that South Africa has the most prolific tweeting on the continent, with more than 5 million tweets posted in the last quarter of 2011. Read →
If you can get the right offer in front of the right prospect at the right time–when they’ve expressed an interest–you’re delivering real value to that prospect and they are much more likely to become a customer. So when I saw an announcement last month that two companies had partnered to create Daily Deals promotions that were based on realtime Twitter conversations, I was intrigued. Imagine if I post a tweet saying “I’m looking for a restaurant,” and I immediately receive an offer for a 50% coupon at a local Italian place? Now that’s realtime marketing. Read →
Just under half of the total US population will be using the internet via mobile by 2015, according to the latest estimates by eMarketer. This year 97.3 million Americans (31%) will access the internet via their mobile phone at least once per month in 2011, an increase of nearly 25% from last year. By 2015, this number is expected to reach over 156 million. Read →
A new survey by the Interactive Advertising Bureau confirms that mobile advertising platforms are being adopted rapidly by marketers. The most striking data: 72% (nearly three-quarters) of survey respondents are looking to increase their mobile advertising budget over the next two years, and 35% expect to increase mobile ad spending by over 50 percent in that same timeframe. Read →
New data from the Pew Internet Project finds that over one-third of American adults – 35% – own a smartphone. Smartphone ownership is highest among the well-off, the well-educated, the (relatively) young, and non-whites. Fifty-nine percent of adults in households earning $75,000 or more have smartphones, nearly half – 48% – of those with a college degree own smartphones, and 44% of blacks and Latinos are smartphone owners. Read →
A study by MediaMind shows that mobile ads served to iPhones and iPads deliver a higher click-through rate than those on other mobile operating systems, including Google’s Android. Ads on iOS mobile platforms outperformed ads served to Google Android phones by more than 2.5 times. Read →
New data from Nielsen reveals that games are the most popular category for mobile content (both apps and paid content). A whopping 93% of those who downloaded apps in the last 30 days are willing to pay for games, while only 76% are willing to pay for news. Read →
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