Most mobile marketers are planning to increase investments in video this year, according to a report released Wednesday by YouAppi. The CMO Mobile Marketing Guide shows that 85 percent of digital marketers plan to increase their video investment for mobile marketing efforts in 2018, up 10 percent over last year. More than three-quarters of those […]
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In a new report released last week, Forrester found that mobile marketers are increasingly dazzled by an influx of new technology to the extent that it may be hampering their intended mobile strategies. The 2018 Mobile and New Technology Priorities for Marketers: Why Marketers Must Keep Their Mobile Basics found that emerging technology such as
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According to the latest AppsFlyer Performance Index Report (registration required), Twitter offers the best user retention record (12 weeks) of any mobile app advertising platform. However Facebook remains the overall leading media platform for app marketers. Another finding is that Google’s introduction of Universal App Campaigns (UAC) have helped the company gain on Facebook. AppsFlyer says
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Apple’s HomePod is being hailed as the best speaker among the current smart speaker cohort, which includes Google Home, Amazon Echo, Alexa-enabled Sonos and others. But it’s also being heavily criticized, even savaged, for several flaws. The consensus of the criticism basically focuses on two or three main areas: It doesn’t natively support music services
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The Alibaba-owned UC browser is winning the war for mobile users in India and Indonesia. Relying on StatCounter data, The Wall Street Journal is reporting that it’s beating Google’s Chrome in these large developing markets. Chrome is the most widely used browser in the world, with more than 1 billion users. Globally, Chrome has a
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The Interactive Advertising Bureau just released its first half 2017 digital advertising revenue report. Revenues reached a record $40.1 billion, compared with $32.7 billion a year ago. In the second quarter, they were $20.8 billion. Revenues were almost equally divided in Q1 and Q2. Year-over-year quarterly growth was 23 percent, while sequential growth was 7.4
Early this year, I was invited to attend a meeting with a digital sales team for a well-known media company and an agency with which they’ve been doing business for years. Our supporting role was to provide answers to anything related to location-based advertising. As the conversation progressed, the truth came out. The agency principal
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Old retro red telephone on table with vintage green pastel background Calls are dying, the conventional wisdom goes. Nobody wants to talk on the phone anymore. Overall, volumes may be down because of alternative channels (messaging, text, chat, email, social media) and millennials may tell surveys that they never want to talk on the phone
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In the beginning, there was the Motorola DynaTAC 8000X. And it was not good. By 2017 standards, it was barely a phone. Virtually zero coverage, a price tag that translates to almost $10,000 of today’s dollars, and completely devoid of apps. It also had a 10-hour charge time that only translated into about a half-hour
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Mobile wallets remain underappreciated and underutilized by retailers. Mobile wallet passes are more lightweight than full-blown retail apps, are more likely to be downloaded and can deliver some of the same marketing functionality, such as location-based notifications. Now, The Body Shop and Urban Airship, which offers a mobile wallet marketing solution, have further expanded the
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