UK study shows only 20 percent of corporate marketers have a website that was mobile optimized

Mobile Commerce

  An mobile commerce study performed in the United Kingdom is showing that corporate marketers are finding it challenging to meet the demands of their consumers when it comes to the mobile channel. The survey was performed by a digital communications business called Episerver, and included the participation of 200 marketing execs and 1,000 consumers in order to discover their attitudes regarding mobile marketing. The survey determined that among consumers in the U.K., 57 percent own smartphones. Among those smartphone owning consumers 73 percent have used the device to browse…

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Google sends the mobile ad marketplace beyond the forecasts of the industry

Mobile Advertising trends

The mobile advertising marketplace in the United States is currently in a state of explosion, and is growing much more rapidly than even the highest projections that had been made by the industry’s analysts. Google mobile search is currently receiving a great deal of the credit for the advertising business that reached all new heights last year and this year is already lining up to leave 2011’s figures in the dust. The recent surge in the ownership of smartphones and the omnipresence of the mobile ad networks – such as…

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Increase in smartphones will cause growth in mobile marketing budgets this year

M-Commerce growth

As the sale of smartphones is spreading like wildfire, marketers are responding by increasing their budgets to advertise and promote through various methods that use these mobile device as their primary channel. According to Digital Marketer, the top marketing newsletter online in the world, marketing via mobile phone is going to begin replacing more traditional methods that marketers use to reach consumers. Nielsen data says that an estimated 43 percent of cell phone subscribers in the United States have smartphones. However, even with this massive number of smartphones in the…

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Zmags accelerates mobile growth with $7 million in financing

Mobile-Commerce

Top rich media mobile and social merchandising provider, Zmags, has announced that it has achieved financing worth $7 million from Square 1Bank as well as its current investors, Northcap Partners and OpenView Venture Partners. This additional funding has come at a time when Zmags has every intention to build on its customer portfolio by adding world-class, innovative consumer brands and retailers such as Express, Kenneth Cole, and Tesco. Those organizations are already using CommercePro, from Zmags, to form consistent and intelligent marketing and merchandising campaigns using the power of platforms…

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