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Mobile marketing drives digital ad spend skyward

12/12/201412/09/2014 Stephanie Beck

As a growing number of consumers look to smartphones and tablets advertisers will soon spend as much on computing devices as TV. According to the results of recent study conducted by the media research unit of Interpublic Group of Cos, Magna Global, mobile marketing is going to be an important driver of spending on digital advertising. This will cause spending over digital channels to rise by 15 percent, by the end of next year. Social media campaigns and mobile marketing will also send this spending even higher, to the point…

SMS mobile marketing is declining in the Middle East

01/24/201401/21/2014 Sam Lambert

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Overall texting is trending downward in that region as consumers look for cheaper solutions to communicate. Though communicating over smartphones has never been as popular or as common as they are today, consumers in the Middle East are steering away from traditional texting and the costs associated with it, causing SMS mobile marketing to have its effectiveness placed at risk in that region. Consumers are looking for messenger services that are cheaper or come with no cost at all. According to newly published reports, texting is on the way out…

Mobile marketing to be worth $682 million in 5 years

11/14/201311/11/2013 Sam Lambert

The advertising market over smartphones and tablets in Australia is expected to grow rapidly. According to a recent report from Frost & Sullivan, mobile marketing is predicted to rapidly grow over the next five year, to the point that it will reach $682 million by the close of 2018. The report also indicated that 70 percent of the advertising over this channel will be geared toward tablets. The analysts at Frost & Sullivan believe that the mobile marketing ecosystem in Australia will experience a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of…

Mobile marketing brought $139 million into the American economy last year

05/16/201305/15/2013 L. Green

The MMA has released its latest data regarding the contribution of smartphone and tablet ads in the U.S. The most recent statistics from the Mobile Marketing Association (MMA), has shown that the solid and quickly growing smartphone advertising ecosystem brought a massive incremental output of $139 billion into the American economy last year. This is a considerable increase over the sales that were reported by the MMA only two years before. The MMA reported that the results from 2012 were a “significant surge” over 2010, when the net sales had…

Mobile marketing industry will have 1.4 million employees in two years

05/14/201305/13/2013 Jesse Collins

The MMA has released the results of a new study that it has commissioned projecting employment in the sector. The Mobile Marketing Association (MMA), a trade organization, has commissioned a study that has now forecasted that the industry will be adding nearly a million jobs and will add $400 billion incremental output in the American economy by the close of 2015. These findings could help to encourage marketers to spend more on smartphone and tablet ads. That said, the mobile marketing study is an element of the MMA effort to…