Mobile marketing firms are asking if their ads are worth it

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Businesses are struggling to see the direct return on their investment into social and smartphone advertising. While businesses are spending a rising amount of money into mobile marketing and social media advertising strategies, the majority of them aren’t actually able to see all that much of a return on the investment they’ve been making, according to the results of a recently released study. At the moment, companies are spending an average of 10.6 percent of their overall marketing budgets on mobile and social. The percentage of the budget being dedicated…

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Social media marketing revenues in the United States predicted to reach $15 billion

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A new report has shown that this figure will be reached by these ads by the year 2018. According to a new report that has been issued by BIA/Kelsey, the total revenues from social media marketing in the United States will rise from last year’s $5.1 billion, to reach $15 billion by the year 2018. This year’s own ad revenues will represent the largest year over year increase seen so far. It is expected to rise to break the $8.4 billion mark by the end of 2014. This is being…

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Social media marketing leads to one third of brand discoveries

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The results of a recent data analysis have shown that traffic is driven from social networks to brand sites. According to the latest Forrester Search Marketing Playbook (2013) marketers that use social media marketing as an element of their overall strategies online are driving consumers back to their brand sites by participating in social media. The research has finally shown that there is tangible benefit from using this advertising technique. The report from Forrester indicated that 32 percent of consumers find the official brand web pages that they visit by…

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