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BizReport : Mobile Marketing : March 09, 2007
Mobile internet ads more popular than text campaigns
Mobile internet usage is on the up, and a new survey finds that around a third of users would be prepared to view mobile web ads in exchange for free content.
The Online Publishers Association (OPA) survey, entitled “Going Mobile: An International Study of Content Use and Advertising on the Mobile Web” involved 6,000 consumers in the U.S. and Western Europe. Of those that responded, 76 percent possessed devices with access to mobile internet yet only 32 percent actually used the service.
The OPA results found that consumers seem far happier to receive online ads than other mobile marketing techniques, such as text message campaigns. The allure of free content in exchange for viewing ad content attracted 34 percent of all respondents, with Europeans slightly keener at 37 percent.
“Consumers in every country are watching mobile ads and large numbers are being compelled to act,” said Pam Horan, president of the OPA. “This is a clear indication that the mobile Web is an effective advertising delivery platform and potentially valuable source of revenue.”
In comparison, a December, 2006, Forrester Inc. report found that nearly 80 percent of internet mobile users were annoyed just by the mere thought of internet advertising on their devices.
Tags: Forrester Inc, mobile advertising, mobile display ads, mobile internet, Online Publishers Association, text campaign, text messages
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Comments
This is certainly encouraging for the people like me developing interfacing applications for the mobile community. This big question is of course how long this trend will last. It was not long ago that we heard by Text campaigns were catching up with emails…and then the early popularity sort of died, killed in part by the uncontrollable spam messages. There seems to be a high mobility group in the IT world that tends to endorse or even get pretty excited about every new gizmo. They often create the early and positive trends. Then the rest of the world jumps in and the negativity begins often trapping new initiatives and invention in a backwash.
Posted by: Alex Har on March 10, 2007 15:27