Get our RSS feed
Search BizReport
News by Topic
Marketing
- Advertising
- Search Marketing
- Email Marketing
- Loyalty Marketing
- Mobile Marketing
- Social Marketing
- Viral Marketing
- Trends & Ideas
- Internet Marketing 101
Beyond Marketing
BizReport : Mobile Marketing : July 23, 2008
DMA: Text message campaigns most successful
Text message promotions are the most successful mobile marketing campaigns, found the Direct Marketing Association in its first ever quantitative research into the medium.
It’s good to talk, but the second most popular activity on a mobile phone is text messaging. It also happens to be the most successful mobile advertising medium, according to a recently released report by the DMA. Of the 800 U.S. mobile phone users surveyed, 70% said they had responded to a marketing text message whereas just 41% had responded to a survey and 30% to email offers.
Why might this be? Perhaps because marketing messages aren’t competing with the huge amounts of spam being experienced by email users. Recent research found that just 10% of mobile text messages are spam, compared with 65% for email, making each message more visible and, often, more relevant.
In addition, mobile phones are usually turned on and are to hand, which could explain why the average time it takes for a text message to be read is just 15 minutes.
The category that attracted the biggest response by far was for entertainment/music/video products with 44% of users responding. Twenty-one percent responded to food and beverage offers, 15% to beauty products, 12% to consumer electronics and 12% to travel, found the DMA's research.
Subscribe to BizReport
Please enter your e-mail here:
Latest Headlines
- Flash sales draw consumers online
- X+1 smart-tags content, websites
- Teens turn to tech to solve personal issues
- New tool helps etailers navigate online marketplaces
- What you need to know about health-conscious consumers
- More mobile predictions - mobile app downloads to explode
- Retrevo: Social media an obsession for some
- Experian segments mobile users by behavior/attitudes
Comments
Great article and good to know just how effective text messaging is. Text Messaging is the way to go and proving to be a viable way to get great exposure with your special offers ads when targeted to the correct audience. We are recommending a new innovation that incorporates a loyalty program that does just that. Delievers your special offers via text message to the right audience. The Mobile Guy
Posted by: Mike Thompson on July 24, 2008 02:02
Mobile Marketing is the best option for all companies as it costs less and delivers more. I would also recommend the website www.onsms.com which allows users to manage text messaging campaigns across major carriers in USA and Canada
Posted by: Abbas on March 17, 2009 14:20