In the third of our exclusives articles examining the latest AA/Warc Expenditure Report, Suzy Young, Warc’s data and journals director, looks at how mobile devices have impacted marketing budgets over recent years.
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Facebook has launched a new advertising network that will serve ads to third-party mobile apps – the first time that the social media giant has helped app developers monetise “in a serious way on mobile.”
Lumping tablet and smartphone reporting into ‘mobile’ is frustrating, but the success of tablets as a platform in their own right will hopefully see things change this year, says InSkin Media’s Dominic Tillson.
As Google, Apple, Facebook and Amazon all report earnings, Simon Andrews, founder of Addictive!, takes a look at how the tech giants are shaping the market – and what marketers need to watch out for.
The social media giant saw mobile advertising revenue leap 30% over the last 12 months, representing around 59% of total ad revenue for the first quarter of 2014.
A new study from the IAB reveals that 36% of top 100 brands in the UK do not have sites optimised for mobile.
Despite all the talk of engaging multi-screening consumers, the biggest marketing opportunity is targeting those that use different screens at different times exclusively, says Millward Brown’s Martin Ash.
Current mobile trends are no real indicator of where we might end up, says Simon Andrews, founder of Addictive! – and the size of the mobile opportunity means that everyone needs to get involved.
Over one in four British consumers now owns a tablet, with advertisers spending a record £6.3 billion in 2013 to reach people across devices, according to the latest Internet Advertising Bureau UK (IAB) digital adspend report.
Global advertising spend growth is forecast to rise from 3.9% in 2013 to 5.5% in 2014, with television set to benefit in particular, according to ZenithOptimedia.
