Is your website and marketing strategy optimized for the mobile-first era? Learn about the most recent trends in the mobile landscape and discover how to take advantage of the opportunities it presents.
Mobile Landscapes and Trends
-By 2019, mobile will account for 72% of digital ad spend.
Challenges and Opportunities
The main challenge and opportunity is to capture the hearts and minds of your consumers. It is important to connect with people on a emotional level, or a level that will help people buy. This is important, because 77% of smartphone users indicated that their phone made them feel happy. Though people may love their phone, they are also protective. 80-90% of apps are eventually deleted. Mobile friendly and mobile optimized websites are very important when advertising.
Importance of Mobile Calls
With the the growing use of mobile phones and websites, users can more easily connect with a business. Call tracking makes it easier than ever to see that users are using their phones to connect with businesses by directly connecting through the website. It is important to analyze calls like these and look for developing trends.
Call tracking can also help you set a mobile goal. Evaluate your needs and choose what is best.
Mobile Best Practices
To best tie everything together, it is best to use these mobile best practices in conjunction with your goals and call tracking.
1. Leverage Native Ad Formats
2. Align Messaging and Targeting Across Channels
3. Enhance Ads with Mobile Ad-Ons
4. Optimize the Mobile Experience
5. Capitalize on the New Channels and Formats
6. Keep it in Context
As marketers, we know that mobile has become a critical part of an effective strategy. We’re well aware that people are spending lots of time on their phones — and lots of money. “Mobile first” means something very real to us about how we approach content and experiences, but to mobile users today it means even more. People have confessed to their willingness to forgo what most would consider very basic life necessities before they’d go a day without their cell phones, demonstrating just how high mobile ranks in their hearts. Anytime someone starts a sentence with “I’d rather go through life barefoot than…”, we ought to be paying attention, because something big is happening.
So, what is it about mobile, exactly, that generates such a dramatic response?
It’s a lot more than “Reach your best customers anytime & anywhere” , which is the kind of headline making lots of noise these days. Any big-picture marketer today understands that accessibility alone doesn’t equal opportunity.
At the heart of the matter, the source for this attachment is about just how personalized our mobile experiences and devices have become.
Mobile users today are the careful and discriminating curators of their own micro worlds —phones are customized galleries. They’re where we decide exactly what to look at or engage with during the time we have, in the environments we visit. Which apps do we install, and which ones grab our attention and become embedded? Whose content do we invite into our lives, and whose do we block?Our mobile devices are extensions of ourselves, and they’re intensely personal. Rifling through someone else’s phone is probably the modern-day equivalent of snooping in his or her medicine cabinet.
This adds up to a remarkable and unprecedented opportunity for marketers. Mobile users are the most responsive audience available: they’re personally invested in both the medium and the context, which means they’re already emotionally-charged. They’ve opted-in, are more likely highly engaged…and they’re empowered by the immediate gratification mobile provides.
This means you can use mobile to capture hearts and minds, leaving the brains and logic to the rest of your media mix.
Done right, mobile marketing reaps the benefits of this trusted relationship by association alone, capitalizing on the byproducts of mobile infatuation. Mobile marketers can “wine and dine” the targets of their affection with relevant, personalized offerings and brand experiences, and they’ll be met with open eyes, ears….and arms.
Customers are in their comfort zone and they’re feeling good because of that. And they’ve invited you in.
You know how they say there’s a fine line between love and hate? There is some serious wisdom to that when it comes to mobile marketing. Just as the opportunity is enormous, so are the risks. Mobile users carefully protect their happy places from unwanted ads and communication, and are quick to delete, to uninstall, to block, to un-follow.
Get it right, and you’re an invited guest. Get it wrong, you’re an unwelcome intruder.
You might not get a second chance. So how do you mitigate the risk, and make sure you get it right?
This was easier when it was Google, bing and yahoo only. Consumers are using multiple channels and devices. Shopping both online and offline shopping. How can we tie all of this together?
This was easier when it was Google, bing and yahoo only. Consumers are using multiple channels and devices. Shopping both online and offline shopping. How can we tie all of this together?
$65 billion is spent annually on ads to generate phone calls
Native ad formats are essentially a godsend to marketers. No longer must you compete with the organic experience top search and social channels provide; instead, native units allow for a seamless, comfortable way to engage with your target audiences. Via these less jarring, and ultimately more welcome apertures for interaction, native is becoming less about blurred lines between advertising and content, and more about breaking down the barriers between brands and consumers! Kenshoo provides access to the best performing native ad units across all the key search and social channels so you can capitalize on this proven approach.
These additional features stimulate interaction and drive mobile-specific conversions.
Connect via mobile channels with formats that matter
Resonate with customers across channels and devices
Measure and analyze what drives action
Optimize for customer lifetime value & ROI