Emerging Trends in Mobile Krista Neher CEO – Boot Camp Digital 513-702-7929 [email_address]
About Me 5+ years at P&G VP Marketing at Photrade BootCampDigital & BootCampMobile International speaker on digital Correspondent for Mobile Marketer Blogger for CES, Ad:tech, Search Engine Strategies
 
Mobile is Changing Everything.
SMS text messaging is used by  twice the # of people  who use the internet.
Click-through rates are higher on mobile than online. Is this sustainable?
 
In two years,  40%  of Internet Access will happen from a mobile device.
People  consume  mobile differently.
Stop in for short snacking of the medium.
Screens are  smaller.
Phones are getting  smarter.
Smartphone sales grew  69%  in 2008
47%  of consumers want an iphone. 30%  say too expensive 34%  don’t want ATT
Location is  key.
Advertisers  know where you are.
Mobile is changing  search.
There is an  app for that.
Forrester analyst Sucharita Mulpuru “ Marketers should like social media, but  love mobile ."
Social Mobile
Bring web-based social onto the  phone.
Create a  mobile only  social network.
Create your own social network.
A Mobile Panel Wouldn’t Be Complete without Talking about….
 
IPhones are only about  8 percent of the market , but they make up about  40 percent of Internet  usage at present.
Overhyped? Maybe. Trend setters Early adopters Failure of BB app store Does this replicate to the rest of the market?
Currently over  60,000  apps in the app store
Almost  50%  of the top apps are  games Entertainment  is the next most popular Social Networking  is third most popular
Ebay Generated  $400M  in business from their iphone app.
MLB Branded App = Revenue $9.99 for app and $0.99 to stream game Over 400,000 paid downloads “ our mobile app consumers use it every day, which is staggering, we’ve seen phenomenal usage levels and it’s because you have the phone with you all the time.”
Challenges
Fragmentation Carriers Phones Screens Operating Systems
Standards are still emerging.
Expensive To develop PPC is high
Questions?

Emerging Trends In Mobile