Mobile marketing is an important strategy for businesses today due to the widespread adoption of smartphones. Some key points about mobile marketing include:
- More than 290 million people in the US use mobile devices spending over 16 hours per day on their phones.
- Smartphone penetration in the US is over 35% and growing rapidly which provides opportunities for mobile advertising, apps, and mobile optimized websites.
- SMS text messaging is still very effective with nearly 100% open rates and response rates over 10 times higher than email marketing.
- Video, mobile search, and location based services through tools like Foursquare and Google Places are growing areas of mobile marketing.