Adam Small's Articles on Martech Zone
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Mobile Marketing Growth
The numbers are staggering and continue to accelerate. More and more people are trading in their mobile phones for smartphones, generating a huge demand for marketing apps, marketing-optimized web sites, location-based services and interactive mobile and social usage outside the home and office. From the Infographic: The traditional cellphone is being overtaken by the far more capable ssmartphone. Equipped with…
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The Impending Mobile Data Spectrum Shortage
We may see some noticeable changes in the way that our mobile devices communicate in the next few years. Push technologies that are constantly communicating between servers and mobile devices are beginning to eat up the limited bandwidth we currently have. Some companies, such as AT&T are already capping packages. With movies going mobile, music streaming going mobile, and all…
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One Year – 700% Mobile Growth
Today is the start of the Mobile World Congress 2012 in Barcelona. In preparation, the folks at inneractive have developed the following infographic with some startling statistics on the growth of mobile advertising in the last 12 months. No marketer should be doubting the growth of mobile marketing… and should be executing on mobile strategies – including social, mobile optimized…
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Economics of Free Mobile Games
Companies look to developing application programming interfaces and mobile applications that compliment their service; however, free entertainment apps are often overlooked as a viable alternative. The freemium business model is taking over — an estimated 65% of revenue generated by the 100 top grossing apps in the App Store, and an estimated 72% of total App Store revenue comes from…
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iPhone versus Android Social App Usage
The people over Onavo put together this great infographic on mobile social application usage by mobile platform. A couple of the more interesting takeaways: iPhone owners use Facebook much more than Android users. 90% vs. 63% respectively. iPhone owners use mobile social apps much more than Android users. Facebook is the big winner in mobile social apps. Accounting for 10%…
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Do You Text from the Bathroom?
Chances are pretty good that you do text from the bathroom… in fact 2 out of 3 people admit doing it. It sort of grosses me out thinking about borrowing anyone’s mobile phone now! We appreciate it when our clients use our text messaging services… but thank goodness they’re typically outside of a home for sale! As for the 2/3rds…
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Design a Mobile-Friendly Email
All Internet trends point to enormous growth in how many emails are read on mobile devices. Some stats have shown that 40% of all corporate emails are read on a mobile device. In the last 6 months, reading email on a mobile device is up 150%! Viewing emails on a small screen has it’s difficulties and advantages. Some devices support…
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International Text Messaging Statistics
There are 4.2 billion mobile users utilizing text messaging worldwide…. that’s 3 out of every 4 people on Earth! It also makes text messaging the #1 most used data service in the world with 6.1 trillion tweets sent last year. In fact 48 million people have cell phones… but NO electricity, often using their car batteries to charge their phones.…
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Where People Use Their Smartphones
Tatango, an SMS Marketing company, has come out with another infographic that’s quite simple but disturbingly revealing on how smartphones have permeated our lives and activities. I wish movie theaters would install signal blocking devices that would render any mobile phone useless in a movie theater. Leave it in the car, people! Seriously! 1.webp” alt=”” title=”Where-Are-Smartphones-Being-Used-Infographic” width=”640″ height=”1188″ class=”alignright size-full…
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The Rise of Mobile Advertising
Over 1 million iOS and Android devices activated everyday! There’s a reason why we spend so much time focused on Mobile Marketing. It’s not the sheer numbers, either. Behavior of consumers and businesses are changing – we read our email on mobile devices now. We research companies while we’re waiting for the next flight. We participate in social media and…
