Posts Tagged ‘Google’

As the web experience evolves, smartphones may soon live up to their name, and every business’ mobile strategy will grow in importance…

Posted By ] Ronan Shields The growth of mobile search ads outstripped desktop search ads during March, according to figures from digital maketing agency Latitude. The research revealed that arbitrage opportunities from mobile search continue, with mobile costs per click 37% cheaper on average than the desktop. This is despite click-through rates for mobile search ads rising [...]

Posted By ] By Douglas MacMillan Advertising on mobile devices in China will more than double to $1.16 billion in the next three years, growing faster than the U.S. market, according to a report by EMarketer Inc. Mobile advertising in China will grow 158 percent by 2014, EMarketer predicted in a report to be published today. In the U.S., [...]

Posted By ] Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry Image: Federated Media Here’s a few things that are noteworthy about the chart: Amazon is #1 and on track to spend $200 million per year! These days Amazon and Google are mostly rivals in areas like mobile and media sales, but at the end of the day Amazon is an e-commerce site and [...]

Posted By ] Anna Maria Virzi Palm Springs, CA– Mobile is taking off faster than predicted, said Google CEO Eric Schmidt. And Google, which develops the Android operating system for smartphones, has seen mobile usage soar in all sorts of activities. As keynote speaker at the Interactive Advertising Bureau‘s annual leadership meeting, Schmidt offered up these [...]

Source: Mobile Commerce Ltd. The top 100 mobile search terms of 2010: 1. Facebook 2. Google 3. Bebo 4. Youtube 5. www.facebook.com 6. Ebay 7. Facebook.com 8. Hotmail 9. Yahoo 10. Ebuddy 11. Msn 12. Lottery 13. you tube 14. Face book 15. Flirtomatic 16. Yahoo mail 17. Google.com 18. Lotto 19. Twitter 20. Plenty [...]

Apple Effect May Have Helped Change Game in Mobile Advertising, but Analysts Agree It’s Still Anybody’s Win

Google’s AdMob acquisition sure wasn’t a smooth one. Challenged by the FTC, it took months to get the acquisition through. And just when everything seemed to settle, Apple decided to exclude non-independent third-party ad-networks from iPhone and iPad apps, AdMob’s main revenue source.

Nokia’s hunt for fresh blood in the boardroom is a tacit admission of defeat by the likes of Apple in the smartphone market, but will it require a more wholesale change to be taken seriously by the marketing indsutry?