Posts Tagged ‘IAB’

The explosive sales of smartphones and tablets, combined with the arrival of location-based services, is creating a ‘golden age’ for online and mobile advertising. James Robinson reports

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 [...]

NEW RESEARCH SHOWS THAT CONSUMERS ARE MOVING FASTER THAN RETAILERS TOWARDS MOBILE INTERNET Survey commissioned by AIME, IAB and IMRG shows that 41% of UK retail brands expect to have a transactional mobile site or application within the next year Too few retailers have a solid mobile presence today, however, 41% plan to have a [...]

With client interest in mobile growing, ad agencies are weighing the pros and cons of acquiring specialist skills

Simeon Simeonov is co-founder and CTO of Better Advertising, a provider of online advertising compliance and assurance solutions. Sim is also founder of FastIgnite. Previously, he was a VC at Polaris Venture Partners and chief architect at Allaire/Macromedia (now Adobe). Sim blogs atblog.simeonov.com, tweets as @simeons. “Notwithstanding anything else in this agreement, device data may not be provided or [...]

One trend I’ve noticed lately is that the few UK retailers that have launched mobile commerce services have opted to do this via mobile apps rather than a mobile website. Both Next and Net-A-Porter have the app, but not the mobile site.

Mobile apps have seen huge growth throughout 2009, but are they the future for the mobile industry? Are they more important than mobile sites? These were the questions that an IAB debate earlier this week sought to answer.

Below is a good analysis I came across on Gerson Lehrman Group website.  It was taken from an article published in the Guardian on the 9th November. My opinion on this: I do not entirely agree that focusing on the growth of the mobile web is wrong but I certainly do agree that just focusing on the [...]

New research conducted by the Internet Advertising Bureau – the trade association for online and mobile advertising – found that 73% of marketers believe mobile will be the medium to see most growth over the next 5 years. The survey, conducted amongst a panel of over 100 senior-level UK agency representatives, investigated their knowledge and [...]

I found this article on Utalkmarketing by Oliver Newton, Head of Emerging Platforms, i-level. 1999 was a defining year, we heard the song line “Hit me baby one more time” for the first time and it was also the year that the online ad industry really got to grips with itself starting the journey that [...]