Weve Source: The Art and Science of Mobile Engagement

Harry Clarke, Creativity & Innovations Manager at Weve

There is always something to compare in advertising. Content vs context, data vs creativity, technology vs humanity. All the conversations start off with one question: who will win? Yet in every seminar and workshop I’ve attended and every article I’ve read, we all reach the same conclusion: there are no winners.

The truth is, they are all cornerstones of the advertising world we work (and live) in, working together to enhance and evolve our output.

How Artificial Intelligence can aid retailers

Pete O’Mara Kane, VP Sales at LoopMe

90% of retailers reported a drop in foot traffic in the last 5 years

This week LoopMe launched our Retail Foot Traffic Research. We were looking to see the impact of declining foot traffic to stores, using a working hypothesis developed from insights from the British Retail Council who found that there was a 1% drop in foot traffic registered across the UK.

Almost 90% of the 250 retail decision makers in UK reported a drop in foot traffic over the last 5 years and 93% reported a loss in store revenue. Meanwhile, a record £133bn was spent online in 2016, a growth of 16% in one year.

Harnessing Mobile, Data & Programmatic For Real-Time, Right-Time Marketing

Peggy Anne Salz, Lead Analyst and Founder at MobileGroove

Mobile equips brands and business marketers to deliver real-time marketing right now. But it’s contextually relevant marketing linked to a more holistic view of customers that will truly move the needle on your campaigns. This article, excerpted from Mobile: The Great Connector (Volume 2), a comprehensive eBook authored by Peggy Anne Salz, chief analyst and content strategist of MobileGroove, in collaboration with the MMA EMEA and member sponsors Inspired and Brainstorm, explores how quality data around context and location arms marketers to improve targeting and campaign performance.

How Brands Can Harness Data to Deliver Amazing Experiences and Engagement

Peggy Anne Salz, Lead Analyst and Content Marketing Strategist at MobileGroove

We may have started out in a state where information was mostly contained in PCs but now, thanks to the advance of mobile and the avalanche of mobile apps, information isn’t ‘in’ anything. It is everywhere. Technology is also smart — and going to get a lot smarter — so brands have to get smarter about how they use it to engage their customers.

What Audiences Expect & Why Brands Need to ‘SIMPLIFY’ the Journey

Pratick Thakrar, CEO at Inspired Mobile

From strategies to re-imagine and ‘hyper-personalise’ the customer experience to ways brands are harnessing mobile and offers linked to context to improve loyalty programmes, marketers must determine the appropriate channels and approaches that will satisfy people’s growing requirement for personalised and relevant brand communications.

Choose The Appropriate Channels To Connect With Your Customers

Jeremy Deaner, CEO at Brainstorm

The capabilities are coming together for marketers to reach the core audience— as defined by their location and location context — that truly matters to their brand or business. However, recent research from the MMA and Brainstorm Mobile Solutions, a global provider of mobile engagement solutions, highlights the requirement for marketers to use location data responsibly.

An Analysis of Winning Mobile Campaigns in EMEA

 

Ariane Längsfeld, European Brand Manager – Media & Digital, Millward Brown

Mobile as a platform provides a huge opportunity for marketers to connect with consumers. Through Millward Brown’s AdReaction study 2015, a survey amongst 16-45 year old multiscreen users conducted across 42 countries, we have found that on a global average, users spent over 6 hours daily on different screens and 2.5 hours daily were spent on a smartphone.