Mobile App Promotions – A Small Part of The Full Picture

Noelia Amoedo, CEO of Mediasmart 

A sentiment I’ve been hearing all too often from ad agencies recently, is that when considering a Mobile Advertising investment the sole purpose of engaging with a mobile specialist DSP is promoting apps.

This is an extremely limited perspective for two very important reasons. Firstly, ‘eyeballs’ nowadays are predominantly focused on mobile apps and campaign effectiveness in apps often requires mobile specific technology.  Then there’s also the fact that the mobile environment provides so much more information about user behaviour than other channels. Frankly, if you’re not working with a mobile specialist, you’re missing out.

A view from the top: does mobile have a seat at the boardroom table?

Written by Jon Hook, VP of Brand & Agency at AdColony

At the MMA London Forum we took a step into the boardroom with Dan Hagen Chief Strategy Officer at Carat UK and Keith Moor the CMO at Santander, to understand if and how mobile has impacted the way executives plan and execute marketing campaigns.

How has mobile changed the way that you plan your campaigns?

As with any other medium, the starting point is always with the consumer, not a device or screen. Mobile enables advertisers to derive a real time and data rich portrait of a consumer than previously possible, in large part down to location signals (giant caveat being GDPR!). Whilst this is deeply valuable, the real challenge is where mobile sits in the marketing mix.

4 Strategies for Capitalising on the Micro-Moment Economy

Digby Lewis, Head of Platforms & Distribution at iris Worldwide

This is a story about change. Humans have a very linear perception of how things evolve: we believe things will change at broadly the same rate. The truth is, things have never changed so fast before… and will never change so slowly again. Even the concept of Moore’s law, where processing power doubles every 18 months, has been declared redundant by MIT. The truth is, technological change is exponential. Which means that we have to adapt ever faster to make our marketing communications more in step with consumer behaviour.

Maximising Mobile Video Content – Without Cutting Your Hand Off

Peter Haslett, Head of Client Development at Realeyes Ltd.

As the sun sets on Cannes, I was personally very pleased to see a theme of quality vs quantity get the spotlight.

The urge to push creative boundaries is no doubt high but as we know, high quality production doesn’t save an idea that does not inherently make us (the audience) sit-up and pay attention.  So this is about inspiring creativity, breathing oxygen in to ideas and identifying where risk brings reward vs going too far in an attempt to disrupt and/or surprise.

The crux of this is that getting feedback through the creative development process at speed, dramatically reduces costly iterations and disruption to time-pressured workflows.

iOS 11: How will the new updates disrupt the mobile advertising industry

Nicolas Rieul, VP Strategy EMEA at S4M

Apple announced at its annual Worldwide Developers Conference 2017 a suite of news features for iOS 11 that will surely be welcomed by its loyal users. For mobile advertisers, this update doesn’t bring all bad news, there are also some exciting new potentials for marketers with the latest update. For users, it is all good news, as Apple’s new iOS 11 is putting user privacy centre stage.

 

Why & how more brands need to take a stand to become a love brand

Beate Rosenthal, Global Brand Director Digital & Media at Merck Consumer Health

In today’s world, crowded with messages and distractions, brands need to find ever more unique ways to stand-out.

That does not just mean that brands needs to add emotional benefits to functional superiority, but they need to consider taking a stand and commit to societal topics.

Brands need to take a stand about topics, people care about

Insights based ideas that connect with consumers at a higher level are important to create brand love, but they don’t replace the need for product benefit superiority. At Merck consumer health, the world’s oldest pharmaceutical and chemical company, we are committed to the love brand idea. By the way, brand love is a scientifically proven concept with various studies showing that simply seeing their favourite brand logos caused students’ hearts to slow temporarily – literally ‘skipping a beat’.

Mobile Ad Fraud: Time to Clean the Space

Christophe Collet, CEO at S4M

Digital ad spending makes up more than 60% of total advertising investments in the UK. The mobile channel is well on its way to dominate all other media channels and will double the ad spending for desktop and TV by 2018. Naturally, with more budget at stake, more incentives rise for fraud in mobile ad campaigns. The good news for the ecosystem is that advertisers and vendors are well aware of what’s at stake and have heard the call from Marc Pritchard to clean up the mobile programmatic space.

Weve, Axonix and Statiq – the next frontier of location marketing?

Tom Pearman, Managing Director at Weve

Last weeks’ announcement that Telefónica’s Axonix had purchased Statiq, the three year old mobile location targeting business, was exciting news not just for the Telefónica teams across Weve and Axonix, but also for the industry. Statiq have been creating waves since they launched, breaking the mould by detaching media from supply and giving buyers what they want – control of the data.

How Marketers Must Harness Alternative App Stores To Reach Greater Audiences

Peggy Anne Salz, Lead Analyst & Founder at MobileGroove

The mobile app market is a monstrous place for marketers and brands. We are witnessing an avalanche in the number of mobile apps, triggered by unprecedented growth in smartphone adoption and usage globally. The good news: the global App Economy is firing on all cylinders. The not-so-good news: this rapid expansion is stretching the search, marketing and brand protection models that have allowed this new economy, and the global business ecosystem it supports, to flourish.

In short, massive growth confronts marketers with massive challenges.

How retailers can use mobile data to help drive shopping behaviour

Warren Mills , Client Partner: Entertainment, Media, Retail & Technology at Telefonica

As an industry, we’re increasingly understanding the critical role mobile plays at at each stage of the consumer journey. While these journeys will undoubtedly change and fragment, the role of mobile is here to stay as mobile data plays an ever-important role in how we identify, target and measure retail behaviours.

Historically, we’ve always treated the retail journey as a linear process, with the key aim to move the customer through the funnel: building awareness, driving consideration and intent and, ultimately, encouraging purchase. The importance of loyalty and advocacy were only considered once the customer had been acquired, rather than considered as an integral part of an evolving process.