What Will Be The Major Trends In Mobile Marketing In 2010?

  1. Augmented reality: will likely gain traction
  2. Growth of mobile Web: will reach more than one-half of the consumers on the wired Web
  3. GPS battery drain problem: expect Apple to solve this
  4. Mobile site and applications: 50 percent of campaigns will direct users to a mobile site and 35-40 percent to a custom mobile application
  5. Geo-fencing: will hear geo-fence become part of marketers’ vocabulary
  6. Linking CRM databases into mobile marketing
  7. New entrants into mobile: more than 25 percent of brands anticipate spending more than $5 million on mobile advertising in 2010
  8. Carriers to open up location
  9. Mobile triple play = Location x Relevancy x Immediacy
  10. Coupons to incorporate time and context
  11. Long live the ad networks: advertisers will increasingly buy audiences over buying media properties
  12. Privacy: ad networks will follow guidelines set by industry trade associations
  13. Mobile commerce and retail will grow
  14. Demand and supply: demand for preroll and other advanced mobile video advertising solutions will exceed available inventory, supply exceeds demand in application mobile advertising
  15. Competition: Android and RIM developer platforms continue to flourish.
  16. Frequency capping and share of voice
  17. Location: data will begin to be mined
  18. Search: will become a high driver of in-store traffic

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