From the Center For Media Research:
| Thursday, November 4, 2010
Mobile Web For Media and Entertainment, Apps For Social Media and Music According to the results of the first quantitative mobile consumer study by Adobe Systems, when it comes to the mobile user experience, respondents generally favor mobile browser experiences over downloadable mobile app experiences across all four key consumer categories: consumer products & shopping, financial services, media & entertainment, and travel.Within the consumer products & shopping as well as the media & entertainment categories, 66% of respondents cited that they prefer the mobile Web for accessing content compared to 34% who cited a preference for downloadable apps. 38% of respondents said they had not purchased anything in the consumer products & shopping category from their devices in the last six months. Brad Rencher, vice president and general manager, Omniture Business Unit, Adobe, said “… though mobile apps continue to be extremely popular, mobile users aren’t ignoring mobile websites… ” Media & entertainment were found to be the highest-penetrated mobile category, by number of users and time spent, with only 3% of those surveyed saying they had not interacted with media content on a mobile device in the last six months. Consumer products & shopping was the least penetrated, with the fewest number of users citing that they have purchased consumer goods from their phones. Despite their differences, media & entertainment and consumer products & shopping drew the highest percentage of satisfied mobile users out of the four categories, with 89% and 85% respectively. Other key findings include:
And, relating to mobile use, eMarketer posted some recent forecasts for mobile ad spending through 2014. According the the eMarketer forecast, 2014 will see $2,549.5 million in US Mobile ad spending. Spending projections continue to span a wide range, however, reflecting mobile’s status as an emerging channel. They also charted the comparable forecast period from several other sources for comparison.
eMarketer predicts steeper growth in display spending, banners, rich media and video, accompanied by a sharper drop in messaging’s share of total mobile ad spending. Noah Elkin, eMarketer principal analyst and author of the report, concludes “These shifts reflect the evolution of mobile from a channel associated primarily with direct response campaigns to one marketers will increasingly use for branding purposes,” Said Elkin, “In short, the continued development of devices, browsers and mobile networks, combined with the availability and marketer awareness of richer ad units, will significantly enhance how marketers will be able to use mobile to interact and engage with consumers.” For additional information about the Adobe report, please visit here, and for more from eMarketer, go here. This commentary is insightful. I recommend it to others. Post your response to the public Research Brief blog. See what others are saying on the Research Brief blog. We use the term research in the broadest possible sense. We do not perform an audit, nor do we analyze the data for accuracy or reliability. Our intention is to inform you of the existence of research materials and so we present reports as they are presented to us. The only requirements we impose are that they are potentially useful and relevant to our readers and that they pass the rudimentary test of relying on acceptable industry standards. We explicitly do not take responsibility for the findings. Please be aware of this and check the source for yourself if you intend to rely on any of the data we present.
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