Advertisers and agencies need more education and metrics for mobile to succeed<\/strong><\/p>\n New industry research from the Internet Advertising Bureau (IAB) has found that clients and agencies believe that mobile advertising will become a mainstay of UK marketing plans over the next two years, but there is a current disconnect between usage and understanding of the medium.<\/p>\n The IAB\u2019s Mobile Council surveyed 115 agencies, media planners, creatives and advertisers to uncover the state of the mobile market, their level of understanding, perceived barriers to entry and how to plan best for the future.<\/p>\n The research found usage within agencies is split down the middle, with 50% having used mobile, and the remainder having no experience in mobile advertising at all. However, whilst mobile advertising accounts for a small proportion of overall digital spend, many (62%) foresee that it will grow over the next two years and will become a standard part of budgets.<\/p>\n Respondents acknowledged that mobile will \u2018tip\u2019 over the next two years, but won\u2019t firmly appear on media schedules until 2012, with the majority citing robust and reliable mobile audience metrics such as measurement and campaign evaluation as critical to the success of the medium.<\/p>\n The research follows the IAB\u2019s announcement to officially widen its remit to serve the mobile advertising industry. The five UK networks \u2013 3, O2, Orange, T-Mobile and Vodafone UK have formed a Mobile Steering Group (MSG) to oversee and advise on the trade body\u2019s strategy to educate the advertisers and agencies about the benefits of the medium. Unsurprisingly, the mobile industry and digital agencies are seen as being the primary drivers pushing mobile advertising in parallel. Media owners are also attempting to move forward the industry with 36% of respondents saying they are very or slightly active. Traditional ad agencies are well behind the curve with only 10% actively driving this space.<\/p>\n However, there were many parallels drawn between mobile and online. Currently, the type of metrics used in mobile are similar to those used in online. The type of data that is reported back to agencies and clients is predominantly click-through (75%), delivered impressions (67%), unique users (47%), and cost per action (35%). <\/p>\n Mobile advertising in the future<\/strong> Respondents thought that mobile ads could be good for a wide variety of product categories, and overwhelmingly stated that the Entertainment category is most suited to mobile advertising (91%), followed by Leisure & Travel (57%), Telecoms (52%), Retail (52%) and FMCG (40%). <\/p>\n When asked whether mobile search will overtake fixed PC search by 2015 a quarter (25%) believed that it will. However, respondents did not see search as having much synergy with mobile in today\u2019s media landscape, with only 7% understanding mobile search and more than half (57%) lacking any familiarity with mobile search. <\/p>\n Respondents said that more information is needed to drive take up. The key areas where the industry believes it is falling short include: availability of audience data (53%), where to buy mobile inventory (49%), cost parameters (39%) and consumer insight studies (38%). <\/p>\n Jim Cook, Editor of MobiAdNews and Chair of the IAB Mobile Council, said: \u201cExpectations for mobile advertising are high but actual understanding is low. The industry needs to address measurement, effectiveness and benchmarks if mobile advertising is going to reach a tipping point by 2010. The IAB intends to tackle each of these areas through quality research, events and collaboration with other mobile trade bodies like the GSMA and the MMA.\u201d<\/p>\n Ends<\/p>\n For more information contact: About the IAB www.iabuk.net<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Advertisers and agencies need more education and metrics for mobile to succeed New industry research from the Internet Advertising Bureau (IAB) has found that clients and agencies believe that mobile advertising will become a mainstay of UK marketing plans over the next two years, but there is a current disconnect between usage and understanding of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mobiadnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2930"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mobiadnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mobiadnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mobiadnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mobiadnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2930"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.mobiadnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2930\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mobiadnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nThe study also pointed towards a greater need for industry-wide education, with, three quarters (76%) requiring further information on the efficacy of the medium.<\/p>\n
\nWhen asked whether mobile will be the primary medium for communicating with 12 to 24 age groups more than 59% agreed. Three quarters (70%) believe that location based ads are effective today. <\/p>\n
\nAmy Kean, senior PR and marketing manager, IAB amy@iabuk.net 07739372042<\/p>\n
\nThe Internet Advertising Bureau (IAB) is the trade association for online and mobile advertising. With over 450 members, it’s run for the leading media owners and agencies in the UK internet industry. Online is an exciting and fast-growing medium and our job at the IAB is to work with members to ensure marketers can identify the best role for online and the emerging mobile market, helping them engage their customers and build their brands. Through the dissemination of research and the organisation of regular events, we aim to put digital on the agenda of every marketer in the UK, acting as an authoritative and objective source for all internet advertising issues whilst promoting industry-wide best practice.<\/p>\n