Ipsos Encyclopedia - Mobile Advertising
Mobile advertising is any form of advertising delivered to a mobile device. While this can include SMS, email etc. it's more typically thought of as advertising delivered in mobile web browsers or mobile apps.
Advertisers need cross-platform and cross-media metrics. Reach and frequency have long been at the heart of media trading and media evaluation. Yet the link between these metrics and potential exposure and cut through varies between and across media.
Many studies have shown no link between sales and click through rate, yet according to eMarketer it is one of the top 5 ways in which advertisers and publishers evaluate native mobile ad campaigns. Marketers need to be clear on their desired brand impact and the role of communications to help achieve this.
How can brand campaigns leverage the interplay of attention, memory and emotion to influence people’s choices? We have always known that stories with the ability to stir our emotions get remembered. They also have the capacity to influence our behaviour.
What is the best way to get the right amount of reach but also the right precision? Some marketers are seduced by the promise of micro-targeted precision through digital media spend. Others go broad and target everyone. What is the right balance for your brand? Frustrating though it may be – the answer is “it depends”.
With advertisers spending more of their campaign budgets in online video and Facebook growing rapidly as a preferred platform, Ipsos Connect has developed Connect:Live to help clients select the best creative to launch and measure the brand impact of their live campaign buys.
Some ad jingles are among the most contagious tunes ever produced. I recently re-discovered an old ad for 金龜嘜萬里望花生 (Sze Hing Loong Ladybird roasted & salted peanuts), the jingle from which had been looping in my head for a while, its catchy rhythm and simple lyrics still linking me back to the brand after such a long time.
