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Mobile phones and Marketing Opportunities
Mobile phones have become a staple of daily life, so much so that most consumers can hardly imagine going through the day without one by their side. The reliance on mobile devices for just about everything makes mobile a platform that content publishers and marketers cannot afford to ignore.
eMarketer predicts mobile content revenues will rise from less than $1.15 billion in 2009 to more than $3.53 billion in 2014, a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of nearly 20% over the period.
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Paid to Receive Text Messages
Email dominates the mobile picture
Older Americans online
Older Americans, including the “Boomers”, are found to be Internet-savvy and they like social networks. This has really confirmed what I have observed with members of my family and the number of older people I encounter online.
According to Kevin Donnellan, chief communications officer at AARP, boomers have embraced social networking and more than a quarter (27%) of all Americans age 50 and over are logging on to the likes of Twitter and MySpace.
Facebook was found to be the most popular (23%) by the U.S.-based non-governmental organization and interest group for retired people.
Texting beats E-Mail & Facebook, with Teenagers
An ExactTarget survey of adults and teens on their favorite communication methods. Asked to choose between e-mail and Facebook—their preferred social network—33% of respondents ages 15 to 17 picked e-mail and 31% Facebook. About one-quarter liked both equally.
When Facebook went head-to-head with text messaging, it performed even worse: 48% of teens would rather communicate via SMS, compared with just 12% who chose Facebook.
Texting also won out over e-mail. Among adults, however, a preference for e-mail was still strong.
Market Insight – Woman,Shopping,Influence
When it comes to shopping, we’ve heard the story of one woman finding a product, telling another and a wave of new customers hopping on the product bandwagon. Turns out that may be very close to the truth. According to a recent iVillage and SheSpeaks study. Researchers found that about three-quarters (77%) of women are influenced to try and buy new products from other female shoppers in the online world.















