1. Mobile Advertising in the UK
Carl Uminski
March 2011
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2. A full service mobile marketing agency
MOBILE WEB SITES
STRATEGIC
CONSULTANCY
APPLICATIONS
BRAND
TRANSITION CREATIVE
YIELD MANAGEMENT
ADVERTISING
CAMPAIGN
MEASUREMENT
PLANNING &
OPTIMISATION
BUYING
DELIVER ROI
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3. The Founding Team
Nick Hynes – CEO Carl Uminski - COO
Chairman, Reward Ltd (current) CTO, Trutap Mobile Social Network
Chairman, Review Centre (current) Head of Mobile Search, Yahoo Worldwide
Non-executive Director, TradeDoubler Co-Founder & CTO, Overture Europe
Founder & CEO, The Search Works Systems Manager, British Airports (BAA)
Founder & CEO, Overture Europe
Founding team, Airmiles
Simon Edelstyn – Director Dave Evans – Director
MD Europe, Outbrain Inc CTO, SurfKitchen Mobile Portals
MD, Contraco Consulting VP Product Platforms, O2
MD, EQO International CTO BTLooksmart
Distribution Director, Google Europe
GM, BTLooksmart
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4. A selection of our 40+ global clients
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5. UK handsets represent a huge brand opportunity
• Affordable data
• Mass wi-fi coverage
• Advanced applications
• Powerful micro-computer
• High spec. camera
• GPS location aware
• Accelerometer
• A wallet
34% + of all mobiles are REAL smartphones today
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6. UK smartphone market within a European context
% smartphone
adoption 34% 34% 25% 37% 36%
No. of smartphone
16M 16M 14M 13M 12M subscribers
100%
% Smartphone Operator Share
90%
80%
70%
Microsoft
60% Android
50% RIM
40% Apple
Symbian
30%
20%
10%
0%
The UK has Europe’s largest volume of high end smartphone users
+ Source: ComScore MobiLense Dec 2010, July 2010
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7. High end smartphones drive the revenue opportunity
Increase in smartphones* Growing proportion of consumer time*
40% 45%
35% 40%
35%
30%
30%
25%
UK 25%
20% Time Spent
US 20%
15% 15% Ad Spend
10%
10%
5%
£771M
0% Missed
120%
YoY increase of mobile activity* Print TV Radio Desktop Mobile
Opportunity
100%
80%
285 M
60%
iab forecast UK mobile ad spend
40%
20%
to increase 211 M
0%
Email News and Social Networking 135 M
IAB Information
Results 86M
51% bought 38 M
50 M
using their mobiles +
Av. Order Value 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014
£14.50+ Source: IAB/PwC Mobile Ad Spend Study April 2010
+ Source: IAB Consumer M-Commerce October 2010, * ComScore MobiLense December 2010
8. HTML5 and Applications are driving brands to smartphones
FREE PAID
• The majority of apps are paid
• 40% free apps
• Downloading of paid apps is in decline
• Ad funded applications growing
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9. Application stores
+350,000 apps +200,000 apps 50,000 apps
(Est. 7M UK iPhone & iPod) (Est. 1.5M UK Devices)
(Est. 1M UK iPads)
Applications and mobile internet browsers have equal usage*
The average user installs 7 new apps per month, up 40% y/y**
Global mobile app revenue due to hit $35B by 2014***
Source: * Comscore Feb 2011 / ** Flurry statistics / *** IDC
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10. Positioning on mobile matters = success
Challenge of Mobile SEO
• Mobile content often duplicated
from web
• Touch screens UI image focused
• Limited content
• Mobile link building in it’s
infancy
• Most tools (including Google’s)
not optimised for mobile sites
Every element of your SEO strategy needs to be re-thought for mobile
App stores are of key importance
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11. Advertising on mobile is highly fragmented
blind networks
search Stores & social
...which makes buying
a specialist task
premium publishers & operators
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13. Gaming and virtual goods have enjoyed huge success
125 years of Angry Birds £10 per month ARPU from
played daily virtual goods
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14. Luxury global brands pioneer in UK m-Commerce...
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15. The near future
SO LO MO
cial cal bile
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16. Top tips for mobile advertising
1 Understand your
customers need
Create an asset that solves your
2 customers need
Advertise in contexts that are
3 relevant to your consumers
Take advantage of the
4 personal nature of mobile
Track direct actions and research
5 indirect effects of activity
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