Mobile Year in Review 2010

Mobile Growing Quicker Than Google Expected

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Think Mobile With Google

A long one but a must see if you’re serious about cell phone marketing.

Facebook Location Marketing

Teens Sends 3,339 Texts Per Month [STATS]

“If you needed more proof that texting is on the rise, here’s a stat for you: the average teenager sends more than 3,000 texts per month. That’s more than six texts per waking hour.”

Do you think this amount will decrease over time????? Probably not.

http://mashable.com/2010/10/14/nielsen-texting-stats/

8 Tips for a Killer Mobile Search Campaign

http://mashable.com/2010/09/21/mobile-search-campaign/

Facebook Mobile Hits 150 Million Users

Mobile Facebook Users Hit 150 Million according to Yahoo News.

The head of mobile products, Eric Tseng. says that Facebook “really sees mobile as the future,” and that we can expect to see Facebook’s “Like” buttons in mobile applications soon.
Facebook has also been experimenting with geo-location for use with Facebook mobile.  More information on Facebook’s Open Graph and Like Button are Going Mobile @ Mashable

Click-to-Call Phone Numbers in Mobile Ads for National Advertisers

Click-to-Call Phone Numbers in Mobile Ads for National Advertisers – Google Mobile Blog

Recently we announced a new feature that allows advertisers to add a clickable phone number to their mobile ads, making it easy for customers to connect with the local business they’re looking for directly by phone. This week, we’re expanding click-to-call phone numbers for national advertisers. Now advertisers can add a national phone number to the last line of ad text for any existing or new campaigns, making it easy for customers to connect with the business by phone directly from the ad, regardless of their location.
This can be especially helpful when you’re trying to connect with the business call center rather than a specific business location. After searching for a travel services, for example, you might want to call to discuss trip planning with an agent. Or after searching for car insurance, you might want to call for a quote. Now, if you’re using an iPhone, Android device, or Palm Pre, you can just click the phone number to call the business without needing to navigate to a new page.
If you’re an advertiser and would like to learn more about how to add a clickable phone number to your mobile ads, check out this post on the Inside AdWords blog for more details.
Posted by Surojit Chatterjee, Product Manager, Mobile Ads
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3 comments:
Ubwete12 said…
This must be old, and a duplication of capacity for the smartphone. Browsers on these phones are able to recognise phone numbers in international format. Perhaps it should be the advertisers to conform?
ubwete12@gmail.com
MARCH 3, 2010 7:04 AM
chaps_ks said…
I welcome the move!
MARCH 3, 2010 7:30 AM
Mobli News said…
My iPhone doesn’t display Ads yet.
MARCH 7, 2010 7:25 PMRecently we announced a new feature that allows advertisers to add a clickable phone number to their mobile ads, making it easy for customers to connect with the local business they’re looking for directly by phone. This week, we’re expanding click-to-call phone numbers for national advertisers. Now advertisers can add a national phone number to the last line of ad text for any existing or new campaigns, making it easy for customers to connect with the business by phone directly from the ad, regardless of their location.

I’ve done some click to call experiments.  Definitely some potential to it.  Now if you’re a national advertiser you can use one national phone call instead of multiple local ones.  “This can be especially helpful when you’re trying to connect with the business call center rather than a specific business location,”

The cost of a click-to-call is the same as the cost of a click-to-Web.

A call is reported as soon as the user clicks on the phone number, regardless of whether or not it is completed. Therefore, if a user cancels a call before it finishes connecting, the advertiser is still charged.

Read up.

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Facebook’s Mobile Strategy

In a session on Mobile Communications 2.0′ at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Facebooks VP of User Growth, Mobile and International Expansion Chamath Palihapitiya shared the social networking giants current mobile strategy and its plans for the future.