Roy Amara’s oft-cited law states, “We tend to overestimate the effect of a technology in the short run and underestimate the effect in the long run.” This appears to especially applicable to voice and voice search. While there’s been steady growth in the use of voice and virtual assistants since Siri was introduced more than a decade ago, the market hasn’t been transformed.
Mobile Marketing
Site speed has always been an important feature of the mobile user experience. Google made it an explicit ranking factor in 2018. Speed is also a component of the new “Page Experience” ranking factor. But even more importantly, page speed can have a significant impact on conversions and revenue for brands across industries, according to
Apple just reported its best quarter ever, with $91.8 billion in top-line revenue and $22 billion in profit. Hardware sales reached $79.1 billion and Services came in at $12.7 billion. Wall Street analysts had expected revenues to be just over $88 billion in the company’s first fiscal quarter of 2020, which ended December 28. iPhone
Location data has come a long way. From the early days of radius targeting, which is still happening, mobile-location and location history are now being used for sophisticated AI-driven personalization and customer engagement, increasingly without any reference to location at all. Neura, which describes itself as “a leader in real-world customer intelligence,” announced it’s available
Last week, 9to5Mac pointed out that Apple had changed its App Store guidelines to allow push notifications to be used for marketing and advertising. This is a reversal of a policy that prohibited notifications for being used for direct marketing purposes. The relevant language reads as follows (emphasis added): Push Notifications must not be required
Business rich communication services (RCS) messaging has been waiting for its turn in the spotlight for well over a decade now. The long-awaited replacement to short message service (SMS) was first conceived back in 2008 but the progress of the new messaging platform has been stuttering at best. Many would call it an utter shambles.
[embedded content] Contributor and SMX speaker, Duane Brown, explains in this video why 2020 is the year to get a handle on your mobile experience as well as find the platforms your customers are on and experiment if they’re new to you. Below is the video transcript: Hey, my name’s Duane Brown. I run an
I’ve discussed how more than 50% of all email isopened on mobile devices. This is what you might call a “known known.” This fact is a great ice breaker at a marketing conference, however when you consider that more than 33% of all holiday shopping on Black Friday and Cyber Monday came from a smartphone,
From smartphones to smart home appliances, artificial intelligence, voice and virtual assistants are very much at the center of a shift in the way we interact with digital devices. While voice has not yet lived up to its promise, it’s clear it will be an enduring feature of the digital user experience across an expanding
Location intelligence provider GroundTruth announced that its self-service advertising platform will offer an automated visit-optimization capability. That means bidding is optimized for campaigns and creatives that drive physical store visits. It will become available in January 2020. Range of location-related targeting options. The company’s self-service Ads Manager offers a range of location-based targeting options including audience
First-party data is your most important advantage in today’s highly regulated marketing environment. And customer conversations have become your ultimate first-party data source. In fact, for marketers who work in industries that rely on phone calls to close sales, they’ve become a holy grail. But extracting value from first party data hasn’t been easy —
Market research firm Canalys reported that Amazon shipped three times the number of smart speaker/display units as Google in the third quarter of 2019. According to the company, Google was responsible for 3.5 million units compared with Amazon’s 10.4 million; Alibaba was second with 3.9 million. Nearly 30 million units shipped in Q3. The third
Having incorporated mobile applications into our daily lives, it’s extremely difficult to imagine a world without them. This is also why statistics such as those reporting that the average smartphone owner uses about 30 apps per month come as no surprise to anyone. At the same time, knowing that an ordinary retail customer is active
Despite the fact mobile devices are now the dominant way that consumers browse and search the internet, mobile ad clicks and conversions are less valuable than those on the desktop. That’s according to an analysis of 10 million ad clicks across 100 accounts by digital marketing agency AccuraCast. Mobile conversions growing but less valuable. But
For several years, many SEOs have been proclaiming the end of small business (SMB) websites. The theory is that third party destinations (GMB, Facebook, Yelp, etc.) have taken over and SMB sites will rarely see consumer visits if at all. GMB now is so widely used and so complete, the argument goes, that consumers never
Mobile market data and analytics provider App Annie will acquire mobile advertising analytics company Libring in a move the company says will help mobile publishers and brands to view market data and advertising analytics side-by-side. Why we should care Mobile execution and engagement is a critical component of many brands’ success. And with mobile ad
According to Canalys, the global smart speaker market grew 55% in the second quarter of 2019. However, the firm reported that Google saw a nearly 20% decline in unit shipments during the period, which stands in sharp contrast to Strategy Analytics’ more bullish numbers released roughly two weeks ago. Baidu overtakes Google in report. Canalys
While you have access to end-to-end customer journey data and attribution from purely digital campaigns, the data trail goes cold when your customer picks up the phone. Call tracking and analytics platforms, which were once the domain of the call center and siloed from marketing, are now available to help marketers attribute digital marketing spend
As expected, Google introduced a new 10-inch screen smart display at Google I/O. Google smart displays and speakers have now been rebranded under the Nest moniker. The rationale involves bringing the Google Home and Nest smart-home products together in the same group under the same brand, which makes complete sense. Cool hardware, clumsy branding. All
A new bidding option and YouTube inventory were among the announcements for app marketers running Google App campaigns (formerly Universal App Campaigns). Google announced the updates at its I/O developer conference Wednesday. Target ROAS bidding. With Google’s target return on ad spend (tROAS) automated bidding, the algorithm will automatically adjust bids higher to serve ads
Today’s consumers have made mobile calls an integral part of their purchase journeys, as they seek more immediate gratification of their business information wants and needs. Phone calls provide deep-in-the-funnel prospects with fast answers, connections to real people and the type of detailed information that can play an important role in high-consideration purchases. For marketers,
As technology improves with natural language processing and AI, chatbots will take away revenue from other marketing channels, a recent study examining retail brands by Juniper Networks claims. In fact, retail sales from chatbots will nearly double annually, reaching $112 billion by 2023, the study says. And retailers will see an increase in savings, thanks to
With greater consumer adoption of smartphones and the high functionality apps within them, there can be no doubt that mobile has taken over. In fact, according to a recent study by eMarketer, mobile claimed about 70% of the total US digital advertising space in 2018, while AppsFlyer predicts app install ad spend will grow 45%
I’ve got 99 apps and I only need ONE! That’s right, folks. I have 99 apps on my phone and sometimes it feels like I only use one of them. But why am I counting my apps? It all started when I was waiting to board my flight and I noticed complete silence in the entire
Good news, mobile marketing teams: user retention doesn’t have to be a losing battle. There was once a time when growth was the name of the game in mobile marketing, but the tides are turning. Installs alone are not enough to propel apps to the top of the app store’s search results—mobile engagement and retention
Marketing automation means a lot of things. It’s an umbrella term that covers everything from intelligent, data-driven campaigns to deep audience segmentation. Within this category, mobile marketing automation has emerged to cater specifically to app marketers. While the principles remain the same, mobile marketing automation connects directly to mobile-only messaging channels like push notifications and in-app
Since Apple’s introduction of Search Ads last year, organizations with a mobile app are embracing Search Ads to improve their app’s conversion rate to become more discoverable in the App Store. Search Ads are created using an app’s store listing, including an app’s metadata and creative. While all the metadata is important for visibility, the
It’s getting far too easy for consumers to ignore marketing messages that they’re not interested in. Even if they are interested, they often miss important communications simply because there is so much noise out there. So, how can you combat the crowded marketplace and actually get the attention of your audience? In this blog, I’ll
Staying up to date is the only way to be relevant in this growing global economy. And right now, the growth of mobile devices is contributing to an incredible amount of individuals being on the world wide web. In the US, 71% of total digital minutes comes from mobile devices. The average time spent browsing on a
Cart abandonment is one of the biggest pet peeves for ecommerce brands. The average cart abandonment rate ranges from 69% to 81% across different industries, according to SalesCycle. Irrespective of exciting deals and great products, customers have a tendency to research multiple options before making a purchase. As a result, they end up window shopping