Tag Archives: mobile economy
iOS Or Android? App Or Mobile Website? A Primer To Build Your First Mobile Strategy
Sports journalists love to hypothesize about the best athlete around which a new franchise could be built to win. Let’s indulge a version of this exercise in business: if you were starting a company and needed a winning mobile strategy, what would it look like? Would you prioritize building an app or a mobile website […]
This Device Quietly Outnumbers Smartphones And Attracts More Ad Dollars, And Yet The Mobile Economy Must Avoid Its Fate.
Today, the world’s population enjoys nearly universal access to a particular device that drives massive levels of engagement and commerce. Let’s see if you can guess what it is. As of 2011, on average there were 2.2 of these devices per capita in the industrialized world. Worldwide, 4 billion of these existed as of 2011, meaning […]
Apple Pay Won’t Change Everything, But Smartphone Payments Are The Start Of Something Bigger
As large as e-commerce has become, it still represents only a small portion – about 6 percent – of total US retail spending. That makes brick and mortar a much more attractive target for companies looking to revolutionize the way we shop. Of all its announcements last week, Apple Pay was the company’s most significant headline because […]
How Gluten-Free Food Options Serve Up A Case For Mobile Ubiquity
While the mobile economy is just a few years old, its newness doesn’t mean that every aspect of the business is new. In fact, many of the dynamics we face in mobile have been confronted by other industries and businesses, albeit in different forms. I stumbled upon one recently in an unexpected place, and it […]
Are We Building Mobile Ecosystems Or Economies?
Every industry produces its fair share of terminology. Tech companies are especially prodigious suppliers of new business vocabulary. Sometimes, our vernacular achieves escape velocity, going beyond the realm of its native space and spreading to other businesses and sectors. I can’t think of a more obvious example of this than the word “ecosystem.” What began […]
Taking The Long View In The Rivalry Between Mobile Web And Apps
A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about the domination of apps in the battle for the time we spend with digital media. Over a recent lunch with a friend of mine who runs a company specializing in mobile marketing, I asked if he thought that mobile apps had secured a permanent advantage over mobile web. […]
A Warning Sign For Brands: You May Not Be Keeping Up With Your Mobile Customers
Last week, I met with two marketing agency CEOs whom I’ve gotten to know over the years. As we caught up on their businesses, I asked them the same question I ask a lot of non-mobile native company executives. What mobile projects are keeping you busy? The surprising answer, for them and me? “There really […]
“Re-bunking” Debunked Mobile Myths
As a blogger, I appreciate how Google and Yahoo report earnings within days of one another. This week, though, I turn my attention to this article on AdExchanger, a rich source of information on the digital advertising market, that seeks to debunk three mobile myths. It’s a good read, even though I disagree with the […]
There’s More To Your App’s Value Than You May Be Considering
Two stories on mobile app monetization caught my eye last week. Both offer valuable insights on making mobile revenues that every app developer and publisher should internalize, though they come with headlines that don’t quite deliver on their stories’ full meaning. The first story comes from a conference that took place in New York. Its […]
The Critical Insights You Need Following A Big Week For The Mobile Economy
Last week brought a flurry of upbeat news on the state of the mobile economy, especially the improving health of its advertising business. First, eMarketer projects that advertisers will pump $9.6 billion into mobile in 2013, with estimates that total mobile spend will eclipse desktop ads by 2016. Then, Facebook announced its plans to test […]
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