Mobile Ads That Use Location Data Are Much More Effective

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Location-Aware Mobile Campaigns See Eye-Catching Metrics (Internet2Go)
Greg Sterling breaks down a new report on location-based mobile advertising put out by Verve Mobile. Here are some highlights:

Mobile-local ad campaigns for casual dining restaurants outperformed campaigns without location targeting by a factor of two or three.
Verve's case studies show that location-targeted display ads show impressive click-through rates of 3% to 4%.

Advertisers also seem to be moving toward geo-aware techniques — which send different messages to different users based on their position — and away from geo-fencing, which is more about spraying users in a certain area with the same ad. Read >

For more on location-based services, please check out our report, "How Location-Based Services Are Transforming the Mobile Industry."

Mary Meeker's Latest State Of The Web Presentation (SAI)
Delivering her annual State of the Web presentation, Meeker argued that the future of the Web is mobile, sensory (audio/visual), and wearable. It's hard to argue with the first two, but the third is less certain. Meeker cites the growth of fitness bands, which is true (and which she'd know firsthand as an investor in Jawbone). Meeker also cites research that says we interact with our phones more than 100 times a day, as evidence that we'll tire of being distracted by them and shift to wearables. However, the majority of us don't reach for our phone for every separate interaction we have with it, we finish several small tasks every time we use our device. Finally, Meeker says that some people doubted the PC/Internet also, which is the classic straw man while discussing the "future of the future." However, as we discuss in our wearable computing report, major questions surround it, particularly around privacy. Read >

For more on wearables also see: The BI Intelligence forecast for Google Glass sales, and our recent report, "Wearable Computing: A New Mobile Market Takes Shape."

Disney Gets Into Wearable Tech With The MagicBand (The Next Web)
The new bands come free with a purchase of tickets or packages to its theme parks and can be used to make purchases, reserve experiences, or even as a hotel key. Read >

If you're interested more in wearable computing, there is a wearable technology conference in New York this July.

Location Is The New Cookie (AdExchanger)
Cookies are the standard for tracking consumers on the Web, but that paradigm has been shattered by mobile. Location may become the new standard. Read >

"We're not just mobile-first. We're all in on mobile. We were created for mobile."—Twitter CEO Dick Costolo, speaking at AllThingsD's D11 conference (AllThingsD)
Twitter's U.S. traffic is 70% mobile, according to comScore. Costolo also discussed Twitter's second screen opportunity. Read >

iPhone Owners Spend 53 Percent More Time On Their Devices Than Android Users (Marketing Charts)
Per a new Experian study, this would confirm suspicions that iPhones tend to draw mobile power users. The study also found that Americans spend 58 minutes per day on their smartphones, including phone calls, which is significantly less time than what similar studies have found. Read >

Tim Cook Hints More Customization May Come To iOS (The Verge)
This would be a big change from the "closed garden" approach favored by Apple and a nod to the greater flexibility of Android. However, Cook emphasized that he would not put consumers at risk of having a bad experience. Read >

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