5 Powerful Mobile Marketing Strategies
Martech Outlook | Monday, June 20, 2022
The Power of Mobile is Changing the Marketing Game
FREMONT, CA: Mobile marketing relates to any promotional activity that takes place on smartphones and other handheld devices, including tablets and other cells/mobile phones. Mobile marketing aims to reach an audience of mobile users through methods such as mobile-optimised ads, push notifications and mobile applications. Mobile marketing provides customers or potential customers using smartphones with personalised, time and location-sensitive information so that they can get all the information they need, even if they’re on the go. It consists of ads that appear on mobile smartphones, tablets, or other mobile devices. Mobile marketing ad formats, customization, and styles can vary, as many social media platforms, websites, and mobile apps offer their own unique and tailored mobile ad options.
Why is mobile marketing important?
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As of today in the world, 77% of the population owns a smartphone. It is also highlighted that there exists a year-on-year surge, with the growing trend predicted to reach 6.1billion users by 2023. As such, mobile audiences are so numerous and active (with many only using mobile devices) that to ignore them would be a missed opportunity. Mobile marketing is a core component of an overall advertising strategy. From accurate analytics to best-in-class mobile attribution, it helps track performance to help you identify what works, and what can be improved. It can also track all of your in-app advertising activity for you while providing app marketers with extremely powerful features that not only make life easy but actively build on what your target.
Types of Mobile Marketing Strategies
1. App-based marketing: This is mobile advertising involving mobile apps. While 80% of mobile time is spent engaged with apps, you don’t have to create an app yourself to get in on the action. Services like Google AdMob help advertisers create mobile ads that appear within third-party mobile apps. Facebook also allows advertisers to create ads that are integrated into Facebook’s mobile app. Facebook’s mobile Promoted Post ads integrate so seamlessly with Facebook’s news feed that users often don’t realise they’re looking at ads.
2. Location-based marketing: Mobile marketing takes advantage of the fact that many users of mobile devices carry them wherever they go. As such, mobile marketers can create ads that appear on mobile devices based on a user’s location relative to a specific area. For example, some advertisers may only want their mobile ads to appear when users are within a 1-mile radius of their business.
3. QR codes: QR codes are scanned by users, who are then taken to a specific webpage where the QR code is attached. QR codes are often aligned with mobile gamification and have an element of mystery to them since users who scan them seldom know exactly which rabbit hole they’re jumping down.
4. In-game mobile marketing: In-game mobile marketing refers to mobile ads that appear within mobile games, like in the example below. In-game ads can appear as banner pop-ups, full-page image ads or even video ads that appear between loading screens.
5. SMS: SMS marketing involves texting a user’s phone number with specific offers or notifications of upcoming deals. Note that SMS marketing can also be location-based.
Done right, mobile marketing is unobtrusive. Consumers can control how they interact with brands. That creates a more positive relationship. Further, through timing, tracking, and intelligent use of data, it’s possible to anticipate and seek to proactively fulfil a customer’s needs.
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