2. Mobile Devices
In many other
countries,
INTERNET
is your phone…
It is only a matter of
time in the U.S.
before it will be the only internet
3. Mobile Devices: Smartphones
• 1.5 billion of the worlds 4+ billion mobiles phones
are now smartphones (40% in U.S.)
• 3 billion are SMS enabled
• In 2014, mobile internet usage will overtake
desktop internet usage.
• TODAY, more than 50% of all “local”
searches are done from a mobile device
The Growth of Mobile Marketing and Tagging, Microsoft, Mar 21, 2011
4. Mobile Devices: Smartphones
• 86% of mobile users are watching TV while
using a mobile phone
• 200+ million (1/3 of all users) access Facebook
from a mobile device
• 91% of all mobile internet use is
“social” related
The Growth of Mobile Marketing and Tagging, Microsoft, Mar 21, 2011
6. Mobile Devices: Tablets
• Apple’s iPad has 75% of the market share
• It is predicted that the iPad and the Android
Informa will be neck and neck at 38% in 2015
• Tablets are the NEW notebook/laptop
The Growth of Mobile Marketing and Tagging, Microsoft, Mar 21, 2011
7. Why Social?
• Over 200 million people access Facebook via
their phones
• Who cares?
- the office
- the experience
22. Texting | SMS | MMS
Mashable, Infographic,
August 2010
23. Texting | SMS | MMS
• SMS is the king of mobile messaging – 9
trillion text messages will be sent in 2012
• By 2016, application-to-person (A2P)
messaging will overtake person-to-person
text messaging
(e.g. automated alerts from banks, offers from retailers,
m-tickets is expected to overtake person to person SMS.)
Global mobile statistics 2011: mobiThinking