Sunday, October 20, 2013

The Top 7 Reasons Why Mobile Ads Don't Work

adweek reporting:
A Dartmouth researcher's study sheds light on the mobile Web and app users who don't click on ads. On a high level from the study, here are the top seven reasons they steer clear of the ads on smartphones and tablets (with some Adweek commentary thrown in).
1. The screen is too small, per 72 percent of survey participants. Mobile marketers everywhere will want to bang their heads against the wall over that one. And for tablet marketers, the researcher believes most respondents were thinking of their smartphone usage more so than their time on an iPad or Nexus 7.
2. People are just too busy for ads, according to 70 percent surveyed. You mean on-the-go consumers don't have time to kill? No shocker here, either—outside maybe actually not being No. 1.
3. After tapping an ad and going to the landing page, 69 percent of respondents hate it that they cannot easily return to the content they were reading or watching. This interfacing problem can probably be successfully addressed by technologists, can't it?
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Datta added, "The crucial differences in behavior show that ad campaigns must be planned in a new way.  What is critical is wide audience coverage such as that available through demographic targeting rather than narrower intender-based techniques."
And some good news for mobile from Dartmouth's findings. Smartphone and tablet users are heavily immersed in what they are doing, so their engagement is unusually high compared to computers.
Per Kopalle's research, 67 percent of consumers find mobile devices more immersive than computers, while 63 percent find mobile content, in particular, more immersive than computer content. So once again, it likely stands to reason that superb ads can work with the mobile consumer.


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