Gartner Forecasts Mobile App Store Revenues Will Hit $15 Billion in 2011

 

 

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Ten Media Trends to keep you awake at night – Mediaweek UK

Are newspaper paywalls working? Who owns all that data? And how do you solve a problem like the iPad? Media Week presents the ten trends that should give the industry sleepless nights over the next 12 months

Leo Burnett predicts quality content will continue to move behind the paywall in 2011

Last year was the year of the iPad, the News International paywalls and the moment Facebook and Twitter became culture-defining phenomena. The writing is surely on the wall for email when Clarence House eschews the traditional emailed press release to break the news of the Royal engagement via a 140-character tweet.

Yesterday’s pioneers – stand up, MySpace – are old news as internet chatter turns to upstarts such as Groupon and Quora, and with things moving so fast, prediction is no longer a luxury but an urgently required science for media companies.

Are paywalls actually working? Will 2011 really be the long-predicted ‘year of mobile’? And will TV and social media become one?

Media Week presents the ten trends that will give media owners and agencies sleepless nights over the next twelve months – and how the industry can, as Wired editor David Rowan puts it, “find the diamonds in the haystack”.

1) What do I need to do about the iPad?

It’s only been available for nine months, but Apple’s tablet computer has been such a hit that advertisers have rushed in to take a piece of the action. But working out how to exploit that new technology will be a key challenge for 2011.

“Every client wants to do something on the iPad but they aren’t quite sure what,” says Jon Slade, global online and strategic advertising sales director at the FT. “How are people accessing content on the iPad? Who are they? What’s the demographic and how are they using it?” Advertisers are learning how to deal with the new programming language of HTML 5 and how to exploit the device’s unique functions, but the commercial dynamics are still very much in their infancy.

2) What’s next for social media?

Social media, principally Facebook, is a growing force to be reckoned with for advertisers. “People used to say, ‘Facebook is big but there’s no money in it’,” says Ian Maude, internet analyst at Enders Analysis. “Now I hear, ‘We have to have a Facebook strategy’.”

Advertising spend is likely to follow that change in perception, Maude predicts. But how to make the most of Facebook, with its millions of members sharing information about themselves, is still uncertain. “Social media is becoming increasingly central to companies’ media strategies,” says Maude. “The central question concerns finding the best way of harnessing the social media audience.”

3) Who owns all that data?

Extraordinary amounts of data are being generated every day, and every advertising campaign produces a data trail of potentially great use to the advertiser, the media owner hosting the ads and the media agencies.

But who owns that data? “As a media owner, we would say that if the data is created by our users on our website it’s ours,” says the FT’s Slade. “But advertisers and agencies would see it differently. There’s a lot at stake.” And as yet there’s little clarity about the rights and wrongs of the matter – a space to watch in 2011.

4) How important is privacy?

Targeted advertising is increasingly sophisticated and can help consumers find what they want, but it can make for an eerie, Orwellian experience when your tastes are being second-guessed by the advertiser’s hidden hand.

“You can’t help but look at the opportunities that have arisen around the personalisation of advertising; that’s one of the great strengths of personal media,” says Slade. But, he warns: “Advertisers have to ask themselves, ‘If I’m going to use it, how far am I going? Am I going over the line and upsetting people?’”

5) Will social media and TV become one?

The long-heralded convergence between the TV set and the computer screen is happening at last and is set to change the nature of the television viewing experience – although how quickly that will happen remains to be seen.

“The next billion televisions will be internet-connected,” says David Rowan, editor of technology magazine Wired. “That will turn TV viewing into a much more social experience. Comments from friends’ tweets and Facebook updates will add instant feedback to real-time broadcasts, and will help program your set to record the shows it thinks you are most likely to enjoy, based on what your friends enjoy.”

6) Are paywalls working?

It’s still too early to say if online charging will work for mainstream publications such as The Times, given how much free competition is out there.

But forecasters at advertising agency Leo Burnett are predicting that quality content will continue to go behind the paywall. “Low nutrition content will continue to explode across the web but quality journalism, business insight, financial advice and niche publications will be gradually siloed in walled corners of the web,” the agency predicts, while general publications will be “forced to sharpen – and aggressively market – their specialisms”. Rowan sees value in “curation” to help readers find the “diamonds in the haystacks”.

7) Will this (finally) be the year of mobile?

Rowan predicts the mobile internet will leap ahead of desktop internet, pointing to a Morgan Stanley graph showing that mobile internet – through the iPhone, iPad and iPod platforms –  is growing 12 times as fast as when AOL was rolling out its desktop-internet service. He also sees advertising money going mobile.

“Twitter’s Jack Dorsey is expected to launch his Square service in Europe this year, allowing all of us to send and receive credit-card cash through our smartphones. In Kenya, a quarter of the GDP now passes through a phone-based cash service called M-Pesa. People are spending on the move – and increasingly it’s not through conventional banks or card services.”

8) Is there untapped potential in local media?

Will there be a new dawn of local advertising? As yet, the UK’s local market is dominated by traditional media groups such as the regional newspapers.

But the advent of deal-of-the-day website Groupon and the experience of the US, where local advertising markets are far more exploited, point to untapped potential here. Last month’s government-commissioned Shott report also suggested a new generation of local TV services could be viable. “We have some confidence that local advertising revenues could exceed £5m per annum,” Shott concluded.

9) Can digital outdoor supplant press?

Advertising in the outside world will look different in 2011. The growth of digital outdoor advertising is likely to continue apace, with a greater number of those ever-changing video screens at railway stations and shopping malls.

Dave McEvoy, marketing director at JCDecaux, which is doubling its digital footprint in rail and malls, claims: “You can probably reach more people using digital outdoor than by using all the quality and mid-market newspapers.”

Expect greater topicality, greater variety and greater sophistication in what advertisers can do with that space.

10) How big a deal will the Olympics be?

Media planners need to get thinking about their strategy for next year’s London Olympic and Paralympic Games. The online auction for the outdoor advertising contracts begins as early as April, with the official Olympic sponsors given first option on the available space.

Outdoor space in Greater London and at all the Olympic venues has been given over for a 12-week period and advertisers have three months to snap it up. For all media companies, how to get the most out of this huge global marketing opportunity will loom larger as the year progresses.

http://www.mediaweek.co.uk/news/1050834/Ten-things-keep-awake-2011/

 

Size of the internet from mashable

Facebook Turns the ‘Like’ Into Its Newest Ad!

Say Something About a Brand? It Could End Up as an Ad in Your Friends’ Feeds

SAN FRANCISCO (AdAge.com) — The ubiquitous “like” is currency for brands, and Facebook is giving them a new way to collect: an ad unit that shows up on the right-hand side of the screen it calls “sponsored stories.”

The unit will give brand-related action such as a “like” or a check-in a lot more visibility on Facebook by adding them to an ad unit in addition to users’ news feeds.

For example, if Starbucks buys a “sponsored story” ad, the status of a user’s friends who check into or “like” Starbucks will run twice: once in the user’s news feed, and again as a paid ad for Starbucks. Though clearly marked with the words “sponsored story,” the ad — which will includes a user’s name, just like the news feed — is not optional for Facebook users.

The product itself is broken into four possible buys for advertisers — page likes and check-ins, and actions Facebook is calling “application play” and “page posts.”

An application play works like this: If a user goes to the Coca-Cola page, and Coke has an app for users to upload photos, the sponsored story that shows up as an ad will read “John Smith used the Coke app to upload a photo.”

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Future of mobile tagging presentation

Using Flipboard from you tube

Article from Digitalbuzzblog here

Very mobile advertising: Taxi Impact takes it to the streets with new outdoor offering

Source: http://www.stoppress.co.nz/news/2011/01/very-mobile-advertising-taxi-impact-takes-it-to-the-streets-with-new-outdoor-offering/

New Zealand will soon welcome a big new player in the out-of-home sector, with media company Taxi Impact and a range of taxi companies—including the main taxi co-operatives under the Blue Bubble brand—agreeing to start displaying advertising on their vehicles in Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch.

For anyone who’s ventured overseas, it’s one of those ideas that inevitably leads to a standard question: ‘Why hasn’t someone done it already?’ And while Tim Dove, Taxi Impact’s founder and director, says it has certainly been tried here, he says all of the attempts have completely missed the mark.

“They have focused on small formats, bumper-stickers or positioned them on the boot, which gives little value to the advertiser. Therefore no-one was interested. Also, no company has given advertisers a nationwide scale that gives them the consistency and reach they need.”

Like many innovations that make it to New Zealand, Dove says the penny dropped for him a few years ago while he was living overseas.

“I was standing on a street corner in London when I saw a taxi with advertising on it. Naturally, as a Kiwi you wonder why no-one is doing that in New Zealand. The process just started from there really.”

He started looking into the idea in more detail and found the drivers in London were very supportive of the extra revenue the scheme generated and, because a single black cab was seen around 75 million times a year (check out this Britain From Above clip, which shows taxis in London at peak time), the advertisers saw it as a key part of their media mix.

15 million iPads sold last year…

… and of all the research, investment, analyst and blogosphere forecasts and predictions… who do you think came close to that 15 million number?

According to TechCrunch, none.

• Brian Marshall, Broadpoint AmTech   7.0
• David Bailey, Goldman Sachs           6.2
• Kathryn Huberty, Morgan Stanley     6.0
• Shaw Wu, Kauffman Bros.              5.0
• Mike Abramsky, RBC Capital Markets   5.0
• Gene Munster, Piper Jaffray           3.5
• Ben Reitzes, Barclays Capital           2.9
• Keith Bachman, BMO Capital         2.5
• Jeff Fidacaro, Susquehanna           2.1
• Chris Whitmore, Deutsche Bank       2.0
• Scott Craig, Merrill Lynch               1.2
• Peter Misek, Canaccord Adams       1.2
• Doug Reid, Thomas Weisel             1.1
• Yair Reiner, Oppenheimer             1.1

Here are the predictions from Tech Bloggers:

• Clayton Morris: 9
• John Gruber: 8
• Horace Dediu: 6
• Natali Del Conte: 5
• Ross Rubin: 5
• Mike Rose: 4.5-5
• Jason Snell: 3
• Andy Ihnatko: 3

11 Branding And Marketing Trends For 2011

http://www.brandingstrategyinsider.com/2010/11/11-branding-and-marketing-trends-for-2011.html

A list from brandstrategy insider

 

The internet in 2010 – Quickfacts

Stats, stats and more stats. Compiled by Royal Pingdom.

Here are some tasters:

Email

• 107 trillion – The number of emails sent on the Internet in 2010.
• 294 billion – Average number of email messages per day.
• 89.1% – The share of emails that were spam.
• 262 billion – The number of spam emails per day (assuming 89% are spam).

Social media

• 152 million – The number of blogs on the Internet (as tracked by BlogPulse).
• 25 billion – Number of sent tweets on Twitter in 2010
• 100 million – New accounts added on Twitter in 2010
• 175 million – People on Twitter as of September 2010
• 7.7 million – People following @ladygaga (Lady Gaga, Twitter’s most followed user).
• 600 million – People on Facebook at the end of 2010.
• 250 million – New people on Facebook in 2010.
• 30 billion – Pieces of content (links, notes, photos, etc.) shared on Facebook per month.
• 70% – Share of Facebook’s user base located outside the United States.
• 20 million – The number of Facebook apps installed each day.

Videos

• 2 billion – The number of videos watched per day on YouTube.
• 35 – Hours of video uploaded to YouTube every minute.
• 2+ billion – The number of videos watched per month on Facebook.
• 20 million – Videos uploaded to Facebook per month.

Images

• 5 billion – Photos hosted by Flickr (September 2010).
• 3000+ – Photos uploaded per minute to Flickr.
• 130 million – At the above rate, the number of photos uploaded per month to Flickr.
• 3+ billion – Photos uploaded per month to Facebook.
• 36 billion – At the current rate, the number of photos uploaded to Facebook per year.

Email

• 107 trillion – The number of emails sent on the Internet in 2010.
• 294 billion – Average number of email messages per day.
• 1.88 billion – The number of email users worldwide.
• 480 million – New email users since the year before.
• 89.1% – The share of emails that were spam.
• 262 billion – The number of spam emails per day (assuming 89% are spam).