The Mobile Majority
Posted on May 8th, 2015
In a report published April 29th from Pew Research, "State of News Media 2015", the impact of mobile was obvious in just about every media source, type and niche.
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Contact UsIn a report published April 29th from Pew Research, "State of News Media 2015", the impact of mobile was obvious in just about every media source, type and niche.
Last week Apple started sending invites to beta test their Apple Analytics module they had announced all the way back at their worldwide developers conference in summer, 2014.
Already sold out, the Apple Watch landed in Apple Stores today. With the new Watch comes new Apps! For now, Apple Watch apps only work as companion apps to the iPhone. Found via the Apple Watch icon on devices running the latest version of iOS, and via the App Store. While these apps can be built specifically for Watch use, they must be installed and paired with an iPhone. Currently, there are around 3,000 iPhone apps that have been built exclusively for the Apple Watch. Search on the Apple Watch version of the App Store looks alot like a the version accessed from an iPhone:
Messenger apps are hot. Facebook recently released their messenger app as a stand-alone web app, 6 months after pulling the messenger feature of their Facebook app into a standalone mobile app. Snapchat is charging $100 CPMs. Tencent (QQMobile) is valued at over $200 billion. Get to know the top mobile messaging apps by monthly average users in our latest slide deck.
At f8 2015 , Facebook announced new Facebook
How cool is the Apple Watch release? Sales are by appointment only. Here are the important dates:
Every so often - maybe quarterly - it is good to take a step back and take in a broader perspective of the market. How are potential customers consuming information? What new tools or social networks are they using? How are organizations spending their ad budgets, what percent is mobile ad spend and what are their development budgets? Not so much a competitive analysis - but rather a review of some of the latest reports to get a pulse on "what's happening". A few reports were released in the last week that provide some new or updated insights to mobile usage and mobile ad spend.
Videos from Facebook's f8 2015 conference are up and accessible here. Wow - so much mobile-related goodness! For mobile app publishers, a few announcements could prove to be game-changers, specifically Messenger and Sharing.
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Google recently updated their Google Play guidelines with one notable change:
Google recently announced that over the next few weeks, Google Play ads will begin to appear in the search results on Google Play. Google shared a gif on how it would look in practice, which looks a lot like how Google delivers sponsored results in web search. For now, this is being released to a "limited set of users... from a pilot group of advertisers".