Mobile Marketing Blog by InMovil Media

M:Metrics has published mobile marketing data which reports that young males are a rich target for mobile advertisers, as among mobile phone users 36 percent of 18 to 34-year-old men accessed mobile media in February. Men in this age group are also highly receptive to SMS advertising and marketing, with 9 percent response rate, versus a 4 percent market average.

In Western Europe, the male population is inclined to browse and download content on the mobile Web. A quarter of all male mobile phone users accessed mobile media, like for example mobile websites, compared to just under 19 percent of women. The audience is also quite young: 28 percent of 13 to 17-year-olds consume mobile media, only 12 percent of those 55 and older do.

“Reaching the 18 to 34-year-old age demographic is a real challenge to advertisers, as this group is spending less time consuming print and broadcast media,” observed Paul Goode, senior analyst. “According to TGI M:Metrics data, in Great Britain, young consumers are redirecting that attention to mobile, as 18 to 34 year olds comprise 56 percent of mobile media users, compared to only 29 percent of TV viewers.”

Interestingly, U.S. mobile users are more active consumers of mobile media and they use the mobile medium in a different way. As unlike Europeans they use SMS less frequently for news and information retrieval and are more likely to have data plans, which impacts mobile content consumption directly. Among Europeans, the UK has the highest percentage of mobile media users, at 26.8 percent, while Germany and France lag, at 18.4 percent and 18.5 percent, respectively.

“In Great Britain, mobile media is attracting a highly desirable audience that is 44 percent more likely to be defined as ‘cash rich, time poor’ than the market average,” said Goode. “In fact, data from TGI M:Metrics confirms that one third of all UK mobile media users agree they are tempted to buy products they’ve seen advertised.”

“Since the early days of mobile marketing an advertising, SMS advertising has been an effective way to reach the masses, but advertises are now actively looking at the mobile web to access new audiences,” said Goode. “According to TGI M:Metrics, adding mobile to a media plan increases the efficiency of reaching key target groups, a metric that will continue to improve with the growth of 3G and smartphone ownership.”

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PUNE: Now, you don’t have to make rounds of the municipal office or go on-line to find out about your property tax bills. Help will be available on your mobile through an SMS.

The Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) is launching a new system in which citizens would get details of their property tax bills through an SMS service. Trials have already started and to be a part of it, one has to type ‘eaa’ give space, mention your property number and sms it to 54646. The details of the tax will be sent on your mobile within a few seconds. The PMC will later announce whether it would continue with the same code or change it when the project is finally launched.

“The on-line billing facility is already there, but we wanted to reach all sections of the society and mobile is the best medium to do so,” municipal commissioner Pravinsinh Pardeshi said.

The formal announcement of the project would be made in a week. The PMC is also working on a plan in which citizens can receive property bills on mobile and pay them on-line. “This is the second phase which would take some time. However, the SMS project will start immediately,” he added.

Dnyandeo Thube, deputy commissioner (tax assessment and collection), is the man behind the latest initiative.

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