The mobile market has become the digital advertising world’s Rubik’s Cube, presenting new challenges even as the old ones are being solved. Like the Rubik’s Cube though, mobile is proving just too tempting for advertisers to put down.
As the smart-phone race barrels along at blinding speed, daily advancements in mobile technology are greatly expanding mobile’s relevant reach into various peripheral sectors. Coincidently, much of this technology has answered many of the former capability reservations that have, thus far, kept digital advertisers from making a serious play at the mobile market. Let’s take a look at just a few of these advancements and see if we can build the ideal theoretical advertising environment by stacking one set of capabilities upon the other.
Social networking- With the rise of mobile apps for social networking sites such as Facebook, mobile advertisers now have the same incredibly detailed source of profiling information that traditional digital advertisers have been privy to. This crucial information includes both general information such as age and gender, and can drill as deep as personal interests (groups), preferences (likes), and can even theoretically cross-match probable categories of social conformity with the data of a user’s “friends”.
Location- Geo-location tracking software is one of the fastest rising trends in mobile with companies like Foursquare, Gowalla, Brightkite and Loop Star, all joining the fracas. Using geo location to build upon our profiling information, advertisers can determine, with pinpoint accuracy, the optimum time (e.g. lunchtime hours) and place (e.g. specific restaurants within walking distance) in which an ad would become relevant for a given consumer.
Need/Desire- Back to mobile social networking apps; real-time updating applications like Twitter can provide the icing on our advertising cake through actionable data as to the current needs/desires of potential consumers. More than once we’ve heard the stories of Twitter users posting about their desire to try out a product they’re currently admiring from afar, only to be contacted soon after by the product’s parent company and offered a free “test drive”. If advertisers could track real time interest (and they can), ads could be timed to target specific time based needs of their target market.
And there you have it. All the colors of our advertizing puzzle are right there before our eyes. As is always the question with Rubik’s Cube, it all boils down to who is going to have the fastest time in putting it all together?
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