
YP Buys Local-Mobile Ad Platform Sense Networks
Sense Networks for an undisclosed amount of money. Sense Networks was founded in roughly 2003 and evolved into a data aggregator and...

Mobile Affiliate Sales Hit All-Time High Of 27% In December, Affiliate Window Says
That’s almost double the 14.77 percent that mobile sales accounted for in January 2013. In fact, when we last checked in with Affiliate...

Google’s Eric Schmidt: “Mobile Has Won”
In an “ask a billionaire” interview with Bloomberg, Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt makes a number of predictions about the coming...

Our 10 Most Popular Mobile Marketing Columns Of 2013
QR Codes are dead and Responsive Design is controversial. Those are two of the takeaways from our most popular Mobile Marketing columns...

Q&A With Anna Bager, GM Of The IAB’s Mobile Marketing Center Of Excellence
Needless to say, digital marketers go where consumer interest is strong and, in 2013, that meant smartphones and tablets. There’s so much...

Apple’s iOS Trumps Google’s Android On Christmas With 5X More Sales Driven Through iOS D
reports that IBM released numbers over Christmas showing how iOS drove five-times more mobile commerce sales than Android. In addition,...

Tablets Poised To Overtake Smartphones As Shopping Device Of Choice
When we talk about devices in mobile marketing, most marketers’ thoughts still jump directly to smartphones. And for good reason. They’re...

Now Official: Google Glass Supports iOS With MyGlass App
It’s been eight months since the Android version came out, and now Google has released the iOS version of My Glass, the companion app...

Allstate’s “Holiday Home Decorator” Site Lets You Decorate Your House, Then Mayhem
The interactive site offers an entertaining online distraction, while reinforcing Allstate’s brand by leveraging its “Mayhem” character...

Facebook Now Number 2 In US Digital Ad Sales, Thanks To Mobile [eMarketer]
49 percent of all ad revenues for the quarter — up from 41 percent in Q2. eMarketer today released its latest report on US digital ad...

New To Mobile SEO? 5 To-Dos To Help You Start 2014 With A Bang
Even though I made a resolution at the beginning of the year to stop talking about responsive web design and SEO, many readers asked me...

Top Apps Vary From Apple To Google To Amazon’s App Store
published its list of top paid and free apps for 2013. Yesterday Nielsen reported its top US smartphone apps list (Android + iPhone). Now...

Google Glass’s XE12 Software Update Adds iOS Support, YouTube, Hangouts & More
is now rolling out and delivers a big list of upgrades. Perhaps the biggest one is official support for iOS devices via a new MyGlass...

Apple: Games, Social And Video Dominate Top Apps Lists
The lists are a mix of “incumbents” and “insurgents.” Pandora remains in the top 10 (12 on the iPad list) and YouTube was number two on...

Facebook No. 1 Mobile App Of 2013 But Google Has 5 Of Top 10
Nielsen published a range of year-end data today. Among other things the measurement firm said that 65 percent of American cell phone...

Mobile/Location-Based Marketing Predictions For 2014 From 10 Experts
While I plan to do another “trends” post in early January (see what I had to say for 2013), in this post, I’ve asked several of my...

Survey: Majority Use Smartphones In Stores, Not For E-Commerce
Though the precise percentages vary in the different surveys, directionally the findings are very similar. Overall, 66 percent of...

Google’s Official Mobile Webmaster Checklist & Videos
posted on the Google Webmaster Blog that they have published their official checklist for mobile website improvement today. The checklist...

Apple Driving Indoor Location Revolution With iBeacons In All Its 254 Stores
In March the company bought WiFiSlam, and indoor location was suddenly on the map — so to speak. Since that time there’s been growing...