Thursday, April 30, 2009

1 of Every 7 Minutes of Media Use are on Mobile

More than a third of high-use smart phone users are taking action on mobile advertisements, according to AOL Platform-A and Interpublic Group of Companies UM. About 53 percent of smart phone users are clicking on advertisements.

Some 35 percent are requesting more information or a coupon, while 24 percent are making purchases, a new study sponsored by AOL and UM indicates.

The study shows 82 percent of smart phones get used at work while 81 percent are used while people are shopping. Currently, nearly one of every seven minutes of media consumption takes place on a mobile device, and six of every 10 consumers expect their mobile internet usage to increase significantly over the next two years, AOL and UM say.

And though there was a time when mobile Web access might once have been an area where U.S. consumers trailed other consumers, that is no longer the case. In fact, mobile Web access is so widespread that the use cases are morphing.

"Now mobile is less about 'wireless online' and more about being a highly personal, customized medium," says Graeme Hutton, UM director. So the big question is how smart phone applications evolve in the direction of  answering unmet needs. The mobile Web is not simply a mobile version of the PC-accessed Web, in other words. It might be evolving in the direction of becoming a medium in its own right.

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