Saturday, May 22, 2010

Google and Apple Likely to Dominate Mobile Advertising

Apple’s ownership of mobile advertising firm iAd gives it advantages over any other advertiser wishing to place ads on iPhone OS devices such as the iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch.

Apple, for instance, can harvest data about how such ads interact with items for sale in the iTunes store that other ad networks cannot access.

Google will be able to do the same on Android OS devices, but the stability of its legacy business has to be questioned, given that much AdMob traffic is generated by iPhones and other Apple devices. Over time, much of that traffic, perhaps all of it, will migrate to iAd, Apple's network.

AdMob’s success to date on the iPhone platform is unlikely to be an accurate predictor of AdMob’s competitive significance going forward, the Federal Trade Commission has concluded. Still, AdMob does essentially triple the number of mobile ad formats Google can sponsor. In addition to search ads, Google now will expand into display and "in application" advertising.

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