Warc, 5 August 2013
NEW YORK: Mobile marketing still suffers from a
"mismatch" when compared to actual consumer behaviour, a multimarket
study has revealed.
Research firm Forrester questioned internet users who owned
mobile phones in the US and European markets like France, Germany, Italy, Spain
and the UK.
It found that 47% of European participants utilised mobile
apps at least once a week, a figure standing at 47% for accessing the internet
via the same route and 38% for visiting search engines on their phone.
Looking at the US, exactly 50% of respondents checked news,
sports updates and weather forecasts on a weekly basis on these devices, alongside
45% logging on to social networks and 22% for researching products.
"This implies that you must have a mobile component for
your digital strategy. But it goes beyond this, as mobile is bridging the
offline and online worlds," said Thomas Husson, a principal analyst at
Forrester.
Forrester's survey of senior marketers found that most were
trialling mobile technologies, but 42% had been pursuing such a strategy for
less than a year or were in "the early stages of building one".
An additional 43% of executives agreed they were not highly
informed about the mobile behaviour of their customers.
Equally, just 45% had defined a clear "road map"
for this medium covering the next six months and only 37% believed they
possessed the necessary budget to pursue their mobile initiatives.
"There is still a mismatch between customers' and
marketers' mobile usage," Husson said. This applies both in terms of
mobile-readiness, but also the tactics and tools they are using.
Marketers tend to focus on building native mobile apps, he
continued, and effectively spend money when they do not have to. Moreover, few
have connected their apps with customer relationship management systems.
Similarly, the deployment of "trendy" technologies
like QR codes and augmented reality is often out of keeping with consumer
uptake, often to the neglect of mainstream options like SMS or the mobile web.
"There is a disconnect between technologies rolled out
and regular usage among customers," Husson continued. "Unfortunately,
the reality is that the passion for mobile technology acronyms - NFC, AR, LTE,
RWD, QR, etc. - still prevails."
Data sourced from Forrester; additional content by Warc
staff
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