Impact & Potential of Mobile Marketing
- According to industry estimates, by 2013 the U.S. will top 100% per capita penetration of mobile phone use
- 2/3 of mobile phone users are “active users of SMS text messaging.” What does that translate to? Approximately 1.8 billion people are actively texting today
- Globally, there are twice as many active users of SMS as there are active users of email
- In the U.S. alone, roughly 300 billion text messages were sent in 2007
- SMS is typically read within an average of 15 minutes after receipt, and responded to within 60 minutes
- While 65% of e-mail is spam, less than 10% of SMS is spam
Source: Experian via Mobile Marketing Watch
- 200+ million Americans carry mobile phones—over half of the country's population
- 40% of major brands have deployed text messaging (SMS) campaigns
- 18% of major brands have deployed multi-media messaging (MMS) campaigns
Source: Airwide Solutions independent survey of 50 brand name companies
- A survey of 2,400 moms reveals that the single most important tech gadget in their lives is the cell phone (23%), followed by the Internet (21%) and the digital camera (19%)
Source: Babycenter.com, March 2008
