Smartphone penetration is fueling mobile ad budgets as brands grasp the opportunity to engage, interact and drive results further down in the purchase funnel. In the U.K., for example, where smartphone penetration is now nearly 60 percent, the IAB (Internet Advertising Bureau) reports that mobile advertising is on a “meteoric rise,” growing 132 percent to reach GBP 181.5 million in …

Mobile has become our constant companion in what is fast-becoming a multi-screen world, where we choose our screen (mobile, tablet, PC or TV) depending on our context and what we want to accomplish. This shift from consumption to participation turns up the pressure on marketers to do more than shift spend into mobile to get our attention.  They have to …

The new Apple iPhone dominates the news today, but will the new model allow Apple to grow its share of ad impressions and remain ‘the’ device developers and brands need to factor into their mobile strategies?

It’s a tough one to call. New data from independent mobile ad and data platform company Millennial Media shows that Apple mobile devices certainly …

With a wave of us leaving for a short summer vacation, the timing couldn’t be better for a mobile advertising report outlining how we use mobile to reach — and enjoy — our final destination.

Significantly, travel brands — from booking agents, to hotels and resorts, to cruise lines and airlines, to tourist attractions and tourism boards, to regional transit …

Mobile has the unique capabilities to deliver the right ad to the right person in the right place/context. But it’s a new pilot in the U.S. — bringing together Coca-Cola and pretzel seller Auntie Anne’s — that will go one step further to show how brands can close the loop by using mobile to trigger real-world purchases and track the …

Mobile is redefining our daily lives and mobile behavior, becoming the device we reach to for information, assistance and advertising that — like our devices — is personal and relevant (and therefore valuable to us). Correctly, the discussion is centered on how brands can best achieve contextual relevance (by delivering the right ad at the right place or time). But …

Shift happens… New data from independent mobile ad and data platform company Millennial Media reveals a continued shift among consumers to tablets and other connected devices like MP3 players and e-readers.

Indeed, these ‘non-phone’ mobile devices show impressive hockey stick growth, generating 20 percent of all ad impressions across the Millennial Media mobile advertising platform during the first quarter …

New research from independent mobile ad and data platform company Millennial Media and mobile measurement firm comScore shows that finance brands aren’t only the big(gest) spenders in mobile advertising (outranking other sectors including retail, entertainment and automotive). It also draws from consumer surveys and hard data across thousands of mobile ad campaigns (reaching over 300 million unique users globally) to …

A raft of recent reports reveal how we engage with our mobile devices (and tablets) while watching TV, but research released today shows that our appetite for multi-screen access might be greatest during live events where having a bird’s-eye view into everything (the event, the action, the background facts and stats, and the latest news and updates) delivers us a …