Mobile Ad Targeting Still A Distant Dream

Spending is up but precision is rare

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Total spending on mobile advertising is growing fast; 48 percent this year, according to eMarketer.

But right now money is flowing into mobile because advertisers have learned to fish where the fish are, not because of the potential offered by tiny, precision-targeted, web-connected, location-aware ads.

Meanwhile, although more ads are now being served up onto phones running Google's Android operating system, users of iPhone and iPad are more likely to click through.

 

Total spending continues to surge…

Us Mobile Ad Spending $ millions
2009 416
2010 743
2011 1,102
2012 1,501
2013 2,037
2014 2,550
Source: eMarketer, September 2010  

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