New research conducted by Nielsen for mobile video advertising company AdColony proves that the influence of the 3rd screen is dramatically expanding and becoming a significant factor for brand results. The co-branded "Cross-Platform Video Ad Effectiveness Study" shows that cross-screen viewership, defined as TV and mobile on smartphones and tablets, can drive purchase intent for a brand by 72 percent. With so many consumers multi-tasking while watching TV, this new research set out to measure the impact of "being" with the consumer across all the devices including simultaneous viewership of TV and mobile devices to measure how effective mobile video ads complement television campaigns.

We are all aware that the mobile industry is experiencing a true expansion across the world, and from a Marketing point of view, this opens the door to a world of possibilities. With over 20 million cellphone owners in Canada, there clearly exists a large number of people ready to be reached by mobile advertising. Or is there? When it comes to the potential for mobile display advertising and search there are only 5.2M users in Canada who actively use their Smartphones for browsing and apps (comScore Mobilens, June 2011). This gives us some indication of why mobile advertising is not growing as fast as the mobile industry in general, despite the enormous potential of mobile marketing to connect with consumers on the go, with timely, relevant messaging when the consumer is most likely to act.

With this in mind, Mediative set out to discover as much as possible on mobile advertising – to gather intelligence on the medium, its strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and obstacles, and test the mobile platform as a communication vector for advertising. The full whitepaper covers findings from the following areas in mobile advertising:

The growth in Smartphone use in the US is fuelling a range of new consumer behaviors and expectations and advertisers want to know what this means for them.  But with such limited industry knowledge about consumers’ mobile advertising behaviors and expectations, it is currently difficult for advertisers to commit media budget to this platform. Microsoft Advertising commissioned research to understand mobile media consumption and advertiser opportunities among U.S. Smartphone and iPhone users, across 10 different verticals.