Category: Insights

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Joint research on Smartphone apps for education (Macromill X InMobi)

July 09, 2012 | by Kosuke Seto

InMobi Japan and research firm Macromill conducted a joint research on Smartphone apps for learning....

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InMobi Japan and research firm Macromill conducted a joint research on Smartphone apps for learning....

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Connected devices are transforming shopping and media habits

July 09, 2012 | by admin

To better understand the impact of the changing device landscape on consumer behavior, Mobext and InMobi conducted a research study...

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To better understand the impact of the changing device landscape on consumer behavior, Mobext and InMobi conducted a research study...

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Cafe, Croissant and Media Consumption France

July 09, 2012 | by admin

The relaxed and friendly space provided the perfect setting for our event. We welcomed delegates from a diverse mix of brands, agencies, publishers, and journalists. ...

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The relaxed and friendly space provided the perfect setting for our event. We welcomed delegates from a diverse mix of brands, agencies, publishers, and journalists. ...

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CPG Marketers: 66% of mobile consumers use their devices to inform or make a purchase while in stores

July 19, 2012 | by Surag Patel

71% of CPG companies are expected to increase their mobile ad spend in 2012. Check out our latest CPG Mobile Insights report to view best practices and targeted consumer survey results to enable you to make the most of yourupcoming CPG mobile campaign....

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71% of CPG companies are expected to increase their mobile ad spend in 2012. Check out our latest CPG Mobile Insights report to view best practices and targeted consumer survey results to enable you to make the most of yourupcoming CPG mobile campaign....

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Kenyan Consumers Use Mobile Devices Equally Across All Avenues

July 30, 2012 | by Daryn Smith

The little research that has been done in Africa to help businesses make decisions has generally been unaffordable for most businesses. ...

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The little research that has been done in Africa to help businesses make decisions has generally been unaffordable for most businesses. ...

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Why Telecom Providers Should Use Mobile Advertising

July 30, 2012 | by Daryn Smith

For telecommunications companies in the majority of markets around the world, attracting a new customer means that said customer will be leaving a competitor provider. ...

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For telecommunications companies in the majority of markets around the world, attracting a new customer means that said customer will be leaving a competitor provider. ...

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The Mobile Social graph

August 24, 2012 | by Harish Nair

According to Wikipedia, Social graph is a term used for sociograms in the Internet context. Sociogram is a graph that depicts relations. It has been referred to as "the global mapping of everybody and how they're related"....

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According to Wikipedia, Social graph is a term used for sociograms in the Internet context. Sociogram is a graph that depicts relations. It has been referred to as "the global mapping of everybody and how they're related"....

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New Research from the IAB, Viggle, and InMobi: Personal Finance Habits on Mobile

April 12, 2013 | by Taimour Azizuddin

With April 16th approaching, InMobi teamed up with Viggle and the IAB to survey mobile users on how they use their devices for personal finances....

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With April 16th approaching, InMobi teamed up with Viggle and the IAB to survey mobile users on how they use their devices for personal finances....

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How Auto Brands Can Win With Mobile

April 18, 2013 | by Shamala DN

The auto industry has traditionally relied on conventional marketing means such as TV advertisements, bill boards and print media to drive sales. But over the last couple of years there has been a tremendous shift towards the Internet, social media and mobile....

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The auto industry has traditionally relied on conventional marketing means such as TV advertisements, bill boards and print media to drive sales. But over the last couple of years there has been a tremendous shift towards the Internet, social media and mobile....

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CPG Marketers - Go Mobile

October 10, 2012 | by Shamala DN

This mobile revolution and the shift in consumer behavior is simply too large for CPG marketers to ignore. ...

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This mobile revolution and the shift in consumer behavior is simply too large for CPG marketers to ignore. ...

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London 2012 Olympics: The Mobile Games

August 07, 2012 | by Surag Patel

The eMarketer survey shows that 27% of people will watch the 2012 Olympic Games on their smartphones, and 44% said that they would interact with social media during the Olympics. ...

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The eMarketer survey shows that 27% of people will watch the 2012 Olympic Games on their smartphones, and 44% said that they would interact with social media during the Olympics. ...

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De-mystifying Lifetime value - A simplified approach to applying LTV to your app business

October 04, 2012 | by admin

Life time value is a metric that measures the monetary value of a user over the lifetime through which he/she is engaged with your product....

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Life time value is a metric that measures the monetary value of a user over the lifetime through which he/she is engaged with your product....

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67% of Regular Moviegoers Use Mobile to Pick Movies

October 03, 2012 | by Taimour Azizuddin

Yesterday the IAB and InMobi released the results of a joint research study, Mobile Goes to the Movies....

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Yesterday the IAB and InMobi released the results of a joint research study, Mobile Goes to the Movies....

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New Research from the IAB, Viggle, and InMobi: Personal Finance Habits on Mobile

April 12, 2013 | by Taimour Azizuddin

With April 16th approaching, InMobi teamed up with Viggle and the IAB to survey mobile users on how they use their devices for personal finances....

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With April 16th approaching, InMobi teamed up with Viggle and the IAB to survey mobile users on how they use their devices for personal finances....

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How Auto Brands Can Win With Mobile

April 18, 2013 | by Shamala DN

The auto industry has traditionally relied on conventional marketing means such as TV advertisements, bill boards and print media to drive sales. But over the last couple of years there has been a tremendous shift towards the Internet, social media and mobile....

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The auto industry has traditionally relied on conventional marketing means such as TV advertisements, bill boards and print media to drive sales. But over the last couple of years there has been a tremendous shift towards the Internet, social media and mobile....

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Behavioral Segmentation Basics for App Developers

October 17, 2012 | by Arun Pattabhiraman

Traditionally, marketers have used segmentation as an important technique to divide their customers into manageable homogenized buckets, on which they can take targeted actions to extract the maximum marketing value. While demographic and geographic segmentation serve this purpose for most businesses, managing more complex customer segments such as app-users calls for fairly more sophisticated tec...

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Traditionally, marketers have used segmentation as an important technique to divide their customers into manageable homogenized buckets, on which they can take targeted actions to extract the maximum marketing value. While demographic and geographic segmentation serve this purpose for most businesses, managing more complex customer segments such as app-users calls for fairly more sophisticated tec...

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iOS 6 and How App Marketing is Affected

October 19, 2012 | by Ryan Merket

With the release of iOS 6 for Apple mobile devices, developers and ad networks are finding that they will need to implement a new strategy when developing and advertising their latest apps. This was apparent as reports trickled in about the changes that occurred to Apple's App Store....

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With the release of iOS 6 for Apple mobile devices, developers and ad networks are finding that they will need to implement a new strategy when developing and advertising their latest apps. This was apparent as reports trickled in about the changes that occurred to Apple's App Store....

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mCommerce Last Year, Today, and Beyond

September 05, 2012 | by Taimour Azizuddin

A couple of weeks ago InMobi released its Q2 Mobile Media Consumption research results for the US and the UK. ...

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A couple of weeks ago InMobi released its Q2 Mobile Media Consumption research results for the US and the UK. ...

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7 deadly mistakes of ads based app monetization

November 26, 2012 | by Vinay Uttamchandani

At InMobi, we work with thousands of developers across the globe and one question that we frequently receive from them is around how to make more money from ads. In this blog post, I would like to address that question, but in a slightly different way - I would like to share with you some of the common but deadly mistakes that developers looking to monetize their apps using ads should avoid. Most ...

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At InMobi, we work with thousands of developers across the globe and one question that we frequently receive from them is around how to make more money from ads. In this blog post, I would like to address that question, but in a slightly different way - I would like to share with you some of the common but deadly mistakes that developers looking to monetize their apps using ads should avoid. Most ...

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Mobile Trends 2013: Mobile Emerges as Core Digital Marketing Channel

December 31, 2012 | by Shamala DN

2012 saw profound growth across all of the mobile ecosystems: mobile apps, mobile social media, data traffic and mobile advertising....

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2012 saw profound growth across all of the mobile ecosystems: mobile apps, mobile social media, data traffic and mobile advertising....

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Using GPS, Food Delivery Ads Appear When Users Are at Home - Outlook of mobile industry for Korea in 2013

February 13, 2013 | by Kosuke Seto

Using GPS, Food Delivery Ads Appear When Users Are at Home....

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Using GPS, Food Delivery Ads Appear When Users Are at Home....

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Global Mobile Media Consumption: Reaching Millennials

February 27, 2013 | by Shamala DN

InMobi has uncovered the first truly global analysis of this highly influential demographic through our Global Mobile Media Consumption Study. The study explores mobile media behaviors of Millennials, defined as those aged 20-34, to provide advertisers with a deeper understanding of their media habits, purchase behavior and receptivity towards mobile ads....

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InMobi has uncovered the first truly global analysis of this highly influential demographic through our Global Mobile Media Consumption Study. The study explores mobile media behaviors of Millennials, defined as those aged 20-34, to provide advertisers with a deeper understanding of their media habits, purchase behavior and receptivity towards mobile ads....

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InMobi Releases Second Wave of Mobile Media Consumption Survey - Global Results

February 27, 2013 | by Shamala DN

The growth of the mobile media is immense throughout the globe and constantly reshaping how we interact in our everyday lives. ...

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The growth of the mobile media is immense throughout the globe and constantly reshaping how we interact in our everyday lives. ...

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InMobi works with Hortonworks to incubate Falcon with Apache Software Foundation; to provide huge benefits to the big-data community

April 02, 2013 | by Mohit Saxena

InMobi has been using big-data technologies (Apache Hadoop and its family) for the last 2.5 years for storing and analyzing large volumes of serving events / machine generated logs....

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InMobi has been using big-data technologies (Apache Hadoop and its family) for the last 2.5 years for storing and analyzing large volumes of serving events / machine generated logs....

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Connecting the dots between mobile ad creatives and consumers

April 02, 2013 | by Pranjal Desai

A large part of this difference relates to the anticipation and engagement that we experience as we consume content on our smartphones....

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A large part of this difference relates to the anticipation and engagement that we experience as we consume content on our smartphones....

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App Distribution simplified: Reach millions of new users through alternate app stores

March 27, 2013 | by Ujjwal Kabra

Android is an open platform, and with openness comes diversity....

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Android is an open platform, and with openness comes diversity....

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Extending The Momentum of a Newly Launched App - Ad Content

February 11, 2013 | by Shringar Pangal

In the first blog of this series, we saw how it is important to get your paid advertising strategy right to ensure that the organic downloads keep flowing in. I also suggested the Top 5 essentials to keep in mind while planning your advertising campaign. Let’s take a deeper look into the second of the five – Ad Content. ...

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In the first blog of this series, we saw how it is important to get your paid advertising strategy right to ensure that the organic downloads keep flowing in. I also suggested the Top 5 essentials to keep in mind while planning your advertising campaign. Let’s take a deeper look into the second of the five – Ad Content. ...

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App Discovery & Download behavior: Why developers can no longer ignore China

May 21, 2013 | by Arun Pattabhiraman

It is evident that the competition for the world's most lucrative mobile app market is getting fiercer by the day. While the US had long established itself as the de-facto market developers look to for superior monetization opportunities, it is becoming clear now that its burgeoning alter ego from the Far East - China, can no longer be ignored.InMobi's recently concluded developer research reveal...

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It is evident that the competition for the world's most lucrative mobile app market is getting fiercer by the day. While the US had long established itself as the de-facto market developers look to for superior monetization opportunities, it is becoming clear now that its burgeoning alter ego from the Far East - China, can no longer be ignored.InMobi's recently concluded developer research reveal...

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App Marketing 101 : How to break into the top 25 on the App Store?

May 17, 2013 | by Mahak Sharma

As an app developer, you want to acquire users efficiently by optimizing marketing spends across different channels. This becomes even more important at the time of an app launch when the lifetime value of a new user is still unknown. It's too early to determine an agreeable CPI to drive installs and thereby justify the marketing budget needed for user acquisition. Given that early users of the ap...

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As an app developer, you want to acquire users efficiently by optimizing marketing spends across different channels. This becomes even more important at the time of an app launch when the lifetime value of a new user is still unknown. It's too early to determine an agreeable CPI to drive installs and thereby justify the marketing budget needed for user acquisition. Given that early users of the ap...

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