A detailed look at how the mobile media technology landscape will evolve in 2015 to take centre stage in the lives of consumers and the minds of marketers. To read the full report go to http://wearefetch.com/mobiletrends2015-register/

1. The year mobile
takes centre stage
A detailed look at how the mobile media
technology landscape will evolve in 2015
to take centre stage in the lives of consumers
and the minds of marketers.
2015:

2. Foreword
In digital media technology, change is constant,
change is complex and change is consequential.
Hardware and software is being upgraded
continuously. Connected consumers’ behaviours
are being modified continuously. And the impacts
on consumerism and society at large are being
felt continuously.
And the rate of change does not slow down.
With the rapid rise of smart mobile technology
over the last few years it has only accelerated.
All of a sudden, smartphones are everywhere.
And the seismic changes these devices are
bringing with them are even greater than those
before them.
For brands, businesses and institutions the
need to keep up with the ever evolving mobile
landscape has never been more important. Keep
up and you could see great success for your
enterprise. Fail to keep up and you could very
quickly see declining fortunes. Keeping up with
this change however is hard. It’s a job in itself.
To help marketers make sense of the trends
and developments in the mobile landscape,
and understand what is in store for mobile
technology, mobile consumers and mobile
marketing in 2015, the Strategy & Innovation
team at Fetch has created this booklet.
We hope that this brings clarity to the complexity
and encourages marketers to bring mobile into
the centre of their integrated communications
planning and implementation.
Happy reading! And good luck with your mobile
plans for 2015.
Julian Smith, Head of Strategy & Innovation

3. Mobile Technology Trends

4. Sometime in 2015 smartphone users will tip the
two billion mark globally.
Challenger smartphone brands, Xiaomi, Huawei
and Lenovo, will drive increasing commoditisation
in the global smartphone market.
Operating systems will be upgraded & improved.
Screens will become higher definition and larger,
as more phablets hit the market.
The next generation of mobile processors will emerge.
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5. Wearables:
Wristwear stimulates adoption
A growing range of connected wearable devices
will be launched.
Leading smartphone manufacturers will bring
their latest smartwatches to market.
With improving pulse sensors built in
smartwatches might eat into the third party
fitness band market.
Smart eyewear will struggle to gain as much
mainstream traction.
Smart garments will be real growth area
in wearables according to Gartner.
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6. THEIN
TERNET OF T
HINGS
–Theda
w
n
of the connecte
d
home–
The Internet of Things will start to become less
of a concept and more of a reality.
The dawn of a new era of the connected home will
start with central heating devices and thermostats.
A wider range of domestic and personal equipment
will become ‘smart’ and sensor-embedded.
Consumers will start noticing the presence
of BLE beacons in their retail and live event venues.
The smartphone / tablet will become the remote
control for our connected environment.
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7. Mobile payments:
Apple Pay spurs the market
Technology will evolve to allow shoppers to more
easily and conveniently make transactions in store
via their mobile device.
The launch of Apple Pay is expected to really boost
the mobile payments market.
Merchant’s adoption of mobile ready payment
terminals and strategies will also help.
Banks will also start to wake up to the potential of
mobile payments.
A new breed of apps will emerge in 2015 that
bypass the payment terminal altogether.
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8. Mobile app economy
> According to Gartner there will be approximately
179 billion apps downloaded globally in 2015.
Mobile games, mobile social and messaging apps
will continue to drive app downloads.
Mobile apps will increasingly become interconnected
and integrated.
Mobile apps will become more personalised.
Mobile apps will become more context aware.
...continues to flourish
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9. Mobile Consumer Trends

10. Time spent with
mobile grows:
Now coming second only to TV
Time spent with mobile is by far the fastest growing media
consumption time, and is now second only to TV.
Mobile will start to cannibalise time spent with other media,
like radio, video and news content.
Mobile media consumption is high frequency, short bursts,
with device access 221 times per day.
Digital media consumption will become more multi-screen.
Most of the time spent on mobile will continue to be spent
in app.
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11. Mobile online content
consumption grows:
Especially for video entertainment
Online content access and consumption will increasingly
be via mobile browsers and apps (vs desktop browsers).
There will be a subsequent shift to mobile search and with
this a subtle shift in the pattern and types of search queries.
News content consumption will also continue to go mobile.
More rich media and video content will be consumed via
the mobile screen.
Growing tablet content consumption will be markedly
different from smartphone content consumption. For longer
form, lean back content browsing and entertainment.
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12. Mobile social
communication grows:
The rise rise of OTT messaging
Facebook dominates, Instagram (with 300m users)
overtakes Twitter and wider variety of apps come to
market.
Around world other OTT messaging apps will rise.
Consumers will move away from hosting their entire social
lives on one centralised, public platform, like Facebook, and
start to adopt a wider, more decentralised, mobile-centric
suit of public and private messaging apps.
They will pick and choose their mode and method of
communication dependent on their desired audience,
content and context.
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13. Mobile commerce grows:
Impacting online, influencing offline.
Mobile an ever larger portion of online sales, expected to account
for 25% of e-commerce sales by the end of 2015, growing to 50% by
2018.
Multi-channel shopping will become the norm amongst consumers
whose purchase decisions and actions will be influenced by multiple
screens.
Growth and adoption of mobile couponing will help drive shoppers
in store to make a purchase.
Mobile in-store payments will grow rapidly. 154% CAGR growth
between 2013 and 2018.
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14. Mobile consumer
expectations grow:
Brands businesses beware.
Mobile-savvy consumers’ expectations and desires for
mobile experiences will evolve and heighten.
Desire for digital content services delivered quickly,
smoothly and simply at the press of a touchscreen in their
immediate context and moment of need.
Anything less than this will leave the savvy mobile
consumer of 2015 dissatisfied and disgruntled.
Consumers’ ‘Mobile mind shift’ will be an ever more
apparent and unavoidable challenge for brands and
businesses in 2015.
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15. Mobile Marketing Trends

16. As small screen optimisation becomes
imperative.
MOBILE BRANDED
CONTENT GROWS:
Even greater focus on building websites that operate
smoothly and efficiently across screens.
Social media content marketing will become ever more
mobile first (growth of Instagram).
Optimising the app presentation content in the stores
(ASO) will be seen as increasingly important.
Short app preview / promo videos – that can sit in-store
and also off-store – will become more popular.
In-app push notifications will become more sophisticated.
More development of tablet specific content.
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17. Mobile ad investment will total approx. $28.4bn by end 2015, more than 100%
increase from 2013.
Growing number of more traditional, brand advertisers will shift budget to mobile.
Mobile video advertising fastest growing format.
Mobile media owners will continue to upgrade their video inventory
opportunities.
Improved targeting (and re-targeting) of mobile video advertising, through more
sophisticated data application, will help advertisers engage more higher value
audiences.
...as brand advertisers
target mobile eyeballs
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18. MOBILE PAID SOCIAL NATIVE
ADVERTISING GROWS:
Marketers will look to further leverage the unique benefits of Facebook’s
platform.
Twitter will see growing ad investment as it evolves its mobile audience
targeting / re-targeting opportunities.
Instagram will see the beginnings of real interest from advertisers. Tumblr’s
mobile advertising opportunities. Pinterest potentially a viable mobile
advertising platform.
The desire for more native mobile display advertising in professionally
produced mobile content feeds will also grow in 2015.
As advertisers look to infiltrate the feed.
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19. MOBILE PROGRAMMATIC AND
DATA-DRIVEN TARGETING GROWS:
Mobile will become a greater part of the growing programmatic buying
sector.
As part of this the intelligent application of data to mobile inventory will
become a growing focus.
Ad networks will aggregate, profile and segment mobile audience first and
third party data to create targetable audience clusters.
Greater use of dynamic creative optimization.
Cross screen programmatic buying will become increasingly viable as the
big players such as Facebook, Google, Microsoft and Twitter use persistent
identity to join up screens and overcome the cookie issue on mobile.
As it demonstrates cost-effectiveness.
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20. With the need to convert multi-channel
audiences.
CROSS-DEVICE
FOCUS GROWS:
Marketers will grapple with how to target, convert and measure audiences
across multiple screens to the ongoing advantage of the universal log-in
digital media giants, Facebook and Google.
Also the early advertising solution providers in this space, like Drawbridge,
Criteo, Conversant, Device9.
Millennial Media’s new mobile-first cross-screen advertising solution, Path.
Rise in the prominence of Data Management Platforms (DMPs) in 2015.
Multi-channel attribution modeling growing focus.
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21. Thank you
for reading.
For access to the complete report
please click here.