Is Mobile Marketing An Effective Complement To Television?
Posted by | Posted in Marketing and Advertising | Posted on 11-12-2010
Mobile has become the hot new medium for marketing. Most of us own a mobile, have it on most if not all of the day, check it regularly and it is highly personal to us. Mobiles are becoming increasingly sophisticated in their technology. How exactly though does mobile marketing fit with television and is it an effective complement to it?
Consider if you will how traditional advertising has run for many decades and how it has become so popular with consumers in the US. Newspapers are loaded with mailers and print advertising, coupon cutting, discount offers and so on. Radio and television is awash with regular advertising segments; there are glossy magazines spreads and large billboards. So where does the fast-growing mobile marketing slip into this and can it really complement traditional methods? Well, it is already doing so but until now, you may not have made the link.
Mobile Marketing is most effective when utilized as a complement to the marketing mix, that is, when used in conjunction with standard marketing media. Consider, for example the incredibly successful American Idol reality show, where over 20 million mobile users text their votes each week. Mobile gives users the levels of interactions that they so enjoy.

