How Mobile Coupons Are Catching On
May 10, 2011 by Kevin Michael Gray
Mobile advertising currently generates just a fraction of the total revenue earned by online advertising. But it’s ramping up quickly and is poised to grow by more than 40 percent over the next several years, outpacing traditional online advertising. That’s helping fuel a spate of funding announcements and deals for mobile advertising companies as the competition in this space heats up.
The Interactive Advertising Bureau started reporting mobile advertising revenue for the first time, saying mobile ads brought in an estimated $550 to $650 million in the U.S. last year. Online advertising raked in a record $26 billion in 2010, eclipsing newspaper advertising revenue for the first time ever. Mobile advertising, while small, is expected to grow from $491 million in 2009 to $2.9 billion in 2014, according to BIA/Kelsey, a 43 percent compound annual growth rate. It’s that promise of rising growth that’s fueling optimism in the online advertising space...
