2014-05-20 21:25:12
Racing games generated 2.5 times more revenue than casual titles in mobile ad revenue on Android in the first quarter.
That’s one of the findings of the first quarterly data report on the global mobile advertising industry. The findings also show that a lot of ad
spending happens in the Western markets of Europe and the United States, much of the traffic growth is happening in Eastern markets in Asia, the Middle East, Africa, and Oceania.
About 56 percent of the traffic occurs in the Eastern markets, but only 33 percent of the mobile ad spend happens in the East. About 47 percent of the ad spend happens in the Western markets, which account for just 22 percent of the traffic. (Latin America accounts for 13 percent of traffic and Eastern Europe is 9 percent).
The data shows that amid mobile ad spend growing 62 percent quarter-over-quarter, the attention that’s long been on western advertisers is shifting to Chinese advertisers with massive ad budgets. These Chinese advertisers are globally distributing mobile ad spend evenly across regions, which is changing the paradigm by fueling the rapid growth of the Eastern app economy.
It is found that mobile ad traffic grew 45 percent from the third quarter of 2013 to the first quarter of 2014. North America accounts for 23 percent of mobile app installations. Asia accounts for 21 percent of installations, Western Europe accounts for 20 percent, the Middle East accounts for 12 percent, Eastern Europe is 10 percent, Latin America is 10 percent, Africa is 3 percent and Oceania is 1 percent.
Global mobile ad spending grew 62 percent from the third quarter of 2013 to the first quarter of 2014. Chinese advertisers are creating global campaigns that run across all regions, including Asia and the Middle East, which account for 53 percent of their mobile ad budget. Mobile ad spend on the Middle East has grown 62.4 percent since the third quarter of 2013. Cost-per-install peaked in the fourth quarter at 51 cents per install and leveled off to 30 cents per install in the first quarter.
With mobile advertising on the rise and desktop on the decline, we believe these numbers point to more brands, developers and advertisers seeing the indisputably high return on investment from advertising on mobile. While traffic grows at a slower pace and demand grows from advertisers, developers and brands for mobile traffic, advertisers as a result are willing to pay more and allocate more budget toward buying mobile ad traffic.
Real-time bidding networks help with scaling the buying and selling of more traffic in a shorter amount of time as this demand grows. We might see the beginnings of mobile ad spend catching up to time spent, to which Mary Meeker warned in her 2013 Internet Trend report.