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Editor’s note: This is the second part of a two-part blog looking at 2016 mobile marketing predictions from advertising experts.
Christian Baesler, president of Bauer Xcel Media, publisher of Woman’s World and InTouch Weekly expects to see the share of mobile traffic to publisher’s websites will continue to increase even further, while the large gap between time spent versus ad budgets spent that has existed for mobile will decrease as the market matures and buyers are shifting more budgets to mobile, resulting in higher CPMs and better monetization opportunities for premium publishers.
After building a foundation and first explorations in 2015, platforms such as Facebook, Snapchat and Apple News will play an even larger role in publishers’ mobile businesses, both in terms of audience acquisition as well as monetization, Baesler adds. So publishers need to expand their experiments with the various platforms, with the ultimate goal of decreasing dependencies on one or two major traffic sources as it exists today.
Catherine Magoffin, director of strategic services at StrongView, a Selligent company offers these thoughts on 2016: