Mobile Advertising: Introduction To Social Media
Mobile Advertising: Introduction To Social Media
“Smartphones are reinventing the connection between companies and their customers”
Use of web-enabled smartphones in last decade has increased exponentially. The
people use mobile devices to communicate with their family, friends, colleagues, and
acquaintances. They stay connected to the society on various social networks, keep
themselves updated on current affairs and lifestyle. Apart from accessing E-Mails,
browsing, and messaging, people spend a huge amount of time on mobile apps for
their utility and entertainment quotient.
Today, the mobile devices such as smartphones, e-books, and tablets are inseparable
parts of their daily lives. Mobile advertising takes the advantage of this thereby
reaching out to the hands, pockets, and bags of the people.
What is Mobile Advertising?
Text Tagline Ad
It is an Ad unit that displays only text. Text links may be used below a Mobile Web
Banner Ad. It also can be used for older mobile phones which do not provide
support for graphics. At times the publishers also prefer to use them over graphical
ads on mobile websites. Mobile screen width has no effect on text tagline sizes.
Mobile Advertising Units (4/9)
Mobile Video Ad
These Ads are played as video on the mobile. The advertisers need to follow the recommendation for Mobile Video
content as given −
Landscape aspect Ratios should be 4:3, 16:9, and 11:9.
File formats should be − WMV, AVI, MOV, MPEG2, .3GP
Audio quality should be − 16bit 44Khz stereo.
Video quality should be − 250kbps, 20-30 frames per second.
Avoid using fast-moving videos.
Avoid rapid scene changes.
Avoid using small font for advertising messages.
Avoid dark shots.
Mobile Advertising Units (7/9)