This Year's 10 Biggest Shifts, Shake-ups and Surprises in Mobile Marketing | Public Relations & Social Marketing Insight | Scoop.it

Fueled by new ad formats and acquisitions from Facebook, Twitter and brands, mobile marketing finally began to step up to its potential this year.


Apple Pay brought mobile payment into the mainstream. From messaging and video to ultra-targeted ads and simplified shopping, smartphones and tablets became a major focus for most digital brands players in 2014.


Numbers from researchers back up this year's advancements. EMarketer forecasts that mobile brought in $32.71 billion globally this year, outpacing the combined newspaper, magazine and radio spend in the U.S. Meanwhile, Forrester Research expects mobile to grab 40 percent of online display ad budgets by 2019....