Industry insight from Opera Mediaworks
Each quarter, Opera Mediaworks conducts a definitive analysis of the key trends in mobile advertising worldwide. We publish these findings as the State of Mobile Advertising report. Each report provides key data metrics and trends based on the world's leading mobile ad platform, serving more than 12,000 sites and applications, with more than 50 billion ad impressions per month and delivering more than $400 million (US) of revenue to mobile publishers in 2012.
Q1 2013
In this State of Mobile Advertising report, we provide our usual insights to mobile ad monetization by device, geography and publisher category, based on data from the Opera Mediaworks mobile ad platform during the first quarter of 2013. However, we also highlight three important drivers of the mobile advertising market: the competition between iOS and Android, the growth of international mobile ad markets and the importance of "intelligent prioritization" for advertisers. Read on...
About Opera Mediaworks
Opera Mediaworks is the world's leading mobile advertising platform, helping to power the global mobile economy. We improve efficiency, through technology, innovation, transparency and trust, to create an open and vibrant marketplace for publishers and advertisers across the globe. Opera Mediaworks includes AdMarvel, an ad-serving and mediation platform; Mobile Theory, a premium mobile ad network in the US; and 4th Screen Advertising Ltd., a premium ad network in the United Kingdom. Also included are impressions served within Opera mobile properties, including the Opera Mini Smart Page and the Opera Mobile Store. Opera Mediaworks is a member of the Opera Software family of companies.
About the report & methodology
Information contained in this report is based on aggregated information obtained from the Opera Mobile Ad Platform and Opera Mobile Ad Exchange servers. The data presented represents traffic and monetization metrics and statistics compiled across multiple advertising campaigns delivered by us to our mobile publisher customers. The data includes ads requested from and delivered by us on behalf of multiple ad networks as well as directly sold campaigns created by our customers themselves.
Country-level details are based on IP addresses of the originating ad requests as forwarded to us by our mobile publisher/app developer customers. Device details are similarly based on device user agents provided by these same customers.
Related resources
- About the report & methodology
- State of the Mobile Web report
- Designing websites for the mobile world
- Report archive
Contact
For more information about the State of the Mobile Advertising report, please contact Falguni Bhuta falgunib[at]opera.com, +1 650 625 1262, ext. 1001.
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