Public Relations & Social Marketing Insight

Even business-to-business brands seem to be getting a grip on the mobile world. Intel this week is launching a month-long campaign on News360, a mobile news aggregation app. The tech company is using the app to promote its new IT Business Report mobile app.

The fact that a B-to-B marketer like Intel—mobile is often depicted as a consumer space—is buying News360's ads underscores how major companies are increasingly giving relatively obscure smartphone apps a shot at their business. In a saturated apps market, News360 needs to prove itself, as brands have countless options to choose from. To that end, the 3-year-old mobile developer, which claims roughly four million users, is now jumping on the buzzy native trend in its pitches to advertisers....

Data from the Pew Research Center shows teens now primarily use their smartphones to access the Internet -- and this could have a big impact on your business.

Teens use smartphones (shocking, right?). What you might find more interesting is that new data from Pew Research Center shows that 78% of U.S. teens now have a mobile phone—and nearly half of them (47%) own a smartphone. As a result, smartphones are now the primary devices that teens use to access the Internet—and this has big implications for your marketing strategy.

The Pew study reports that 50% of teen smartphone owners say they use the Internet through their phones. And 3 in 4 teenagers report they’re “mobile Internet users,” which means they access the Internet on some sort of mobile device including phones and tablets (compared to 55% of adults who classify themselves in the same category)....

Businesses may soon be able to lure customers passing by their stores with precisely-timed, tailor-made discounts sent to their cell phones.

AT&T Senior Vice President Jeff Bradley said his company is working with a well-known restaurant chain on an app that would send a customer a dollar-off coupon for her favorite latte or slice of pizza.

His statement created an audible buzz among the nearly 1,000 people in the big ballroom of the Westin Seattle on Wednesday, and it was just one of the whiz-bang examples he cited to show how technology is dramatically reshaping how goods and services are traded....