This document summarizes data from various sources about mobile trends in October 2017. It reports that interactive video ads drive purchase intent 9 times higher than normal ads. Mobile ad fraud is twice as high on Android than iOS. Over half of people watch video on social media each month, and WhatsApp usage in Germany is 55% daily. In-app ads have higher click-through rates than mobile web ads. The top downloaded apps globally are Messenger, Facebook, and WhatsApp. Hilton gets 20% of bookings through their mobile app. Instagram usage time for users over 25 increased from 7 to 24 minutes daily from 2014 to 2017. Organic search traffic dropped 55-25% for e-commerce as search ads
2. Source: Tremor, October 2017 MOBILE SIGNALS | OCTOBER 2017
Interactive video ads
drive a
9X
higher impact on the
purchase intent.
3. Source: Forbes, September 2017 MOBILE SIGNALS | OCTOBER 2017
Mobile ad fraud is
TWICE
as high on Android
devices as it is on iOS.
4. Source: Global Web Index, October 2017 MOBILE SIGNALS | OCTOBER 2017
Over
1 IN 2
watch video on social
media each month.
38%
51%
56%
2015 2016 2017
5. Source: ARD/ZDF Onlinestudie 2017, October 2017 MOBILE SIGNALS | OCTOBER 2017
In Germany, the daily
usage rate of
Whatsapp is
55%.
6. Source: ExChange Wire, September 2017 MOBILE SIGNALS | OCTOBER 2017
In-app ads see
higher click-through
rates (CTR) than
mobile web.
0.56% 0.23%
APP
8. Source: Digiday, September 2017 MOBILE SIGNALS | OCTOBER 2017
The hotel chain
Hilton gets
20%
of their bookings
through its mobile app.
YOUR KEY
9. Source: Futurebiz.de, September 2017 MOBILE SIGNALS | OCTOBER 2017
24MIN.
The daily dwell time from users >
25 years on Instagram is an average
2014 2017
7.3MIN 24MIN
10. Source: Wayfair, October 2017 MOBILE SIGNALS | OCTOBER 2017
Over the last two years, on Google Search the total
share of organic clicks dropped within the E-
Commerce sector. Reasons: Adwords & Shopping ads.
-55%-25% ORGANIC
CTR SINCE 2015
11. Source: Horizont, September 2017 MOBILE SIGNALS | OCTOBER 2017
Twitter is testing the
doubeling of tweet
length: from 140 to
characters.
280
12. Source: Digiday, October 2017 MOBILE SIGNALS | OCTOBER 2017
of traffic on the website
of luxury brand Diane
von Furstenberg is
mobile.
50%
13. Source: DAN Mobile Stack, October 2017 MOBILE SIGNALS | OCTOBER 2017
MORNING
1
Top app categories in Germany throughout the day
- COUNTRY: GERMANY, AGE: 25-34 YEARS -
AFTERNOON EVENING NIGHT
2
3
WEATHER
SPORTS
PRODUCTIVITY
WEATHER
FAMILY &
PARENTING
PRODUCTIVITY
WEATHER
FAMILY &
PARENTING
SPORTS
WEATHER
FAMILY &
PARENTING
FAMILY &
PARENTING
14. Source: App Annie, October 2017 MOBILE SIGNALS | OCTOBER 2017
The top shopping apps
saw more than
growth in total user
sessions in the first half of
2017 from a year earlier.
60%