Welcome to TUNE’s inaugural Mobile Minute! In this episode: mobile ad-blocking is growing fast. How fast? Hit the play button to find out.
What is TUNE’s Mobile Minute?
Well, it’s no secret that video is exploding on mobile and social. We’re now watching 100 million hours of video daily on Facebook and eight billion videos daily on Snapchat. That doesn’t even take into account YouTube, which — although being challenged for video leadership — still dwarfs both of them in hours of engagement. (This sounds like a subject for a future Mobile Minute.)
So we’re doing regular video updates for marketing professionals who care about mobile. We’ll highlight recent research, share insights from the 2.2 billion devices TUNE’s technology touches, interview smart industry leaders. In doing so, we have one single goal: make you smarter, faster, about everything mobile.
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Enjoy, and please give us feedback below in the comments, or on those social networks. We’re just starting out, so we’re probably doing lots right now that we’ll look back at in four months and laugh at. You can help make us smarter, quicker, too. (Oh, and if you have a content suggestion or question, add it to the comments as well, or ping me on Twitter.)
Next TUNE Mobile Minute: why the growth of ad blocking app downloads doesn’t matter as much as we might think.
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Author
Before acting as a mobile economist for TUNE, John built the VB Insight research team at VentureBeat and managed teams creating software for partners like Intel and Disney. In addition, he led technical teams, built social sites and mobile apps, and consulted on mobile, social, and IoT. In 2014, he was named to Folio's top 100 of the media industry's "most innovative entrepreneurs and market shaker-uppers." John lives in British Columbia, Canada with his family, where he coaches baseball and hockey, though not at the same time.
What a great idea! Bringing marketers the hottest, most relevant content weekly… in one minute. Nice job John, looking forward to those to come!
Thanks! Me too 🙂
Love the quick and easy format – nice to be able to catch up on highlights when you don’t have the time to read a full blog post.
Thanks! ‘Preciate it 🙂
The 1-minute highlight reel idea is very cool! I don’t have time to watch long videos, but short and sweet top-line info like this is great! It’s like when you know the Canucks are going to get blown out and you don’t watch the game… just watch the highlights on youtube afterwards 😀
Glad to hear it. Thanks … I’ll work on a highlights version, perhaps 🙂
Interesting. I haven’t even thought about downloading an ad blocking app, but I definitely hate mobile ads. But to be fair, I’m not much for ads in general, so there is some bias there.
Thanks. I think you’re not alone in those sentiments. There’s a long way to go to improve user experience, but I think Facebook’s Instant Articles and Google’s Accelerated Mobile Pages will help.
I think people are just realizing that ads can be blocked on mobile devices too. Let’s not forget that Chrome’s AdBlock plus made Internet bearable for many users. Ads on mobile seems like even more of an invasion to users’ personal space.
I get that, because smartphones are our most personal of computing devices. But I guess someone’s gotta pay the server bill 🙂
Very interesting! I wonder what the consequences of the widespread use of ad-block will look like, like how companies will adapt around it. I’m curious of what you have to say in the next episode of why the rise in ad-block usage isn’t as serious as it seems.
The consequences would be a lot less content and a lot fewer free services, I guess.
Nice work John! I had never heard of ad blocking technology.
Advertisers are very happy about that fact, Ian 🙂
Awesome article, as always!
Thanks, Melissa!
I really like the 1-minute summary video. I’m a busy guy, so this was really useful! Thanks Tune!
OK, now go get your 10 millionth user, Albert 🙂
I love this – so much is happening in marketing – would love to have quick weekly pops of what’s hot or not!
Thanks!
The scariest 1 minute I’ll see today! Looks like Native ads and other integrated formats will experience a boon in the coming years.
Agree!
Nice job JK. And great idea with the video series. Like nature, marketers will always find a way 🙂
Thanks, Colin!
That stat isn’t frightening, it’s encouraging. It means advertisers will have to start respecting their audience or change revenue models, or die. I’m fine with that too.
Couldn’t agree more, from a reader’s/user’s perspective, Carl. Some advertisers are freaking out.
Great post – love the fact I can get important info in just one minute. Super idea! Will share.
Thanks, Wendy 🙂
Buy me a beer in 4 month’s time and I’ll be happy to laugh at you 🙂 Good concept. Good execution. All the best, John
Why in 4 months?
It’s in response to: We’re just starting out, so we’re probably doing lots right now that we’ll look back at in four months and laugh at. You can help make us smarter, quicker, too
Ahhh, now I understand 🙂
I actually don’t mind having small banner ads on my mobile device, but I find those annoying video ads very invasive. Having the option to block such ads on my mobile device sounds fantastic.
Hah 🙂 you mean the full-screen can’t-avoid-them ones?
Exactly 😀
Gotcha
Great format reminds me of our SB Social Media Minute 😉 this is how all content should be smart and easily digestible
Your SocialBakers Social Media Minute was exactly the inspiration for this, which Jan noticed immediately, and liked 🙂
Great video John! Love the short and to the point nature of it. I actually wasn’t aware there was an ad blocking technology – I am not a huge ad person so definitely something I will look into!
Hah, that was not my intent. Desktop adblocking is pretty effective, but mobile is not very (unless you get into the unsafe variants)
Great idea – keep it coming. Awesome John!!
Thanks, Aaron 🙂 much appreciated
This is spot on for that would fit in within the vanishing hours of the day where one can’t have enough time to consume knowledge.
Keep it up, looking forward
🙂 thanks!
Great idea John! I look forward to keeping my team at InstaBrand up to date on everything mobile! #MobileMinute (let’s get it trending people)
🙂 thanks!
Swift but not rushed… have you seen Ian Breemer’s 1 minute weekly coverage of the state of the world? Same idea but re foreign affairs. Thanks !
Paul
Cool!
Great bio John! I’ll start following you here as well and suggest it to Katherine Frangos 🙂 Although a marketer….admittedly, I block ads…not on my mobile by the way. When relevant, I engage…
Great summary, well explained. As much as I consider it rather selfish to enjoy content without an appreciation for the manner in which people make a living, there certainly is a strong case for Ad Blockers at a point where ads are so out of control, and self-regulation is so useless (“Your Ad Choices”!?) that few better alternatives remain to actually being able to access the content itself.
We have already seen a shift in budgets from advertisers into the influencer marketing space, due to the increase of mobile ad blockers.
Very interesting! I can see that too …
I love the one minute video that will deliver your audience real content. Get this stuff on FB, Instagram (60 sec clips), SnapChat is becoming huge. I watch a number of people on a daily basis that are putting out pure gold. To be honest i am hoping that the ads dont start taking over my entire feed. I personally have not used any blockers./
These times, they are a changing
Great format – quickly delivering the most pertinent pieces of info week to week is a very effective format.
Everyone has a minute to spare, brilliant execution!
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