She said: ” We’re also seeing Click-to-Call taking off with more than half a million advertisers using these features.”. Isn’t incredible that over 500,000 companies are advertising directly to a mobile device through Google’s Click-to-Call option. The app does not have a PC equivalent, so this could be an area to explore to increase your company’s exposure to search engines and potential customers.

Some advertisers are creating separate ads for the Click-to-Call program. It seems to be effective. Google’s third quarter of 2010 earnings hinted at a ”billion dollar run-rate” in mobile. Additionally, Product Senior V.P. Jonathan Rosenberg said, on the 4th quarter of 2010 earnings sheet that, ”Click-to-Call ads are generating millions of calls every month”.

With millions of calls generated through the app every month, it seems that creating an ad targeted directly for it would only make sense. Depending on the ROI, Google may have hit another home run.

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A recently released study done by BabyCenter of over 5,000 moms has revealed the following interesting data:

59% of the mom-respondents had a smart phone of one sort or other, which is impressive when you consider that smart phone penetration among the rest of the US population is just above 30%.

Additionally, moms’ acceptance of smart phones has grown dramatically over the past 2 years. Just over half of these moms said that they bought a smart phone after having a child, with their mobile behavior being markedly different from prior to starting a family.

The most utilized smart phone features for moms, from highest to lowest, are: the built-in still camera, the video camera, and applications, with just over half of the moms saying that they had over 10 apps downloaded, with nearly a quarter of those related in some way to their children.

Moms use smart phones the most in the following cases:

Health: One-third of moms have used their smart phone for family related health issues in the past 30 days.

Social networking: moms are 40% more likely than average to use smart phones for various social networking activities, such as browsing news feeds, updating statuses, and finding answers to questions.

Shopping: 68% of moms use their smart phone while shopping to check product reviews and prices.

Compared to other gadgets and media, smart phone-toting moms use their phones twice as often as the TV and about 1.5 times more than a PC.

Almost half of respondents indicated they responded proactively to ads on their phones, with almost a third of them buying the featured items later on.

Everybody else uses their phones heavily during evenings and weekends, but moms are heavy morning and early afternoons users.

While the focus of most mobile marketing has been on teenagers and young males, moms are now an emerging dominant force in this area of the market.

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