Sleeper location-based service Shopkick is quietly amassing some impressive numbers.
Shopkick is different that other location based services for a few reasons
Its raison d’être isn’t to be social, it’s to help shoppers get greater rewards for loyalty behavior, not to mention rewards that can be shared across multiple retailers.
But it also gives retailers a box that counts a check in only when someone is actually walking into the store, not checking in from the taco truck across the street.
The case for what consumers get out of it is pretty clear, and the case for what stores get out of it is pretty clear.
But the case for brands is less clear, and that’s one reason Shopkick is spending a lot of time on it.
“It’s not just focused on food and grocery, it’s focused on the consumer’s entire life
It’s more integrated into everything the consumer is doing.”
Brands and retailers pay Shopkick a fee when Kickbucks are offered and can chose to offer more Kickbucks to juice certain behaviors.
It’s not too different from companies allocating part of their ad budgets to a promotion over Groupon– it’s more targeted, with a clear call-to-action and far more measurable than other forms of advertising.
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Canadian market research firm IE Market Research Corporation (IEMR) forecasts that global GPS/LBS devices shipments will rise from 526.3 million in 2011 to 946.7 million in 2015 for a CAGR of 15.8%.”
GPS/LBS Devices Shipments to Rise 15.8% per Year until 2015
“The key driver behind GPS Navigation adoption will be smartphones-- we forecast that global shipments of smartphones with GPS/LBS capability will increase from 297.7 million in 2011 to 604.9 million in 2015. This is the biggest growth among all the categories of GPS/LBS devices,” said Nizar Assanie, Vice President Research at IEMR.
ABI Research published last week a new report which forecasts that the location-aware advertising market will reach $1.8 billion in 2015 in the United States. In comparison, the total mobile advertising market will be $5 billion, showing that a sizeable part of the mobile advertising market will use a geo-location component.
ABI Research recognizes that today “It’s still early days and there’s no single ‘right’ approach to location-based advertising,” says practice director Neil Strother. “This remains a very fragmented market that is full of experimentation.”
The table below lists the attributes of specific location based services as determined by the GSM Alliance Services Working Group. It is possible for the network operator or service provider to define additional, non-standardised service types.
Location based services categories
Standardized Service Types
Public Safety Services
Emergency ServicesEmergency Alert Services
Location Sensitive Charging
Tracking Services
Person TrackingFleet ManagementAsset Management
Traffic Monitoring
Traffic Congestion Reporting
Enhanced Call Routing
Roadside AssistanceRouting to Nearest Commercial Enterprise
Location Based Information Service
NavigationCity SightseeingLocalized AdvertisingMobile Yellow Pages
Service Provider Specific Services
Why Location-Based Services Will be the Killer App of the 2012 Elections
Obviously, 2012 will be a different landscape for several reasons, but the biggest is the ascendance of mobile and, in particular, location-based services.
Up until now, such services have been a curiosity driven by early adopters who have no issues about broadcasting their whereabouts to the whole world. In a nation of 310 million people, this is still a niche market.
The biggest of the services, Foursquare, has about 8 million users, which is respectable but not mass.
The infrastructure is already in place for such a plan. Thanks to a nonpartisan, get-out-the-vote effort in 2010, Foursquare made it possible to check in at any of the country’s polling places and then broadcast it. Of course, Foursquare’s not the only game in town; Facebook Places lets you check in at the polls and tell all your Facebook friends about it.
confirms 208 operators are now investing in LTE, which is 9
LTE is the fastest developing mobile system technology ever. GSA has again raised its market outlook and now anticipates that at least 81 LTE networks will be in commercial service by end 2012
A further 54 operators in 20 more countries are engaged in LTE technology pilot trials or tests
LTE networks are launched in 14 countries: Austria, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Hong Kong, Japan, Lithuania, Norway, Philippines, Poland, Sweden, USA, and Uzbekistan.