Today at the New York Mobile Marketing Forum, JumpTap - the leading mobile search and advertising solutions provider - announced results from a new study commissioned from Research and Analysis of Media (RAM), on the effectiveness of mobile advertising.

The research conclusively revealed the increased effectiveness of mobile advertising with regards to brand recognition, recall and purchase rates. The findings are especially valuable to advertisers looking for confirmation that mobile devices are becoming the dominant marketer-consumer touch point. JumpTap is offering new customers this unique service for ongoing brand research insight when they sign up for mobile advertising campaigns.

RAM conducted its research with a sample group of 300 Swedish Telia SurfPort users to measure advertiser recall, purchase intent and ad quality on mobile. Respondents were shown ads from EMI, Eurobate, Plutolife (Mobilove) and Discovery Channel Sweden. Although approximately one third of respondents had no familiarity with the advertisers beforehand, the campaigns yielded compelling results:

• JumpTap ads had on average a 20% greater recall rate than other compared ads
• Users are much morelikely to seek further information after seeing a JumpTap advertisement, with between 10% of 16-24 year-olds and 28% of 45-79 year-olds stating they would seek out information. This compared to 0% of the 16-24 age group and only 13% of the 45-79 age group who would look for more information after seeing other advertisements.
• Users are more likely to purchase from JumpTap ads than from others—especially women, who were twice as likely (at 15%) to make a purchase. Again, the impact on the 16-24 age groups was significant with 9% responding that they would likely make a purchase versus 0% others.

“RAM’s research supports the effect mobile ads can have on consumers due to the personal and interactive relationship they have with their mobile devices,” said Paran Johar, CMO of JumpTap. “With mobile advertising slated to reach $2.7B in 20081 and $19B by 20122, now is the opportune time for advertisers to integrate mobile in their media buying mix.”

Delivering and representing mobile ad inventory on the world’s leading operator portals and publisher sites, including NBC Universal and Fox Mobile Entertainment, JumpTap provides advertisers with a host of services to meet marketing objectives and to make mobile advertising easy to implement. The company aims to give advertisers the most powerful tools to advertise on mobile, from offering a wide range of ad formats for “one-stop shop” mobile media buys to market-leading technology for targeted ad delivery. With ongoing access to RAM’s breakthrough global media research, JumpTap is helping advertisers and brands to gain the deepest understanding of their mobile campaigns and to optimize them for greatest return. As preliminary research with JumpTap advertisers demonstrates, the results will provide valuable advertising insight and proof that mobile has the power to be more impactful and effective than online ads.

To learn more about RAM research or for more information about JumpTap’s advertising and search solutions, please contact info@jumptap.com.

About JumpTap

Reaching over 140 million mobile subscribers through partnerships with 16 mobile operators and numerous content publishers, JumpTap's powerful search and advertising solutions benefit the whole mobile Internet ecosystem: JumpTap enables carriers to maintain a strong, sustainable position in the mobile marketing value chain, drives traffic and revenue opportunities to content publishers, and gives advertisers access to targeted customers. Recently awarded the best advertising and marketing search engine award by Visiongain and selected by IDC as one of the 10 emerging mobile players to watch in 2007, JumpTap has developed the most comprehensive search and advertising solutions in the market. For more information, please visit www.jumptap.com.

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