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Advertisers who use Google AdWords are now able to tweak
their ads for mobile devices such as the iPhone 3G, and T-Mobile’s G1. Google
announced Monday it would enable AdWords would now let its users display text
or image ads on mobile phones with full HTML browsers.
The company already runs an ad service specifically for
mobiles, but this feature spares advertisers from creating ads in mobile
formats. The ads can also point to desktop landing pages, so users needn’t
create their own.
"Now, advertisers will be able to display ads
exclusively on these mobile devices, create campaigns for them, and get
separate performance reporting," announced Google in a post on its mobile
blog. "If you prefer not to show your desktop ads on these phones, you
can opt out and show ads only on desktop and laptop computers."
Targeting ads for mobile devices will be accomplished by
AdWords users logging into their accounts and clicking the ‘campaign settings’
tab. Afterwards, in the ‘Device Platform’ option, the user will select the
option for ‘iPhone and other mobile devices with full internet browsers.’
Despite Google’s existing mobile platform, the company has
singled out the iPhone when describing the new service, mostly because of
Safari, the iPhone’s mobile browser, which is considered one of the best mobile
internet experiences, with its users surfing the web more than other customers.
Google CEO Eric Schmidt was interviewed earlier this year,
and in that interview he called the iPhone the first mobile device with a good
web browser, one in a longer line to follow. He went on to say that advertising
would evolve over a few years to become more personal, and that mobile
advertising would generate more revenue than normal web ads.
Of course, over the short term, the economic “situation”
will slow down mobile advertising, due to it being still unproven. The overall
market, however, will shoot up with the increasing number of users browsing the
web from all sorts of mobile devices. Revenue is expected to grow from $1.4
billion in 2007 to $10 billion by 2013.
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