The rise in consumer adoption of smartphones in Asia Pacific presents numerous opportunities for marketers to create impactful mobile campaigns that resonate with their audiences. Kantar Millward Brown partnered with the Mobile Marketing Association (MMA) on the 2016 Smarties™ Awards to examine the drivers that make for truly compelling, powerful and award-winning work in the region.

The MMA encourages all of our members to become familiar with these guidelines, as the changes included will promote improved digital advertising measurement and better align all digital impressions with the viewability standard. The revised guidelines will shift both mobile in-app and mobile web from a “count-on-download” to a “count-on-begin-to-render” ad impression measurement standard.

Today over 85% of the urban Indian population owns a mobile phone, While smartphones get most of the attention, 56% of this user base actually users feature phones. There are many ‘myths’ associated with & feature phone consumers. The most common among these being

Mobile has had an outsize influence on the way consumers interact with each other and with brands, make decisions, transact and shop. This has significantly impacted the way companies and brands connect with their consumers and do business, and marketers need to keep a continuous pulse on the way consumers interact with and use their mobile phones. The Smartphone Usage and Behaviour report provides an unbiased and insightful view on the evolution of mobile usage In India.