In this recent chart released by Barclay’s, Mobile is not even a pimple compared to the spend in the other media channels.  This makes the case even stronger that if you are looking at a mobile strategy, it is not how much you spend for mobile, but rather how you integrate it into the other areas of spend.   As a mobile device is with you all the time, it is a good medium to link those other media strategies directly to a CRM that entails mobile.

I have been evangelizing the concept of multi-screen marketing or “SCREENING”.   Convergence media strategies is the right way to go for any media planner or buyer that is moving media dollars to the traditional areas to make sure mobile is part of the mix to build that conversion tracking and user engagement strategy along the way.

It seems like it has been quiet since we heard that Facebook hit the 400M Mark in beginning of 2010. Well, they now are about to hit another amazing milestone… 700M! The Trajectory does not appear to be slowing down and they keep getting larger and larger. I followed the Trajectory, and it looks like the 1Billion mark will come around Q4, 2012. How will they keep this momentum going and get there?

Well, there is not a lack of news about the Middle East these days. China is a challenge as they grow their own competitors to Facebook….. so my gut tells me that the “Arab Spring movement” should be an important convergence that will be a continued asset for Facebook. How about South East Asia or the Africa region. This will require more and more strategies around mobile and possibly some acquisition targets for Facebook to keep getting users.

In any event, this is a big day for the Facebook team. A big congrats at getting to this next level.

We have entered 2011 and I have to say the first decade did fly by rather quickly for us in the mobile industry.   I am a big fan of JWT and their things to watch deck.  I thought I would share it and highlight the top 10 in my mind for those realigning and creating a  mobile strategy this year.

About 3 months ago we were all saying the Smartphone market size was about 20~25%.  Now in a recent release by Nielsen, they show the US Smartphone market approaching 30% ( 1/3rd the market).  We are looking like we are on track to hit the 50%  by the end of 2011….. Big changes in 2011 for smartphones and mobile with the Media Tsunami now here! Lets all hope the Carriers get the new LTE roll-out right and on-schedule.

Yesterday, ComScore released its latest stats of the US mobile device market.  Surprisingly, Smart Phones are still a small percentage of the overall devices at 19.4%, with the growth of both RIM and Apple  pretty constant, but there was an explosion in growth of Android devices.  Even though Android is still only 1.7% of the overall market, the 57% change was incredible.   I took the results and put it in a tabular form based on what they reported.