Brands such as BMW, Lancome, American Express and L’Oreal have incorporated iAd banner advertisements into their mobile strategy, but this could mean that they are missing consumers without Apple mobile devices.IAds, made exclusively for iPod, iPad and iPhone users, appear alongside mobile-optimized sites and applications. But as the gap is closing between affluent consumers with Android and BlackBerry phones and tablets, luxury marketers could be forgetting a huge section of consumers.
“Apple is a powerful force in the mobile space, but still only accounts for under 30 percent of the U.S. smartphone market,” said Wilson Kerr, a Brookline, MA-based location-based services consultant at Location Based Strategy.