Marketers follow UK social networker’s migration to mobile

The proportion of UK social network users who will access their accounts via mobile phone will continue to increase substantially throughout eMarketer’s forecast period, rising from 75.3% in 2014 to 90.2% in 2018.

The new eMarketer report, ‘UK Social Networking Trends: Mobile Is Becoming the New Normal’ highlights the importance of mobile for to markers.

Social media is an important consideration for marketers in the UK. It has to be, given the sheer size of the audience. But the marketing effectiveness of these networks hasn’t always been rated highly by those in the business. However, as UK consumers move their social networking behaviors to mobile, some marketers are beginning to move their efforts along with them.

Real-time social engagement, mainly enabled by access via mobile devices, is top of mind for many UK marketers.

In terms of hard figures, mobile ad revenues are becoming increasingly important to social networks. Facebook’s recent earnings call illustrated this quite starkly: In Q1 2014, the company saw a 72% year-over-year rise in total global revenues, driven by mobile, which accounted for 59% of ad revenues during the same period—up from 30% a year prior, the company said.