Mobile Social Media Up Nearly Fifty Percent in Past Year

Mobile social networking, or mocial, is when you use your phone to access Twitter, Facebook, Foursquare or any other social networking site. People have been doing it for a couple of years, but now that smartphones and social media apps are so prevalent, it’s become one of the most popular categories in mobile usage.

The chart comes from a webinar delivered by comScore titled ‘The State of the U.S. Mobile Advertising Industry and What Lies Ahead” The bars show usage comparisons between March 2010 and March 2011. At a quick glance, you can see that every category showed growth, with social networking and map usage on mobile up nearly 50%. Weather and news of all kinds grew in the 30% – 40% range. Even IMing got a double digit boost.

Location-based services also showed double digit increases with maps, restaurants, and again, weather coming out as the big winners. As a Southern California dweller, that weather number is odd to me, but I suppose if you live in a state that has actual weather, it would matter.

So what’s in your marketing future? Say it with me now, the holy trinity, Mobile, Social, Local. We need a word for that. How do you feel about “Mocialoco?” I think it could catch on.

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