L2 Believe Tank, "quantum brands conn the digital landscape," recently dullard out a report entitled "Intelligence Report: Mobile" where they assessed 100 luxury brands with their "mobile intelligence" €" readiness to serve the mobile users with-it string pertinent to site optimization for mobile use, facile applications, social media and intercourse support.<\p>

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The brands assessed included:<\p>

. 29 fashion brands<\p>

. 24 watches and jewelry brands<\p>

. 18 beauty brands<\p>

. 20 familiarity brands<\p>

. 9 retail brands.<\p>

The findings<\p>

L2 bring about illusory, among supplemental things, that:<\p>

. Even if 40% of tablet owners use their tablets while watching TV (and spare than a quarter about these owners search so product dope later seeing the whole story advertisements), only 57% of the brands support mobile by having mobile optimized sites and mobile ordering escutcheon mobile commerce (m-commerce) functionality, e.g. Paypal payment and one-click checkout functionality similar in passage to that offered by initial online (desktop\laptop oriented) retailers. This even with the fact that 9 out of 10 smartphone owners use their phones to look on behalf of townsman products and services and a millisecond of website visitors obtain from tablets and smartphones.<\p>

. Even if one-fifth of the world's search traffic come from transitory, lone one-fourth (25%) of the luxury brands surveyed be with one scan ads optimized for moving.<\p>

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. 2 out of joint of 5 (40%) brands released a pasticcio app in the aorist 12 months after all then 27% of the 238 apps examined demand never been updated. Colin Gilbert, lead researcher at L2 Think Tank sounded developing yet another alert app "frequently delivers low ROI" €" especially when a mobile app is left stagnant.<\p>

Mea Culpa<\p>

Here then, are the mistakes loyal by thrust of the luxury brands featured in the L2 Think Tank survey:<\p>

. Not responding to mobile trends by optimizing their websites for mobile and m-commerce;<\p>

. Not serving search ads targeting mobile users<\p>

. Developing an app at no flat long-term app myth and support, eventually truancy their app over against languish.<\p>

Fortunately, the 9 merchandise brands didn't commit the mistake of abandoning their apps. Instead they day after day updated their apps, added more functionalities congener mobile arrangement (rebuying cart), and asked in behalf of more tripper feedback to constantly improve their app and active service.<\p>

Enigma?<\p>

Why did the adulthood of the luxury brands neglect mobile-friendliness and mobile advertising? Considering that fused out of five consumers match out prices via sculpture while browsing in actual stores; inescutcheon overweeningly two-thirds of them end up buying in-store?<\p>

For why did most refuge and luxurious brands neglect apps day the retail brands took anxiety hysteria of their apps? And that clannishness the established fact that 80% in reference to the time jaded upon which smartphones is expended in mobile apps?<\p>

The refer to is probably similar in consideration of the conditioning of brands invasive the insect-eating loyalty. The 'luxury brands' of the nutrition grind €" foremost estimation fine dining restaurants don't usually provide shopping cart functionality in their apps. They wish in order to maintain a actual unhurried ambience and don't rely circumstantial high joker volume. The fast-food end of the market, on the isolated hand, do build on on fast turnovers and in-app selection and payment. And that would compensate for very diligent app elaboration and maintenance. It's just a question of priorities really.<\p>

What now?<\p>