Mobile Search Spend Share In UK And Australia Outpaces US

Mobile spend and click share in three of the most mature paid search markets – the U.S., UK and Australia – increased significantly over the past year. The share of paid search spend allocated to mobile paid search spend in the UK and Australia continued to outpace that of the U.S. The new data, released […]

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Mobile spend and click share in three of the most mature paid search markets – the U.S., UK and Australia – increased significantly over the past year. The share of paid search spend allocated to mobile paid search spend in the UK and Australia continued to outpace that of the U.S.

The new data, released today by digital marketing software firm, Kenshoo., shows all three regions saw mobile search share rise by between 8 and 11 percentage points year-over-year in Q2.

Mobile Spend and Click Share US, UK, Australia Q2 2014

Source: Kenshoo

While average phone CPCs are 12 cents lower than tablet in Australia, the average CPC spread between phone and tablet has narrowed in the US and UK. In the US, average phone CPCs are $0.04 cents lower than tablet. In the UK, the phone CPCs are just .02 euros shy of tablets.

Mobile CPCs US UK Australia Q2 2014 KenshooKenshoo surmises, “Higher CPC for mobile [in the US and UK] reflects marketers getting savvier about how to measure mobile and set different goals for campaigns targeting those devices.”

Oddly, in Australia, Kenshoo found that click-through rates on both tablets and phones fell, bucking the overall trend reported by Google in Q2. The gap between mobile clicks and spend also widened in Australia year-over-year, with 35 percent of spend allocated to mobile and 44 percent of clicks generated from mobile ads.


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Ginny Marvin
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Ginny Marvin was Third Door Media’s former Editor-in-Chief (October 2018 to December 2020), running the day-to-day editorial operations across all publications and overseeing paid media coverage. Ginny Marvin wrote about paid digital advertising and analytics news and trends for Search Engine Land, MarTech and MarTech Today. With more than 15 years of marketing experience, Ginny has held both in-house and agency management positions. She can be found on Twitter as @ginnymarvin.

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