Device most commonly used when looking for location information online 
Lots of individual company data that have pointed to this for awhile. For example, Yelp’s previous disclosure that 60% of its search volume comes from mobile.
The new report in which these data are presented is called Mobile Fanatics – How Mobile is Transforming Local Shopping. There are many interesting findings, including that the most engaged mobile users (“mobile fanatics”) conduct at least 10 searches per week on at least two devices from multiple locations.
These highly engaged mobile users — representing 43 percent of the US mobile user population — are more receptive to and more influenced by mobile advertising than conventional mobile users. According to the data, 70% of “Mobile Fanatics” who view mobile ads make a purchase and 80% of them buy within 72 hours of ad exposure.
Has viewing/clicking on a mobile ad ever provided you with information that has prompted a purchase?
So what’s the big picture? Why does this matter? All the same stuff I always say: trillions in product spending and services revenue happen offline and increasing amounts of that are influenced by the internet. Annual retail spending alone is a more than $4 trillion market.
US GDP last year was nearly $18 trillion. Roughly 70% of that is consumer spending. E-commerce is just over $300 billion. The rest is offline/local. That’s the market.
Accordingly, more and more offline spending is going to be influenced by mobile internet access and mobile advertising. This is the “why of local” that most marketers, brands and agencies still don’t fully understand — the online to offline connection.
The study was conducted for the LSA by Thrive Analytics. The survey was fielded earlier this year with a sample size of of 2,147 US adults.
