Using feature phones for mobile research - challenges and opportunities - biNu

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Using feature phones for mobile

research:

challenges and opportunities

Mark Shoebridge

biNu

What Happened?

Do feature phones matter?

Use mobile web or mobile app?

What are the design

considerations & challenges?

What about incentives?

Q. How do you reach, understand and engage with consumers in emerging markets today?

A. Easy, through their mobile phones!

But hang on..

Lets talk about “Installed Base”

not new device shipments

mobile-only Internet

users by the end of 2015

Source: Portio Research 2013

80%

of the installed base of mobile phones in emerging markets are non-smartphones

Even by end-2016, less than 2 in 5

handsets worldwide are estimated

to be smartphones

• Voice

• USSD

• SMS

• Mobile Web

• Mobile App

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Survey Approaches

About the Audience

Highly engaged audience of 3 million monthly active users

• Consumers of content designed for mobile

• Mostly in high growth economies

Case Study – United Nations

UN My World

The Need:

• Global survey by UNITED NATIONS to determine Millennium Development Goals for 2015

The Brief

• Get as many people as possible form as many places to vote and share their opinion

(On mobile)

From here

To here….

The Challenge

MY World Survey on biNu

Matches online/paper survey

Minimum 6 Responses

Options displayed randomly

Scripted online by UN.

Full Screen Invites

Delivered in multiple languages

Over 7000 selfies uploaded on feature phones in

2 weeks

Survey Design? • Question Language & Style

• Option display (sets of 4?)

Quality? • Results Matched

Online/Paper

• Data delivered weekly Incentive? • None

• Tested and increased response rate

United Nations achieved 1 million votes

We achieved

• Over 130,000 mobile votes

• 150+ countries • Nigeria

• India

• Bangladesh

• Pakistan

• Nepal

• Indonesia

• Brazil

• biNu was presented a UN Innovation Award

The Results

Case Study – Beverage Diary

India

The brief:

A detailed beverage consumption diary for 12 weeks in

India.

5/7 Completed Diaries per week on mobile

• Recruitment Survey

– 27 Questions!

• Diary 3 Times a Day

– 10 Questions!

Penetration Rates

– Internet 12%

– Smartphone 13%

– Feature phone 80%

– 3G coverage 8% (Up 46%) Sources:

GSMA Intelligence Q4 2013, Gartner 2013

India Beverage Diary

Everyone has got a smart phone…..

• Scripted on biNu

– Piping

– Logic

– Validation

• Incentive

– Daily with Jackpot

– Air time

– SMS

Incentive?

Quality?

Survey Design?

Scammers?

4% Abandon Rate

Results

Incentive Matters!

Over 50% Registrations Completed Diaries

• Mobile Internet – Does not have to be 3G

• End User Experience – Ease of use – Speed – Bandwidth

• Reach out to those tough places…..

Supplementary Slides Follow

Mark Shoebridge

@mshoebri

Mark.Shoebridge@binu-inc.com

• Design For Mobile

• Make it look good

• Question Types

• Language

• Survey Length

• Speed – Data Usage

• Incentives

• Test on the Devices

Tips for Mobile Survey Design

End User Experience

biNu

• Mobile app with super-fast, data-lite access to internet services

• Feature Phones

• Android

• Highly engaged audience of 3 million monthly active users

• Content

• Speed

• Incentive

Android phones

240x320 480x800

Common feature phones

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