Why some of us like location data and some of us find it creepy
White Horse have published a report called Lost in Geolocation, why consumers haven’t bought it and how marketers can fix it. Warning it took am an age to download it, but worth a read and there are some great graphics in it.
Executive Summary
Our research generated four key findings:
Location-based services have not yet reached the tipping point.
The chief barriers today are a lack of clear benefit and privacy fears.
Users are mostly young, active contributors to social networks.
Marketers will need to create and test new geolocation experiences that
are not generic but relevant to a particular brand and audience.