Consumers are more likely to click on mobile ads than they are to click on an online ad, Millennial Media CEO Paul Palmieri told CNBC’s “Squawk on the Street” on Thursday.

“The average click-through rate online is about seven-tenths of a percent,” he said . “The average click- through rate on mobile devices is 0.8 to 1 percent.”

But as Palmieri explained, it’s still about having the right ad in the right place.

Zillow’s CEO Spencer Rascoff also noted that a smartphone user is three times more likely to contact one of its premier real estate agent advertisers than a desktop Zillow user because the ads are “a service not a nuisance.”

Currently, the mobile ad space is dominated by Google , Millennial Media and Apple with about 56 percent of the market. With Millennial Media now embedded in over 35,000 different apps, the company has “a lot of visibility into what’s going to work where,” Palmieri said.

“When you show them an ad they like to click on, we can show them more of the same types of ads,” he added.

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