Netflix remains by far the most popular TV and film streaming platform, but Hulu and Amazon Prime Video are slowly stealing its dominant share of the market. According to research from eMarketer, Netflix has 158.8m viewers in the US and is expected to grow 7.6 per cent this year over 2018, despite missing subscriber growth […]
Pinterest saw its share price soar last night after posting better than expected results in its second quarterly earnings report. Revenues for Q2 2019 were up 62 per cent at $261.2m (£215.3m), while monthly user numbers were up 30 per cent year-on-year, passing the 300m mark. There are currently more than 200bn Pins saved on the […]
Alibaba is the largest digital ad seller in China with its advertising revenues set to account for more than 32% of the market this year, according to eMarketer. Digital ad spend in China is predicted to grow 22% in 2019 to reach $79.82bn, and will account for 69.5% of paid media advertising this year. Alibaba’s net […]
Data privacy battles are heating up now that a group of US senators have asked regulators to investigate how telecom firms sell people’s location data. Earlier this month, Vice’s Motherboard reported that bounty hunters could pinpoint a person’s cellphone after obtaining location data from data resellers. The report led 15 US senators to call for an investigation into […]
Weibo usage will grow to 340.1 million people in China this year, accounting for 24.6% of China’s population, according to eMarketer. The social networking app, which is referred to as China’s Twitter, will grow by more than 17% in 2018. This growth will continue over the next couple of years with Weibo users expected to […]
In 2018, mobile will surpass TV ad spending by more than $6 billion, according to our latest ad spending forecast by eMarketer. By 2020, the channel will represent 43% of total media ad spending in the US—a greater percentage than all traditional media combined. “Even the strongholds of TV, such as live sports and news, are […]
In US, more than four of every five digital display ad dollars transact via programmatic means according to eMarketer. The eMarketer forecast ‘US Programmatic Ad Spending Forecast Update: Video Powers Significant Growth Through 2020‘ expects that US digital display ad dollars (86.3%) will transact programmatically by 2020 which is 82.5% this year. Other statistics predicted by the report […]
Snapchat will have a larger user base among UK adults ages 18 to 24 than Facebook in 2018, according to new research. The data, from eMarketer’s latest forecast on social network usage, indicates that the number of Snapchat users in the UK will reach 16.2 million this year, of which 5.0 million (or nearly 31%) […]
The UK is the largest market for digital ad spending in Europe, with more than double the amount of spending in digital channels than Germany, the next biggest market. And increasingly, digital ad spending is moving to mobile. eMarketer forecast that overall digital ad spending for 2018 will account for 63.6% of total media ad […]
Connected TV households now make up nearly three-quarters of all US households, but those penetration levels don’t necessarily add up to a huge advertising market—yet. In a new forecast package, eMarketer estimates there will be 182.6 million connected TV users in the US this year, up 8.1% from 2017. That works out to roughly 55% […]