One of the primary drivers of app use is communication, but US smartphone users are less likely than their counterparts in Europe to use apps for that purpose, according to recent data from Ipsos MORI and Google. A May 2017 survey of smartphone users in the US and five countries in Europe found that respondents in the Netherlands […]
Advertising is the lifeblood of the internet. Google parent company Alphabet makes more money from digital ads than any company on the planet — it’s expected to make $73.8 billion dollars in net digital ad sales in 2017 after subtracting for traffic acquisition costs, according to internet research firm eMarketer. Google represents 33 percent of the […]
Despite the negative press around programmatic advertising following the YouTube ad controversy, programmatic isn’t going anywhere. In its latest forecast, eMarketer estimates nearly four of every five US digital display dollars will transact programmatically in 2017, totaling $32.56 billion. By the end of the forecast period, that share will rise to 84.0%, leaving little doubt […]
Offering its first estimate of the size of the native advertising market, eMarketer said spending on native digital display ads will make up more than half of all digital display ad spending in the US in 2017. The new forecast estimates that US native digital display ad spend will grow 36.2% this year to reach […]
Six in 10 US mobile marketers will increase their mobile app budget this year and 69% will spend more on mobile websites. However, apps will still be a bigger business focus overall, according to February 2017 data from Adobe. Nearly four in 10 marketers said they will keep their mobile app budget the same, while […]
Mobile ad spend in India is set to grow 85 per cent year-on-year, according to eMarketer forecasts – but it remains far outweighed by more traditional ad channels. Mobile is predicted to hit $460.1m (£375m) in 2017, 5.8 per cent of the country’s total ad spend and 38 per cent of digital overall, set to pull […]
E-commerce site Alibaba took 40.3 percent of all money brands spent on mobile advertising in China in 2016, equivalent to $11 billion, according to new figures. Search engine Baidu received almost 20 percent of mobile ad spend last year ($5.5 billion), while social network Tencent got 11.6 percent ($3.2 billion), according to online reports from […]
Have banner ads outlived their usefulness? Research has shown that mobile users skip over all types of display ads, banner ads included, without thinking very hard about them. Unfortunately for digital advertisers in Asia-Pacific, banner ads account for the vast majority of mobile ads served to users, according to mobile analytics company Vpon. The firm […]
Alibaba Group Holding, the world’s largest e-commerce services provider, is poised to extend its lead in China’s fast-growing mobile advertising market with forecast revenue of US$14.6 billion this year, as total spending on digital campaigns in the mainland hits a new record high. Digital advertising expenditure in the mainland is predicted to rise 27 per […]
Native advertising has been a broad and somewhat murky category—encompassing everything from advertorials to bespoke, custom units to content recommendation widgets and rewarded video ads that typically run inside mobile games—but 2017 will be the year that some clarity emerges, with the broad classification breaking down into two distinct types: programmatic and non-programmatic. “A number […]