Amid growing industry speculation about cuts to digital advertising budgets, Zenith has found no evidence that advertisers as a whole are shifting budgets away from online advertising – in fact, its share of global advertising expenditure continues to rise rapidly. Zenith forecasts that advertisers will spend 40.2% of their budgets on online advertising this year, […]
Latest figures by the Department of Statistics Malaysia indicate the digital economy has contributed 18.2% to the Malaysia’s GDP, amounting as much as RM290.9b in 2016. Since then, eCommerce has continued to grow at a rapid rate as both government and private sectors continued to heavily invest into the digital industry. To keep track of […]
Bolstered by the growing demand for digital video content from millennials, digital ad spending is set to overtake TV ad spending in Japan in 2020, according to eMarketer. The report further states that TV will account for a 32.4% share, which is $13.4bn, while digital will account for 29.8%. By the end of 2020, eMarketer […]
Research undertaken by Verve, a location based mobile marketing platform, finds that consumers are twice as likely to interact with mobile ads informed by location insights than with generic ads. The findings also reveal that a mobile ad related to consumers’ hobbies and interests drives more than twice as much engagement than with a generic […]
Brits aren’t against the idea of letting a brand they like sponsor them, with 42 percent claiming the would let a desired brand put their logo and the words ‘sponsored by’ in the bottom corner of their profile photo across social media. The findings come from a YouGov survey of over 2,000 Brits, commissioned by […]
Although 53% of people in the UK are doing some or all their grocery shopping online, there’s a massive gap between what consumers want, and what retailers are offering, according to new research. The online grocery survey from RichRelevance looks at consumer’s attitudes towards buying groceries online. The research, which includes responses from over 2,000 […]
The battle between e-commerce companies Amazon and Flipkart in India continues to intensify as Amazon is now closing the gap on Flipkart, according to Forrester. Flipkart raised $2.5 billion from Softbank in 2017, bringing its total funding to $6bn to date and competing with Amazon, which committed $5bn to India for market share. After surpassing […]
The IAB UK today released a study that looked at the best ways to advertise to people on smartphones and revealed that fit for purpose ads – those optimised for smartphones – can shift brand metrics and can increase positive perceptions such as the brand being viewed as more premium and more trusted. “As digital […]
Even though it seems everyone is talking about voice-assisted devices and smartwatches, the majority of consumers don’t own these new devices, and even fewer use them to complete purchases, according to a recently released study by Episerver. For its annual “Reimagining Commerce: Global Findings” report, Episerver surveyed 4,000 online shoppers in four global markets and […]
The online advertising industry in Australia recorded a seven percent increase in revenue in 2017, with total revenue reaching $7.9 billion. Search and directories took top position for all categories, recording a five percent growth to reach $3.6 bn, which is 45% of all advertising dollars spent in Australia. Coming in second was general display, […]