Programmatic adoption is poised to grow to 52% in the next 24 months, according to research by Mobile Marketing Association (MMA) and GroupM. The report titled ‘Mobile Ecosystem and ad-Sizing Report’ 2018 further highlights that the propensity for programmatic guaranteed is increasing in India and the penetration is set to grow from 6% to 17% […]
Online video and paid search are driving the growth in global adspend, as advertisers focus on personalised and targeted communications, according to Zenith’s Advertising Expenditure Forecasts, published December 3. With advertisers now able to use these channels to target with pinpoint accuracy and serve personalised messages, they are increasing both the efficiency and effectiveness of […]
Omnichannel marketing means being agnostic about end points, says the Video Advertising Bureau (VAB). It sees all screens as worthwhile, and posits that working with many screens is the best way to pull in hard-to-reach viewers. Omnichannel is taking off in a big way for video marketers: 29 percent took a multi-screen approach in 2014, while 62 […]
Isobar, a leading global digital agency, released ‘Augmented Humanity: Isobar Trends Report 2019‘, an exploration of five digital trends for 2019. The report explores the extent to which humanity will work in harmony with technology to expand and enrich life in 2019. Written by the innovation and strategy experts across Isobar’s 85 offices in 45 […]
Consumers are growing more comfortable buying fashion items on their phones reveals new Black Friday and Cyber Monday data from AI-powered retail personalisation platform, Nosto. And for fashion retailers, Black Friday and Cyber Monday 2018 was 36% bigger than last year. Nosto’s analysis of millions of visits to fashion sites globally suggests mobile accounted for […]
Consumer spending data shows that shoppers are no longer waiting for Black Friday and Cyber Monday. The weeks leading up to the big, traditional spending days are seeing increased online traction. Brand Keys, a research consultancy, calls this earlier shopping pattern ‘Black November.’ According to a survey of more than 11,000 US consumers, over 55% […]
Generally, it’s accepted that internet access originating from a Wi-Fi hot spot will be faster than a mobile broadband connection. Many of the most popular smartphones, like iPhones, automatically join the nearest known Wi-Fi network because of this belief. But according to a new study, this assumption isn’t true in many places around the world. […]
Figures are still being collated, but 2018’s Cyber Monday retail event looks on track to bring in a record $7.9bn (£6.2bn) in US online sales, as millions of shoppers look to online retailers for substantial discounts. According to figures from Adobe Analytics, sales were up 19.7 per cent year-on-year, a smaller increase than others seen […]
Spend on digital out of home advertising (DOOH) — i.e. video content and/or digital signs located in high traffic public locations such as high streets, airports, bus shelters, subways and malls — is expected to grow 10.1% each year between 2018 and 2021, accounting for the entirety of growth in the out of home (OOH) […]
Brand owners must act quickly and decisively to deal with the fall-out from a tumultuous year in social media, according to global socially-led creative agency, We Are Social. The agency has now launched its annual ‘not just another trends’ report, Think Forward, which also sheds light on how brands can best navigate this harsh new […]