Following the recent news that Instagram has continued its trial of hiding likes from users, A comment from Adam Williams, CEO of Takumi, the leading Instagram influencer marketing service. “We wholeheartedly support platforms investigating ways to promote better mental health. We think it’s crucial that Instagram is taking this issue seriously and hiding likes on posts could go […]
Advertisers will spend more on social media platforms than on print for the first time this year, according to Zenith’s Advertising Expenditure Forecasts, published on October 7. Advertising expenditure on social media will grow 20% this year to reach US$84bn, while advertisers’ combined expenditure on newspapers and magazines will fall 6% to US$69bn. Social media […]
UK organisations are not innovating fast enough, and business leaders cite public nervousness as their main barrier to adopting emerging tech, according to new research. 58 percent of UK public and private sector leaders say that public nervousness around new technologies is holding them back, according to Fujitsu’s ‘Driving a Trusted Future in a Radically […]
Internet advertising will account for 52% of global advertising expenditure in 2021, exceeding the 50% mark for the first time, according to Zenith’s Advertising Expenditure Forecasts, published on July 8. That’s up from the 47% of global adspend that internet advertising will account for this year, and 44% in 2018. However, the growth rate is […]
Advertising and marketing professionals have significantly different priorities when it comes to customer experience because they are working to different internal mandates. This is according to Adobe’s 2019 Digital Trends Advertising in Focus report. For advertising professionals, the biggest priority for almost half of respondents (46%) is to demonstrate Return on Investment (ROI) to the rest of […]
People around the world will spend an average of 800 hours using the mobile internet this year – that’s equivalent to 33 days without sleep or pause, according to Zenith’s Media Consumption Forecasts, published on June 10. By 2021 the total will rise to 930 hours, or 39 full days. This is the fifth edition of […]
TabMo’s Point to Purchase solution enables consumer brands and retailers to track the meaningful actions that take place as a result of their mobile advertising activity, thereby delivering a definitive measurement of the return on investment (ROI) of a specific campaign. Building on TabMo’s drive-to-store solution, Branding to Store, Point to Purchase bridges online and offline […]
RhythmOne, a Taptica, released its sixth annual Influencer Marketing Benchmarks Report. This report provides insights into return on investment (ROI) and best practices based on an in-depth analysis of 67 US-based campaigns that ran and were completed between January and December 2018 as part of RhythmInfluence, the RhythmOne influencer marketing solution. The report provides full-year […]
Criteo, the advertising platform for the open Internet, reveals that despite growing awareness of Customer Lifetime Value (CLV), a lack of digital skills, customer data, and organisational silos are holding back its use as an actionable business metric. In its 2019 report, Is ROI dead? The state of Customer Lifetime Value 2019, Criteo benchmarks CLV awareness […]
Stronger-than-expected internet advertising will drive 4.7% growth in total global adspend in 2019, according to Zenith’s Advertising Expenditure Forecasts, published on March 25. That’s substantially ahead of the 4.0% forecast made in the previous edition of the report, published in December 2018. Zenith forecasts 4.6% growth in both 2020 and 2021, ahead of previous forecasts […]