Here’s a round-up of the marketing reports we’ve been tracking this month:
Advertising
- AdWeek – Agencies Know They Lack the (Tech) Skills to Pay the Bills
- Marketing Charts – Captioned Video Ads Show A Lift in Brand Linkage
- Variety – Hulu Says 70% of Its 82 Million Viewers Are on Ad-Supported Plan
- Morning Consult – CBS Is Evaluating Changes to Its Super Bowl Ad Presentation, Sports Chairman Says
- Marketing Charts – Instagram’s Now Capturing Almost 1 in 5 Ad Dollars Spent Across Facebook Properties
- eMarketer – Facebook’s Clear History Tool: What Advertisers Should (and Should Not) Worry About
- DigitalNewsDaily – YouTube Ads Are Getting Longer
- Morning Consult – NFL Relaxes Policy on Alcohol Sponsorships
- AdWeek – IAB Predicts Digital Video Ad Spend, On Average Per Advertiser, Will Reach $18 Million This Year
- eMarketer – Digital Video Ad Spending Committed in Advance Will Grow 20% in 2019 [VIDEO]
- MarTech Today – Twitter’s 18% YoY ad revenue gains show marketers investing more on the platform
- Marketing Charts – Small Businesses Remain Loyal to Facebook Advertising
- eMarketer – Five Charts: The State of Ad Fraud
- The Drum – Complaints about online ads now outnumber TV cases by 3:1, says ASA
- eMarketer – Upfront Spending is a Small Slice of the Digital Video Pie [VIDEO]
- AdWeek – Digital Ads Are Raking In More Cash Than Ever
- Marketing Charts – US Online Ad Revenues Pass $100 Billion Milestone in 2018: 8 Notes
- eMarketer – Why Are the TV Upfronts Still a Big Deal? [PODCAST]
- Wall Street Journal – Behavioral Ad Targeting Not Paying Off for Publishers, Study Suggests
- eMarketer – TV Ads Still More Relevant to Consumers than Streaming Video Ads
- Marketing Charts – Almost Half of US Programmatic Display Ad Spend Expected to be Allocated to Video This Year
- eMarketer – Upfront TV Ad Spending Growth Will Remain Strong in 2019 [VIDEO]
- MediaDailyNews – Do Local TV Stations Operate In A Competitive Silo?
- eMarketer – Ad Spending on Private Marketplaces Will Pass Open Exchanges Next Year
- Marketing Charts – Private Marketplace Ad Spend to Soon Exceed Open Exchanges
- ClickZ – Social advertising channels 2019: Growth, trends, spend [REPORT]
- eMarketer – To Stay Competitive, Ad Agencies Mimic Consultancies
- Policy Blog – Behavioral Advertising’s Benefits To Publishers Are Overstated, New Study Suggests
- statista – U.S. Online Ad Market Surpasses $100 Billion
- eMarketer – Ad Fraud Is Going Away … Kind of [PODCAST]
- Marketing Charts – Advertisers Plan More Spend Across Online Video Ad Formats
- statista – Internet Advertising Rises Above $100 Billion
- eMarketer – Video Will Account for Almost Half of Programmatic Spend This Year
- Marketing Charts – US Out-of-Home Ad Spend Continued to Grow in 2018
- statista – Global Ad Fraud Is Down, Despite Increased Spending
- eMarketer – One Thing Every Advertiser Should Know About Brexit [VIDEO]
- Marketing Charts – What Kind of Ad Relevance Do Consumers Prefer When Streaming Video?
Analytics
- Marketing Charts – Building A Data Dashboard? Here Are Some Questions to Ask First.
Artificial Intelligence
- statista – The Companies With the Most AI Patents
- Marketing Charts – B2B Marketers Expect to Quickly See Results From AI Solutions
- Forbes – The Path To Personalization
- statista – Machine Learning Tops AI Dollars
- SearchInsider – Google Not Top Consideration In AI-Driven B2B Media-Buying Plans
- AdWeek – More Than Half of Marketers Say AI Is Not Meeting Their Needs
- statista – Who Is investing in AI?
Audio Marketing
- Marketing Land – Smart speakers, smartphone shipments heading in opposite directions
- AI&IoTDaily – 43% Of Canadian Smart Speaker Owners Have More Than One
- statista – How Children Interact With Smart Speakers
- Marketing Charts – How Are Organizations Measuring the Success of Their Voice-Enabled Experiences?
- statista – Where Europeans Are Plugging into Podcasts
- ConnectedThinking – Voice Assistants Grow, But Not For Shopping
- SearchInsider – Consumers, Publishers Struggling With Voice Search
- statista – How Does Google’s Assistant Stack Up to Alexa?
- ConnectedThinking – 73% Don’t Trust Conversational AI Voice Assistants
B2B Marketing
- Social Media Today – B2B Marketers Underestimate The Power of Thought Leadership
Big Data
- statista – What’s Blocking Blockchain?
- AdWeek – 4 Reasons Emotional Data Is Key for Building Brand Loyalty
- Marketing Charts – How Are CDPs Helping Enterprise Businesses?
- statista – Microsoft Is Up in the Clouds
Brand Marketing
- statista – Nike Still on Top of the Sneaker World
- Business Insider – Millennials, baby boomers, Gen X, and Gen Z share their most beloved brands
- statista – The World’s Most Chosen FMCG Brands
- statista – GAFAM Market Cap Jumps $2.7 Trillion Over Past Five Years
- Marketing Charts – Which Companies’ Marketing Campaigns Are Sparking Conversation?
- statista – Apple’s Incredible 21st Century Growth
- statista – The Slow Goodbye of Apple’s Former Cash Cow
Consumer Attitudes
- Morning Consult – Fast Food Restaurants Look to Turn Plant-Based Burgers Into Cash Cows
- statista – Where Full-Time Dads Are Viewed As Losers
- Marketing Charts – Consumers Love Amazon, But May Be Questioning Its Ethics
- statista – Belief in Conspiracy Theories in the United States
- EmailMarketingDaily – Millennials And GenZers Distrust Business: Study
- statista – Majority in U.S. Argue Against Biometric Tech
- eMarketer – Nearly Half of TV Viewers Browse Online While Watching Their Favorite Movies and Shows
- Morning Consult – ‘Best of the Year!’: Movie Blurbs Edge Out Festival Laurels in Increasing Film’s Appeal
- statista – How Americans Rate Federal Agencies
- Marketing Charts – Is Tech In the Home A Good Thing? Consumers Weigh In.
- Morning Consult – For Widespread Adoption of Electric Vehicles, Many Roadblocks Ahead
- statista – Self-Driving Cars Still Cause for Concern for Pedestrains
- MarketingDaily – Gen Z: Wary Of Business, But Eager To See Values In Action
- statista – Targeted Ads: Interesting or Intrusive?
- Morning Consult – Sisterhood in the Workplace Only Goes So Far When It Comes to Perceptions of Pay
- statista – What Irritates People On A First Date
- EmailMarketingDaily – Americans Remain Suspicious That Their Data Is Being Misused: Study
- statista – Americans Unwilling to Give Up Their Holidays
- Ladders – These are the most (and least) dateable professions according to singles
- statista – The Worst U.S. Cities for Dating
- statista – The Best U.S. Cities for Dating
Consumer Behavior
- statista – Has Amazon Ruined the Name Alexa?
- New York Times – ‘Battle of the Thermostat’: Cold Rooms May Hurt Women’s Productivity
- statista – Landline Phones Are a Dying Breed
- Marketing Charts – Mother’s Day Spending Expected to Reach New Peak This Year
- statista – The Footballing Diaspora
- AgencyDaily – Report: Consumers Unfollow Brands Due To Poor Service, Irrelevant Content, Ads
- statista – Where Global Alcohol Consumption Is Rising & Falling
- Morning Consult – As Nonbank Lending Rises, Clayton Says SEC Keeping Eye on CLOs
- statista – Why Americans Quit Their Jobs
- Marketing Charts – 1 in Every 10 Adults in the US Doesn’t Use the Internet
- statista – America’s Favorite Beers Are European
- 9To5Mac – Majority of parents think they spend too much time on mobile devices
- statista – The Mac’s Waning Significance to Apple
- statista – The World’s Most-Visited Museums
- Marketing Charts – Taste and Price the Top Influencers For Consumers Trying New Food & Beverage Products
- statista – The World’s Most Popular Theme Parks
- statista – The World’s Busiest Water Parks
- Gallup – Expanded Minority in U.S. Say They Are Spending More
- statista – Where People Are Using The Internet Without Realizing It
- Marketing Charts – Loyalty Program Membership Doesn’t Always Translate to Activity; Satisfaction Levels May Be to Blame
- statista – Milk’s Massive American Decline
- statista – Almond Milk Is The Biggest Alternative To Dairy
- eMarketer – How Mother’s Day Plays Out in the Digital World [PODCAST]
- Marketing Charts – More Consumers Are Now Upping Their Spending Than Cutting Back
- statista – Digital Camera Sales Dropped 84% Since 2010
- statista – Cars Still Dominate the American Commute
Content
- Adobe – What’s Most Annoying About Brand Content? Consumers Weigh In
- The Content Strategist – Engaging Your Audience With Visual Content: The 2019 Report
- CMO.com – B2B marketers acknowledge the need for quality content
- EmailMarketingDaily – Most Banks Are Sending Content, Study Finds
- Marketing Charts – Strategic Content Marketers Find Prioritizing Audience Segmentation A Challenge
- The Content Strategist – Study: What 1,400 Job Posts Teach Us About Content Marketing Hires
- Pew Research – Misinformation and fears about its impact are pervasive in 11 emerging economies
- Marketing Charts – Strategic Content Marketers Use More Development Aids
- eMarketer – OTT Content Drives Up Engagement with Connected TV [VIDEO]
Demographics
- Pew Research – A Rising Share of Undergraduates Are From Poor Families, Especially at Less Selective Colleges
- CNBC – Here’s the net worth of the average American family
- statista – 10 Percent of Americans Are Offline. Who Are They?
- Pew Research – Digital gap between rural and nonrural America persists
- CNBC – Retirees are fleeing these 3 states in droves
- Morning Consult – 49% of Young Viewers Would Cancel Netflix if It Loses ‘Office,’ ‘Friends,’ Disney, Marvel
- Pew Research – Digital divide persists even as lower-income Americans make gains in tech adoption
eCommerce
- EmailInsider – Digital Distemper: What Drives Shoppers Away From Websites And Carts
- Marketing Charts – Increased Amazon Ad Spend Brings Results
- statista – China’s Mobile Payment Adoption Beats All Others
Email Marketing
- EmailInsider – The Good Guys Get Into The Inbox: Delivery Study
- EmailMarketingDaily – Study: Shoppers Welcome Email Updates On Delivery
- Marketing Charts – Email-Derived Revenues Down For Non-Profits in 2018 Despite List Size Growth
- EmailMarketingDaily – Financial Firms Are Prime Email Phishing Targets, Valimail Study Finds
- Marketing Charts – How Are Email Response Rates Trending?
- EmailMarketingDaily – Email Beats Ecommerce For B2B Buying, Purchase Errors Abound Online: Study
- EmailMarketingDaily – Personalization Is Easier In Email Than Other Channels, Study Finds
Ethnic Marketing
- Pew Research – Americans See Advantages and Challenges in Country’s Growing Racial and Ethnic Diversity
- Pew Research – From police to parole, black and white Americans differ widely in their views of criminal justice system
- Gallup – Large Racial Gaps on Crime Seen in ‘Fragile Communities’
- Pew Research – For black Americans, experiences of racial discrimination vary by education level, gender
- SearchMarketingDaily – Hispanic-Americans Are Customers With High Lifetime Value
- Pew Research – Historic highs in 2018 voter turnout extended across racial and ethnic groups
- Marketing Charts – Asian-Americans Have Strong Purchasing Power. How Can Marketers Reach Them?
- DigitalNewsDaily – Asian Americans Score Highest In Web Usage
- Pew Research – Key facts about Asian origin groups in the U.S.
Generations
- AdWeek – Cause Marketing Isn’t Working for Young People
- Bloomberg – Millennials and Gen Z Are Increasingly Pessimistic About Their Lives, Survey Finds
- Salon – Study: Gen Z, Millennials are embarrassed about being narcissists
- CNBC – 62% of millennials say they’re living paycheck to paycheck
- statista – YouTube Is U.S. Teens’ Number One Online Platform
- Markting Charts – Young Millennials Have A Positive View of Targeted Ads. Others? Not So Much.
- EmailMarketingDaily – Millennials And Gen Z-ers Distrust Businesses: Study
- AdWeek – The Difference Between How Younger and Older Gen Xers Use Social Media [INFOGRAPHIC]
- MarketingDaily – Gen Z: Wary Of Business, But Eager To See Values In Action
- statista – U.S. Seniors No Longer Disconnected From the Digital World
- eMarketer – When Marketing to Millennial Parents, Personalization Is Key [PODCAST]
- AdWeek – The Difference Between How Younger and Older Gen Xers Use Social Media [INFOGRAPHIC]
- Fast Company – Why brand purpose marketing isn’t working with young people
- Mashable – Young people are overconfident with online security, survey suggests
- EmailMarketingDaily – Millennials Spend More In-Store Than Boomers And Gen Xers: Study
- eMarketer – Are Digital Marketers Ignoring Older Americans? [PODCAST]
Influencer Marketing
- Rand Fishkin – Building Influence in 2019 [PRESENTATION]
- MarketingProfs – The Top Influencers on Pinterest [INFOGRAPHIC]
- MarTech Advisor – Influencer Marketing in the Travel industry: Strategy, Metrics and Best Practices
- Social Media Today – The Influencer Marketing Statistics You Need to Know [INFOGRAPHIC]
Immersive Marketing
- Ars Technica – Augmented reality changes how people interact and communicate, study finds
- ClickZ – Experiential marketing: What makes a brand experience stand out?
Marketing
- Search Engine Land – 50% of Small Businesses Do Not Have a Marketing Plan
- Marketing Charts – Five Points About Personalization
- Axios – Chart: How immigration levels in the U.S. have changed since 1900
- ClickZ – Digital transformation: Top challenges to success in 2019 [REPORT]
- Marketing Charts – Advertisers Experience Personal vs Professional Conflict for Data Privacy
- DigitalNewsDaily – Cyber, Malicious Attacks Estimated At 17.6 Million Sites In 2018
- Marketing Charts – How Can Marketers Decrease Wasteful Spending?
- EmailInsider – Cyber Mayhem: Firms Are Being Harmed By Phishing Attacks
- Marketing Charts – Marketers Gain Benefits From Personalization, but Rate Performance Poorly
- statista – Top 2019 Small Business Marketing Tactics in the U.S.
- Marketing Charts – 9 in 10 Businesses Think Chatbots Need to Get Smarter Before Customers Will Use Them Regularly
- statista – 2019 Is a Big Year for Cybersecurity Investments
- Gallup – Small-Business Owners Upbeat; Uncertain on Impact of Tax Law
- Marketing Charts – Enterprise Companies Need Improvement Making Changes From VoC Programs
Media Consumption
- eMarketer – Average Time Spent with Media in 2019 Has Plateaued
- statista – Free Access Is the Most Common pay Model for All Media
- eMarketer – Time Spent On Digital in Canada Surpasses That of Traditional Media
- statista – The UK’s most popular music services
- eMarketer – China Tops All Countries in Time Spent with Video [VIDEO]
- eMarketer – US Tablet Time Continues to Drop [VIDEO]
- Pew Research – Men Appear Twice as Often as Women in News Photos on Facebook
- eMarketer – Americans’ Relationship Status with Print? ‘It’s Complicated’ [PODCAST]
- eMarketer – US Time Spent on Snapchat Dips Below Instagram [VIDEO]
- eMarketer – British Are Spending More Time with Digital than Traditional Media [VIDEO]
- statista – Portable Audio Sales Are Shifting
- eMarketer – US Time Spent with Digital Media Surpasses Traditional [VIDEO]
- eMarketer – Ratio of Digital Video to TV Time is Higher in Canada than Anywhere Else [VIDEO]
- Marketing Charts – What Brand Information Sources Do People Trust the Most?
- eMarketer – US Time Spent with Digital Audio Is Beating Expectations [VIDEO]
- statista – Apple’s Services Revenue Reaches All-Time High
- eMarketer – Digital Video Time Cuts Into TV Time in the US [VIDEO]
Mobile Marketing
- statista – The Smartphone Duopoly
- statista – What Smartphones Have Done to the Camera Industry
- Marketing Land – Report: Mobile to become the preferred platform for video ads by end of 2019
- statista – Is Apple an App Store Monopolist?
- VentureBeat – IDC: Apple still led wearables market in Q1 2019, but Huawei grew 282%
- statista – The Top 10 Grossing Android Apps in the World
- statista – The Top 10 Grossing Android Apps in the U.S.
- statista – The Top 10 Grossing Android Apps in the UK
- MobileInsider – GDPR Impact: Global App Audiences Grow Nearly 17% Y-O-Y
- statista – The Global Top 10 iPhone Apps
- statista – The Top 10 iPhone Apps in the U.S.
- AI&IoTDaily – 50 Million Wearables Ship, Up 55%: IDC
- statista – Huawei is Leading the Race to Develop 5G
- statista – Almost Nobody in the U.S. Has a Huawei Smartphone
- eMarketer – UK Smartphone Video Use Keeps Going Up [VIDEO]
- statista – The Global Top 10 Android Apps
- statista – The Top 10 Android Apps in the U.S.
- statista – The top 10 Android apps in the UK
Politics
- Morning Consult – Climate Change Seen as Hot Topic for Democrats in 2020
- Pew Research – Nearly Half of Democrats Say the Best Age for a President Is ‘In Their 50s’
- Morning Consult – ‘Medicare for All’ Advocates Strategize to Win Over the Working Class
- Gallup – Less Than Half in U.S. Would Vote for a Socialist for President
- Morning Consult – Democratic Voters Are Pushing Harder for Impeachment
- Vox – Younger generations cast more votes than baby boomers and older adults in 2018
- Morning Consult – Most Voters Oppose Abortion Laws Enacted in Alabama, Georgia
- Pew Research – Gen Z, Millennials and Gen X outvoted older generations in 2018 midterms
- Morning Consult – Most Democrats Are Fine With Their Candidates Doing Fox News Town Halls
- Pew Research – Trump’s Staunch GOP Supporters Have Roots in the Tea Party
- Morning Consult – Trump as ‘Tariff Man’ Is Still a Hit With Republicans
- Morning Consult – Most States Won by Trump in 2016 Stand to Lose in Long Tech Trade War With China
- statista – Bipartisan Support for New Data Protection Legislation
- Morning Consult – Priorities USA to Spend $4 Million, Invest in Local Races in 2019
- Gallup – Four in 10 Americans Embrace Some Form of Socialism
- statista – Trump’s Businesses Lost Hundred Of Millions Of Dollars
- Morning Consult – It’s Still Mueller Time, Voters Say: Most Want Special Counsel to Testify
- Gallup – Alabama Bill at Odds With Public Consensus on Abortion
- statista – Sharp Increase In NSA ‘Unmasking’ Of U.S. Identities
- statista – Reduction In NSA Collection Of U.S. Phone Records
- Morning Consult – White Evangelicals’ Support for Trump Has a Soft Underbelly
- Gallup – Americans Split on Proposals for Popular Vote
- Morning Consult – Trump’s Business Image Loses Luster Among Voters in Wake of Reported Losses
Public Opinion
- Gallup – The Singular Appeal of a Government Focus on Infrastructure
- Morning Consult – As States Rethink Vaccine Laws, Support for Mandatory Shots Lowest With Young Adults
- Gallup – Americans’ Mixed Views of Healthcare and Healthcare Reform
- statista – Majority of American women still support Roe v. Wade decision
- Gallup – FBI’s Positive Job Ratings Steady Among Americans
- Morning Consult – Public Divided as Filmmakers Shun Georgia Over ‘Heartbeat Bill’
- Gallup – U.S. Support for Gay Marriage Stable, at 63%
- Pew Research – Majority of Public Favors Same-Sex Marriage, but Divisions Persist
- Gallup – Postal Service Still Americans’ Favorite Federal Agency
Public Relations
- Pew Research – It’s more common for white, older, more-educated Americans to have spoken with local journalists
- PR Daily – Study: PR pros prioritizing owned and shared media
- Statista – Who Stands Out Among Tech Giants for U.S. Consumers?
Retail Marketing
- Marketing Charts – Digital Coupon Distributions Increase in 2018 but Remain Far Below Print
- Forbes – Direct-To-Consumer Brands Are Out-Marketing Traditional Retailers–But It Comes At A Cost
- Marketing Charts – The 10 Most Valuable Global Retail Brands in 2019
- EmailInsider – Trolling For Customers: Retailers Spend More For Acquisition Than Retention
- statista – E-Commerce Giants Top Global Retail Brand Ranking
Search
- SearchInsider – Mother’s Day Searches, Online Purchases Show Behavioral Trends
- Marketing Charts – Want Reader Loyalty? Aim to Convert Search Referrals to Direct Traffic
- SearchMarketingDaily – Page Load Times, Technology Are Major Ranking Factors In Google Search Results
- Marketing Charts – What Do SEO and PPC Agencies Charge?
- SearchInsider – Delete Remains Consistent Search Word On Google Trends
Social Media
- Vox – The rise of fear-based social media like Nextdoor, Citizen, and now Amazon’s Neighbors
- statista – Marketers Warm Up to Instagram
- Search Engine Journal – Poll Reveals Negative Facebook Marketing Trend
- Social Media Today – LinkedIn Engagement Continues to Rise, According to Latest Update from Microsoft
- AdWeek – The Most Active 10% of Twitter Users Are Responsible for 80% of Tweets Overall
- statista – The Most Common Violations Against Facebook’s Rules
- Morning Consult – Most Voters Say Sri Lanka Was Right to Cut Off Social Media Access
- Pew Research – Publics in Emerging Economies Worry Social Media Sow Division, Even as They Offer New Chances for Political Engagement
- ZDNet – The dead will take over Facebook in the next 50 years
- statista – The World Leaders with the Most Followers on Twitter
- Marketing Charts – Does Twitter Engagement Follow the 80/20 Rule?
- statista – How Effective Is Facebook at Detecting Bad Content?
- DigitalNewsDaily – Social Marketers Call Understanding Target Audience A Challenge
- Pew Research – 10 facts about Americans and Facebook
- statista – Facebook is up Against a Tide of Hate Speech
- Morning Consult – A Tough Task for FTC: Regulating Instagram When Anyone Can Be an Influencer
- LinkedIn – 10 Surprising Stats You Didn’t Know About Content on LinkedIn
- statista – Instagram’s Referral Traffic Has Sky-Rocketed
- Marketing Charts – Where Is Social Media Marketing Headed?
- statista – Facebook Is Disabling Billions Of Fake Accounts
- MarketingProfs – Social Media Use in 2019: Platform, Visit, and Age Trends
- statista – How Many Dead Profiles Will Haunt Facebook?
- Marketing Charts – D2C Brands Point to Social Media As Their Leading Customer Acquisition Channel
- Multichannel Merchant – New Study Reveals Social Media Impact on Businesses
- statista – American Public Supports Antitrust Action Against Facebook
- Social Media Examiner – Facebook Marketing Declining: New Research
- EmailMarketingDaily – Study: Sales Development Teams Move To LinkedIn
- ClickZ – Survey: Nearly 100% of social media users visit at least four platforms a day
- statista – Facebook’s Social Media Dominance
- Marketing Charts – TikTok: How Fast Is It Growing in the US, And Who’s Using It?
Video Games
- Marketing Charts – Video Games Are Big Business. Here’s What Americans Consider When Buying Them.
- eMarketer – Video Game ‘Watchers’ Aren’t Limited to Esports
Video Marketing
- Morning Consult – Live From New York! It’s The White, Male Face Of Hollywood
- eMarketer – Marketers Are Split on How They Define OTT
- Entrepreneur – 5 Reasons Why You Need Video in Your Marketing Strategy (With the Stats to Prove It)
- Morning Consult – Audiences Want Disney Remakes to Stay Close to the Original
- Business Wire – Wibbitz Releases New Research on Video Marketing Trends & Challenges for Social Media
- Morning Consult – Online Outrage Aside, Most ‘Game of Thrones’ Viewers Liked Series Finale
- eMarketer – Advanced TV Is the New Frontier for DSPs
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