Channel Integration [CHART]

Roughly half of the company respondents said that their email and website efforts are very well integrated, but far fewer could say the same about mobile messaging (16%), mobile apps (14%), or the mobile web (13%).

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TV Most Influential Ad Medium For Purchases [CHART]

via marketingcharts.com When it comes to the advertising medium they find most influential in making a purchase decision, American adults are far more likely to point to TV (37.2%) than any other, including newspapers (10.6%), the internet (5.6%), and magazines (4.4%), per results from a TVB study released in June 2012. This result aligns with…

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Response Rates For Select Media [CHART]

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via marketingcharts.com Direct mail campaigns benefit from higher response rates than various other channels, finds the Direct Marketing Association (DMA) in a June 2012 study. Comparing rates over time, the report indicates that the response rate for direct mail to an existing customer averages 3.4%, compared to 0.12% for email. Interestingly, (letter-sized) direct mail’s relative…

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Online Video Advertising Effectiveness [CHART]

via marketingcharts.com Digital video advertising can be equally or more effective than TV, say 64% of advertisers responding to a BrightRoll survey released in June 2012. An even greater proportion see digital video as equally or more effective than display (87%) and social media (69%). Digital video’s effectiveness appears to be driven by its targeting…

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Cluttered Pages Kill Impressions [CHART]

via marketingvox.com “Messy webpages create a chaotic experience that’s frustrating for everyone involved, including readers, publishers and advertisers,” according to digital publisher SAY Media, which joined IPG Media Lab to find out how webpage chaos affects impressions.Their conclusion is that “Clutter is killing digital media,” as Troy Young, SAY Media president described. “Publishers keep adding…

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Mainstream & Niche Marketing Tactics [TABLE]

via emarketer.com In a March 2012 online survey of US marketing professionals, trade publication Chief Marketer found that the most popular tool in digital campaigns was tried-and-true email marketing, which 78% of respondents said they used. Email newsletters were the No. 2 tactic (59%), followed closely by a social network presence (58%). This year, for…

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