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 […]
While 64% of adults think it’s positive for the LGBTQ+ community to be visible in advertisements, a considerable 72% of the LGBTQ+ community think the way they are presented in advertising is tokenistic, according to research commissioned by the Gay Times and Karmarama. The study was conducted by YouGov and covered a total sample size of 2,052 adults […]
New research has shown that brands need to rethink how they market to men: many old-fashioned, views of masculinity are still prevalent, thanks in part to the stereotypes seen in advertising. It also highlighted that the supposedly more progressive millennials and Londoners are among the main culprits when it comes to perpetuating an unrealistic view […]
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 […]
A combination of climate change, financial insecurity, Brexit, escalating international tensions and lack of social interaction is creating an anxiety time bomb across the globe. As it escalates, it is causing a plethora of new consumer trends, according to leading futures think tank Wunderman Thompson Intelligence — formerly JWT Intelligence. Welcome to The Anxiety Economy […]
VIOOH, the global marketplace for out of home (OOH) trading, releases the results of its research project looking into the future of digital OOH (DOOH). It’s a great story to tell – advertising’s oldest medium is becoming its most exciting new channel. In an era dominated by digital and shaped by technology, OOH is transforming […]
Despite being a part of the world’s most dynamic digital economy, U.S. consumers have the least amount of trust in businesses and a greater propensity to protect their data, per The Digital Society Index 2019: Human Needs in a Digital World. The global study, released by leading advertising and digital communications group Dentsu Aegis Network, polled […]
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 […]
One in five internet users have made a booking for travel or leisure activities after receiving a link or recommendation via private messaging apps – such as WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger – according to new research from GlobalWebIndex and socially-led creative agency We Are Social. The study, which looked at more than 3,000 internet users […]
Following the introduction of GDPR in May 2018 close to half (45 per cent of consumers) believe that the mail they receive from brands is now more relevant, new research from Wilmington Millennium reveals. The retail industry is the best performing sector with 52 per cent of consumers saying that offers and information through the […]