Britons are addicted to digital content, with UK millennials spending 8.5 hours – over half of the average waking day (53%) – reading, watching, liking, creating and sharing content across their devices. For Generation Z, this rises to 10.6 hours, while the UK average is 6.9 hours. The findings come from Adobe’s latest report into […]
Marketers should wake up to cannabis culture, according to a new report from J. Walter Thompson’s Innovation Group which examines the ‘wellness-forward’ lifestyle, recreational and medicinal opportunities presented by the rise of the so-called ‘Cannabis Economy’. Sales of recreational marijuana have been legal in California, the largest US state economy in North America, since January […]
UK advertising spend in Q3 2017 rose 3.5% year-on-year to reach £5.4bn – the 17th consecutive quarter of market growth, according to Advertising Association/WARC Expenditure Report data published on January 31. The latest data underpin preliminary figures which show 2017 spending grew to £22.1bn – representing the eighth consecutive year of market growth. Further key […]
Hootsuite, the most widely used social media management platform, and We Are Social, the global socially-led creative agency, have released Digital in 2018, a report of social media and digital trends around the world. Representing 239 countries and territories, the seventh annual report finds the number of internet users in the world has now surpassed […]
Voice-enabled technology, from smart speakers to virtual assistants, is opening an entirely new interface through which brands and consumers will engage and communicate in 2018, according to WARC, the global marketing intelligence service, following a survey with more than 600 marketing and advertising professionals around the world for its Toolkit 2018 report. Voice is swiftly […]
GumGum, an artificial intelligence company with deep expertise in computer vision, released market research findings, conducted in concert with Custom, Digiday Media’s creative content agency, examining the brand safety crisis impacting the advertising industry. The in-depth study investigates how brands, agencies and publishers are addressing this issue while also examining the ways to help identify […]
A new report into women aged between 53 and 72 from the J. Walter Thompson London Innovation Group shows that 72% “don’t pay attention to advertising” while 91% wish advertisers would treat them like people and not stereotypes. And with 78% of 50+ women saying they control the purchase decisions in their households and the […]
A new report published on January 24, reveals that using out-of-home (OOH) within advertising campaigns increases market share growth by 36 percent, boosts profit growth by 20 percent and attracts 15 percent more new customers compared to campaigns that shun OOH. The report, compiled by esteemed industry analyst Peter Field and commissioned by Rapport in association with the IPA, examines […]
Decision makers make up their minds about business-to-business purchases far earlier than expected, according to a new study from B2B Marketing, in conjunction with the leading full-service, global creative B2B powerhouse gyro. The report entitled, “Group. Mind. Set. How Group Dynamics Impact B2B Decisions,” set out to find the truths about today’s group dynamics among […]
WARC, the international marketing intelligence service, has released its latest monthly Global Ad Trends report digesting up-to-date insights and evidenced thinking from the worldwide advertising industry. Focusing on advertising expenditure in 96 markets, this latest Global Ad Trends report includes key trends in spending patterns by media and geography since 2009, a round-up of 2017, […]