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It's been a white-hot week so far for digital marketing statistics. We've seen numbers roll in about Reddit viewers, digital-media growth, bad ads, web bots, Amazon Echo, ecommerce and the hit film La La Land.
Check out these dozen data points that grabbed our attention:
1. Big Game versus going big on Snapchat
On Thursday, we looked at how many types of digital ads equaled the cost of a 30-second Super Bowl TV spot, which comes in at $5.6 million this year. For Snapchat sponsored lenses, 17 of them add up to one Big Game commercial. A branded lens on the mobile app, according to digital agency Essence, costs roughly $329,400.
2. Redditors love mobile reading
Reddit didn't have a mobile app one year ago today, but on Wednesday it revealed that more than 40 percent of its content views occur via its app....
This past year, we've seen the importance of visual content emphasized by the changes that occurred across almost every major social network, including Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Pinterest. At the same time, both video and infographics have become powerful tools for brands looking to communicate more easily with their readers.
To help you keep pace with these trends, let's take a look at some statistics that demonstrate the impact visual content has on reach, engagement, and sales....
Consumers love a deal, and even more so if it’s customized just for them, right? Not so fast, says Itamar Simonson, a marketing professor at Stanford Graduate School of Business. Simonson has found that rather than being enticed by them, consumers are skeptical of those personalized offers that flood their inboxes.
His research, “Beating the Market: The Allure of Unintended Value,” was published in December 2013 in theJournal of Marketing Research.
Marketers have long assumed that touting a promotion as “customized,” “based on your past purchases” or “especially for you” will persuade customers that the product will fit better, fulfill more needs or otherwise prove more satisfying than others. But “telling consumers that an offer is tailored for them can backfire” and lower the chance that they’ll bite, writes Simonson, who co-authored the study with Aner Sela of the University of Florida and Ran Kivetz of Columbia Business School....
A recent study from Exact Target reveals some surprising stats on what consumers expect from B2B and B2C brands on Twitter.
A mere 13% of Canadians consider themselves Twitter followers, according to a new study released by Exact Target called “Subscribers, Fans and Followers: The Digital North.” The study defines a “follower” as a person with a Twitter account who follows at least one company or brand.
Conducted in March 2013, the study explored how Canadians behave online with a focus on email, Facebook and Twitter. It reveals a number of interesting findings including: When and how Canadians use email, Facebook and Twitter. How consumers are motivated in the three channels. What Canadian marketers should do to communicate more effectively...
Study finds Brits are shunning books in favour of using gadgets while on the toilet. Almost half of us regularly use phones, tablets and eReaders on the loo with a quarter of us spending this time shopping online.Brits are shunning books, magazines and newspapers in favour of using their gadgets while on the toilet. A study has found that 41 per cent of Britons admit to regularly using their phones, tablets and eReaders when sat on the loo. And 26 per cent spend this time shopping online....
...Businesses are using social media, but consumers don’t seem to be taking much notice, a new study by customer experience strategy, design and research company Fifth Quadrant has found, with businesses blamed for not being where the customer is. The report titled ‘Emerging Consumer Channels: Social Media, Web Chat and Smartphone Apps’ has found that more than two-thirds of businesses were using some form of social media to communicate with customers, but only one third of those customers using the channel returned over the past three months. The issue seems to lie in which sites are popular with consumers versus which sites businesses are predominantly using, suggests the report....
...On the one hand, stakeholders need to know what they are getting out of social media, but on the other, we can’t allow either the analysts or the critics to mislead our clients, because at the very least, it makes everyone’s job harder and doesn’t move marketing forward. This is something I call bromarketing – a variation of the broscience that is popular in the weight lifting space. Bring in the experts! BlitzLocal CEO Dennis Yu, genius marketer Ian Lurie, EdgeRank expert Chad Wittman, Social Nerdia founder & Sprinklr director and strategist Esteban Contreras, and awesome marketing podcast host and consultant Bob Knorpp were kind enough to help me look at measuring and valuing social media based on their experience and knowledge....
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The current state of the media universe presents a bounty of boundless choice to today’s consumer. Like the cosmos, which is contemplated much in current times, the proliferation of devices and the abundance of media choices is presenting endless options for the consumer and endless challenges and opportunities for the marketer. Nielsen is reaching new frontiers by totaling up audiences across devices and burgeoning viewing platforms. Consumer engagement is reaching new heights.
The data used in this graphic is inclusive of multicultural audiences. Hispanic consumer audiences are composed of both English and Spanish speaking representative populations....
If it’s research-backed or numbers-driven, sign me up. These actionable tips are what drive a lot of our experiments at Buffer as we’re keen to see if the best advice from these studies meshes with our experience, too.
And there’s a lot of new info to go off of.I’ve collected 10 of the latest surprising, revealing studies on social media here in this post, with takeaways and insight into social media timing, Instagram sharing, Facebook users, and more....
Experian Marketing Services released its 2014 Digital Marketer Report, with the theme of “becoming a cross-channel marketing mastermind.” The report, available for download here, is an extensive analysis of the landscape as it currently sits for digital marketers in 2014.
This is the sixth iteration of the report, which runs over 100 pages and is chock-full of digital imperatives. For travel brand marketers working towards planning their next fiscal year budgets in the coming months, this report also reveals some key areas of shifting focus. Here are some of the benchmarks and trends being tracked in the report – this is only a taste, as the report is truly extensive in benchmarking scope....
As of May 2013, almost three quarters (72%) of online U.S. adults use social networking sites, up from 67% in late 2012. When we first started asking about social networking sites in February 2005, just 8% of online adults said they used social networking sites.In addition to asking about general usage of social networking sites in our current survey, we included a stand-alone question about Twitter and found that 18% of online adults are now Twitter users. This is roughly double the 8% of online adults who used Twitter in November 2010, the first time we asked about Twitter as a stand-alone platform.
Today, social networking site use is a major activity for internet users from a wide range of demographic groups. Younger adults are especially avid adopters, but social networking continues to grow in popularity for older adults as well. Six out of ten internet users ages 50-64 are social networking site users, as are 43% of those ages 65 and older....
Content is the fuel of social interaction on the Web: Nearly one-quarter (23%) of all social media messages and one-half (47%) of industry-specific social messages contain links to content, according to a new study by AOL and Nielsen. The amount of content shared via social media varies by channel: - 42% of all Twitter posts contain content-sharing links; 73% of Twitter posts related to a specific industry (auto, tech, finance, and entertainment) contain sharing links. - 41% of all blog posts contain content-sharing links; 64% of industry-specific blog posts contain such links. - 12% of all Facebook posts contain content content-sharing links; 22% of industry-specific Facebook posts contain such links....
LinkedIn is the most popular social media tool among the nation's fastest-growing private companies, according to a study by the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth, Center for Marketing Research, under the direction of researcher Nora Ganim Barnes, PhD. More than 8 in 10 companies listed on the 2012 Inc. 500 (81% of them) use the professional networking site, up from 73% a year earlier. Meanwhile, the proportion of Inc. 500 companies using Facebook has declined, from 74% in 2011, to 67% in 2012....
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