Are programmatic budgets being held back by poor measurement?

The majority of advertisers think that being able to more effectively measure the success of campaigns would allow them to justify additional investment in programmatic.

Infectious Media surveyed 214 decision-making marketers who are engaged in programmatic and have budgets of over $100,000. The respondents had programmatic remits in EMEA, APAC or North America, and 90% agreed that better measurement would make justifying increased investment easier.

66% reported that...

27 March 2018 | Programmatic

Location-based mobile ads drive double the engagement of generic

New research by Verve has shown that consumers are twice as likely to engage with mobile ads that utilise location data then they would with generic ads.

The company surveyed 2,000 UK adults also found that mobile ads related to user hobbies and interests perform much better than generic mobile ads. Of those surveyed who have engaged with mobile ads, 33% said they would engage with one that was related to something or somewhere they planned for the future.

The rewards are...

26 March 2018 | Mobile Marketing

Report says brands need to wake up to ‘dramatically shifting’ needs of children

Brands that sell products to children need to make sure that they understand the “dramatically shifting” environment that young people are growing up in.

20,000 UK children were surveyed as part of the latest Future Forecasts report form the research agency Kids Insights. Among the key changes that brands need to consider are technological changes, the evolving demands of younger consumers, the rise of YouTube stars and the increasing demand for gender neutral...

23 March 2018 | Advertising

Consumers don’t mind ads on mobile, as long as they are optimised properly

Ads can be annoying, especially on mobile. But, according to research IAB UK the main source of annoyance for consumers using mobile is not the ads themselves, but the fact that a lot of them aren’t optimised for the format.

12,000 UK adults were asked about their feelings towards mobile advertising, and the vast majority of them are in favour of ads in order to keep online content free. 84% prefer ads to paying for an ad-free experience.

“A sustainable future is...

22 March 2018 | Advertising

Try-before-you-buy trend will see retailers face ‘returns tsunami’

As online companies continue to exert an ever greater influence over the consumer products market, a new trend has emerged that could be dangerous for unprepared retailers. The last year has seen companies like ASOS, Topman and schuh introduce try-before-you-buy options for consumers.

ASOS is a leading pioneer of this kind of approach, introducing their try-before-you-buy initiative in November 2017 in partnership with payment company Klarna. The scheme, which has been adopted by...

21 March 2018 | E-Commerce

Live chat bots and chat-bots edge out email

Technology is not only changing the way that brands interact with their customers, it also seems to be opening a gig generational gap between customers themselves. New research from Narvar and YouGov shows that contacting a company via email is falling out of favour with younger consumers.

The survey of 2,994 UK consumers, all of whom had bought something online in the previous six months, showed that millennials are 20% less likely to contact a retailer via email than baby...

20 March 2018 | Customer Experience

Forrester: 15% of marketers currently GDPR compliant

GDPR is getting really close now, and a new report by Forrester suggests that only a small minority of B2B marketing confident that their organisation is currently fully compliant with the new requirements.  

The company interviewed 66 B2B marketing professionals in January and found that 15% think that are completely ready for implementation day on May 25. 18% have not yet settled on a strategy going forward, while the majority consider themselves to be partially...

19 March 2018 | Data-driven marketing

IAB: digital display raises brand awareness by up to 12%

The Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) has realeased the results of its meta-analysis into the effectiveness of digital display advertising campaigns.

The report, created in collaboration with Kantar Millward Brown, OnDevice Research and Research and Analysis of Media (RAM), looked at the results from 675 individual campaigns from 2008 through to 2017.

The metrics used to measure how well campaigns performed were brand awareness, brand perception, education and sales...

16 March 2018 | Advertising

Twitter suspends some of its most popular accounts for rules violations

Over the weekend, Twitter suspended a number of accounts to a violation of its spam rules and for copyright issues. Some of the accounts, which included @GirlPosts, @SoDamnTrue and @commonwhitegiri, were hugely popular.

GirlPosts, for example, had 9.8 million followers and was listed by Statweestics as the sixth most popular account of 2017, beating out such notables as CNN, Fox News and  Harry Styles. The account was pulling in around 20 million likes and six million retweets a...

15 March 2018 | Content Marketing

Google took down 3.2 billion ads in 2017

Google has detailed the type of ‘bad ads’ that it targeted for removal from its platform in 2017. The data was released as part of the company’s fifth annual report on ads that violated its conditions.

The company claims to have removed over 3.2 billion ads in 2017, way up from the 700 million it reported in 2015. That equates to over 100 ads being taken down per second.

The main type of bad ads targeted for removal were websites duplicating content from other...

14 March 2018 | Advertising Technology