Both inflation and drops overall in TV ratings weighed down the TV spend. Magna Global said that TV dollars will fall or be flat this year, too. That’s because brands are following consumers, and as eyeballs continue to turn to online video and second screens, brands move their money.
Case in point: the automotive category now devotes about half of its media spend online, according to an advertising report from Borrell Associates. Overall, automotive accounts for $35.5 billion in ad dollars. More evidence of the shift in consumption came in a new report from FreeWheel that found that digital video ad views grew 30% in 2014, and digital video views rose 27% last year.
Consider how much habits are changing from only a few years ago. In 2011, about 95% of the time that U.S. adults spent with video was on TV, and that number dropped to about 83% last year, eMarketer said in a recent report.
The latest Nielsen tally for all adults shows 36 hours per week as the per-capita dosage of live plus delayed viewing, with an additional1.6 hours of video exposure on smartphones or other Internet video platforms. Therefore, the latter accounts for only 4% of video viewing. Perhaps some other forms of "video" consumption are included in the calculation in the last paragraph, above.---possibly videogames or DVD/Blue-Ray? Just curious.