- Marketing And Tech Spending Are Rising This Year: CMO Council Survey
Marketing Daily, Ray Schultz - Friday, January 22, 2021
Two-thirds of all brands are budgeting more, and only a fourth are cutting staff, a study by the CMO Council finds. ...
- Challenging Advertisers, Budgets Creep Monthly, Rather Than Yearly
Inside Performance, Laurie Sullivan - Thursday, January 21, 2021
The data shared Thursday by Analyst Aaron Kessler marks the beginning of challenges that advertisers will face this year -- not only as the U.S. tries to recover from ...
- Survey: 46% Of SMBs Believe Recovery Will Start In June
Search & Performance Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Tuesday, January 19, 2021
More small and medium-sized businesses expect to increase their marketing efforts this year. Those planning to spend more will increase media buying by 35%, according to data released Tuesday ...
- ABM Sick Days: B2B Brands Change Their Budgets, Strategies Due To COVID-19
Email Insider, Ray Schultz - Friday, January 15, 2021
But ABM now gets 27% of the average B2B marketing budget, the ABM Leadership Alliance reports. ...
- Ad Spend Hallelujah: Forecast Sees Big Growth For Online
Email Insider, Ray Schultz - Thursday, January 14, 2021
Winterberry Growth forecasts a 10% increase in overall ad spending -- and 17.8% for online. ...
- Pinterest A Safe Haven For Brands As They Reportedly Cut Budgets Amidst Turmoil
Search & Performance Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Thursday, January 7, 2021
Facebook, Snapchat, and Twitter will feel the recoil as brands pull ad budgets amidst negative news reports and posts on platforms. But not all social media platforms see their use ...
- Customers For Life: LTV Is Now The Top Ecommerce Metric, Study Shows
Email Insider, Ray Schultz - Thursday, January 7, 2021
Most brands are increasing their ecommerce budgets and headcounts this year, Namogoo and Astound Commerce report. ...
- Operation Marketing Tech: What Brands Are Looking For, And How They're Doing
Email Insider, Ray Schultz - Thursday, December 17, 2020
The biggest obstacle when implementing marketing technology is budget. But most firms are succeeding, Ascend2 reports. ...
- IAB 2021: Media Buyers Focus On Performance, View Data Privacy, Ad Tracking As Top Challenges
Search & Performance Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Wednesday, December 16, 2020
Cause-related and mission-based advertising rose late in Q1 and in Q2 2020, while marketers latched on to performance marketing in Q3, the IAB report found. With representatives from brands a ...
- IAB Finds Most 2021 Ad Budgets Either 'Ballpark' Or Flexible
Research Intelligencer, Joe Mandese - Tuesday, December 15, 2020
Only 10% of advertisers and agency media planning and buying executives surveyed by the IAB last month say their ad budgets for 2021 are firm for the entire year, whi ...
- Pandemic Reality Check: Business Leaders, Email Pros Disagree On Recovery, Success
Email Insider, Ray Schultz - Wednesday, December 9, 2020
Most global leaders say marketing budgets will return to normal in 2021, but few email practitioners agree, SparkPost reports. ...
- Almost Half Of Firms Increase Their Digital Customer Experience Budgets: Study
Email Marketing Daily, Ray Schultz - Monday, November 30, 2020
Authenticity is the biggest driver of engagement, followed by personalization, Gatepoint Research reports. ...
- B2B Tech Firms Cut Marketing Budgets Due To Pandemic: Study
Email Marketing Daily, Ray Schultz - Wednesday, October 28, 2020
Less than 10% are increasing their spend, with enterprise software suppliers most likely to face cuts, 10Fold reports. ...
- Study Finds 'Digital Retail Advertising' Cannibalizing More Established Ad Budgets
MediaDailyNews, Joe Mandese - Thursday, October 22, 2020
A big factor driving digital's increasing share of overall ad budgets is the acceleration of "digital retail advertising," which a new study from Advertiser Perceptions finds is drawing from a ...
- Holiday Ad Spending Starts Early As Brands And Retailers Face Concerns Over Shipping Capacity
Search & Performance Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Monday, October 19, 2020
Some companies expect the budget allocations to run heavier earlier in the season and less as the holiday season approaches. ...
- Budgets For Local OTT, CTV Advertising Taking Media Dollars From Broadcast, Cable TV, Other Media
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Thursday, October 15, 2020
Among the agency execs Borrell surveyed, 57% said budgets for OTT and CTV ad buys came from broadcast TV and 42% cited cable tv, with radio at 25%, print ...
- Local Agency Study Finds OTT Buys Being Funded From Conventional TV Budgets
Research Intelligencer, Joe Mandese - Tuesday, October 13, 2020
A number of recent studies, including recent Wall Street analysts' reports, indicate OTT has been a major beneficiary of shifting media mixes during the COVID-19 pandemic. Preliminary findings from Borrell ...
- OpenX Releases Data On Ad Placements, Budgets For The Holiday Season In A Year Of COVID-19
Search & Performance Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Wednesday, October 7, 2020
Marketers have spent the last several months recalibrating their strategies to fit consumer behaviors, despite taking drastic Q2 budget cuts. Budgets are rising for the holiday quarter, according to Ope ...
- B2B Mixology: Email Is Most Used Channel As Marketing Spend Goes Up
Email Insider, Ray Schultz - Tuesday, October 6, 2020
Email is second as a source of leads, behind referrals, but it is far from the top budget item, Sagefrog reports. ...
- Performance Marketing, How Marketers Use It And What They Plan To Spend
Inside Performance, Laurie Sullivan - Tuesday, October 6, 2020
The best performance-marketing channels are not always the most obvious, as survey results from Ascend2 on budgets and the most effective channels reveal. ...
- Gartner: Balancing Marketing Budgets In The COVID-19 Era
Search & Performance Marketing Daily, Ewan McIntyre - Thursday, October 1, 2020
What you spend says so much more than what you intend. Budgetary commitment measures get to the heart of marketing strategies and the stories that underpin them. 2020 has be ...
- Words Count: Brands Say COVID-19 Makes Language More Important
Email Insider, Ray Schultz - Tuesday, September 29, 2020
CEOs are paying more attention to content. And some are investing in AI to do the writing, Phrasee reports. ...
- European Travel Marketers Face Budget Cuts: Report
Marketing Daily, Ray Schultz - Friday, September 25, 2020
Most destination marketing organizations have had their budgets cut. And they want politicians to help them. ...
- Nielsen Launches Global Campaign Outcomes Database
Digital News Daily, Karlene Lukovitz - Thursday, September 17, 2020
Nielsen says the Compass database "democratizes" outcome measurement and ROI metrics on a global basis, to enable rapid optimization of campaign media spend by country and across TV, digital vide ...
- Merkle: Brands Increase Online Ad Budgets, Concerned About FedEx, UPS Holiday Meltdown
Search & Performance Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Wednesday, September 16, 2020
"Never before has the uncertainty around logistics been in the forefront of their mind," said Matt Mierzejewski, SVP, search capability lead, Merkle. "They're also thinking about the types of produc ...
- Borrell: Ad Budgets Restart As Small And Mid-Sized Businesses Feel Better About Economy
Inside Performance, Laurie Sullivan - Wednesday, September 16, 2020
The feeling of doom continues to wane. About 56% of SMBs surveyed cited significant negative impacts in March and April vs. 34% in August. Half still feel the business clima ...
- Google Shares Exclusive Data On How B2B Buyers Changed, Adapted During COVID-19
Search & Performance Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Monday, September 14, 2020
Marketers have doubled their use of digital during the pandemic, compared with sales and offline marketing channels. Their use of online marketing has increased by 88% of which 45% beg ...
- 'Buy-Side' Survey Projects U.S. Ad Spending Will Decline 8% This Year, Rise 5.3% Next Year
Research Intelligencer, Joe Mandese - Wednesday, September 2, 2020
As of early August, advertisers and agency executives responsible for setting ad budgets projected the U.S. ad economy would decline 8.0% this year, but would rebound 5.3% in 2021. That ...
- Email Superstar: Channel Seen As A Top Engagement Tool, Post COVID-19
Email Insider, Ray Schultz - Tuesday, August 4, 2020
Email ranks only behind social in producing conversions and engagement, Chief Marketer reports. ...
- B2B Buying In A Pandemic: Sellers Must Be Alert To Threats, Study Shows
Email Insider, Ray Schultz - Friday, July 31, 2020
Most B2B buyers are shifting their wallet share -- both a risk and an opportunity for vendors, Pros.com reports. ...
