The way B2B companies do business has evolved. With more emphasis being put on digital transformation that has only been exacerbated by COVID-19 and changing customer behaviors, B2B decision-makers are changing as well, as a younger generation takes their seat at the...
Regulatory Charts
Video Advertisers Say They’re Not Yet Effectively Reaching the Right Audiences
Some 8 in 10 US advertisers agree on the importance of reaching the right audience with their video ad efforts, but significantly fewer feel that they are able to do this effectively, finds Xandr in its 2020 Relevance Report [pdf]. Here’s a look at how advertisers are...
CDP Users See Benefits to Online Sales
Some 75% of marketers experience a reduction in time managing customer data as a result of their customer data platform (CDP). This is just one of the many benefits to be gained from CDPs as established in a new report [pdf] from Advertiser Perceptions and Treasure...
Retention Now A Bigger Personalization Priority Than Acquisition
About three-quarters (74%) of e-commerce leaders say their company has a website personalization strategy in place. During COVID-19, customer retention has become the motivation behind the website personalization strategy for many of these companies. This is according...
Which Marketing Responsibilities Will Be More Important in 5 Years’ Time?
Nine in 10 (92%) marketers believe that marketing is vital to the success of their business. Not only that, but a large majority (82%) also feel that the role of marketing is valued in their business, per a new survey [download page] of close to 700 leading marketers...
Marketers Chase First-Party Data More Aggressively
With Europe's GDPR and California's CCPA being in place for some time, marketers are able to take stock of the impact. Fortunately, some two-thirds (67%) of marketers see recent privacy regulations as positively impacting marketing, while 9 in 10 (92%) are confident...
Deletion Requests Most Popular CCPA Demand from Consumers in Q1 2020
When the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) went into effect on January 1, 2020, many affected businesses were not completely prepared for the changes and were short of being compliant with the new regulations. With the first quarter under the new regulations done...
2 in 3 Consumers Consider It A Risk to Give Personal Information to Companies
About 9 in 10 consumers are concerned about the privacy of their data, and 80% report they are more concerned about the privacy of their data than they used to be. Indeed, in a survey [download page] of more than 1,000 US adults, Yes Marketing found that 6 in 10...
Inc. 500 Companies Increase Their Use of Instagram, See Value in Paid Social
Fully 95% of Inc. 500 companies used at least one social media platform in 2019, largely consistent with the year prior (94%). And although LinkedIn and Facebook remain the social media platforms of choice for these fast-growing companies, Instagram adoption is on the...
7 in 10 Consumers Believe They Should Be Compensated for Their Personal Data
Four out of 5 US adults believe it’s very important that their data is kept private. However, far fewer (29%) marketing executives agree to the same extent, per a survey [download page] of 2,000 US adults and 500 marketing executives by Braze. C-suite marketing...
Media Quality Issues Persist: Here’s What Publishers and Agencies Are Doing About It
Poor media quality, including ad fraud, can lead to distrust and eventually threaten brand safety. Some platforms are more susceptible to this than others. In a survey composed mostly of publishers and agencies, Integral Ad Science (IAS) found that programmatic...
Three in 5 Businesses Report a High Level of Maturity in Identifying Customers Across Channels
One of the things that customers say helps them feel like individuals is for companies to recognize their activities across all channels. Business executives appear to understand this, with a study [download [age] from Merkle finding that the majority of marketing...

What Are the Big Trends in Local SEO?
Navigating algorithm updates, platform changes, and new technology appear to be concerns for local marketers this...

Majority of US Households Said to be SVOD “Super Stackers”
More Americans are “stacking” subscription video-on-demand services (SVOD). While 84% of internet users have access to...

What Baby Boomers Want from Brands
Baby Boomers still hold a significant portion of purchase power in the US. Approximately 1 in 6 Americans is...

What Might Be the Biggest SEO Trends Over the Next 3 Years?
Some two-thirds (66.3%) of SEO professionals say they believe Google’s weighted ranking factors vary widely depending...

The Failure to Make Websites Accessible is Leading to More Lawsuits
In a time when large companies are having substantial fines levied on them for breaching GDPR regulations, it’s...

Cross-Channel Measurement and Attribution to Keep Marketers Busy in 2019
As marketers continue personalizing the customer experience, one of their biggest challenges is telling the right...