Pay TV Subscribers’ Use of TV Everywhere, by Offering
Source: GfK Notes: A slight majority – 53% – of consumers (aged 13-64) living in pay-TV households have used TV Everywhere (TVE) to watch programs on a computer, mobile device or TV set, reports GfK,...
View ArticleConsumers’ Main Reason For Unsubscribing From Marketing Emails
Source: Fluent [download page] Notes: Email frequency continues to be the main culprit in email unsubscribing behavior, according to a survey from Fluent in which 35% of respondents said that receiving...
View ArticleUS Ad Spend Trends, by Medium, in Q3 2015
Source: Kantar Media Notes: Advertiser spending on the media platforms tracked by Kantar Media declined by 3.9% in Q3, the same rate of decline as seen in Q2, as 16 of the 22 measured media types...
View ArticleGoogle’s Top Trending Searches of 2015, and Other Year-in-Review Lists
Lamar Odom – the former NBA star and more recent subject of a reality TV series – emerged as the top trending search of the year both in the US and globally, says Google in its year in review. Unlike...
View ArticleUS Insurance Ownership, by Generation
Source: Nielsen [download page] Notes: Auto insurance ownership is consistent across generations, exceeding 80% in each case, per data contained in a recent Nielsen report. Millennials are less likely...
View ArticleConsumers Continue to Have Little Trust in Advertising Practitioners’ Ethical...
Source: Gallup Notes: Just 1 in 10 US adults rate the honestly and ethical standards of advertising practitioners as high or very high, according to a Gallup poll, on par with last year’s results (10%)...
View ArticlePay-TV Penetration, by Age and Income
Source: Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project [pdf] Notes: Some 76% of American adults report subscribing to pay-TV service at home, while 15% say they are cord-cutters and the...
View ArticleDemographic Stats About Millennials in 2015
Source: Nielsen [download page] Notes: Millennials (born 1977-1995; ages 21-38) represent 24% of the US population, according to data contained in a recent Nielsen report. Millennials tend to have...
View ArticleWhy Do Consumers Share Content Online?
Almost two-thirds (64%) of consumers surveyed across 6 countries – including three-quarters in the US – share content online, per new data shared by Adobe from its State of Content report [pdf]. Among...
View ArticleUS Home Broadband Service Adoption, by Demographic
Source: Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project [pdf] Notes: The percentage of American adults with broadband service at home has plateaued, reports the Pew Research Center in a...
View ArticleEmail Marketers’ Most Important Initiatives in 2016
Source: StrongView [pdf] Notes: Email marketers are much more focused on increasing subscriber engagement in the year ahead than they are on growing their list, per results from a recent Strongview...
View ArticleWho Owns Smart Home Technology?
Source: Coldwell Banker Notes: Close to half (45%) of American adults either own smart home technology or plan to invest in it in 2016, according to a survey conducted by Coldwell Banker. Among the...
View ArticleB2B Marketers’ Most Commonly Used Video Types
Source: Regalix [download page] Notes: Corporate videos (76%) and product demos (64%) are the most popular video formats used by B2B marketers, according to a recent Regalix survey of 364 senior B2B...
View ArticleTop 10 TV Advertising Brands of 2015
Source: Ace Metrix Notes: Google continues to air creative ads on national TV, according to Ace Metrix’s latest rundown of the “Brands of the Year,” which lists the brands that aired the most effective...
View ArticleTop 25 Marketing Charts of 2015
2015 brought with it the emergence of new trends along with the continuation and acceleration of others. This collection of our most popular charts of 2015 covers some of the year’s biggest stories and...
View Article2015 Sets New Peak for North American Box Office Revenues
Source: Rentrak Notes: North American box office revenues exceeded $11 billion on December 29, 2015, making 2015 the first year for that threshold to be reached, per Rentrak. With a projected $11.1...
View ArticleHow Do Different Generations Perceive Key US Institutions?
In some cases, there are marked variations in the views that American generations have of key institutions in the US, according to a new survey analysis from the Pew Research Center. For example,...
View ArticleDigital Publishers’ Most Notable Media Trend of 2015
Source: Parse.ly Notes: The most notable trend in digital media last year was mobile overtaking desktop traffic, per results from a recent Parse.ly survey of hundreds of media companies around the...
View ArticleAs the Mobile Market Matures, What’s the Outlook for Consumer Tech?
Mobile application usage – defined as the number of mobile application sessions, where a user opens an app and records a session – increased by 58% in 2015, reports Flurry in its latest annual report...
View ArticleTotal Dollar Value of FSI Coupon Distributions Grew By 3.7% in 2015
Source: Kantar Media Notes: The number of free standing insert (FSI) coupons distributed in 2015 remained relatively steady (+0.2%) at 286 billion despite an 8.1% decline in total pages distributed (to...
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