Ad Spend Down But Not Out Earlier this month, eMarketer updated its global advertising forecast, writing down spend levels due to the impact of COVID-19. Jasmine Enberg, eMarketer Senior Analyst “In 2020, we expect total media ad spending worldwide will reach $691.7 billion, up by 7.0% from 2019. That’s a decrease from our previous forecast […]
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Ad Disapprovals & Spam Notifications Explode As Facebook AI Struggles Surging consumer usage and moderation challenges are likely to spell trouble this week for communicators on Facebook and Instagram, according to Mark Zuckerberg. With unprecedented numbers of people working from home, deciding to stay home, forced into self-isolation or being out-of-work, time online is mushrooming.
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Instagram Rolls Out Red Carpet For Creators In YouTube Challenge Instagram advertising is growing gangbusters. Despite being a fraction of the size of YouTube (YouTube reaches circa 80% of web using Aussies and Kiwis to Insta's 55%), Instagram advertising dominates its much bigger rival, in terms of marketing investment. In 2019, Instagram was estimated to
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Social Media Audience Fatigue Is A Silent Campaign Killer Audience fatigue is a real issue when running social media campaigns. Unlike, say, within search. After all, how many times a year do you search "cheap flights to London"? Search, be it paid or organic, tends to unlock fresh audiences daily, which is why Google Ads
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Facebook Engagement Remains Flat, While Instagram Drops 23% Social media engagement is a fickle beast. Not only does it vary between channels. No surprises there. But, it also varies considerably between industries. As the latest version of Rival IQs annual Social Media Industry Benchmark Report makes clear. The data draws on the social media performance of
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Reddit Is Fast Becoming A Serious Marketing Channel Reddit is one of marketing’s great underutilised opportunities. According to Alexa, it’s the fifth top digital property in both Australia and New Zealand. Only trailing the big three, Google, Facebook and YouTube in Australia. While in NZ, it trails the same, plus Trade Me. In December, Reddit
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For 60+ Second Facebook Vids, Users Watch <5% On AVG Socialbakers most recent data makes grim reading for social media marketers. Confirming suspicions that many in the industry have long harboured… Facebook video is not quite as good as it’s made out to be. To put it mildly. According to Socialbakers 2019 Q4 Trends Report,
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LinkedIn Trialling Ephermeral Stories Feature Social Stories have been one of the defining social media product themes over the past few years. Originally created by Snapchat in 2013. Instagram cloned in 2016. Facebook emulated in 2017. WhatsApp spun off Status in the same year. YouTube launched its version in late 2018. So did Google. Pinterest
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Profile 'Featured' Section Highlights Achievements & More LinkedIn is nowadays to white collar workers, what Instagram is to Married At First Sight rejects. A conduit to leveraging and building personal brand equity, of which they can hopefully dine out for many moons to come. Who knows, maybe get a sweet gig on commercial radio. Or
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September 2019 Launch Pushed Back To February 2020 Last year I wrote about the impending launch of Facebook’s Campaign Budget Optimisation (CBO), which was scheduled to begin rolling out for all in September 2019. Launched initially as an optional budgeting tool in 2017, the feature supposedly helps give businesses an easier way to manage their
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