Statistics: Social Media
Social shorts: TikTok under fire for discrimination, Facebook enforces special ads restrictions, Twitter expands Brand Surveys
The social media marketing week in review: A round up of news and announcements you may have...
Social now dominates $57.3 billion U.S. programmatic display market
In-app targeting that doesn't rely on third-party cookies has helped social (namely, Facebook) leap over open web programmatic buying....
Social shorts: Facebook gets a status monitor, YouTube adds Neilsen data to TV, TikTok hits 1.5 billion downloads
The social media marketing week in review: A round up of news and announcements you may have...
LivePerson adds social and email to its conversational platform
EmailConnect and SocialConnect allow marketers to switch to the customer's preferred channel from a single user...
Facebook ad impressions rise, driven by News Feed, Instagram Stories and Feed ads
Facebook CFO confirmed an increase in ad load on Instagram as a result of product optimizations. ...
Social media ad spend to surpass print for first time
Social media will own 13% of global ad spend in 2019, according to a Zenith forecast....
Report: There’s almost no correlation between online and offline consumer conversations
Brands can’t rely on “social media listening” as a proxy for broader consumer sentiment...
Time spent on Facebook, Snapchat remains flat, but Instagram sees growth
eMarketer has downgraded its forecast for the amount of time people will spend daily on Facebook this year by 2...
Facebook lost 15 million users? Marketers remain unfazed
Despite reported declines, advertisers say they aren't seeing an impact on campaigns (and that fixating on audience numbers isn't helpful...
Do brand politics impact consumer purchases? It’s complicated
Multiple variables may affect how consumers react to brands that take a stand....
IAB: Digital ad revenues could exceed $100 billion for first time in 2018
Growth continues, driven by mobile. Social and video see double-digit, if flattening, growth....
6 of the best social listening tools for 2019
In your personal life, reading people’s minds is a questionable superpower; but the business benefits of being able to listen in on people’s...
Survey: Social commerce held back by security, privacy concerns
However social media influence on purchases via other channels is strong....
Estimate: Video now 25 percent of all US digital advertising, Facebook the top site
Facebook roughly 2X of YouTube when looking at net video revenue, according to eMarketer....
Report: Digital now makes up 51% of US ad spending
Search, social and video where the formats and channels that lead the way. Finance, Pharma and Technology were the big vertical spenders....
Pinterest says it has 250 million active monthly users
The social media platform touts more than 175 billion pins, up 75 percent over last year....
Pew survey finds marked decline in Facebook user engagement since March
Just over half have also adjusted their privacy settings....
Attention + intensity: Tips for navigating the new age of media strategy
Contributor Mark Williams says marketers must evolve the metrics they monitor to keep up with the changing media-consumption environment....
IAB says digital ad revenues up 21% to $88B in 2017. Left unsaid: The duopoly dominated that growth
Mobile grew 36 percent year over year to $49.9 billion, accounting for 57 percent of overall digital ad revenues in the US....
SMB marketing survey finds only 3% use outside agency or vendor
Messaging and SEO seen as most effective digital tactics, Snapchat easiest to execute...