282 Marketing Trends found for Consumer Trends

... 3% in 2017 and 58% in 2016.

The spread of smartphones and other mobile devices is increasing the number of contacts between brands and consumers, by giving consumers new opportunities to connect to media content wherever they are, at any time in the day.

Some of these contacts take the form of paid advertising in third-party content, but mobile technology is also enabling broader brand experiences, such as branded content and social media engagement.

Western Europe and Asia Pacific continue to lead the world in smartphone ownership. Zenith predicts that predict that five markets will have smartphone penetration above 90% in 2018: the Netherlands (94%), Taiwan (93%), Hong Kong (92%), Norway and Ireland (each at 91%).

Moreover, eleven markets will have penetration levels between 80% and 90%, all of them in Western Europe and Asia Pacific with the exception of Israel, where penetration will be 86%.

The country with the highest number of smartphone users will be China, with 1.3bn users, followed by India, with 530 million users. The USA will come third, with 229 million users.

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... finally come to an end.

​According to a report by Associated Press auto writer Tom Krisher, the auto industry isn't worried.

It's making solid money selling reams of SUVs and trucks to consumers who are loading up on expensive features. But some analysts see large inventories of cars as a looming problem. Car sales were down almost 11%, although truck and SUV sales rose 5.2%, reports  Autodata Corp.

Hyundai suffered the biggest decline at 8%, followed by Ford at 7.5%, as popular car models such as the Sonata and Fusion suffered big decreases. Fiat Chrysler sales tumbled 5%t, while Toyota fell 2% and Honda just under 1%.

However, Nissan sales rose over 3%, while Volkswagen gained just under 3% and General Motors posted an increase of just under 2%, all helped by SUV sales.

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...  an outdated indicator of attitude and behaviour.

Posits Mr Mulholland: "Following a major new research study it is clear to us that age can no longer be taken as a short-cut to the attitudes, beliefs and motivations of any given age group".

"In fact, attitudes usually vary within the confines of a single demographic group more than they do across generations.

The Gild's recent Generation Study revealed that only 25% of consumers match a traditional age profile, thereby posing the question: Is 75% of targeting wrong?

Over half (59%) of Generation Z respondents describe their attitudes as being between ‘conservative’ and ‘moderate’ on issues including same-sex marriage, transgender rights and marijuana legislation.

Comments Mulholland: "Look at the data at a superficial level and we conclude they’re a conservative generation. Look more deeply and yes, more than expected are conservative, but plenty are not; some are extremely liberal".

"It’s also important to bear in mind that they’re currently of an age where they’re exploring their opinions and attitudes, so much could change, very quickly".

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... 70,000 internet users in fifty-seven nations. 

Usage of newer social platforms is growing rapidly, but over a quarter of internet users worldwide say they "actively ignore" social posts or content from brands.

Twenty-six percent of global survey respondents claim they "went out of their way" to avoid branded content, a figure that rose to 57% in Sweden and Denmark. Scepticism was rather less marked in Saudi Arabia (15%) and Brazil (19%).

Notes the report: "Although social platforms start out ad-free, focusing initially on growing the number of users, the need to monetise inevitably leads to the introduction of ads".

The report also identifies other problems for brands, citing in example the fact that consumers feel increasingly bombarded by the presence of brands on social platforms, with 34% of the survey sample saying they feel "constantly followed" by online advertising.

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... the way in which the Ad, TV, and Video trades produce, distribute and traffics that content.

The consequences of this trend have created confusion, inefficiency and challenging new kinds of workflow among advertisers, agencies and the media.

In the first industry-wide initiative to tackle technical standards and formats associated with this rapidly changing marketplace, a joint venture of the Association of National Advertisers [ANA]and its agency counterpart, the 4As, has spearheaded a coalition of the advertising, TV and digital media industry’s leading technical groups to create standards and best practices for managing video assets in a non-linear world.

The effort - which is supported by nine trade groups, including the ANA, the 4As and the Interactive Advertising Bureau - is the brainchild of Harold Geller, chief growth officer of Ad-ID, the ANA/4As joint venture that created an indelible digital code enabling advertisers, agencies, producers and the media to traffic vital metadata associated with TV and video ad campaigns regardless of whichever platform they ultimately end up on.

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... it is.

But the IAB also sees consumer disruption as an opportunity for marketers to look at themselves honestly and fully: "To deeply reflect on our practices, methods and technologies in order to come together and chart the best path forward as a community."

Programmatic commands the majority of digital adspend, effectively bringing about the marriage of creative and data.

Despite programmatic's lack of sexiness, it's a sophisticated way to target consumers across ad formats, channels and devices. As an industry, we've spent the last decade building programmatic buying and targeting foundation.

Now, however, how does the ad industry make room for storytelling, and how do we create and deploy compelling storytelling at scale? How do we build out the creative tools and services for the programmatic ecosystem? And how do we continue to pave the way for higher function buying?

Concludes the IAB: "Despite its lack of sexiness, programmatic is a sophisticated way to target consumers across ad formats, channels and devices".

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... an essential component of this development.

However, the worldwide adoption of ecommerce is also an important factor, given that the proportion of internet users who shop online rose to 30% in 2015.

The survey findings are based on 16,000 face-to-face interviews with consumers from nine emerging economies: Brazil, China, India, Indonesia, Mexico, Russia, Saudi Arabia, South Africa and Turkey.

The report identified India as the"biggest ecommerce opportunity", noting that "the average Indian respondent's income has increased by double-digits compared with a decline for the [emerging market] average, although income expectations going forward have moderated."

However, it is in China that younger consumers have really made an impact, the survey reporting that shoppers aged between 20 and 30 are expected to contribute to 35% of the country's total consumption over the next five years, up from the current figure of just 15%.

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... the mid-or-late 1990s to 2010 and onward to circa 2025.

G-Zers contradictory attitudes and habits while their culture is ever changing.

Such traits make long-term planning problematic according to Warc's Toolkit 2016, which quotes one researcher as saying five years is too far ahead ahead.

The age group's sometimes contrary nature is evident in the research which found 86% of GZ-ers use their smartphone several times a day, while  79% agree that people of their age spend too much time on digital devices.

Moreover 69% watch more than two hours of television daily, while 70% say they watch more than two hours of YouTube content daily.

Despite these apparent contradictions, there are some things that can be confidently stated about "Generation Swipe", including its affinity with digital technology.

Research conducted in Asia also suggests that access to technology by GZ-ers  is shaping not just media consumption but friendships and entire lives: in Vietnam, half of this age group said they felt most comfortable communicating via chat apps or text.

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... penetration will reach 55.7% this year.

This fourth edition of ZenithOptimedia’s annual New Media Forecasts report provides snapshots of the current state of digital marketing in forty-seven countries, covering topics such as internet access, media consumption and online behaviour, and forecasts the rise of internet connections and smartphone and tablet technology.

The Asia Pacific and Western European nations lead smartphone and tablet adoption, while smartphone adoption is highest in the Asia Pacific and Western European regions.

Zenith expects these regions to maintain their lead for the next few years. Of the forty-seven markets studied, Singapore has the highest level of smartphone penetration, with 89.0% at the end of 2014. Zenith expects this will leap to 97.0% by 2018 as the government pushes ahead with its plan for universal Wi-Fi access.

Spain and Ireland follow close behind, with 86.7% and 83.0% penetration in 2014 respectively.

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...  traditional marketing segments.

Although some demographic groups continue to show a strong affinity with particular brands, they are often not the ones marketers would naturally expect.

The study of 1,500 UK consumers, conducted by London-based Network Research, examines the way in which people relate to some of the UK’s most popular brands based on rational and emotional attitudes. This, the company claims, reveals an alternative view on traditional age, gender, income and social grade segmentation.

More significantly, it also suggests that consumers might be better targeted by their attitudes and gives examples of sectors that might need to alter the way they think about audiences.

One such example is TSB, which historically had an older, financially conservative audience prior to its merger with Lloyds Bank in 1995, whereas the research shows that early adopters heavily favour the relaunched company, which offers an opportunity to think less conservatively about channel and product propositions.

The study also shows that people with the highest concerns about security of their personal data are aged over 65. A substantial majority (89.7%) of whom say they are worried. This will not come as a surprise, but personal security concerns also score highly (83.4%) among those aged 25 to 34.

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