43 Marketing Trends found for Media / Radio

... positive momentum for global advertising expenditure in 2013 and 2014.

Carat predicts global advertising expenditure will grow by +3% in 2013, a slight decline from the +3.7% predicted in March 2013, and global advertising spend forecast for 2014 will grow by +4.5%, also down fractionally from the previous forecast of +5.0% in March 2013.

A full recovery to positive growth in all regions in 2014 is predicted.

After two consecutive years of market decline, Western Europe is predicted to experience a slow and gradual recovery even in markets registering double digit decline in 2013, such as Greece and Portugal.

Commenting on the Carat forecasts, Jerry Buhlmann CEO of Aegis Media and Dentsu Aegis Network, said:

"Carat's latest adspend forecasts highlight the positive momentum and global growth for 2013, a year which has proven extremely challenging for some markets to maintain their 2012 ad spend levels, in light of the poor recovery of the global economy.

"In parallel to this, the new trend of a three-speed world is reinforced, with the rates of growth in the faster growing markets remaining ahead of steadily recovering markets, such as the US, followed by the struggling Eurozone markets.

"Looking ahead, Carat's forecasts do however predict that we are at a significant point of change with all regions expected to see a steady recovery in 2014, even those currently experiencing deep declines for 2013.

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... smart data strategies in place to reap the benefits."

Predicted Mr Bough: “TV is probably going to be traded on digital exchanges sooner and more rapidly than digital itself was – everything will be programmatic buying."

Interpublic is the first of the big four agency holding companies [Publicis/Omnicom, WPP, Interpublic and Havas] to introduce a wholly automated media buying programme, although the others undoubtedly have similar plans. 

According to Todd Gordon, evp at Interpublic's media arm Magna Global: "Programmatic buying will be a subset of the automation movement." Mr Gordon added that  there is a need to bring the tactic to buying national and local, radio, display and most media.

“The demands of the data require a technological platform to secure the inventory,” he said at an industry event earlier this week. Gordon also addressed the need for improved cross-platform metrics, saying: “We’d like them to be stronger and more robust.”

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... ad measurement services such as Tivo Research & Analytics, Nielsen Catalina and Nielsen MBI to quantify the “the amount of your product that was consumed by people before they saw your ad and the amount consumed after they saw your ad."

According to CBS research guru David Poltrack such services "can document the return from advertising.” 

The impact of this development on TV advertising can’t be overestimated. “It’s is something advertisers have always wanted,” Poltrack says.

“Financial management has always put pressure on marketing departments to measure the value of investments in advertising, and now for the first time we can do that with precision.”

How? Measurement services collect data from millions of set-top boxes and compare viewing behavior with information about what those same households actually buy, gathered via shopper cards. The method — single-source measurement — gauges TV viewing and product consumption of the same household.

“This allows us to go back to an advertiser and say, ‘you sold X hundred thousand more tubes of toothpaste to people who saw your ads than to people who didn’t,’” says Poltrack. “It answers the Wanamaker question.”

More than that, Poltrack adds, it allows advertisers to zero in at the program level and see which TV shows are working for their products, and even which creative is best, and make adjustments to increase its effectiveness.

Consumers agree to share their information when they get their shopper cards but, says Poltrack, privacy remains protected through “double blind matching,” which maintains two databases — viewing and shopping — that are merged only after identifying data is stripped away.

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... following suit.

Thailand requires graphic labels on packs of cigarettes, while Turkey and Russia have enacted strong tobacco control laws.

The latest campaign has renewed smokers' interest in quitting, claims Dr Thomas Frieden of the US government's Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

"Quitting smoking is the single most effective thing you can do to improve your health," he said.

But quitting isn't easy. Only 10% of smokers will quit in a given year according to Joanna Cohen of the The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

Explains Dr Cohen: "Tobacco use is an addictive behavior, and it's a human behavior which is very complex. So just think of any behavior on your own that you want to change, and it's not easy."

In Russia, according to Cohen, the stop smoking campaign was only partly due to health care costs. "Their citizens were dying off early, way earlier than they should be," she said. 

Among the stark facts highlighted on World No Tobacco Day:

• Tobacco kills up to half its users
   
• Tobacco kills almost six million people a year
   
• Annual death toll could reach eight million by 2030
   
• Nearly 80% of the world's smokers live in low and middle-income countries
   
• Consumption of tobacco products is increasing globally.

According to the WHO, four out of five tobacco related deaths are in low and middle-income nations - countries that bear the greatest burden of disease and premature death.

These countries are where the tobacco industry is energetically seeking new smokers!

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... the health of the global economy, particularly in relation to the Eurozone debt crisis.

Despite which WARC expects global advertising spend (based on twelve major markets) to increase by +3.0% at current prices in 2013 and by +5.4% in 2014, according to its latest International Ad Forecast.

With the exceptions of Brazil and Japan, all featured markets have seen downgrades to their forecasts for 2013 compared with WARC's November 2012  report.

The Eurozone countries will all see flat or negative growth in advertising spemajor political or sportind for 2013.

Comments WARC's Data and Journals Director Suzy Young: "With few major political or sporting events this year, global advertising spend growth was always expected to be slower than in 2012. The Eurozone debt crisis also continues to depress growth both among member countries and abroad. To offset this, global adspend will be reliant on a solid performance from the US and strong growth from emerging markets."

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... climb at a similar pace throughout eMarketer’s forecast period, which extends through 2016. By that year, eMarketer forecasts, worldwide ad spending will top $628 billion.

The fastest growth during the forecast period will come from Latin America, where ad spending is up 11% this year to $34.66 billion. By 2016, ad spending in Latin America will reach $51.33 billion.

Asia-Pacific, Eastern Europe and the Middle East and Africa will also enjoy higher-than-average growth rates, while growth in North America and Western Europe will be significantly slower.

This year, Western Europe has struggled to grow ad spending at all, with several major countries posting spending declines.

Japan is the world's second largest nation in terms of ad spending,al though China is hard on its heels and set to surpass it in 2014.

Moreover, China, the third-largest ad market in the world, is growing much more quickly in terms of adspend than mature markets like the US or Japan.

eMarketer estimates ad spending in China is up 13% this year, slightly higher than Warc’s November 2012 projection of 11.5% growth.

Research firms that predicted significantly higher growth rates tended to make those forecasts earlier in 2012, when overall economic prognostications for China were more favorable. Nonetheless, eMarketer predicts double-digit ad spend growth rates in this massive country through the rest of the forecast period, which will help boost Asia-Pacific (and worldwide) increases.

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... global adspend in 2013 will increase 5.3% compared to 2012, representing $533.2bn.

The revised spending forecast was made in GroupM’s biannual worldwide report, This Year, Next Year, which also said that 2011 advertising spending in measured media hit $482 billion, a 5% increase versus the 2010 figure of $459bn. 

For the US market, the report predicts that advertising investment in measured media will grow 3.6% in 2012 to a total of $152.5bn, down from the 4% growth projected in the previous report issued in December 2011.

For 2013, the new report predicts a 3.1% increase, representing a total spend of $157.2 bn.

Says GroupM Chief Investment Officer Rino Scanzoni: "We attribute the decline in US ad spending to a number of factors, including a loss of economic momentum, the global deterioration from all continents but particularly the Eurozone and political and fiscal uncertainty at home for the election and beyond.”

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...  year-on-year adspending worldwide will increase 5.3%, representing an expenditure uplift of $533.2 billion versus 2012. 

The revised spending forecast was made in GroupM’s biannual worldwide report, This Year, Next Year, which also said that 2011 advertising spending in measured media hit $482 billion, a 5% increase over 2010 spending of $459 billion.

For the US market, the report predicts advertising investment in measured media will grow 3.6% this year to $152.5 billion, down from 4% growth projected in the previous report, issued December 2011.

For 2013, the latest report predicts a 3.1% increase in US media spending, totalling $157.2 billion.

Comments GroupM Chief Investment Officer Rino Scanzoni: “We attribute the decline in US ad spending to a number of factors, including a loss of economic momentum, the global deterioration from all continents but particularly the Eurozone and political and fiscal uncertainty at home for the election and beyond.”

Ad investment in the Eurozone periphery (Greece, Ireland, Italy, Portugal and Spain) fell 6.0% in 2011 and is expected to fall a further 8.8% in 2012 before stabilizing at par in 2013.

But GroupM Futures Director Adam Smith stressed that this prediction “assumes an orderly normalization of the Eurozone.”

Smith said all digital spending trends are positive everywhere irrespective of local economic conditions. “Internet advertising is growing in every country, so powerful is its structural and evolutionary development.”

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... a slow-down in overall advertising revenue growth in 2012, compared to 2011.

Excluding P&O [profits and overheads?], core media owners advertising revenues (TV, internet, radio, newspapers, magazines and out-of-home) will grow 2.2%. This represents a small increase compared to the shop's previous forecast published in January (2.0%) and remains less than half the 2011 growth (4.8%).

The increase is entirely due to an upward revision in Magna's digital media forecast, following a strong Q4 in 2011 and a robust first quarter in 2012.  

Internet media (including national and local) will grow 12.2% (revised from +10.9%) to reach $35.6 billion and a 20.2% market share. Internet media is still driven by paid search, growing double-digit, as well as mobile advertising (53.1% to $2.4 billion), and online video (24.0% to $2.2 billion). With $1.6bn in 2011, mobile advertising already represents 5% of online advertising and 1% of total advertising in the US.

Says Vincent Letang, Magna's evp and Head of Global Forecasting: “Encouraged by the rise of smartphone and tablet usage and the availability of scalable platforms, mainstream advertisers are now fully embracing all mobile formats (display, search, video, in-app).

“We expect mobile-related online ad revenues to grow 53% in 2012, to $2.4bn. iAd and Facebook in particular will create more opportunities for marketers in various mobile environments in 2012”.

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... increase their spending. The Fall 2011 AIR survey represents the 5th consecutive “optimistic” finding since the latest recession affected the advertising marketplace in 2007-2008.

Advertiser optimism, however, varies by medium. But all media have enjoyed varying degrees of improvement, with respondents showing the greatest optimism for advertising via mobile, digital, and cable-television media. They also showed moderate optimism for broadcast, and expect improvements for magazines and national newspapers. Even so, sentiment for print-media platforms remains largely pessimistic. 

A majority of advertisers in every major advertising category anticipate increasing their ad spending in 2012. Based on this data, Advertiser Perceptions anticipates that the most optimistic advertisers will be in beauty, alcoholic beverages, financial products/services, consumer electronics, and automotive categories.

Nearly all major advertisers have expanded their budgets for digital ad channels. As a result, the optimism trends in those chanels are especially strong. Search advertising is rebounding after a slight dip in the Spring of 2011, while optimism for digital video media is exceptionally strong.

Comments Advertiser Perceptions' founder/ceo Ken Pearl: “In 2012, the nation faces an uncertain economic environment, an unclear political climate, and unsteady consumer confidence.

“Nonetheless, in our large and comprehensive survey of more than 1,200 media decision-makers, AIR Wave 16 found broad-based optimism over the coming twelve months. This optimism among advertisers has been consistent in AIR since the Fall of 2009.”

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