Digital

eMarketer expects US adults to spend an average of 1 hour, 16 minutes with digital video each day this year.

Thanks to ad-blocking technologies, many of the web’s most informed and devoted users have a very different internet experience than the ones marketers and publishers have built: no display or pre-roll video ads, no retargeted ads and, in many cases, no native ad content.

Marketers remain stuck on the basics when it comes to personalization, and recent research reaffirms that notion that it’s still early days for such efforts, with plenty of room for growth in effectiveness and targeting, for example.

In the next 12 months, the concept of cord-cutting is going to really take hold — a huge opportunity for television companies, as they continue the shift to become digital-first and look to replace revenues lost from the traditional cable consumer.

Viewability has been an increasingly hot topic. Advertisers are clamoring for increased viewability levels; companies are scrambling to develop technologies that improve viewability; trade organizations are hard at work setting new viewability guidelines.

This report, Millward Brown Digital’s 2nd annual Getting Digital Right study, provides an overview of the state of digital. With input from over 400 marketers spanning brands, media companies, and agencies, we summarize their insights and perspectives on getting digital right.

There’s no doubt that advertisers are funneling money into digital, mobile and social (DMS). However, recent research suggests they’re still struggling to deliver audience across these channels.

Since 2009, Millward Brown experts from around the globe have offered annual predictions for the coming year – forecasting the hottest digital and media trends and providing recommendations to help advertisers move confidently into the coming year

Transitions Optical, Inc. announced a three-part web series entitled “Estilo a Primera Vista.”  Hosted by celebrity stylist Irma Martinez, the webisodes are designed to encourage U.S. Hispanics to embrace eyewear as a stylish accessory that can enhance their look, as well as their vision.

Unfortunately, most marketers have not been able to take advantage of that opportunity. By the time that they can connect the dots, the user has already moved on. They either purchased their product elsewhere or lost interest. Blame the fickle attention span of today’s on-demand mobile consumer.

Multichannel networks (MCNs) have become a vital link between content creators and video platforms, in particular YouTube.

As marketing continues to evolve and develop alongside social media avenues that are being created and popularized, what remains constant is how millennials engage with the video marketplace.

“If you build it, they will come” is an iconic movie sentence from the equally iconic “Field of Dreams.” It has been used in many a business presentation, especially in the early days of digital. Initially, digital believers used it to try and convince digital skeptics that all a marketer needed to do was build a website that consumers would then flock to, creating commercial nirvana for said business. Later on, social media prophets would use the magic sentence to extoll the virtues of fans and likes in social media.

Since 2009, Millward Brown experts from around the globe have offered annual predictions for the coming year – forecasting the hottest digital and media trends and providing recommendations to help advertisers move confidently in 2015.

Maren Lau is the CMO at IMS Internet Media Services, a digital marketing and communications company that helps brands enter and grow in the Latin America digital market. She spoke with eMarketer’s Daiane Bobka about the biggest digital trends in the region.

Engagement is at the heart of content marketing. April 2015 research by Pulsepoint and Digiday found that brand engagement was the No. 1 marketing objective supported by content marketing, cited by 66.8% of UK and US agency and brand professionals.

The Pew Research Center’s unit studying the internet and society began systematically measuring internet adoption among Americans in 2000.

HiMedia Group, and Giuliano Stiglitz, Orange Advertising’s former CEO, joined forces to form Latam Digital Ventures, a holding company designed to create and buy digital media and advertising technology enterprises.

The study reveals that streaming content has overtaken live programming as the viewing method-of-choice, with 56 percent of consumers now streaming movies and 53 percent streaming television on a monthly basis, as compared to 45 percent of consumers preferring to watch television programs live. Moreover, younger viewers have moved to watching TV shows on mobile devices rather than on television. Among Trailing Millennials (age 14-25), nearly 60 percent of time spent watching movies occurs on computers, tablets and smartphones, making movie viewing habits decidedly age-dependent.

The Internet of Things—sensors and actuators connected by networks to computing systems—has received enormous attention over the past five years.