The findings, which are derived from AP’s interviews of more than 300 agency and marketer executives, found that most of those budgets are either going into “sharing networks” or being bought “programmatically.”
The report also finds the vast majority of social media spending by brands is not focused on so-called “performance” — advertising intended to generate an immediate action — but on building “brand awareness.”
Only 38% of respondents said they were utilizing social media to generate “offline sales.”