What are the effects of the 2018 EU General Data Protection Regulation? According to this analysis, the nuanced effects include reduced data sharing online and increased market concentration of the top four web technology categories. These together represent 94% of website-vendor ties. They are advertising, hosting, audience measurement, and social media.
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The European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) dictates how firms are to collect, store and employ personal information online. Given the importance of such data, the GDPR has a direct impact on the bottom line of millions of online firms. Researchers in this study wanted to understand the consequences of this regulation for website traffic and ecommerce. They found that at least initially, GDPR reduces online activity and economic results somewhat, especially from personalized marketing channels (display ads & emails). With greater enforcement and compliance long-term, however, the impact may be even greater.
Member Only AccessThere is more gender equality in most primary shopping activities than often assumed.
A global analysis shows that video, with its high bandwidth demand, dominates mobile traffic. In 2023 it most likely will make up more than half of downstream internet traffic. Read more »
Today, it is more common than ever for consumers to access media and make decisions on the go. Marketers need to know how being in a state of mobility affects them in order to reach them with the right message at the right time. This study helps shed a little light on how such mobility itself may influence consumer thinking and behavior.
This chart from Visual Capitalist shows how just three companies now make up 50% of U.S. ad revenues.
New experiments exploring the impact of marketing online in conjunction with direct mail confirm that multi-platform strategies generate synergies that are likely to affect consumer responses in various stages of the search-purchase funnel.
Advertising creative is critical to driving business growth and positive business outcomes for brands, several studies have shown. It is also crucial to the overall ecosystem and brands’ ability to reach their marketing goals. Given the importance of good creative, the ARF Creative Council put together a white paper to inform and educate members on new methods and approaches for generating and optimizing advertising creative content. These fresh and innovative methods offer potent insights during the creative development process. The white paper focuses on tools that can be leveraged in the early stages of creative development, particularly those that take advantage of state-of-the-art technology.
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On October 13, 2022, industry leaders joined us for an inaugural Creative Effectiveness event on how to stimulate great creative and measure it. Panelists shared innovative and experiential formats as well as new approaches and tools in support of building and measuring campaigns. The event was followed by the ARF David Ogilvy Awards reception.
Member Only AccessThe September issue of the JAR features two papers that address the same marketing challenge, how to increase attention to digital ads, from different perspectives.