San Francisco, July 19, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Kenshoo (www.Kenshoo.com), a global leader in marketing technology, today released a new infographic, Kenshoo Digital Marketing Quarterly Trends Report: Q2 2018, detailing spending growth in social (40%) and paid search (10%) year-over-year (YoY) in Q2 2018. Key findings include:
- Social spending increased 40% YoY and decreased 1% quarter-over-quarter (QoQ)
- Social impressions increased 15% YoY and decreased 10% QoQ
- Social clicks increased 94% YoY and decreased 13% QoQ
- Social click-through rate (CTR) increased 69% YoY and decreased 3% QoQ
- Social cost-per-thousand (CPM) impressions increased 21% YoY and 8% QoQ
- Paid search spending increased 10% YoY and 4% QoQ
- Paid search impressions increased 20% YoY and 6% QoQ
- Paid search clicks increased 24% YoY
- Paid search CTR increased 4% YoY
Social Spotlight
- Facebook’s inventory refinements — including the removal of right-rail ads — caused three quarters of consecutive decline in impression volume; nearly a year later, impression volume increased YoY for the first time (+15%).
- Instagram spending doubled YoY with Instagram Stories accounting for 11% of spend on Instagram ads.
- Video ads contributed to the QoQ increase in CPM, while Carousel ads were a primary driver of the uptick in CTR.
Search Spotlight
- Mobile accounted for the plurality of spending, accounting for 48% of search spending, while desktop accounted for 44% and tablet 8%.
- Rapid adoption of inexpensive mobile shopping ads depressed cost-per-click (CPC) for advertisers (-12% YoY).
“Social advertising continues to evolve and it’s changing the way many advertisers use it to reach consumers. Event-driven video campaigns, for example, now extend beyond traditional verticals of gaming and entertainment, reaching into e-commerce and even finance, while more specialized ad types capture the resulting demand,” said Chris Costello, senior director of marketing research for Kenshoo. “Meanwhile, search marketers have fully embraced consumers’ adoption of mobile devices, shifting spend to mobile campaigns to ensure they’re present across the full funnel of consumer search activity. For the first time, spending on mobile search ads surpassed desktop and is near capturing the majority of ad spending.”
Kenshoo leads the way in digital marketing innovation, enabling success for marketers by maximizing customer lifetime value. Built upon Kenshoo’s industry-leading and award-winning digital marketing platform, Kenshoo delivers infinite optimization to re-engage and grow customers across the world’s leading publishers and all devices.
Visit Kenshoo.com/digital-marketing-snapshot to download the new infographic, Kenshoo Digital Marketing Quarterly Trends Report: Q2 2018.
Methodology
Search and social results are based on Kenshoo advertisers with 15 consecutive months of performance data taken from a population of over 3,000 advertiser and agency accounts across 20 vertical industries and over 60 countries, spanning Google, Bing, Baidu, Yandex, Yahoo!, Yahoo! Japan, Pinterest, Snapchat, Facebook, Instagram and the Facebook® Audience Network. Some outliers have been excluded. The resulting sample includes more than 500 billion impressions, 14 billion clicks and $6 billion (USD) in advertiser spend.
Ad spending and CPC are measured using Ex-FX or “Constant Currency” adjustments, where results are based on native currency, and only translated to common currency after aggregation.
About Kenshoo
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