Media planning and buying

Key video statistics from Ofcom’s Communication Market Report 2015

Included in the Ofcom Communications Market Report for 2015 is a detailed breakdown of the state of media consumption in the UK.

Digital media services have grown in popularity, driven by younger audiences, and an increased uptake of connected TVs and devices that enable TVs to become smart. 

16+ APAC digital marketing stats from July 2015

I’m jumping the gun slightly this month, but as it’s almost the end of July I’m going to go ahead and roundup the best digital marketing stats we’ve seen in the past 30 days or so.

This time it includes the tablet market in Vietnam, Amazon’s investment in India, CX in Australia, Walmart’s ecommerce plans in China, and a whole lot more.

Behind the rise of ad blockers lies an inconvenient truth

According to Adobe and FairPage, more than 144m people are now using ad blockers to stop advertising in its tracks when they browse the web.

That number doubled in 2013 and continues to rise.

Because of demographics, ad blocking is not surprisingly most common in the video game and technology verticals, but is increasing in other verticals, like business and entertainment, too.