A periscopic view of where consumer trust is going, the best ways and time slots to find and engage your audience, Gartner’s immediate budget actions for CMOs, and marketing stack optimization.
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People continue to remain concerned about COVID-19’s ramifications on the global economy. Gongo’s report shows that 58% believe that there will be a long term economic impact on the economy.
This incremental list depicts the amount of consumer trust received:
You can gauge that people will feel big feelings as the pandemic stays like an unwelcome guest, Gongo’s survey gives you clear insight into what exactly are the masses’ feelings:
On the bright side, feelings of calm and optimism have grown
Whereas, 22% of people continued to feel empathetic (the only stat that has remained constant).
Right from email blasts to social media outreach, brands are trying every possible way of classic marketing. But according to Airship mobile app push notifications are the underdog that has been winning more and more viewership.
In their benchmark study of over two billion app installs across 15 industry verticals, Airship discovered the power of push notifications. March saw push notifications reach their highest direct open rates and 32% of website visits were through these mobile app push notifications.
Here are some key stats:
Brett Caine, CEO and president, Airship said,
“These trends show increasing marketer reliance and consumer receptivity to in-the-moment notifications, which is positive, but businesses must ensure messaging is helping to streamline operations and orchestrate excellent customer experiences across channels to leverage as much from digital as possible in these trying times.”
Even though the media industry seems to be struggling in terms of earning trust, engagement is something it is winning at.
Send volumes of push notifications, especially, news based notifications saw the biggest month-on-month jump at 43% while they enjoyed a 60% direct open rate.
The send volume for web notifications rose by 52% and saw a 119% growth in direct open rates.
Travel related notifications saw a second-highest drop in direct open rates by 23% since February.
However, travel and transportation saw the largest increase in Message Center read rates at 158% in March as they shifted the focus of messaging from “day-of-travel messaging” to “broader informational updates”.
Yes, you read that right. 53% of marketing leaders have no plan in place for their martech stacks. DemandLab recently released its ‘Martech stack optimization survey’ which was exclusively focused on 117 senior-level CMOs, owners, and C-suite executives to clearly understand martech’s role in marketing strategy, customer experience, and ROI generation.
Another interesting find was that 71% of these senior and C-level executives are outsourcing some of all of their martech optimization due to the lack of specialized tools and in-house knowledge.
Episerver’s recent research of 600 global decision-makers in IT, e-commerce and marketing roles at B2B organisations had some interesting insights on what can create better business opportunities:
Despite the hard times, 85% of B2B organizations expect their digital experience budget to go up in 2021.
Deals and buyer engagement have shown positive attrition according to Hubspot’s weekly survey of 70,000 customers globally on core business metrics.
Last week saw the highest deals closed which is an 8% increase in the April 20 week.
Email marketing saw some of the highest open rates and sales teams are booking more meetings.
Australia and Germany have begun to reopen their economies.
Companies with 201+ employees are the fastest to recover from the beginning of the COVID-19 hit.
A major point to note is that there’s a major gap in how salespeople are prospecting. Even though the email marketing send out rate has risen by 67% as compared to the pre-pandemic phase response rates suffer with unproportionate figures.
Plus, Episerver’s ‘second-annual B2B digital experience report’ indicated that there would be tension in terms of the impact of AI and automation on future job security.
ECI Media Management recently released a flash update to its ‘2020 Annual media inflation report’ to record how media inflation has been affected by the coronavirus pandemic across 15 key markets.
Restrictions and reduced consumer activity have forced many brands to reduce their ad spend and almost all have revised their 2020 marketing activity. As a result, the increased amount of inventory available teamed with decreased advertising spend means media prices are dropping significantly, across all offline media. Despite increased readership, digital media are also being negatively impacted due to programmatic blacklists blocking keywords associated with coronavirus.
As the decade started, ECI forecast that global media inflation in 2020 would grow across the board, with TV inflation reaching 7.1% and Digital Video inflation increasing to 6.7%. All traditional media types are now predicted to deflate, with TV dropping to -5.9%, while Digital Display and Digital Video are the only media to see rising prices, with global inflation at 0.3% and 1.3% respectively.
High demand is leading to overall inflation for Digital, particularly in APAC, which is driving overall global digital inflation. However, Digital is deflationary in EMEA, with a number of key markets such as the UK, France and Spain seeing deflation due to huge increases in inventory combined with decreased demand. However, there is now an additional trend reducing the price drop on digital: the use of programmatic blacklists to block terms associated with coronavirus.
In the UK the TV market, in particular, is seeing extreme levels of deflation, with many clients deferring activity later in 2020, along with other offline media due to the decrease in demand. Unlike other global territories, digital in the UK is also expected to see deflation, thanks to high supply and demand.
It’s no mystery that streaming services have flourished during the pandemic. Conviva, an integrated streaming intelligence platform revealed region-wise streaming data across TV, PC, live streaming, and video on demand.
Overall streaming region-wise
Mobile streaming region-wise
TV streaming region-wise
PC streaming region-wise
The Conviva survey 12.5 billion ad attempts in Q1 of 2020 vs Q4 2019, here are some key insights:
According to a study by Mediascience, COVID-19 related messaging worked well only in news environments.
From the brands’ ads studied Amazon was the only brand of which COVID-19 ads performed better in comedy environments as well as news environments. Pets’ ads related to COVID-19 performed better in comedy environments.
COVID-19 ads that didn’t do well in comedy environments:
Finance and cleaning are two verticals that have been received well neither in comedy nor in news environments.
WHO would be happy to know, the answer is, Indoors. But identity resolution solution Tapad recently managed to give us insights into exact screen times as per time of the day and device.
10 pm to 6 am was the sweet spot for finding people on their mobiles and tablets.
CTV and desktop showed the most growth in the morning and afternoon during wfh and learn from home hours.
People are increasingly spending time watching TV, set top boxes, gaming consoles from 10 pm to 6 am.
Spain and the UK were the only EU countries that saw increased activity across mobiles, tablets, and desktops.
The COVID-19 related disruption has made 65% of CMOs and marketing leaders prepare for moderate to significant budget cuts.
“Marketing organizations are ill-prepared for COVID-19’s impact on the global economy and consumer sentiment, and this crisis will only exacerbate the budget strain we saw developing in 2019,” says Ewan McIntyre, Vice President Analyst, Gartner for Marketers.
CMOs in North America and the UK plan to slash advertising budgets for:
Gartner further suggested that CMOs create a ‘Tiger team’ that would be empowered to strong short-term strategic decisions that would benefit for long-term success.
The tiger team would be responsible to review costs affected due to :
People are keen on buckling up for the post-COVID-19 business world, how marketers should strategize during the pandemic, and knowing how they can win consumer trust. These key insights articles prove to be very popular, thanks to you, our wise readers.
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Stay tuned for our article next week on the Peer Network briefing from Tamara Charm, founder and leader of McKinsey’s agile consumer insights division, on how marketers can manage the Coronavirus pandemic and plan for the future.
During her talk she provided findings from McKinsey’s exclusive research, and covered the following topics:
