Snapchat has been in the news quite a lot recently and apparently was the subject of an acquisition bid from Google. Its second quarter earnings release showed slow user growth, though on the positive side WPP is doubling its ad spend on the platform. Now, new data...
Inbox placement rates have improved in the US over the past year or so, but 23% of emails from US senders still fail to reach the inbox. That's according to Return Path's latest annual Deliverability Benchmark Report [download page], which looks at deliverability...
Non-profits sent 10% more emails in 2016 than in 2015, averaging 69 messages per subscriber through the year, according to the latest annual M+R Benchmarks Study. The greatest increase in email volume came in the form of fundraising emails, up 27% year-over-year to an...
The majority of Americans want to spend their retirement traveling (55%) and spending more time with family (54%), per an Ipsos survey of US adults ages 45 to 65. Other popular ways to spend their golden years include volunteering (35%), taking up a hobby (33%) and...
This month's quick-hit set of top charts includes the following topics: email list growth and deliverability metrics; shopping around vs. loyalty; Millennials' new media milestone; financial status, by generation; improving digital ads; obstacles to marketing...
Close to one-third of US marketing emails fail to reach the inbox, according to an analysis released last year by Return Path. With deliverability having such an impact on email marketing success, Return Path has dug into its data [download page] and provided a host...
Recent research has indicated that Boomers and Silents combine to account for more than 70% of adults with at least $100k in investable assets, while Millennials comprise just 13% share, the smallest of any generation. Statistics from a recently-released Epsilon study...
Most new followers of brands on Snapchat discover those brands by searching for their usernames, though a fractional but growing number are added through deeplinks, according to a recently-released analysis [download page] of Q4 brand activity from Snaplytics. The...
More than three-quarters (76.8%) of customers left behind their order instead of purchasing in Q4 2016, based on a review of averages across 500 leading global brand clients. That's according to SaleCycle's latest quarterly Remarketing Report, which notes that Fashion...
Sponsorship spending worldwide is expected to grow by 4.5% this year to $62.8 billion, according to the 32nd annual industry review and forecast from IEG. That 4.5% growth rate is relatively steady from last year (4.6%) and up from the two prior years (4.1%), as...
For 16% of American adults, a company's reputation for social responsibility has a strong effect on the decisions about what to buy and who to do business with, per results from a Harris Poll survey of more than 2,000 US adults. While that's outweighed by the 20% for...
Marketers often pay attention to benchmarks, which are useful to get a sense of what one might expect from a campaign (though individual results almost always vary from the average!). But as a recent study [download page] from IBM Marketing Cloud demonstrates, it...
A majority of executives around the world question the sincerity of their organizations’ sustainability initiatives.
Video game content sales dropped by 7% year-over-year.
Not surprisingly, marketers are most bullish about digital media budgets, and are also enthusiastic about their effectiveness.
Only 48% of the general public in the US trusts business as an institution, according to the latest annual Edelman...
Sponsorship spending worldwide is expected to grow by 4.9% this year to $65.8 billion, according to the 33rd annual...
HubSpot recently released a "2017 Demand Generation Benchmarks Report" [download page] focused on a variety of KPIs...