Below are this week’s links to recent research news and studies from the collection of items that MarketingCharts didn’t get to writing up, but still may be worth a peek:
Top Ice Cream Flavors in America (pdf)
Internet Reaches 625M Worldwide; Two-Thirds Use Social Networks
Worst Record-Album Covers of All Time
Favorite Baseball Teams in America: Yankees #1 Again
Apple Claims 91% of $1,000+ PC Market Revenue in June
US Restaurant Traffic Sees Steepest Decline in 28 Years
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Marketers are high social media’s effectiveness and confident in their ability to measure its ROI.
Some 82% of ANA member marketers surveyed have an in-house agency, and the ANA forecasts this figure to peak at 85-90%.
Publishers and advertisers each see their own solutions as the best to address the cookieless future.
Non-profits reports a 4% decline in email revenues, which contributed 14% of all online revenues.
Most B2B marketers say they met or exceeded their growth targets last year, and appear primed to do so again this year.
Another survey provides evidence of social media marketers’ shift to short-form video.
18-29-year-old listeners are the most heavily engaged, but those ages 30-49 are the most apt to tune in to several different podcasts.
Most marketers and creatives in the Tech and Consumer Goods industries will be maintaining or increasing their content spend.
In North America, people under the age of 40 comprise a whopping 86.3% share of cast members in TV and video ads.
A majority also believe that AI-generated content will be penalized by search engines and show up lower in search results.
There were 72.2 million Millennials (ages 26-41) in the US last year, constituting 21.7% of the population.
The number of sales channels used across the buying journey has doubled since 2016.
Adults ages 30-44 are the most likely to have made a purchase based on an influencer recommendation, with 42% reporting having done so.
The number of solutions in the martech landscape has climbed by another 11%.
71% of social media marketers report having integrated AI and ML tools such as ChatGPT, DALL-E 2 into their social media workflows.
Almost 8 in 10 marketers say that their targeting and segmentation performance and efficiency have significantly improved as a result of analytics use.
Entertainment and education are the main reasons for tuning in, but diversion is also important.
Half of Gen Zers and Millennials combined feel that online experiences are meaningful replacements for in-person experiences.
6 in 10 TV homes stream on a smart TV on at least a weekly basis, up from half a couple of years ago.
Celebrants expect to spend about $274 each on Mother’s Day this year.
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