Marketers Move Ad Budgets Online, Reports Disagree On Placement
- by Laurie Sullivan @lauriesullivan, April 5, 2011
Video will play a key role, according to the IAB study of about 400 industry executives. Sixty-nine percent of marketers and 55% of agencies plan to increase digital video advertising, up 22% in the next 12 months. Those surveyed expect to spend 17% of their total online display advertising budget in the next year, shifting budgets from television to online.
Some 62% of marketers will migrate TV ad dollars to digital video, based on the belief that the medium delivers a more positive ROI, compared with 47% of agencies as they attempt to follow their target audience. Still, high expectations for better targeting, reach and cost continue to hinder adoption of digital video advertising. Companies say the industry needs better ROI measurement and standardization metrics. Seventy-two percent of companies surveyed said more proof that ad campaigns actually ran might push them to spend more money on digital video ads.
Apparently, 35% said digital video advertising is not easy to buy. Forty-one percent said they would rather buy digital video advertising up front compared with real-time, and that not having digital video up front limits digital video spending. Thirty-five percent said consumers don't really engage with digital video ads.
So what do consumers and business executives engage with? At least for business executives, display advertising took top priority in online mediums this year, followed by mobile and search, according to Bizo's online survey conducted the week of March 25.
Nearly half -- 48.8% -- of marketers participating in Bizo's survey said this year they will allocate more of their marketing budget to display advertising. Marketers -- at 22.6% -- said they plan to spend the same as last year, 17.9% don't know, 7.1% will spend less than last year, and 3.6% don't use display advertising.
Site traffic, at 52.9%, is followed by desired actions, at 45.7% -- and qualified leads, at 38.6%, were noted as being the biggest benefits for adding or increasing the use of display ads. Consumers may begin their search for products and services on search engines, but they return to Google, Yahoo and Bing looking for more information after viewing a display ad on a publisher's Web site.
Half of the respondents said display advertising will have the same importance this year as last; nearly 40% said it will become more important; 7% were not sure; and 3.6% said it will be less important.
Intersting article with conflicting feedback. How do these surveys calculate for the size of the respondent's budgets? One or two of the largest advetisers can swing these stats wildly in different directions.... much like the 80/20 rule.
Paul Benjou
Ad Blog: www.MyOpenKimono.com
Laurie,
Very interesting article. We've been doing some marketing ROI work across the entire media mix, including digital and social and there is clearly a significantly higher ROI for digital and social versus traditional.
We've used the techniques in our book http://www.ROIofSocialMedia.com and they are clearly proving themselves as very viable.
Thanks
Guy
This shows a tremendous faith in the concept of online video - suggesting some mis-guided concepts that it replaces mass media. It will be interesting to follow.
And, I concur with Paul on his concerns. These studies are wildly mis-leading (in general). But interest (like investors) groups love them because they can be influenced to create specific results that start stampede's into new media options - regardless of their effectiveness.
Great article. Not surprising, though, that there's some disagreement on where the budgets are going - every advertiser has its own mix of media depending on the goals and business model.
Steve
www.thesearchninja.com.au