10 Digital Marketing Statistics You Need To Know In 2019

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Digital marketing is forever changing and revolutionizing the way the industry interacts with consumers. The rapid evolution of digital marketing is more significant than ever. According to a survey by Adobe, 76% of those asked felt “that marketing had changed more in the past 2 years than in the previous 50”.

As time goes on, keeping up with the changes to digital marketing can be challenging. To keep you up to date, Onimod Global is here to provide you with 10 digital marketing statistics covering topics from conversion optimization to mobile marketing to start off 2019.

 

1. 60% of people have started using voice search within the last year. (Venture Harbour)

Search marketing has experienced some of the largest changes in regards to digital updates and Google algorithm updates. This shows that voice commands on Google, Amazon, and a variety of other sites are only increasing in popularity and a force to be reckoned with when it comes to search queries by consumers.

 

2. 85% of mobile advertisers think they’re providing a positive experience; only 47% of users agree. (Unlockd)

3. Mobile is predicted to account for 72% of digital ad in 2019. (eMarketer)

If you yet to optimize your site for mobile, now is absolutely the time to do so. While desktop advertising will always be a portion of your marketing budgets, mobile is where it’s at in 2019 and will only continue to increase. By now, it’s time to recognize the impact of smartphones and stop cutting yourself short of potential leads and conversions your business should be experiencing on the mobile platform.

 

4. Segmented email campaigns have an open rate that is 14.32% higher than non-segmented campaigns. (MailChimp)

It’s fairly common knowledge that segmenting your email campaign lists will increase your click-through rates, however it’s always positive to see this backed up with data. By narrowing your focus and sending messages to targeted groups within your lists, your recipients will find your campaigns more relevant—and relevant campaigns get better results.

 

5. The average ROI on CRO tools is 223%. (Venture Harbour)

6. 4.8% is the average conversion rate for websites using video, compared to 2.9% for those who don’t. (Adelie Studios)

A high conversion rate is crucial to the success of your business specifically generating leads and sales. You can use conversion rate optimization to persuade your website visitors to complete the desired action whatever that may be. Utilizing sources like Google Analytics and other CRO tools will significantly impact your success in 2019.

 

7. 72% of marketers worldwide said relevant content creation was the most effective SEO tactic. (Marketing Profs)

8. Content marketing costs 62% less than traditional marketing and generates about 3 times as many leads. (Demand Metric)

Websites that consistently generate new, valuable, up-to-date, and original content should see a steady increase in organic search traffic and improved positioning in search engine results. This is the best way to increase your rankings for any topic or industry and saves a big chunk of your budget. Always make sure your site is rich in both keywords and helpful, useful content to help “sell” your business.

 

9. Infographics are Liked and Shared on social media 3X more than other any other type of content. (Mass Planner)

Infographics are great for a variety of reasons! They are eye-catching and persuasive, easily understood, and memorable. They are successful because they are informing versus selling. With an infographic, you’re sharing information, building a relationship, and creating a potential customer without being pushy.

 

10.  Social media has become the most popular content marketing tactic reported by 90% of B2C businesses. (Content Marketing Institute)

The key to social media is recognizing which platforms work best for your industry. Instagram, Facebook, and Pinterest are clear winners for retail business whereas plumbing would utilize other social platforms. This is the most popular content marketing tactic because it’s the best way to get your brand and business in front of the right audience with minimal costs to your marketing budget.

 

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2018 Digital Marketing: Our Top 5 Trends

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The new year has officially arrived, and we bid farewell to 2018. As 2019 arrives, we have noticed a dramatic shift in the industry regarding social media, SEO, and a variety of other spaces within the digital marketing landscape. So many digital marketing trends have revolutionized the industry which will carry over to 2019. Which methods and platforms are most popular among marketers that will transition us into 2019? Take a look at some of the most notable digital marketing trends in 2018:

 

  1. Artificial Intelligence

    At the top of several lists is artificial intelligence and all of the doors it has opened for digital marketing. AI helps in a variety of ways: analyzing consumer behavior and search patterns, utilizing data from social media platforms and blog posts to help with customer’s discovery process, and much more! A great example of AI is chatbots frequently used in customer service. Gartner shares that 25% of customers will use this chatbot technology by 2020, which is a huge jump from the less than 2% in 2017.

  2. Personalize Your Marketing

    Contents, emails, products, and more! Personalizing was an extremely popular trend in 2018 and will continue to make your company stand out in 2019. With the mounds of data we have going into the new year, the process of personalization with your marketing will be easier than ever. Data such as purchase history, links clicked, and consumer behavior all aid custom content. In fact, 96% of marketers believe that personalization advances customer relationships.

  3. Video Marketing

    Single Grain shares some significant numbers that display the importance of incorporating video marketing into your 2019 marketing strategy:–  70% of consumers say that they have shared a brand’s video
    – 72% of businesses say video has improved their conversation rate
    – 52% of consumers say that watching product videos makes them more confident in online purchase decisions

    This goes far beyond YouTube. Your business can create this type of content on Facebook Live, share on Twitter, Instagram, or even LinkedIn. Live video specifically is gaining lots of popularity and will definitely put you one step ahead of competition in 2o19.

  4. Social Messaging Apps11 Digital Marketing Trends3
    This shows exactly how important it is to make your business available across social platforms. Similar to chatbots, your customer service team being available on these popular social messaging platforms will help increase customer loyalty by adding value to their experience with your business. Being easily accessible will only increase your success in 2019.
  5. Micro-Moments

    As termed by Google, micro-moments are a brand new consumer behavior. On average, people spend 3 hours and 35 minutes a day on their smartphones. This means that is more important than ever to have a clear and concise message to your consumer at the right time in the right place. More so, this must happen in a matter of seconds, or your potential consumer will lose interest. People prepare for every instance big or small; no one has time for surprises anymore. A great example of this is a restaurant having their menu, vegan options, wait-time, and other common queries all available when requested on a search engine.

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We’d like to thank you for being a part of 2018 journey and look forward to assisting you in 2019 with your digital marketing needs. We would love to work with you and help you optimize your digital marketing strategy.

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Why Page Speed Matters and How You Can Improve It

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Page speed on your site is defined as the amount of time it takes for your browser to receive a web server’s first byte. One common misconception we see is page speed and site speed being used as interchangeable terms. Site speed is actually the average of sample several pages on a website.

 

Why Should You Care

The people expect nothing less than your best, and that means going that extra mile to make sure consumers get the helpful and friction-less experience that they want. At the end of the day, faster pages are much more efficient. If your pages are taking more than 3 seconds to load, over 25% of users will click out of your site. According to Google, for every one second delay in page load time, conversions can fall up to 20 percent. This means you are missing out on a large percentage of potential leads, sales, or any other conversion metric.

 

What’s Slowing You Down

Every page is different and there can always be a variety of areas that need improvement, however there are a few common culprits:

  1. Heavy Page Image: Optimizing images will allow the pages on your website to receive bytes faster, and this makes your page more efficient with a faster load time.
  2. Large Files: We highly recommend a JavaScript compression or a minimization tool to help decrease your download size.
  3. Plug-Ins: Enabling caching with a plug-in allows pages on your site significantly faster. This saves you copies of pages with the same request, which allows your server load in a much more efficient manner.

 

How We Can Help

Are you on the hunt for someone to build you a brand new site completely optimized for the best SEO and page speed? We have you covered at Onimod Global! We would love to help you and your company succeed, request a quote or contact us here. We can’t wait to here from you!

 

 

Final Results Of Black Friday Shopping 2018

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Consumers took Black “Friday” by storm this year setting ground-breaking records with the largest online presence in its history. 2018’s Black Friday shopping festivities also started earlier than ever. Right after Thanksgiving dinner, consumers everywhere jumped straight to their cellphones to begin their holiday shopping. SalesForce reported that peak sales times were between 8 to 10 pm and started ramping up as early as 4 pm local times. Black Friday was also the first day ever to see more than $2 billion in sales coming from smartphones alone. According to MarketingLand, a record $6.22 billion was recorded in online sales for Black Friday — an increase of 23.6 percent from last year.

 

An Adobe Analytics spokesperson shares more on the trend of online shopping on Thanksgiving day over the past several years:

“We attribute this to many consumers being on the road or with family during the holiday, and they’re using this time to shop (often via mobile). The takeaway for marketers is there’s an opportunity to market to consumers on and around Thanksgiving Day – not only the traditionally known shopping holidays like Cyber Monday and Black Friday.”

 

What’s New This Year

Another rising trend in the year of 2018 holiday shopping thus far has been buying online and picking up your purchase in-store. The growth in this shopper has risen 73 percent from Thursday to Friday, which can be credited mainly to stores being closed on Thanksgiving day. Nevertheless, this is a trend gaining ground quickly and presents an opportunity for marketers to capitalize on and make easier for consumers.

More than one-third of online Black Friday sales were made on smartphones surpassing last year’s 29.1 percentage of online purchases. $2.1 billion were done in sales this year via smartphone on Black Friday, completely shattering the record set last year on Cyber Monday at $1.4 billion. The trend of smartphone shopping is here to stay and will only continue to increase every single year.

 

Why These Sales Are Important

Holiday shopping is just getting started! While 2018 Black Friday and Small Business Saturday shopping is in the books, Cyber Monday kicked off today and is predicted to be the largest online shopping day in history. The opportunity here is recognizing the importance of mobile to consumers in today’s holiday shopping adventures. The companies that place their efforts in developing an extremely user-friendly mobile interface will be very successful with their consumers. It is also recommended to pace your holiday sales throughout the holiday seasons instead of focusing solely on Black Friday or Cyber Monday.

How To Gain The Best Insight On Your Digital Performance

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Being able to measure your data is key to understanding how well you are performing on all of your digital platforms. Typically, data is confusing to interpret and an extremely boring visual for management. At Onimod Global, we are committed to delivering our clients a report that combats these common concerns. Our expert digital marketers, trusted Google Partners, develop custom dynamic digital dashboards with Google Studio for all of our clients.

 

Say goodbye to the boring static reports in your inbox on Monday mornings.

 

Google Studio creates the best visuals for your company to clearly see what matters. Whether that be leads, impressions, landing page views, or any other metric, this is the best platform to see it all at once with complete transparency. Google Analytics, Google Ads, and more are all on one page with high-quality visuals for you to easily see what is performing well for you and what isn’t.

The best part about our digital synergy reports? The collaboration. Individuals and teams from your company can easily view, add comments, and view different versions of data based on your preferred segmentation.

Onimod Global is a trusted Google Partner, assuring you that you’re working with the best in the business. A Google Partner is an online marketing company, trusted by Google. Look for the badge on our site, this recognizes companies that excel with Google’s products.

 

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How To Master Storytelling Content

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A popular shift in content marketing has taken the form of storytelling. Consumers have shown that a product or service that offers an experience is much more attractive to them. Storytelling takes content marketing to a whole new level where a customer is understood, inspired, compelled and ignited to use their imagination.

Principal analyst Brian Solis with Alimeter Group shares with MarketingLand what marketers must know today about the gap between content marketing and storytelling.

 

What should businesses know about storytelling?

Brian says: There are some common pillars of quality storytelling — and it all starts with knowing your audience, what they love/don’t love, what they value, etc.

Aside from the seven common plots of story, there are pillars that resonate with certain audiences, depending on their goals and yours. These include inspiration, usefulness, importance and inclusivity, just to name a few — and these apply to content marketing, too.

How can you apply this to your campaigns?

The arc of a marketing campaign is usually the opposite of a traditional story arc. The climax, which is typically the product launch day in business, is followed by the supporting action and road to wider adoption — until the budget runs out or the campaign is over.

Stories are continuous. Opportunities for engagement are always on. Customers do not go on/off based on your campaign or content calendar.

Why this content is rising in popularity.

You’re creating a larger emotional impact with your consumer leaving them with a lasting good impression of your company. Stories help everyone understand a concept much easier. Stories help solidify abstract concepts and simplify complex messages. Stories are a universal language of sorts, and implementing this strategy into your content marketing will resonate with consumers if done correctly.

 

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Updates To Google AdSense

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Google continues updating their advertising platform to create ways that benefit you, the users, in bigger and better ways. The latest update involves Google AdSense and how they will process monetizing new sites.

Overview of Google AdSense

AdSense is one of many ways you can earn money from the internet. You can choose to place Google’s contextual ads on your blog, website, or search engine. Google will then distribute a portion of that revenue to you, and this varies among the type of keywords your site is using to generate these ads.

Prior to now, AdSense users could add their AdSense code on a new site without having to set it up as a separate site in their AdSense account.

 

So What’s New?

Every new site in every AdSense account will go through a verification process to review the following:

  • Ownership of the domain OR have the ability to modify its content
  • Compliance with the AdSense policies

There will also be a slight name change within the AdSense interface. The MySites tab will be renamed to Sites, and this tab will be much more prominent on the interface allowing for easier navigation.

These changes apply to all new and existing AdSense accounts.

 

How It Affects You

Frankly, this is an update that shockingly is just now coming into existence. Google has been working to make their Ads platform and supplemental application better protected, so this verification process is not at all surprising.

Most users won’t have to take any action, it will mostly be on Google’s end to verify the listed email is matched to the correct AdSense code.

According to MarketingLand, publishers are advised to stay tuned for several more updates from the AdSense team.

 

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Image credit to: MarketingLand

Updates To YouTube Advertising Platform

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A social site that is growing larger and larger everyday is YouTube.  As its followers have grown significantly in the past few years, so has their advertising platform.

With growth comes some changes, and the experts at Onimod Global are here once again to give you the latest updates.

 

According to MarketingLand, YouTube announced it is changing the attribution criteria for TrueView for action video ads. This specific type of ad is known and designed for advertisers that perform and feature call-to-action banners at the base of the video ads.

MarketingLand also shares with us two specific key attribution points that will be changing:

  • YouTube will now count an ‘Engagement’ whenever a user clicks or watches 10 seconds or more of a TrueView for action ad when using maximize conversions or target CPA bidding. That’s a change from 30 seconds.
  • A ‘Conversion’ will be counted, by default, when a user takes action on an ad within 3 days of an ‘Engagement.’ If you want this changed, you will have to ask your Google rep to customize this time frame. That’s a change from 30 days.
  • For users who click your ad, YouTube will still attribute conversions according to the conversion window you have set (the default is 30 days).

 

What does this mean for advertisers?

This change will most likely significantly influence your budget spend and the performance. If you use the SmartBidding tool, this change will effect you being charged per engagement. Any target prices set by the advertiser will be billed on an impression basis due to TrueView for action campaigns using Target CPA and maximize conversions.

 

Always stay updated on the latest digital marketing news on our Onimod Global News page.

 

 

How To Create Effective Responsive Display Ads

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In recent years, Google has continuously made adjustments to their advertising platform specifically with their text ads on the Google Display Network (GDN). Google has now incorporated responsive display ads to create a visual for the consumer. The three critical elements of a display ad are the image, message, and design. As trusted Google Partners, Onimod Global  This checklist from Google is an excellent outline for driving the best performance for your responsive display ads.

 

1. Determine whether you’re optimizing for more efficiency or control

For more effective display ads, utilize responsive display ads. This is because responsive display ads use machine learning to ensure your ad is relevant on any space it would appear across the web.

For full creative control over your ads, use the standard image ads. This will allow you complete control over the font, colors, and the layouts of your ads.

 

2. Make your message relevant and compelling

Delivering your message at the right moment for your audience is crucial. This is why you should tailor your ads to specific stages of the purchase funnel.

Allow your audience to easily differentiate your brand versus your competition by including unique selling points, prices and promotions.

 

3. Make the most of your responsive display ads

The key to maximizing your return on the responsive display ads is to provide distinct headlines, descriptions, and images as possible.

Google recommends to start with at least 5 images, 5 short headlines and 5 descriptions. Typically, ads will see 10% more conversions at a similar CPA when you use a variety of headlines and text.

A checklist for your responsive display ad:

  • Write your long headline so it can stand alone, and make full use of the character limit.
  • Make your description text different from your longer headline.
  • Upload images with a strong visual focus and minimal text overlay, or choose from our free library of stock images.
  • Upload images with a strong visual focus and minimal text overlay, or choose from our free library of stock images.
  • Upload images with a strong visual focus and minimal text overlay, or choose from our free library of stock images.
  • Include your logo.
  • Add a dynamic feed.

Including all of these tips from Google will result in a fully optimized responsive display ad.

 

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Updates To Amazon’s Advertising Platform

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Amazon has earned their powerhouse title over the years since starting their business in 1997 selling books. With growth of 39% year over year in net sales, a 12x jump in earnings per share (EPS), and over 100m Prime subscribers globally in Q2 2018, it’s impossible to ignore their influence over customers’ journey in the e-commerce space.

This month, Amazon’s team revealed some big changes by reintroducing their advertising brand. Competing with Facebook and Google platforms, Amazon is combining several applications in their advertising suite into the simple brand of Amazon Advertising. What was once Amazon Media Group (AMG), Amazon Marketing Services (AMS), and Amazon Advertising Platform (AAP) will now all become one simplified tool for brands to utilize.

Senior Vice President of Amazon Advertising, Paul Kotas, elaborates more on their new and improved platform:

“We’ve unified our product offerings under the name ‘Amazon Advertising.’ This is another step towards our goal of providing advertising solutions that are simple and intuitive for the hundreds of thousands of advertisers who use our products to help grow their business.”

How Amazon Is Positioning To Be Competitive 

Above all, Amazon has the competitive advantage of knowing that customers are going to their site first for product search and discovery. With Amazon being the most used and trusted tool, it must be thought of as a search engine in itself rather than just an e-commerce site. According to RedDoor, many brands and companies are creating specific marketing teams to manage their positioning on Amazon’s site in addition to agencies creating large scale so brands can establish themselves on Amazon.

Amazon has differentiated themselves in the following areas:

  • Real-Time Optimization: The tool that sets them apart the most from Google and Facebook is real-time optimization. While it may take time to see improvements in your organic search ranking on either of those platforms, Amazon is optimizing your product page in real-time.
  • Direct: Everything in Amazon’s space is within the Amazon ecosystem. A potential buyer never leaves the network with Amazon’s inbound links which is a huge difference in how they advertise versus other competitors like Google and Facebook.
  • Incentive: Amazon makes money on what you sell, where Google is more concerned on click-through rates to any landing page you have. The bias of each platform is very important to keep in mind while reviewing what is performing best.
  • Customer Service: Customer satisfaction is another thing that individualizes Amazon’s advertising space due to the fact that reviews and ratings are crucial to Amazon’s listings.

 

Amazon advertising has grown so much, yet is still young in its development. Amazon’s team will be working to make tools more efficient and effective for all brands, companies, and customers using this platform.

 

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