Brand Marketing: A new minimovie starring Mario Lopez as KFC’s iconic Colonel Sanders is drawing attention across social in an enjoyable example of out-of-the box marketing from a legacy brand.
Since the pandemic, mobile gaming in China has picked up: In Q3 2020, growth in mobile game users spending accelerated by 32.5% year-over-year (YoY) to RMB 50.85 billion, compared with a 7.8% increase a year earlier, according to gaming research institute CNG.
The number of monthly Instagram users in Western Europe will rise by 17.0% in 2020 to 132.8 million. That’s more than three times higher than the growth rate we had predicted before the pandemic (5.2%) and equates to 19.3 million new users from 2019.
Insider Intelligence and its eMarketer team generate roughly 1,500 forecasts on digital transformation topics every year. These estimates are mainly produced on an annual basis, with several of the highest-profile metrics reassessed one additional time during the year.
eMarketer principal analysts at Insider Intelligence Mark Dolliver, Jeremy Goldman, Jillian Ryan, and Debra Aho Williamson discuss their expectations for the media world next year: federal privacy regulation, a retail media trio to challenge the duopoly, the next iteration of virtual events, social entertainment's staying power, and more.
US media buyers and sellers said digital video, OTT, and connected TV (CTV) will be their highest priorities in 2021, driven by high viewership during the pandemic and innovations in measurement and targeting.