Direct mail prompts the highest response rate in comparison to other digital direct marketing channels in the United States. In 2018, the response rate for direct mail marketing was calculated at **** percent, while e-mail, paid search and social media had a ***-percent response rate each.

According to a 2022 study conducted with marketers worldwide, ** percent of respondents reported using artificial intelligence as a part of their digital marketing strategy. Two years earlier, in 2020, the reported usage rate stood at ** percent which was a big growth from the ** percent rate in 2018.

In 2024, digital pure players (companies that operate primarily online, such as Google or Amazon) generated an advertising revenue of *** billion U.S. dollars worldwide. In 2025, their ad revenue is forecast to amount to *** billion dollars.

In 2022, global internet advertising revenue stood at *** billion U.S. dollars. The source projected the revenue would increase to *** billion by 2027. Internet advertising in the U.S. – additional informationInternet or online advertising encompasses a range of formats including email, search engine, social media, display and mobile advertising. Display advertising uses pictures, videos, text and graphics to target consumers and ads are usually matched with potential consumers through the use of cookies.The leading internet display advertisers in the United States in 2014, were ranked regarding their measured advertising spending. The resulting list, which only took into account spending on digital display advertising, saw Comcast ranked first. The American mass media company, founded in Mississippi in 1963, spent ***** million U.S. dollars on online display advertising in 2014. The runner up to Comcast was the Texas based telecommunications company AT&T with a spending of *** million U.S. dollars.The investments made in online advertising have grown substantially in the recent past. The revenue generated by online advertising in the U.S. has been recorded from the first quarter in 2007 to the fourth quarter of 2015. In the first quarter of 2007, online spending revenue amounted to *** billion U.S. dollars. By the fourth quarter of 2013, this figure had risen to ***** billion U.S. dollars, growing further to ***** billion dollars in the fourth quarter of 2015.A breakdown of the online advertising revenue in the U.S. in 2015, by type reveals which forms of internet advertising was most invested in, and perhaps deemed the most useful to a company operating online. It was revealed that search advertising, which increases a website or company’s visibility on search engine result pages, held the largest share of online advertising with ** percent. Banner and mobile advertising rounded off the top three.

In 2024, digital marketing spending in Germany stood at nearly ** billion euros. The expenditure nearly doubled compared to the value reported in 2018.

According to the 2018 survey, small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) regularly used social media for digital marketing in Finland. ** percent of the small businesses used social media regularly or occasionally for marketing purposes. Another ** percent practiced keyword-optimization on their webpage either regularly or occasionally. At the same time, ** percent of companies reported that they did not have an online shop, while ** percent did not consider them relevant for their business.

During a 2024 survey among marketers worldwide, approximately 83 percent selected increased exposure as a benefit of social media marketing. Increased traffic followed, mentioned by 73 percent of the respondents, while 65 percent cited generated leads.

              The multibillion-dollar social media ad industry

              Between 2019 – the last year before the pandemic – and 2024, global social media advertising spending skyrocketed by 140 percent, surpassing an estimated 230 billion U.S. dollars in the latter year. That figure was forecast to increase by nearly 50 percent by the end of the decade, exceeding 345 billion dollars in 2029. As of 2024, the social media networks with the most monthly active users were Facebook, with over three billion, and YouTube, with more than 2.5 billion.

              Pros and cons of GenAI for social media marketing

              According to another 2024 survey, generative artificial intelligence's (GenAI) leading benefits for social media marketing according to professionals worldwide included increased efficiency and easier idea generation. The third place was a tie between increased content production and enhanced creativity. All those advantages were cited by between 33 and 38 percent of the interviewees. As for GenAI's top challenges for global social media marketing,
              maintaining authenticity and the value of human creativity ranked first, mentioned by 43 and 40 percent of the respondents, respectively. Another 35 percent deemed ensuring the content resonates as an obstacle.

Digital marketing spends in India were projected to grow to *** billion Indian rupees in the fiscal year 2025, a ** percent increase from the previous year. This reflects the steadily growing trend of digital marketing expenditure in the country since financial year 2018.

In 2023, online advertising spending in Germany stood at roughly ** billion euros. Between 2024 and 2028, the spending is expected to increase at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of ***** percent and reach ** billion euros at the end of this period.

As of 2024, the ad revenue generated by digital media across India was valued at 700 billion Indian rupees. That same year, India’s total advertising revenue was over one trillion Indian rupees and the country was ranked among the largest advertising markets across the world in terms of ad spending. The future is digital The highest share of ad revenue was generated by the Indian television ad market, valued at over 250 billion rupees in fiscal year 2018, followed by the print market. However, the projections for each of these segments show a clear pattern where the digital ad market will rapidly overtake print as well as television revenues by fiscal year 2024. According to these projections, the digital ad revenue in the country will be worth almost 540 billion rupees by fiscal year 2024, while the television and print ad revenues were projected to reach about 455 billion rupees and 276 billion rupees respectively. These numbers clearly show that India is heading towards a digital advertising future. Big bucks for digital advertising The reasons for this surge in India’s digital advertising are clear. Rising penetration of affordable and speedy internet, along with an increase in vernacular content consumption make up the tip of the iceberg. Along with this, big-moneyed industries such as banking, financial services, and insurance are increasingly experimenting with non-traditional media platforms such as YouTube and Instagram stories to connect with users.

The share of total ad spending in the social media share total segment of the advertising market in the United States was forecast to continuously decrease between 2023 and 2027 by *** percentage points. The share of total ad spending is estimated to amount to ***** percent in 2027.

During a 2024 survey among marketers worldwide, around 86 percent reported using Facebook for marketing purposes. Instagram and LinkedIn followed, respectively mentioned by 79 and 65 percent of the respondents.

              The global social media marketing segment

              According to the same study, 59 percent of responding marketers intended to increase their organic use of YouTube for marketing purposes throughout that year. LinkedIn and Instagram followed with similar shares, rounding up the top three social media platforms attracting a planned growth in organic use among global marketers in 2024. Their main driver is increasing brand exposure and traffic, which led the ranking of benefits of social media marketing worldwide.

              Social media for B2B marketing

              Social media platform adoption rates among business-to-consumer (B2C) and business-to-business (B2B) marketers vary according to each subsegment's focus. While B2C professionals prioritize Facebook and Instagram – both run by Meta, Inc. – due to their popularity among online audiences, B2B marketers concentrate their endeavors on Microsoft-owned LinkedIn due to its goal to connect people and companies in a corporate context.

The charts shows the share of marketers worldwide who think digital and offline campaigns are important to their overall marketing efforts as of May 2018, by business type. According to the study from Quantcast, ** percent of global direct brand marketers believed that digital marketing was important to their overall marketing efforts, while ** percent said the same about offline campaigns.

In 2025, the market size of internet advertising in China was estimated to reach***** trillion yuan. The online advertising market was expanding at an annual compound growth rate of ** percent between 2019 and 2023. The growth was projected to slow down to *** percent between 2024 and 226.

It is projected that digital advertising expenditures in the United States will increase by nearly ** percent between 2025 and 2029. In that five years period U.S. digital ad spend will grow from *** to *** billion dollars. These figures will represent roughly ** percent of global digital ad spending, which is expected to reach some *** billion U.S. dollars in 2027, up from the *** billion recorded in 2021. Mobile advertising in the U.S. With mobile growing in strength, sources predict that it will account for the lion’s share of total digital spending in the United States. In 2023, roughly *** billion U.S. dollars is forecast to be spent on mobile ads in the country. Sometime in early 2017 a clear change was seen in allocation of marketing dollars, when U.S. industry professionals started increasing the share of their budgets devoted to mobile marketing. Since then, a growing focus on this medium is evident. While mobile advertising is becoming more popular, marketers still have some concerns with its execution, mainly when it comes to data quality and sourcing, as well as measurement issues. All in all, those who decided to spend on mobile have been shifting away from display ads and towards video advertising since early 2018.

In 2022, global content marketing industry revenue was estimated at roughly ** billion U.S. dollars. The source projected that it would increase to 72 billion in 2023 and that it would continue growing over the further years to reach *** billion in 2026.

This statistic shows the results of a survey into businesses that measured the success of their digital marketing activities in Australia during the financial year 2017 to 2018. During the period considered, 88 percent of respondents that were large businesses said they had measured the success of their digital marketing activities.

This statistic shows the results of a survey into digital marketing trends for businesses in Australia during the financial year 2017 to 2018. During the period considered, ** percent of respondents said that they had used, or planned to use, content based marketing.

During a January 2024 global survey among marketers, nearly 60 percent reported plans to increase their organic use of YouTube for marketing purposes in the following 12 months. LinkedIn and Instagram followed, respectively mentioned by 57 and 56 percent of the respondents intending to use them more. According to the same survey, Facebook was the most important social media platform for marketers worldwide.

In the fourth quarter of 2024, TikTok generated around 186 million downloads from users worldwide. Initially launched in China first by ByteDance as Douyin, the short-video format was popularized by TikTok and took over the global social media environment in 2020. In the first quarter of 2020, TikTok downloads peaked at over 313.5 million worldwide, up by 62.3 percent compared to the first quarter of 2019.

              TikTok interactions: is there a magic formula for content success?

              In 2024, TikTok registered an engagement rate of approximately 4.64 percent on video content hosted on its platform. During the same examined year, the social video app recorded over 1,100 interactions on average. These interactions were primarily composed of likes, while only recording less than 20 comments per piece of content on average in 2024.
              The platform has been actively monitoring the issue of fake interactions, as it removed around 236 million fake likes during the first quarter of 2024. Though there is no secret formula to get the maximum of these metrics, recommended video length can possibly contribute to the success of content on TikTok.
              It was recommended that tiny TikTok accounts with up to 500 followers post videos that are around 2.6 minutes long as of the first quarter of 2024. While, the ideal video duration for huge TikTok accounts with over 50,000 followers was 7.28 minutes. The average length of TikTok videos posted by the creators in 2024 was around 43 seconds.

              What’s trending on TikTok Shop?

              Since its launch in September 2023, TikTok Shop has become one of the most popular online shopping platforms, offering consumers a wide variety of products. In 2023, TikTok shops featuring beauty and personal care items sold over 370 million products worldwide.
              TikTok shops featuring womenswear and underwear, as well as food and beverages, followed with 285 and 138 million products sold, respectively. Similarly, in the United States market, health and beauty products were the most-selling items,
              accounting for 85 percent of sales made via the TikTok Shop feature during the first month of its launch. In 2023, Indonesia was the market with the largest number of TikTok Shops, hosting over 20 percent of all TikTok Shops. Thailand and Vietnam followed with 18.29 and 17.54 percent of the total shops listed on the famous short video platform, respectively.