{"id":8437,"date":"2019-04-25T16:08:03","date_gmt":"2019-04-25T10:38:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.karooya.com\/blog\/?p=8437"},"modified":"2019-07-24T11:43:24","modified_gmt":"2019-07-24T06:13:24","slug":"merkel-digital-marketing-report-q1-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.karooya.com\/blog\/merkel-digital-marketing-report-q1-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Merkle | Digital Marketing Report for Q1 2019 &#8211; Highlights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"lead\">Merkel recently released their Digital Marketing report for Q1 2019. Google Shopping gained popularity when compared with text ads, impact of Apple&#8217;s recent release of ITP 2.1 on audience targeting strategies, Amazon advertising continues to grow where as Facebook faces downside in this regard.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Complete report can be viewed and downloaded <a href=\"https:\/\/www.merkleinc.com\/thought-leadership\/digital-marketing-report\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>\u00a0.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Here are some of the highlights from the report:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4><strong>1) Paid Search Vs Google Shopping<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Google Shopping continues to drive Google Advertising growth with the increase of 41% Y\/Y wherein text ads has seen the decline of 12%. Paid Search Spending growth has seen a downside of 14% as\u00a0CPC growth<br \/>\nslowed from 7% in Q4 2018 to 4% in Q1 2019. With Yahoo&#8217;s transition to serve Bing Search Ads completely, Bing and Yahoo&#8217;s search spend has seen decline of 2%. People are preferring phone when it comes to searching for some ads.\u00a0Google triggered\u00a0 over 96% of paid search clicks on phones in the US and gained\u00a098% of phone paid search ad spend in Q1 2019.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.karooya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Q1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"516\" height=\"301\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8444 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.karooya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Q1.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n<h4><strong>2) Organic and Social Search<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In Q1 2019, Organic Search observed overall growth of 26% and in that , 24% of mobile website visits. DuckDuckgo has seen visits increased by 54% and 78% on mobile devices. Instagram bagged the largest visit growth at 114%.<\/p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.karooya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Q1-Organic.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"516\" height=\"278\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8446 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.karooya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Q1-Organic.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n<h4><strong>3) Display and Paid Social<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>For the first time, Facebook observed decline on Ad spend by 2% Y\/Y in Q1 2019. Instagram spend saw an increase by\u00a0 44% Y\/Y. Though, Pinterest is a small platform compare to Facebook and Instagram, advertisers spent more time on it.<\/p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.karooya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Instagram.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"516\" height=\"310\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8449 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.karooya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Instagram.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n<h4><strong>4) Amazon Ads<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In Q1 2019, Amazon witnessed tremendous growth. Sponsored Products and Sponsored Brands grew 19%\u00a0 and 77% Y\/Y respectively. Branded Keywords were more likely to convert into sale than queries which do not include advertiser&#8217;s brand name.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.karooya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Amazon-Ad.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"516\" height=\"325\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8450 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.karooya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Amazon-Ad.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n<p>To get more insightful findings from this report, download the complete report <a href=\"https:\/\/www.merkleinc.com\/thought-leadership\/digital-marketing-report\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a> to know more.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Related Links:<\/strong><\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"single-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.karooya.com\/blog\/key-highlights-from-merkle-q4-2018-digital-marketing-report\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Key Highlights From Merkle Q4, 2018 Digital Marketing Report<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.karooya.com\/blog\/key-highlights-from-merkle-q3-2018-digital-marketing-report\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Key Highlights From Merkle Q3, 2018 Digital Marketing Report<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.karooya.com\/blog\/key-highlights-from-merkle-q2-2018-digital-marketing-report\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Key Highlights From Merkle Q2, 2018 Digital Marketing Report<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Merkel recently released their Digital Marketing report for Q1 2019. Google Shopping gained popularity when compared with text ads, impact of Apple&#8217;s recent release of ITP 2.1 on audience targeting strategies, Amazon advertising continues to grow where as Facebook faces downside in this regard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ub_ctt_via":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-googl-search-tips"],"featured_image_src":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Amita","author_link":"https:\/\/www.karooya.com\/blog\/author\/amita\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.karooya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.karooya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.karooya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.karooya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.karooya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8437"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.karooya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8437\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9306,"href":"https:\/\/www.karooya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8437\/revisions\/9306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.karooya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.karooya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.karooya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}