Marketers: Shifting to Digital; Email, Search Perform Best
Most marketing executives cite email or search marketing as their company's top-performing advertising channel in 2009—39.4% and 23.6%, respectively—and over nine in ten (93.6%) say they plan to increase their budget allocation to digital marketing in the next five years, according to the Fourth Annual Marketing and Media Survey from Datran Media.
Just 9.4% of marketers cited offline channels as their most effective response channel last year. Another 4.7% cited social media, while mobile marketing, still in its early stages, was cited by 0.8% of marketers.
Below, other findings from the Fourth Annual Marketing and Media Survey from Datran Media.
Budget Shifts to Online in 2010 and Beyond
Among marketers who plan to increase investments in digital marketing, 75.2% say their allocations will increase steadily as 2014 approaches, while 18.4% say their allocations will increase greatly.
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Wonder what were the companies in this sampling? B2B, B2C?
I can understand if the customers of the sampling are electronic based distribution/logistic... Can a conventional company shift its advertising budget massively to 'electronic' just like that?
I dont remember seeing any research report that shows increase of internet users to that spike yet.