2017 Digital Marketing Trends: What’s Next for Video & Mobile

“Information doesn’t travel at the word of mouth anymore. It travels as the speed of light,” says Andy Russell, founder of Trigger Media and InsideHook. As information travels at the speed of light, digital advertising has to change at the speed of light in order to keep up. What are the two main mediums expected to grow and change in 2017? Video and mobile.

Double down on video.

69% of marketers say their budget on video content is “increasing” or “significantly increasing.”  Don’t increase your video budget because everyone else is increasing; do it because that’s where your audience is.

• More than 7 billion videos are watched every day on Facebook and YouTube alone

• Four in five consumers say a video showing how a product or service works is important

• One third of all online activity is spent watching video, and this is something we’ll see increase in 2017

• As of 2016, online video campaigns have the highest click through rates of all digital ad formats

• Four times as many people now prefer their content in video format rather than text .

Consumers are hungry for video. This makes it more imperative than ever that marketers are creating custom video, and explaining who their brand is in video format to their target audiences.

Mobile is a moving target.

Year over year, we are continuing to see significant growth in mobile usage as well as mobile advertising. Four in five Americans and three in five individuals globally carry at least one smartphone with them every day. Not only are they carrying them, but they’re using them while shopping in retail stores. They’re researching other vehicles when they’re at a car dealership, and they’re killing time on their phones while waiting at the doctor’s office.

But how is this space changing?

The assumption used to be that every person had an average of 2.3 devices. The average American is now connected through 5 devices. By the end of this year, the prediction is that over 25% of people in the United States will have a wearable device as a sixth device. This will create a moving target for marketers, causing them to start producing and distributing content to fit this specific format and channel.

What does all of this mean?

Branding through digital advertising in 2017 is going to be full of even more online video, and new ventures in the mobile space. Will you be an early adopter, reaching your audience where they spend the most time or will you be late to the game, only catching the people staying for the credits?

Download our full 2017 Digital Marketing Outlook.