According to an April 2019 survey of global consumers from mobile video ad network AdColony, three in five respondents said they encounter offensive content on Facebook, and about half that figure noted the same was true of YouTube. Inappropriate content appearing on Google, in mobile games, or on platforms like Instagram and Snapchat was less likely, but still apparent.

In today's "eMarketer Daily Forecast" video, senior forecasting analyst Chris Bendtsen identifies the major global digital ad sellers, and why others are struggling to compete. Watch now.

Facebook’s Cambridge Analytica scandal changed the way Americans think about online privacy. And it should come as no surprise that many have grown wary over the mishandling of personal information.

As a last-touch channel, social networks have doubled in visit share to US retail sites in the past two years. And the overwhelming majority of social referrals come from smartphones, according to Q1 2019 data from Adobe Digital Insights.

Fewer people in the US are accessing social networking sites via computers, with the majority of users now exclusively on mobile devices. We forecast that 51.7% of US social network users will be mobile-only in 2019.

Programmatic ad spending will reach $59.45 billion in 2019, accounting for 84.9% of the US digital display ad market. This report looks at the trends driving investment to $81.00 billion by 2021, breaking it down by transaction type, format and device.

In the latest episode of "Behind the Numbers," eMarketer principal analyst Debra Aho Williamson discusses the recently leaked documents allegedly showing that Facebook used consumer data as leverage. What's going on inside Facebook, and how are these scandals affecting usage?

In today’s “eMarketer Daily Forecast” video, senior forecasting analyst Chris Bendtsen delves into our numbers for digital video ad spending. Watch now.

According to a spring 2019 report from investment bank and asset management firm Piper Jaffray, 73% of Gen Zers (those ages 7 to 22, per the report) said they prefer brands to contact them about new products through Instagram, with Snapchat following as the preferred method at roughly 50%.

In the latest episode of "Behind the Numbers," eMarketer principal analyst Nicole Perrin talks about the new internet platform regulations coming into effect.

We forecast that native video will make up 38.1% of US digital video ad spending in 2019, but it won't take a much larger share in the near future.

In today’s “eMarketer Daily Forecast” video, senior forecasting analyst Oscar Orozco explores our numbers on social network audiences. Watch now.

Digital platforms will claim nearly €5 billion ($5.9 billion) in ad outlays in France this year—equivalent to 41.0% of total media ad spending. Three-quarters of that digital sum will go to Facebook and Google.

The first in a series of quarterly social media reports, this report examines major developments in the global social media market based on trends, business activity and new data released in Q1 2019.

We forecast that native advertising will account for 62.7% of total US display ad spending in 2019, up from 54.2% in 2017. But the bulk of native ad spend will go to social media platforms.

Newspapers and magazines have seen declining print revenues for years and hoped digital would make up for those losses. But even as the US digital ad market will grow by 19.1% this year to $129.34 billion, newspapers and magazines aren’t seeing increases nearly that big.

This year, US advertisers will spend two-thirds of their digital budgets on mobile placements. Mobile ad spending has taken the majority of digital spending every year since 2015, and both search and display spending skew heavily mobile. But, even though it falls under the display umbrella, video is the only digital ad format where more ad dollars are still spent outside mobile channels.

Grocery is the least penetrated but fastest-growing category in ecommerce today. Traditional brands and retailers need to understand why this channel shift is accelerating and adjust their marketing and selling strategies accordingly.

Government regulation is the top obstacle threatening marketers’ data projects this year, according to a recent survey of US marketers by Winterberry Group and the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB).

In 2018, total worldwide app revenues grew 63% year over year, according to app commerce company Poq. Additionally, time spent in shopping apps grew 45% from two years prior, per data from App Annie.