With 2020 shaping up to be a chaotic year, these are the video trends marketers will need to pay attention to.

Advertisers are making significant investments in connected TV as the TV landscape becomes more fragmented.

Advertisers are embracing the popularity of connected TV by allocating more money to streaming platforms.

Programmatic advertising will account for 83.5% of all US digital display ad dollars, or $57.30 billion, this year. Growth in social, connected TV and over-the-top (OTT) advertising will drive programmatic display to almost $80 billion by 2021.

Connected TV ad spending is increasing significantly, but it still faces issues when it comes to the fragmentation of inventory, lack of standardized measurements, frequency capping and ad fraud. In our newest report on US digital video, we looked at connected TV’s limitations and what leaders in the industry think.

Ad dollars and viewers are pouring into digital video platforms as the TV industry continues to lose subscribers.

US consumers dig digital audio, and as listenership heats up, so does advertiser investment. For direct-to-consumer (D2C) brands, podcasts are top-of-mind as they provide engaging and influential ad opportunities.

Automotive digital ad spend is increasing, but growth is decelerating due to larger forces at play.

CPGs are increasing their search budgets, but private-label competition and mergers and acquisitions activity is hampering overall ad spending growth.

Financial services firms are increasing their digital budgets, particularly for mobile, to target young consumers.

Media and entertainment companies are increasing their digital ad spend at a greater rate than other verticals as revenues surge in the music and film industries and digital video and gaming platforms try to outcompete one another.

Retail ad budgets continue to grow at a steady pace as retail stalwarts battle disruption from Amazon and other digitally savvy companies.

Telecom and consumer electronics companies are increasing their digital ad spend as they adjust to rapidly changing technology developments.

The podcasting industry continues to explode with potential for advertisers, and the numbers show it: Marketers spent $479 million on podcast ads in 2018, and podcast advertising revenues are projected to surpass $1 billion by 2021, according to figures from the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) and PwC.

US advertisers are committing more dollars upfront for linear TV and digital video, however the percentage of digital video ads being sold programmatically continues to increase.

It’s been one year since GDPR became enforceable and marketers are still anxious about data regulation. Since the law went into effect, ad trade groups have become more accepting of outside regulation but they still want to shape the laws that affect their industry.

Podcasts still have a ways to go before catching up with traditional radio. As marketers try to reach the growing audience of digital audio listeners, podcasts stand out in a few key ways.

The push for more effective ad targeting remains one of marketers’ chief occupations. More than half of client-side marketers surveyed by Econsultancy and Adobe said leveraging data for more effective segmentation and targeting is among their top three organizational priorities this year.

The belief that consumers crave more targeted, personalized ads has become a digital advertising mantra. But it’s not entirely true.