US B2B digital ad spending in 2020 will grow 22.6% year over year amid the coronavirus pandemic. This report breaks down the market factors and B2B-specific considerations that are driving this increase.

The pandemic has sparked new use cases for social listening, an underutilized tool in marketers' work belts. But some brands, like Johnsonville Sausage, were already well-acquainted with the concept. Stephanie Dlugopolski, the company's senior manager of PR and social media, said her team has utilized social listening for nearly a decade. It has allowed them to not only monitor conversations about the brand, but also see how consumers react to larger issues.

Penry Price, vice president of marketing solutions at LinkedIn, speaks with eMarketer vice president of business development Marissa Coslov about LinkedIn’s response to the coronavirus pandemic, including ramped-up support for customers who are pivoting their marketing campaigns.

Direct-to-consumer (D2C) brand Cuts Clothing has grown a lot since it first launched in 2016 on Kickstarter. “Since day one, we have been focused on making premium minimalist shirts for the modern man,” said Steven Borrelli, CEO and co-founder of Cuts.

Social media stories are growing in importance for consumers and marketers. Here’s how businesses can make the most of stories for organic marketing, influencer marketing and paid advertising.

As governments pass stringent social distancing restrictions and corporations request employees to work from home in order to mitigate the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic, business as usual is no longer usual. More than half (52.2%) of US business professionals surveyed by communication platform Fishbowl said their workplace has restricted travel or encouraged remote work due to the coronavirus.

The wave of coronavirus (COVID-19)-related content has become a high-stakes test for social media platforms’ abilities to fight misinformation. False recommendations about how to avoid contracting the virus or what measures infected people should take to avoid spreading it have the potential to cause more sickness and death from a pandemic that has already taken thousands of lives worldwide.

eMarketer principal analyst Mark Dolliver, junior analyst Blake Droesch and principal analyst Nicole Perrin discuss Facebook’s Pinterest-esque app, virtual sports arena advertising, fines for mobile carriers selling customer location data, ads on top of Ubers, LinkedIn ‘Stories,’ which country has the most islands in the world and more.

LinkedIn is different from other social networks. Its professional focus and business-minded audience make it attractive to B2B advertisers as well as many B2C categories. eMarketer principal analyst Jillian Ryan joins host Nicole Perrin to talk about how much US advertisers will spend on LinkedIn this year, and why.

We estimate that slightly more than half of marketers (50.3%) will use LinkedIn for marketing and advertising purposes by 2021. This year, 49.6% of companies with 100+ employees will use the professional social media platform.

With a wealth of first-party professional audience data, LinkedIn is sitting on a valuable asset. This report explains how marketers and advertisers can best use LinkedIn’s tools to reach and engage users on the social network.

LinkedIn will grow faster than previously expected, according to eMarketer’s latest estimates. This year, we estimate that there will be 58.5 million adult LinkedIn users in the US, which will grow 6.2% to 62.1 million in 2020. By the end of the forecasting period in 2023, we expect there to be 68.8 million users.

eMarketer principal analyst Debra Aho Williamson discusses one thing that summed up 2019 for her, as well as some of her predictions for 2020, focusing on Facebook.

eMarketer junior forecasting analyst Nazmul Islam tees up our recently adjusted usage figures for LinkedIn and the factors behind its user increase.

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%.

B2Bs aren't traditionally big spenders on digital ads, but industry experts and our forecasts indicate that 2019 will be a year of growth.

This report features eMarketer’s December 2018 update to our B2B US digital ad spending forecast. It also explores the trends that are driving (and preventing) increased spend in 2019 and beyond.

In the latest episode of "Behind the Numbers," eMarketer's Jillian Ryan and Oscar Orozco break down estimates for B2B digital ad spending, and some of the market's key drivers.