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.

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

Facebook, Google and Amazon are engaged in a game of thrones—an epic battle for digital supremacy. The anointed one will be whichever company stakes its claim to all three coins of the digital realm: media, advertising and commerce.

eMarketer vice president of content studio Paul Verna discusses YouTube’s changes to video suggestions. He also explores the popularity of hearables vs. smartwatches and asks: “When it the perfect time to send an email?”

eMarketer principal analyst Mark Dolliver and vice president of multimedia Paul Verna join host Marcus Johnson to discuss reports that the Federal Trade Commission is investigating YouTube for potential violations of children’s online privacy. Other topics on the agenda include Slack’s initial public offering and a study showing an increase in screen time among older users.

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.

Connected TV inventory is growing like weeds. We expect that more than half of the US population (57.2%) will watch connected TV in 2019, up from 51.7% in 2017. And the time they spend watching will increase too, which means the amount of connected TV inventory available to advertisers is proliferating.

As media time reaches a saturation point, consumers in Canada are showing a decided taste for the immediacy of digital.

Traditional and digital channels are driving media consumption in parallel in India, unlike Western countries where time spent with traditional media is shrinking.

Smartphones are the primary internet access device for consumers in South Korea, and mobile internet activities will continue to drive gains in both digital and total time spent as time spent with most traditional media channels declines.

The reports in this collection look at time spent with media in the US, Canada, the UK, France, Germany, China, Japan, South Korea and India. Two other reports take a close look at time spent with mobile and social in the US.

UK adults have reached peak media consumption, spending an average of 9 hours, 38 minutes each day with media. Time spent is shifting to digital channels, particularly to smartphones.

After years of steady increases, time spent on social media by US social network users fell last year. Those figures will flatten as the intensity of Facebook usage starts to moderate and activities such as digital video and video games draw more time and attention.

According to a January 2019 survey from influencer marketing agency Mediakix, 61% of US marketers agreed that it’s difficult to find the right influencers for a campaign. And more than one in four US marketers said that brand safety and alignment was a challenge when it comes to influencer marketing.

Subscription-based video is growing across a broad spectrum of services, from on-demand platforms like Netflix to aggregators that deliver live TV over the internet.

eMarketer vice president of multimedia Paul Verna and forecasting analyst Eric Haggstrom discuss this year's digital NewFronts. Where do most viewers watch Hulu's content? What are these new "binge ads"? And what did they think of YouTube's presentation?

US marketers will spend $29.24 billion on programmatic video this year, which accounts for 49.2% of all US programmatic digital display ad spending. For the next few years, we expect the portion of programmatic spend that goes to video to remain steady.

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.

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.