Online Marketing Trends

           IN EUROPEAN MARKET

• In terms of MAU ( monthly active users)  European markets contributed 323 million  with an Europe  ARPU of $3.47.
• It’s 3rd time  Facebook crossed the $1 billion mark in ‘European revenue’ for the quarter and the first time Facebook crossed $1.1 billion in quarterly revenue.
•  Facebook more than doubled its revenue in Europe in just two years.
  
IN NORTH AMERICAN MARKETS .


•  Monthly active users  was 219 million with an ARPU ( canada & US combined ) it was $13.54. which was 3 times of Europe
• In the U.S. and Canada, it reported sales of $1.86 billion.. (source : techrunch)

top 20  global auto component supplier list

The chart from statista shows global auto suppliers ranking by their revenue split.German companies continental and Bosch with automotive segment revenue of around 33.3 billion euros takes the top 2 ranking ,while Canadian company Magna ranked 3rd with around $30billion revenues .

Western europe retail sales by country breakup:

UK, Germany and Sweden tops western europe retail sales ( except the items autos , gas tickets, holiday and travel bookings). The latest data from Europe's centre for retailresearch compares the   retail sales by European nations by year 2014 and 2015

YEAR ON YEAR AD GROWTH 2015 VS 2016

The latest data from Carat, the leading global media network reflects continued optimism on its updated forecasts for worldwide advertising expenditure in 2015 and 2016, 
global advertising spends across Top 10  markets of western  europe is likely to remain positive  and will see solid growth across Digital and Mobile  channels 

 Western Europe returned to positive territory in 2014, with +2.8% growth. In 2015, a similar growth rate of +2.6%  was  forecast with a further increase of +2.9% predicted for 2016.

The European markets showing the highest growth in the region this year and in 2016 are Spain, UK, Ireland and Portugal, whilst in Greece advertising spend has been revised down to -12.0% from +8.0% predicted in the March 2015 report

UK : In 2016  UK market is predicted  with a year on- year growth rate of +5.5%. The 2016 UEFA European Football Championships, at which it is possible that multiple home nations may qualify, is likely to start a summer of increased spending, with the 2016 Rio Olympic Games also driving some advertising revenue.

Germany will see a further increase in advertising spend of +1.7% is predicted for 2016, with no significant impact expected to come from the 2016 UEFA European Football Championships and 2016 Rio Olympics

Spain will see a further +6.9% growth is expected in 2016

The advertising market in France is forecast to reach €10billion in 2016, with a Television  accounting for 33% share of total ad spends along with 5% increase in  digital in 2016

In 2016 Italy will see a growth of 0.7% in overall advertising. The TV market in Italy declined by 3% as print media during the first half of the year is down by -10%.

Russia  will start to recover from Q2-Q3 2016. In 2015, only digital media will show increase in spend  with +5.7% growth. Online Video is will be growing fastest with  +15% yearly growth

France also scores well in terms of " doing business".In 2014, only 4.5 days were required to found a company in rance, versus 6 in the UK and 14.5 in Germany (Doing Business, World Bank)

Among some of the French Govt incentives has been creation of
1) a €200 million French Tech Acceleration fund for Startup accelerator program;
 2)€500 million “Large Venture” fund for venture capital
3)€600 million of Regional Innovation Subsidies and another €600 million for the European Innovation Grants

YEAR ON YEAR AD SPENDING GROWTH RATES : NORTH AMERICA  AND  UNITED STATES

The latest Carat report on " global advertising spends"is based on the  data received from 59 markets across the Americas, Asia Pacific and EMEA,

Carat’s latest global advertising expenditure forecasts that global advertising spend will grow by +4.0% in 2015 to US $529billion, while  ad spends in  2016 is predicted to grow by +4.7%, accounting for an additional US$25billion in spending

GLOBAL ADVERTISING YEAR ON YEAR GROWTH : 2015 VS 2016

Western Europe remains stable with consistent year-on-year growth at +2.6% in 2015 and +2.9% in 2016 driven by positive momentum in the UK and Spain.


The online & digital  media,  share of  2015 advertising spends was 24.3% which will increase to 26.5% in 2016..Digital continues to be the only channel which is seeing double digital growth, predicted at +15.7% in 2015 and +14.3% in 2016

• Across 10 of the markets analysed, including the UK, Ireland, Canada and Australia, Digital is now the principle media used based on spend, with the US market predicted to join this list in 2018 when digital advertising spend is forecast to overtake TV advertising by more than US $4billion.
  
• The positive momentum of advertising spends  is expected to continue across the world at the 

1. Western Europe at +2.6%, 
2. North America +4.2%
3. Asia Pacific  at +4,1%
4. Latin America +12.7%

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IN EUROPE MOBILE SPENDS ON MARKETING AND PROMOTION SET TO TOUCH THE 50% OF OVERALL DIGITAL MARKETING SPENDS

• In UK  mobile spends in 2016 is expected to touch 49% of  total digital marketing spends
• Norway mobile ad spends will contribute 46%
• France and Denmark mobile will reach 31% in 2016
• Netherlands, Italy and Germany  will see its mobile spends reach 44% of their total digital budgets
• Germany mobile ad spends  will see the fastest growth in western europe with 13% increase . In 2015 mobile spends  in Germany contributed 31% of its online ad spends 
• Both Finland and Sweden will see their  mobile media spends  touch 45%

THE ABOVE CHART SHOWS THE KEY DIGITAL MARKET INDICATORS FOR GERMANY.

In Germany the revenues in the "Digital Media" market  is expected to reach USD 3,915.2million in 2016 and is projected to  grow to USD 5043 million in  in 2018
In Germany the digital media revenues is projected to grow from " digital gaming and epublishing.The market's largest segment is the segment "Digital Games" with a market volume of USD 1,765 million  in 2016

EMIRATES, DELTA AND  UNITED  are among the worlds most valuable Airlines brand with a combined brand value of over$17.5 billion .The number one airlines brand with a highest brand value is EMIRATES.Emirates  continues to lead the sector with a 21% rise in brand value to US$6.6 billion. Formula 1, the French Open and most importantly football teams from PSG to Real Madrid and Arsenal to AC Milan all display the Emirates logo.

UK,Germany and US among the biggest mobile shopping markets.

UK tops as the biggest markets in terms of  mobile spends with 28%  share out of total ecommerce sales revenues .Germany and  US  for the  no 2 and no 3 biggest mobile markets respectively with  27% and 26% of ttal ecommrce sales coming from mobile ( tablet and smrtphones)

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These are the top 10 nations having the highest Netflix average monthly revenue per users, across all the countries where the video streaming company is present Netflix top 3 markets with biggest monthly average revenue includes Denmark, Norway and Sweden

In 2014, for the first time ever, Berlin was Europe's  latest start up hotspot.Berlin start-ups attracted more venture capital funding than  London: VC & PE firms pumped in funds  worth 2.2 billion USD in Berlin compared to 1.5 billion USD in London and is now the top city for venture capital investment in Europe.

13 European  consumer Internet start ups  are valued between 1billion to 10billion USD The number one consumer Internet brand  is SPOTIFY  with a valuation of $8.5billion   GLOBAL FASHION GROUP  ranks 2nd and is valued at $3.4 billion  DELIVERY HERO  ranks 3rd and is valued at $3.1 billion

The chart shows the list of European nations who tops internet shopping per users. To see the chart and the list of nations.click here or see below the jump

How European nations ranks among the highest online spends per user The UK leads in Internet shopping across europe   with a average   1071 sterling per shopper in 2014, which increased almost 10% in 2015  to record 1174 pounds Online retail sales are predicted to reach £52.25bn in the UK this year,  which equals to 15% of retail sales online . Germany ranks no 2 with with  an average german user spending 1023 sterling online as compared to 890 sterling in 2014 , showing a solid growth of  14% in 2015 France takes the next place with online shopping spends per person at 767  sterling, followed by Spain, Italy and Netherlands

There has been a lot of buzz on a  new article proclaiming Berlin as the “next Silicon Valley”, for the start up culture and the rivalry between London and Berlin seems to be played across the social media  quite fervently

According to  Angelist  there has been  1,553 claimed profiles for startups based in London and 273 for startups based in Berlin. Each of these profiles includes up to four tags representing the markets that the startup operates in. Together this gives 4,246 tags in 531 different markets for London and 772 tags in 275 different markets for Berlin.

  Germany Mobile web vs tablet web users by income