Worldwide, Global Web Index: Device trends

This report goes through various insights on the different devices owned by consumer all over the world and include interesting findings such as the fact that there are now no online behaviors where tablet users are more likely to turn to their tablets than their mobiles. That said, tablet users are almost as likely to be watching TV on their tablet (40%) as their mobile (47%). These devices seem more suited for purposes like watching TV and browsing the web, when a mobile screen will not suffice.

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North America & UK, CMO Council: How brands annoy fans

The research confirmed that, unsurprisingly, social media is where consumers encounter a huge percentage of the total ad messages they receive. Indeed, these channels ranked second only to TV for received ad volume in the survey. However, consumers also ranked social media as the least trusted among the top five channels. They cited friends, TV and newspapers among the most trusted sources.

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Czech Republic, CVVM: Trust in selected public institutions

The biannual research by the Public Opinion Research Center (CVVM) tracks the level of trust in traditional media as well as public institutions. According to the latest data the trust in traditional media was on the rise in 2017 after a period of decline (TV rose by 5% and radio by 4% compared to 2016). The trust in traditional media was more frequently expressed among young people (below 30).

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Worldwide, VIACOM, TV Matters: Life Without TV – Deprivation project

How much do viewers value television? Viacom’s study on media consumption, TV Matters, aimed to answer this question by taking TV away from some participants. To really explore the power of television, they asked people to live without it for 5 days – meaning no pay TV or cable packages, no free-to-air broadcast channels, no TV on demand, no TV Everywhere apps, and no DVR access.

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US, IAB: Cross-media advertising effectiveness

The research features insightful figures and three case studies from Research Now on Retail, Finance and Media, each of which involved a mix of digital and traditional media. One of the key learnings is that a media plan that includes digital executed simultaneously with traditional offline media consistently drives greater lift.

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