eMarketer Webinar: Key Digital Trends for 2018—Our Predictions for What Will Matter to Marketers

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For a hard-working marketer, what would the new year be without predictions about trends in ad transparency, generational targeting and voice search? Too dreary to even contemplate! So, we present our predictions about these and other digital developments that will matter to marketers in 2018.

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Key Digital Trends for 2018:
Our Predictions for What Will Matter
to Marketers
January 18, 2018
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Mark Dolliver
Principal Analyst

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No. 1: Let’s Be Clear
Our prediction: Social ad transparency will become
a big deal, whether advertisers like it or not.

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The impetus
behind more
transparency
in social ads:
Consumer
trust has
taken a hit
due to news
of Russia’s
meddling in
the election
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No. 2: Listen Up
Our prediction: Voice search will become too
popular for marketers to ignore—or to get wrong.

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Growth during
2017 has
voice search
poised to be a
widespread
consumer
practice in
2018
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No. 3: Get Real
Our prediction: While virtual reality will show some
growth, augmented reality will become mainstream.

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“We’re bringing it to mainstream.”
–Tim Cook, Apple CEO

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The diverging
paths of AR
and VR
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No. 4: Stay Focused
Our prediction: The marketing world’s attention will
shift to Gen Z (thus, away from millennials) at just the
wrong time.

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Millennials
are becoming
homeowners
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No. 5: Privacy Shift
Our prediction: Hacks and breaches—plus new law
in Europe—will finally start to change the digital privacy
landscape.

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“The right to protection of personal data …
the right to be forgotten.”

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Consumers
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Mark Dolliver
Senior Analyst
Key Digital Trends for 2018:
Our Predictions for What Will
Matter to Marketers
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