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Association - Digital Marketing: Trends
Association - Digital Marketing: Trends
DIGITAL
MARKETING TRENDS.
20
19
The results are in...
For the first time ever, digital ad spending in the U.S. will exceed
traditional ad spending this year, growing 19% to $129.34 billion.
So undoubtedly, there’s a lot of ad dollars flowing into different digital
marketing channels – channels we’re all familiar with such as social,
programmatic, SEM, SEO, email, etc.
1% | EVP / SVP 3% | VP
Digital Spend
How much did your association spend on digital marketing in 2018?
$10k 75%
$10-25k 15%
$26-50k 7%
$51-75k 0%
$76-100k 0%
$150k+ 3%
8%
Marketing Objectives
What are your goals with marketing your association?
Please order the following according to priority.
Overall, how effective do you consider these marketing tactics for your association?
Website
22% 38% 22% 18% 0%
Social Media
15 39% 32% 13% 1%
Email Marketing
21 37% 28% 14% 0%
SEO
2% 19% 22% 33% 24%
Content Marketing
12% 21% 28% 24% 15%
PPC (SEM)
1% 3% 16% 34% 46%
Programmatic
5% 19% 16% 21% 39%
Paid
2% 14% 32% 20% 32%
Outsourced Team 3%
Combination of
in-housed/ 24%
outsourced
0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% 90% 100%
10+
0%
7-9
2%
3-6
6%
2-3
45%
1
47%
Road Blocks
How limiting do you feel these factors are on the success of your
association’s digital marketing efforts?
13%
15%
18%
26%
14%
24%
30% 33%
31%
44%
22% 40%
32%
28%
18%
21%
9% 11% 12%
7%
3% 3%
7%
Lack of Lack of Lack of Lack of Competition Creativity
Budget Time/Resources Knowledge Reporting
Do you plan to implement programmatic advertising into your digital marketing plan?
How many times per week do you update each social channel?
1-3 4-6 7-9 10+ N /A
00
1%
11% 5%
22% 4%
3%
12% 24%
13%
3%
1%
13% 12%
6%
24% 5% 12% 44% 54% 90% 97%
Websites
How often are you updating content on your association’s website?
60%
51%
50%
40%
30%
22%
20% 18%
10%
6%
1% 1%
Yes 29%
No 63%
How often do you update the blog with new content per month?
77%
Yes 50%
No 39%
3%
No Yes
22% 75%
No Yes
69% 31%
Marketing Automation
Do you plan to implement marketing automation software?
We have done so already. Yes, within the next 12 months. Yes, but no timeframe.
12% 5% 17%
No I don’t know.
39% 24%
What's the biggest benefit you've seen from your marketing automation platform?
40% 4% 3%
Delivering Enhancing
Increase in personalized measurement &
revenue content reporting Other
4% 11% 4% 30%
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