In case you missed it, Business Insider CEO Henry Blodget and its BI Intelligence research service distilled a slew of digital trends for its Ignition event earlier this month, trends that news organizations might ponder and act on.
In a slide deck posted Nov. 12, the news site identified these major movements in the marketplace:
• PC Internet access has waned and mobile has ascended.
• Mobile-only is not the best strategy. Rather plan for multiscreens and multiple devices. “Screen fragmentatiom is creating big challenges and opportunities,” Business Insider noted.
• Sixty percent of all mobile devices run Android, which Business Insider declared the winner in the operating platform war with Apple.
• “Attention is monetizable” and “eyeballs are moving to digital, especially mobile.” Digital accounts for 25 percent of total ad spending in the United States.
• Digital has overtaken TV in advertising and print ads have “fallen off the cliff.”
• Google exceeds newspapers and magazines in ad revenue.
• The trend is up for consumers paying directly for digital content.
• Wearables, more watches and health devices than glasses and headgear, are the next big thing. Cars are “increasingly connected.”
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Coverage of the Ignition event included articles by Forbes, The New York Observer, and AdWeek.
