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70+ Digital Marketing Statistics to Know in 2024

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Carlie Hill

Director of Growth Marketing

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Use these digital marketing statistics to inform your marketing strategy, identify market trends, and measure and evaluate your marketing programs.

Digital marketing is constantly evolving, with marketers always exploring new ways to engage customers and create experiences that excite audiences. From trusted and true digital strategies to creative experiments, it is helpful to understand what works well across marketers and industries.

Here, we’ve compiled 70+ powerful digital marketing statistics to help you navigate the digital marketing landscape and build a strong strategy in 2024.

Digital Marketing

SEO

Mobile Marketing

Visual Content

Blogging

Social Media

Digital Marketing Statistics

According to Hubspot, "A digital marketing strategy is a plan for using online channels to establish an internet presence and achieve specific marketing objectives."

Building, and following through on a high-level strategy is key to marketing success.

Despite digital being a key component of marketing for several years, almost half of marketing teams still aren’t properly documenting their digital marketing strategy. However, those that do report greater success compared to those that don't. This could represent an advantage for those with a documented digital marketing strategy.

But! Taking the time to build a strategy and sharing it with your organization can improve marketing successes massively. And being agile is sometimes crucial.

SEO

In 2024, SEO strategy is proving to be as important as ever, if not even more so. As part of a marketing strategy, high-quality content is crucial for encouraging organic search and link-building.

Search engines frequently prioritize video content to appear first. Using a combination of relevant written and visual content is important to rank higher on Google and capture a larger audience.

Long-form keywords can be incredibly effective, as people are getting more specific about what they’re looking for to sift through the vast amounts of content available.

Mobile Marketing

There has been a large shift in how audiences consume marketing content and it means that marketers need to become more and more mobile-friendly.

In 2024 mobile channels can not just be an alternative, secondary option but must become a primary focus in a comprehensive marketing strategy.

Visual Content

According to RockContent, "Visual marketing is the use of images, videos, and other pieces of multimedia content to strengthen your brand and communicate with your target audience."

Visual content is no longer a nice-to-have – it’s table stakes to rank higher and attract consumers better than the competition. It makes content more memorable and builds trust among consumers.

In 2024, building beautiful, eye-catching visuals is essential to any digital marketing strategy.

Video

Video has been gaining importance exponentially in the marketing industry, expanding into live video, webinars, social stories, and more. Improvements in mobile technology and a surge in video tools available have made a video strategy possible for any budget, allowing smaller marketing teams to take advantage of this popular form of content.

  • Over the past 10 years, videos longer than 30 minutes, such as webinars and live events, saw over 11,000% growth. Source: HubSpot 2023
  • 91% of consumers want to see more online video content from brands. Source: Wyzowl, 2023
  • Short-form video has the highest ROI of all marketing trends. Source: HubSpot, 2023
  • Video traffic now equates to 65% of all internet traffic.
    Source: Sandvine, 2023
  • 68% of organizations reported managing their videos in a dedicated digital asset management (DAM) system.
    Source: MediaValet, 2023
  • 72% of DAM users report plans to achieve more with their video files. Source: MediaValet, 2023
  • 90% of marketers say video marketing has helped them generate leads while 87% say it has increased sales. Source: Wyzowl, 2023

Landing Pages

Landing pages require testing and adapting for success. They provide a rare ability to experiment and gain a deep understanding of audience preferences but require discipline and commitment over time to generate significant results.

Photos

It's easier for brains to process visuals over text, so using photos makes it easier for your audience to retain information and, ultimately, remember you. Photos are a core part of most marketers’ strategy, making unique, custom photography an important component to consider across both B2B and B2C industries.

  • On average, posts that include images get 650x more engagement than text-only posts
    Source: Medium, 2018
  • 88% of marketers stated that they incorporated images in more than 50% of all the articles they published.
    Source: Venngage, 2019
  • When information is paired with images, people retain 65% of the information, rather than 10% without.
    Source: Brain Rules, 2022
  • The brain processes images 60,000 times faster than text.
    Source: Piktochart, 2018
  • 93% of organizations reported managing their photos in a central library (DAM, file sharing solution, server, etc.)
    Source: MediaValet, 2022

Blogging

As of 2023, WPDeveloper reports that, "there are over 1.9 billion websites around the world, and more than 600 million of them are blogs spread out over different channels and niches."

Blog posts with 2000+ words typically rank higher in search engines, as they are more likely to include higher quality content than short-term blog posts. However, it’s still important to enrich the text with visuals, headers and highlights to make it easily digestible to both readers and search engines.

Digital Marketing Statistics: Social Media

  • There are 4.9 billion social media users globally. That's 60.49% of the global population using social media platforms. Source: DemandSage, 2023
  • 42% of marketers use TikTok already, and more than half of them (56%) plan to increase their investment. Source, HubSpot, 2023
  • Tailoring content to the social platform pays off; effective marketers are 27% more likely to tailor content to the platform they’re sharing it on. Source: HubSpot, 2023
  • On average, social media users spend over 2 hours a day on social media.
    Source: Global Web Index, 2020
  • 97% of digital consumers have used social media within the last month.
    Source: Hootsuite, 2020

With billions of social media users worldwide, businesses have the opportunity to get in front of ideal customers and create deep emotional engagement with their brands. As a significant driver of traffic and, in some cases, sales, understanding where your customers and competitors are active on social media is important to success.

Instagram

Instagram is quickly becoming one of the most engaging social media platforms - and not just among Generation Z. With users making purchases based on the products they see on their feeds, Instagram offers the opportunity to drive business, especially in highly-visual B2C industries.

Facebook

Video represents a large opportunity for businesses on Facebook. But, with such a high percentage of video being watched while users are on-the-go, videos need to be digestible without relying on sound (using subtitles and adding clarity). This will allow users to watch from anywhere, without having to use headphones or disturb people around them.

Twitter

Twitter, while not renowned for its ability to drive sales, gives businesses a fantastic platform for updating customers and responding to customer service inquiries. Businesses can use Twitter to improve relationships with their customers and increase positive feelings for the brand.

LinkedIn

While it’s important for both B2B and B2C organizations to have an active profile on LinkedIn, in terms of marketing, LinkedIn offers the most success in the B2B industry. Connecting companies with high-level influencers and decision-makers, LinkedIn helps drive relevant traffic and impact sales.

YouTube

As it becomes harder and harder to reach customers with video advertisements, thanks to the addition of PVRs and streaming services, YouTube represents a massive opportunity for marketers. But, it’s important to note that companies only have about 2 seconds to grab attention, so video ads need to start with a bang.


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