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Digital marketing statistics sources to inform your marketing strategy



Our recommendations on the top 10 free digital marketing statistics covering secondary data sources for Global, European, UK, US, Asia and Latin America

Online marketers love statistics about digital marketing. Us too. They allow us to review the growth in customer adoption of the latest digital platforms and technologies, make the business case for investment in marketing and allow us to benchmark our growth and performance against competitors.

From reviewing thousands of stats sources over the years, we’ve found that there are a very small number of quality online marketing statistics sites and sources which are updated at least annually and have a representative sample size from different countries.

Business Members can use our quarterly 2020 online marketing statistics compilation, aimed at saving you time when you need the latest stats for a presentation or report you’re working on against a deadline. This guide contains a full rundown of the latest stats and visuals carefully selected to help you make your case for investment in digital marketing to colleagues or clients.

Here we share our experience of 10 of the best, most reliable free and paid sources. Everyone has their favourites, but I thought it would be useful to share the ones that I go back to most often each week as I research the updates for Smart Insights members and readers of my books.

Top 10 sites for your next digital marketing stats

These sites cover global stats including UK, Europe, the US, Asia Pacific, and Latin America. Thanks for adding the other suggestions to the comments – well worth checking out for anyone searching for statistics sources who pass this way.

1. Global and country Internet usage breakdown – International Telecomms Union

www.itu.int/ITU-D/ict/statistics

ITU is THE global and by country source with the biggest sample size for the big picture of digital device usage and trends by continent and use of fixed and mobile broadband access by country per 100 people. It’s the best source for data in all countries, although this is only available for the top-level measures. This is its latest release for Global percentage access to mobile platforms up to 2019.

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2. Global use of social media sites and devices – Global WebIndex

Global Web Index is a paid service giving insights on consumer use of social network sites globally and different countries from its own panel of 18 million (which it claims to be the largest worldwide), but it regularly features very specific social media stats on its blog.

They stopped releasing reports on Slideshare to encourage purchase of their subscription product, but they often make them available by the We Are Social / Data reportal Slideshare reports – if you’re not aware of these, they are well worth checking out.

We use this research to update our article exploring the latest data on social network popularity.

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3. For benchmarking sites within a sector for sources – Similar Web

SimilarWeb is a freemium tool for benchmarking the number of visits to sites and mobile app usage. It shows traffic sources for individual sites (good for student projects)  with categories and keywords in the paid Pro version.

4. Consumer media use in individual countries – comScore

For detailed insights of consumer Internet usage and ad spend by country, The comScore press releases summarising its panel data is one of the best sources of the latest stats releases. Its blog can also be helpful – I have included within the custom search engine. A similar service based on panel data is Nielsen Insights.

See our Mobile marketing statistics research compilation for the latest data on smartphone adoption growth.

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5. European Union Marketing Statistics

The EU statistics site Eurostat is the best source for overall European use of digital technology and in individual countries. The Information Society page is the best starting point.

6. Best UK source for consumer Internet usage statistics – OfCom

The Office of Communication Communications Market Report statistics has in-depth reports on the adoption of digital media including telecommunications and the Internet including adoption of digital devices and telecoms networks for accessing digital and social media. They often combine data from other paid services such as comScore and the IAB.

Rather than the annual communications market report OfCom has simplified their offering to:

7. UK National Statistics and consumer trends

The UK Government Office of National Statistics (ONS) site is an alternative source – there is no themed area on Internet use any longer, so search on ‘Internet access’ or ‘Ecommerce’

8. US digital marketing statistics – Marketing Charts and Pew Internet

Marketing Charts is a long-standing aggregator of information about consumer and business adoption of technologies and approaches. Care has to be taken of sample sizes and it tends to focus on US data – it’s rare for it to include any of the sources above.

It often features Pew Internet Statistics which is one of the best sources for the latest statistics on how Americans use digital media and technology.

9. eMarketer

Emarketer.com is another well-established compilation of digital statistics for online marketers – more US-oriented. It includes a paid option, but many free statistics are published on its blog.

10 Ad Spend and media investment – IAB Research

Research reports on online advertising effectiveness from the UK IAB US IAB and European IAB (AdEx) and IAB Europe (AdEx).

Recommended Smart Insights compilation blogs

Using these research sources and others we have these compilations of benchmarks to compare the effectiveness of other channels which we will keep updated:

Alternative digital marketing stats sources

We will keep this list updated as sources change. Here are some that were formerly useful, but where less digital marketing research tends to be shared today:

Statista is a newer statistical aggregator source that has become popular over the past few years which it’s worth bookmarking. Their charts on Internet and social media usage are often derived from sources here like Global Web Index. Here is their summary of digital marketing growth statistics – they tend to base their nicely produced charts on the sources we’ve identified here – which is good, but they can be dated, so take care you find the latest!

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