Digital Video vs. TV For Awareness & Engagement, April 2013 [CHART]

Chart - Digital Video vs. TV For Awareness & Engagement

Almost three-quarters of marketing professionals worldwide planned to increase their spending on branded video content or video ads in the next year, according to a survey conducted by AOL Networks in April 2013. More than 50% of that group said that the added investment would come from TV and display budgets. Only 4% of respondents planned to draw back spending on digital video ads.

In keeping with digital advertising’s frequent role as a direct-response vehicle, the study found that digital video ads beat out TV ads for achieving engagement goals: 58% of marketers thought digital video ads performed better than TV ads by this measure, compared with 15% who said engagement was worse for digital video ads. Read the rest at eMarketer.