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Alex Weprin , January 18, 2018

A new study commissioned by cloud computing giant Salesforce shows that Google and Facebook continue to dominate the world of digital advertising, and are adapting as more and more marketers and advertisers turn to video.

According to Salesforce’s Digital Advertising 2020 Report, which the company officially unveiled Thursday morning, 65% of companies increased their video advertising budgets over the past year. And 52% of advertisers are choosing to produce their video ads in-house.

While video ad spend increases, Google and Facebook continue to dominate the overall digital ad spend landscape, with Salesforce estimating that over the next year, those two companies (and their subsidiaries Instagram and YouTube) will account for 66% of all digital advertising spend worldwide.

These same companies are also capturing the value of video. While Salesforce estimates that display ads, which it says account for 15% of the market, will decline over the next year to 14% of the market, YouTube, which currently accounts for 15% of the market, will rise to 16% of the market. In other words, as display ads decline in favor of video, Google is positioned to pick up those pieces.

The Salesforce report also found digital advertising and marketing are continuing to converge, with a majority of companies now using the same teams and budgets for both purposes. Brands are also overwhelmingly turning to data management platforms (DMPs) to manage the scale of their data, while figuring out the most effective way to share that data with partners.

And, while companies are still using traditional digital metrics like impressions, most are also beginning to use advanced metrics that allow for more sophisticated and long-term tracking.

Salesforce also predicted that artificial intelligence will become more prominent in advertising, driven in part by voice assistants like Amazon’s Alexa and Google Home. Almost three quarters of advertisers surveyed already advertise through voice assistants, or are planning to some time over the next year.

MediaPost.com: Search Marketing Daily

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