UK marketers rate social media advertising platforms in new DMA research
The DMA has created a new social media scorecard based on a survey it ran amongst UK Social Media marketers to rate the usage of social media platforms. The scorecard summarised in the infographic is split into 3 areas: campaign planning, execution and post campaign analysis. The Infographic shares the findings:
- For campaign planning, Youtube and Google+ are the least favourable for individual targeting, compared to LinkedIn and Facebook.
- For campaign execution, Google+ scored low as businesses are still not sure how to use it, whereas Facebook and Twitter are higher due to ease of use and available insights.
- For post analysis, it's interesting that Twitter ranked low as marketers have to use third party tools as Twitter is limited. Facebook and LinkedIn ranked top.
According to Lynsey Sweales, member of the DMA Social Media Council and CEO of SocialB UK,
'The Social media scorecard is crucial for marketers to make an informed decision when choosing social platforms for their campaign. ROI metrics do not give marketers a full picture of the other factors they must take into account.
For now, Facebook is the most marketing friendly platform in terms of functionality and post-campaign analysis but it will be interesting to see how this will change over the next 12 months. Only a handful of the marketers who took part in the survey were using image and video-based platforms such as Pinterest, Instagram, Vimeo and Snapchat, which is why the results aren't included in the scorecard.'