Quarterly IPA survey finds business confidence fell to its lowest point in more than two years
UK marketing executives cut their budgets for the third quarter running in the three months to the end of June, as business confidence fell to its lowest point in more than two years and fears over the outlook for the economy worsened, according to the latest Bellwether survey.
The influential report, jointly produced by the Institute of Practitioners in Advertising and BDO, found that marketing executives slashed their budgets in the second quarter of 2011 as companies attempted to reduce operating costs and protect profit margins amid concerns around the economic outlook.
The quarterly Bellwether survey found 22% of UK companies reported that they cut their budgets in the second quarter. It is the third consecutive quarter that more UK marketers cut budgets than raised them.
Business confidence among marketing executives about the financial prospects for their own companies dropped to its lowest level in nine quarters, since the depth of the recession in 2009, according to the report.
"The economy is going sideways and this seems to be the way it is going in the advertising marketplace too," said Nicola Mendelsohn, president of the IPA. "The decline in confidence doesn't augur well, but it is not surprising amidst a continuing climate of concern surrounding the financial and political outlook both at home and internationally."
Spend across mainstream media in the second quarter ? such as TV, press and radio advertising as well as other sectors including spend on PR and events ? saw a decrease, the survey found.
The report said the decline in main media in part "reflected a distinct easing in growth of internet advertising spend" ? which is classified as a sub category of main media advertising ? with the survey registering the smallest upward boost in internet ad budgets in the last two years.
"With online spend now being one of the major constituents of brands marketing budgets it is as expected that, in a time of less economic confidence, it would no longer show the hugely disproportionate budget increases of previous times," said Matt Simpson, group chairman of the IPA's digital media group.
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Source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/jul/14/marketing-budgets-bellwether-report
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