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The year in review: 17 biggest digital trends of 2018

Updated: Apr 18, 2023

2018 was another big year for digital marketing, with the rise of voice search, AI going mainstream and Walmart buying FlipKart. This was the year that Spotify went public, Huawei overtook iPhone and a video game sparked a dance craze. In this special report, we’ve identified 17 of the biggest trends of the year.


Advertising technology: Amazon awakes

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Video and influencer marketing: Facebook stumbles as brand safety fears loom

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Social media marketing: Twitter flies again as organic posts squeezed

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Search marketing and voice: Baidu brags as Amazon bites Google

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Movers and shakers: Spotify goes public as Walmart goes to India

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Adblocking: Fears subside as tech giants turn on themselves

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Content marketing: Netflix dominates traffic as YouTube takes on Spotify

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Augmented and virtual reality: Filters goes programmatic as VR searches for ‘killer app’

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Mobile marketing: Apple reaches trillion dollar mark

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Chat apps: Instagram grows up as WhatsApp gets down to business

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Ecommerce and omnichannel: Trade tensions dampen Singles Day bonanza

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Internet of things: The road race begins

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Blockchain: The rise and fall of Bitcoin

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Marketing through gaming: Brands cash in on eSports

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Politics and big data: The Fake News debacle

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Regulation: GDPR tackles privacy paradox

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And it was a bad year for….

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