The trend towards individual and conscious consumption is not letting up among the social classes with buying power. At lot of time is invested in product selection before each purchase, regardless how banal. After all, a purchase is more than a purchase – it is an expression of personal taste and even makes the purchaser happy, in that they are given the feeling of taking self-determined action. The trend towards comprehensive information is running through (almost) all branches and product categories. Dear L.O.H.A.S, the hipster consumer is coming!

The digital transformation of companies is increasingly manifesting itself in the marketing budget. Proportionally more and more is flowing into online measures and according to Bitkom this will keep increasing. According to a survey among marketing staff in ITK companies, on average five percent of the entire turn-over was spent on marketing measures in the current year. In the previous year it was 4,2 precent.
 
Especially online marketing is gaining importance. More than half of the companies questioned want to invest more in this area. On the agenda are: blogs (56 percent), the website (54 percent), social marketing (53 percent) and search engine marketing (52 percent).

On the 24th of September, Google announced the rollout of the search engine algorithm update Panda 4.1. Since 2011, Panda has been making sure that websites with higher quality content rank better than content farms. It has been five months since the last update, and Panda 4.1 brings some changes with it.