Is print a more trusted type of ad than online ads?

Some people claim print is dying; however, there are some indicators that this is not happening as fast as many would suggest. Trust in advertising is something of interest to many businesses and in particular how trust in the UK market is changing in the light of fake websites, fake reviews on many sites etc.  We can’t find any publicly available surveys in the UK that monitor advertising medium trust, however, we recently came across a US article that suggests that internet users still trust printed advertisement more than any other medium.

According to the October 2016 survey by MarketingSherpa, 82 percent of U.S. internet users trust print ads when making a purchase decision, more than any other medium. The highest ranking online format, search ads, clocks in at 61 percent, while only 25 percent of Americans trust pop-ups.  These are clearly important indicators for those spending a lot of paid adverts such as Google adwords, Facebooks ads etc..

We think it would be interesting to see how UK users rank their trust in 13 mediums that were included in the US survey.  Perhaps you might like to express your trust preference in our survey below  – you can drag the bars to reflect your preferences (NOTE: if you are on a mobile phone use the left side of the screen to drag the survey up and down and use the middle of the screen to drag your preferences). [gravityform id=”1″ title=”true” description=”false” ajax=”true”]

We will publish the results of trust survey once we have sufficient responses.  Thank you for taking part in what will be an interesting survey for many of our customers and business partners who are spending money on online advertising and other mediums.