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VSS Forecast: Comms Spending to Top $1 Trillion

Total communications spending will decline 1% in 2009 to $882.6 billion, but will grow 3.6% per year over the next five years to more than $1 trillion,  according to a report from private-equity firm Veronis Suhler Stevenson (VSS). This growth will make communications the third fastest-growing sector (behind mining and construction) of the US economy through 2013,   [...]

IAB Lends Helping Hand to Small Online Publishers

The Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) created a new membership level for small online publishers, part of an effort to help them "prevent adverse state and Federal regulation that could hinder [their] ability to sell or carry advertising." Any publisher that vends ads directly, indirectly or through a third-party network may join the IAB Small Publisher network, provided they make less than $1 million in annual revenue. The introductory rate is $500 per year. Interested publishers may   [...]

UK Internet Ad Spend Up 38%, to Overtake TV in '09

Online advertising in the UK grew from the smallest sector in 2003, to the third-largest in 2007, with more than £2.8 billion in expenditures -- a 38 percent year-on-year increase -- and a market share of 15.3 percent (up from 11.4 percent in '06), according to findings released this week, MarketingCharts   [...]

ZenithOptimedia Ad Forecast: Boom in Developing Markets, Gloom in West

In its first ad expense forecasts of '08, ZenithOptimedia downgraded combined growth forecasts for North America and Western Europe from 4.4 percent to 3.8 percent, as the credit crunch drains consumer and business confidence, reports MarketingCharts. Growth continues to   [...]

Newspaper Online Ad Spend Jumps 19%, Print Ads Down 9%

Advertising expenditures for newspaper websites in '07 increased 18.8 percent to $3.2 billion, accounting for 7.5 percent of all newspaper ad spend last year (up from 5.7 percent in 2006), according to preliminary estimates from the Newspaper Association of America, MarketingCharts   [...]

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TNS: US Ad Expenditures Up Just 0.2% in 2007

The US advertising market continued to sputter at the end of 2007, finishing the year with measured spending of $148.99 billion, up 0.2 percent from 2006, according to TNS media intelligence, MarketingCharts writes. F  [...]

SEM Spend to Grow as Marketers Shift Budgets amid Economic Concerns

Search engine marketing (SEM) spending is taking budget share from other marketing efforts -- not only offline but also online -- according to preliminary findings from the 2007 State of the Market survey by the Search Engine Marketing Professional Organization (SEMPO), reports M  [...]

Carat: 6.0% Global Ad Spend Growth in 2008, 4.9% in 2009

Carat issued revised forecasts for global advertising expenditures in 2008, lowering them marginally, to 6.0 percent from 6.2 percent in September last year. Aegis's media-buying unit also published forecasts for 2009 and issued separate data on Canada, Central and Eastern Europe and th  [...]

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Interactive Ad Revenue to Reach $147B Globally, $62.4B in US

The global ad market reached $600 billion in 2007 and will grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 2.7 percent to reach $707 billion in 2012, propelled in large part by growth in the interactive segment, according to a new report from The Kelsey Group, writes Marke  [...]

Upcoming Academy Awards: Fewer Viewers, Higher Ad Rates, Less Clutter

TV audience numbers have declined over the past decade as viewing choices expand and the audience splinters. The upcoming Academy Awards reflects that trend, with current audience levels 25 percent less than they were 10 years ago, according to TNS Media Intelligence, MarketingCharts   [...]

Paid Search Commands Online Advertising in '07; Google Dominates Paid Search

Google dominated paid search advertising in 2007, raking in 75 percent of US ad spend in the market, up a whopping 15 percentage points from 60 percent in 2006, according to a new eMarketer report, "Search Engine Marketing: User and Spending Trends,"   [...]

Ad Spend to Increase Nearly 7% to $479B in '08

Global ad spend in measured media will reflect 6.8 percent year-over-year gain, reaching $479 billion in 2008, compared with 2007's 6.0 percent YOY increase, according to GroupM's This Year, Next Year study, writes MarketingCharts. That forecast growth rate is unchanged from GroupM's   [...]

Microsoft Goes Shopping with Grocery Cart Ads via Digital Displays

Microsoft is working with a company named MediaCart to serve up ads to supermarket shoppers based on both their shopping lists and past purchases, reports The Associated Press. Beginning in the second half of 2008, Microsoft and MediaCart will roll out the test phase, targeting shoppers with ShopRite loyalty cards. Cardholders will be able to visit a website and p  [...]

1-800-Contacts Sues Rival over Keyword Buy

Online retailer 1-800-Contacts has sued a rival company over that rival's purchase of an online search term that cuts a bit close to home, reports MediaPost. The suit was filed in a Utah court against LensWorld over its purchase of "1-800-contacts" as a keyword triggering a LensWorld search ad. 1-800-Contacts is arguing that the use of its name to bring up a LensWorld  [...]

Ten Key Online Predictions for 2008

eMarketer has issued predictions for 2008 in key online areas, including advertising, videos, social networks, e-commerce and entertainment. The forecast finds online advertising will ride out potential economic storms in the US -- and YouTube will decide political elections -- reports MarketingCharts. The 10 predictions  [...]

Top 50 Website Rankings for Nov.: Toy, Coupon Sites Gain Fastest

The beginning of the holiday shopping season resulted in retail sites dominating the top-gaining site and category rankings in November, while Yahoo Sites maintained its rank as the top web property, according to a monthly analysis by comScore's Media Metrix service,   [...]

Small Businesses Love Online, but Rely on Traditional Advertising

Most small businesses still see print Yellow Pages advertising as the most effective way to generate sales leads. Nonetheless, many are also eager to integrate effective internet options into their marketing approach, according to a new survey of 1,000 small businesses,   [...]

Gift Recommendations Dominate Blog Holiday Talk, 'Social Shopping' Emerges

Gift recommendations dominate online holiday discussions on blogs, and range from one-off reviews to comprehensive shopping guides, according to (pdf) a Nielsen Online analysis of 1,000 influential blogs* in November, writes MarketingCharts.   [...]

TNS: US Ad Spend Grew 0.2% in First Nine Months of '07

Total measured advertising expenditures in the first nine months of 2007 inched upward just 0.2 percent year over year, reaching $108.2 billion, according to TNS Media Intelligence, reports MarketingCharts. Total measured spending in the third quarter was up 1.3 percent 3Q06, reversing declines in the first half of th  [...]

Political Campaign Spend to Reach All-Time High of $4.5B in '08

Political campaign spending on advertising media and marketing services is expected to rocket to an all-time high of $4.5 billion in the 2008 election cycle. The figure will be driven by an acrimonious political environment, record fundraising and the high number of presidential candidates, writes MarketingCharts, citing a preliminary forecast by   [...]