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Online Video, Local Search Drive 30% Internet Ad Growth: ZenithOptimedia by Laurie Petersen

By mike | October 2, 2007

ONLINE VIDEO AND LOCAL SEARCH will drive a 30% growth in worldwide Internet ad spending to $33.72 billion this year, according to the latest forecast from ZenithOptimedia, which was released on Monday.

“We have revised our forecasts for Internet advertising upwards yet again,” the Publicis-owned global media agency reported. “We now forecast 29.9% growth this year (up from 28.6% three months ago) and 85% growth between 2006 and 2009 (up from 82%). Online video and local search are the new, fast-growing segments, but display, classified and the rest of search are still growing rapidly as well.

“We now expect Internet advertising to account for 9.5% of all expenditure in 2009, fractionally up from the 9.4% we forecast three months ago,” the forecast adds.

Newspaper share is expected to decline from a 29% share of world ad spending in 2006 to 26.2% in 2009.

The forecast is just the latest in a series predicting continued robust growth of interactive ad spending.

Global Advertising Expenditure US$ million, current prices

(Currency conversion at 2006 average rates)

2005 2006 2007 2008 2009
Internet 19,235 25,952 33,723 41,638 48,139
Total 399,431 426,447 448,403 477,863 504,557

Source: ZenithOptimedia

Share of Total Ad Spend By Medium 2005-2009 (%)

2005 2006 2007 2008 2009
Newspapers 29.7 29.0 27.8 26.9 26.2
Magazines 13.2 12.8 12.5 12.2 12.1
Television 37.8 37.9 37.9 38.2 38.1
Radio 8.6 8.3 8.1 7.9 7.8
Cinema 0.4 0.4 0.4 0.4 0.5
Outdoor 5.5 5.6 5.7 5.8 5.9
Internet 4.8 6.1 7.5 8.7 9.5

Source: ZenithOptimedia

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2 Responses to “Online Video, Local Search Drive 30% Internet Ad Growth: ZenithOptimedia by Laurie Petersen”

1. Internet Marketing and Advertising Says:
   October 18th, 2007 at 2:19 pm

   Internet Marketing and Advertising…

   I couldn’t understand some parts of this article, but it sounds interesting…

2. mike Says:
   October 18th, 2007 at 3:12 pm

   Thanks for the thread….What this is boiled down to is, video is going to boost an already growing internet ad spending budget. Since I posted this article we have seen universal search come and go (or did we). When youtube was first acquired by google they did the most cost effective product test, put it in serp’s. Now, there is skeptisism as to the relevance of video to SERP’s. No matter what the posture of video in search one thing holds true internet ad budgeting is going to consume and supass all other forms of advertising….stay tuned for more tidbits of internet marketing knowledge.–mike–;->

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