10-12-2012
According to the Internet Advertising Bureau the first half of 2012 has already seen $17 billion spent on web ads. That's more than what the entire radio industry will see in 12 months and it represents a 14% increase over 2011. Mobile revenue jumped 95% over 2011 to $1.2 billion in the first half of 2011. Search revenue increased 19% to $8.1 billion.
IAB CEO Randall Rothenberg said, ?This report establishes that marketers increasingly embrace mobile and digital video, as well as the entire panoply of interactive platforms, to reach consumers in innovative and creative ways."
Highlights of the report include:
? Mobile generated significant growth ? almost doubling year-over-year ? up 95 percent to $1.2 billion in half-year 2012 from $636 million in the comparable 2011 period
? Digital video, a component of display-related advertising, saw an increase of 18 percent year-over-year, bringing in a little over $1 billion in revenue in the first two quarters of 2012 compared to nearly $900 million in the first six months of 2011
? Search revenues in the first half of the year totaled $8.1 billion, up 19 percent from nearly $6.8 billion during the same timeframe in 2011
? Display-related advertising revenues in the first half of the year totaled almost $5.6 billion, accounting for 33 percent of 2012 half-year revenues, up 4 percent from $5.3 billion in the first half of 2011
? Retail advertisers constitute the largest category of internet ad spending for the first half of this year, claiming 20 percent of the total revenues at $3.4 billion, while Automotive brought in $2.2 billion for first-half 2012, marking an uptick to 13 percent versus 11 percent of category spend reported for half-year 2011 at $1.7 billion
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