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Globally web spending is now soaring
By Heidi Dawley
Jun 26, 2007 - 1:05:55 AM

It seems like just yesterday that the internet was still a tiny player in global advertising, a phenomenon unique to the developed nations.

That’s certainly changing. What’s surprising is the pace of that change.

The latest forecast: From just 2.8 percent in 2002, the internet will soar to just shy of 14 percent of all global advertising expenditures by 2011. That’s according to PricewaterhouseCoopers and its Global Entertainment and Media Outlook 2007-2011.

And just how big is 14 percent? It will place the internet ahead of radio, out of home and even magazines in its share of the total global advertising budget.

Driving it all is the wider adoption of broadband, which allows users to do so much more online.

“Online advertising is growing explosively in each region, fueled by rising broadband penetration and the growing use of the internet for social networking and as an entertainment and media center,” says the report. “Continued growth in broadband subscribers and increasingly fast broadband speeds will fuel internet advertising.”

In 2006 alone, global internet ad spending soared by 37.9 percent, to $31.6 billion, according to PwC.  And from 2007 to 2011, PwC expects internet ad spending will then more than double, to $73.1 billion, for an annualized growth of 18.3 percent.

As this happens, other media will see their shares decline, some dramatically. TV will suffer only a slight falloff, dipping from 37.7 percent to 37.1 percent, but newspapers will drop from 28.5 to 25.0 percent over the five-year period. Magazines will fall from 13 percent to 12 percent and radio from 7.9 percent to 7.3 percent.

The only gainer, aside from the internet, whose share will rise 7.7 percent in 2006 to 13.8 percent in 2011, will be out of home, which will nudge up to 6.0 percent from 5.7 percent.

The PwC report breaks the world into five regions. Of these the U.S. has the biggest online advertising market, and its internet ad spending is expected to grow 16.1 percent a year on average over the period, to $35.4 billion. Yet that growth will begin to slow in the final years of the forecast, dropping into the single digits, after eight consecutive years of double digit growth. And overall it will see the slowest growth.

The EMEA region--Europe, Middle East and Africa, and the next largest market—is forecast to grow 21.5 percent per year on average, making it among the fastest growing.

Within the EMEA region, Western Europe accounts for 95 percent of internet ad spending, and the fastest-growing country is expected to be Russia, which PwC expects to grow at an average annual growth rate of 47.5 percent through 2011, to $699 million in internet ad spending. That would boost Russia from ninth to fifth in size within the region.

In the Asia-Pacific region, China and India are both expected to undergo rapid internet advertising growth, with rates of 33.3 percent and 44.8 percent a year on average, China reaching $2.6 billion in internet spending by 2011 and India $210 million.

Japan is forecast to grow at a pace of 16.4 percent a year on average, reaching $7.0 billion by 2011.

The internet ad market in Latin America remains small and largely dominated by Brazil. But with broadband adoption now on the upswing, forecasters see the pace of growth picking up, and they expect ad spending to pace at 19.0 percent a year on average in the region.

Meanwhile, in online ratings for the week ended June 10, the top five parent companies were Microsoft, Google, Yahoo, Time Warner and News Corp. Online for the 20th straight week. The top five brands were Google, Yahoo, MSN/Windows Live, AOL Media Network and Microsoft for the ninth straight week.

NexTag Inc. was the top advertiser with 4.56 million impressions, followed by No. 2 Low Rate Source at 4.29 million. With 27.02 million ads served, Yahoo was again the top advertising site, more than quadrupling No. 2 MSN at 5.0 million.

Sessions per person per week were even to last week at 16, with domains visited per person also even at 38. Average PC time per person per week was essentially even at 16 hours and 38 minutes.

 



 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Top 25 parent companies
Through June 17

#

Parent

Unique Audience (000)

 Reach %

Time Spent per Person (hh:mm:ss)

1

Microsoft

83,313

61.1

0:37:10

2

Google

77,681

57.0

0:30:41

3

Yahoo!

73,359

53.8

1:05:27

4

Time Warner

66,859

49.1

1:33:41

5

News Corp. Online

42,036

30.9

0:55:17

6

eBay

33,732

24.8

0:45:09

7

InterActiveCorp

27,583

20.2

0:11:33

8

Amazon

23,688

17.4

0:11:42

9

Walt Disney Internet Group

21,098

15.5

0:18:19

10

Landmark Communications

21,017

15.4

0:20:25

11

Wikimedia Foundation

18,409

13.5

0:09:40

12

Apple Computer

18,064

13.3

0:20:18

13

RealNetworks, Inc.

17,975

13.2

0:19:31

14

New York Times Company

17,188

12.6

0:08:39

15

AT&T Inc.

13,667

10.0

0:12:01

16

Bank of America

12,888

9.5

0:24:31

17

United Online

12,674

9.3

0:23:53

18

CNET Networks

12,636

9.3

0:05:33

19

Viacom Digital

12,338

9.1

0:28:07

20

Verizon Communications

10,944

8.0

0:17:04

21

E.W. Scripps Company

10,184

7.5

0:05:51

22

Adobe

10,084

7.4

0:03:17

23

Comcast Corp.

9,954

7.3

0:32:02

24

General Electric

9,488

7.0

0:07:52

25

Gannett

9,396

6.9

0:09:43

Source: Nielsen//NetRatings

   

Top 25 brands
Through June 17

 

Parent

Unique Audience (000)

Reach %

Time spent per person (hh:mm:ss)

1

Google

73,047

53.6

0:23:48

2

Yahoo!

73,027

53.6

1:05:30

3

MSN/Windows Live

64,460

47.3

0:36:23

4

AOL Media Network

56,415

41.4

1:43:01

5

Microsoft

52,540

38.6

0:14:14

6

Fox Interactive Media

36,880

27.1

0:59:20

7

eBay

28,609

21.0

0:46:18

8

YouTube

22,885

16.8

0:23:19

9

Amazon

19,321

14.2

0:10:36

10

Weather Channel

18,551

13.6

0:22:13

11

Wikipedia

18,359

13.5

0:09:38

12

Apple

18,064

13.3

0:20:18

13

Real Network

17,975

13.2

0:19:31

14

Ask Search Network

15,439

11.3

0:13:05

15

CNN Digital Network

12,526

9.2

0:17:56

16

Bank of America

12,460

9.1

0:24:29

17

About.com

11,889

8.7

0:03:21

18

Blogger

11,037

8.1

0:09:43

19

Adobe

9,769

7.2

0:03:21

20

AT&T

9,449

6.9

0:13:35

21

Gorilla Nation Media

9,169

6.7

0:07:32

22

Facebook

8,683

6.4

0:33:00

23

Comcast

8,477

6.2

0:35:19

24

Disney Online

8,361

6.1

0:21:42

25

Nickelodeon Kids and Family Network

7,996

5.9

0:39:48

Source: Nielsen//NetRatings

Top 25 advertisers 
(excludes house ads)
Through June 17

#

Company

Impressions (000)

1

NexTag, Inc.

4,564,547

2

Low Rate Source

4,285,413

3

Countrywide Financial Corporation

3,719,052

4

InterActiveCorp

3,350,351

5

Experian Group Limited

3,115,724

6

AT&T Corp.

2,188,058

7

Reunion.com L.L.C.

2,106,218

8

Verizon Communications, Inc.

1,161,667

9

Blockbuster Inc.

1,157,005

10

Deutsche Telekom AG

1,151,667

11

HSBC Holdings plc

787,149

12

Monster Worldwide, Inc.

753,149

13

Bank of America Corporation

604,766

14

Vonage Holdings Corp

586,389

15

Netflix, Inc.

522,862

16

InPhonic.com

510,639

17

Yahoo! Inc.

475,549

18

Citigroup Inc.

465,810

19

Low.com

452,166

20

The Coca-Cola Company

430,945

21

eBay, Inc.

426,454

22

Sprint Corporation

404,473

23

E*TRADE FINANCIAL Corp.

403,762

24

Scottrade, Inc.

388,981

25

Microsoft Corporation

386,013

Source: Nielsen//NetRatings AdRelevance

Note: Nielsen//NetRatings AdRelevance service estimated online advertising expenditures account for CPM-based image-based advertising. All reported estimated expenditures and impressions do not account for the following placement types: text only, paid fee services, performance-based campaigns, sponsorships, barters, in-stream ("pre-rolls") players, messenger applications, partnership advertising, promotions and email campaigns. AdRelevance currently does not report estimated spending for paid search advertising. Above data does not include any house advertising activity. Nielsen//NetRatings AdRelevance reporting data reflects advertising activity served on pages accessible via the World Wide Web and not within AOL's proprietary service.

Top 25 advertising sites
(excludes house ads)
Through June 17

 

Company

Impressions (000)

1

Yahoo!

27,021,627

2

MSN

5,003,207

3

MySpace

4,967,212

4

AOL.com

1,081,345

5

The Weather Channel

736,992

6

eBay

687,114

7

Comcast.net

659,849

8

FOXNEWS.COM

642,469

9

MSNBC

557,405

10

NetZero

489,910

11

Juno

406,648

12

IMDb

389,254

13

YouTube

319,963

14

CNN

300,189

15

New York Times

292,278

16

ESPN.com

279,293

17

Photobucket

261,807

18

CBS SportsLine

237,662

19

Classmates

228,283

20

Excite

226,847

21

EarthLink

203,831

22

The Weather Underground

173,604

23

Realtor.com

167,744

24

FOX Sports on MSN

164,147

25

Drudge Report

159,152

Source: Nielsen//NetRatings AdRelevance

Note: Nielsen//NetRatings AdRelevance service estimated online advertising expenditures account for CPM-based image-based advertising. All reported estimated expenditures and impressions do not account for the following placement types: text only, paid fee services, performance-based campaigns, sponsorships, barters, in-stream ("pre-rolls") players, messenger applications, partnership advertising, promotions and email campaigns. AdRelevance currently does not report estimated spending for paid search advertising. Above data does not include any house advertising activity. Nielsen//NetRatings AdRelevance reporting data reflects advertising activity served on pages accessible via the World Wide Web and not within AOL's proprietary service.

Average use
Through June 17

 

Current Week

Last Week

% Change

Sessions/Visits per Person

16

16

0

Domains Visited per Person

38

38

0

PC Time per Person

16:38:18

16:31:09

0.72

Active Digital Media Universe

136,263,858

137,582,771

-0.96

Current Digital Media Universe Estimate

213,927,778

214,032,771

-0.05

Source: Nielsen//Net Ratings AdRelevance

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 



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