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New B2B online advertising data out this week

Thursday, March 27th, 2008

BtoB interactive marketing guideBtoB Magazine just released its Interactive Marketing Guide for 2008. (PDF here) The 36 page guide features a lot of great data about the state of online advertising, including the following gems:

- In 2007, U.S. marketers’ best performing advertising tactic was search engine optimization (SEO) at 57%, followed by behavioral targeting (44%) and email house list (42%). Rich media ads, which rated at 28% last year, trailed the list at 7% in 2007.

- In 2008, U.S. ad spending will break out like this:
         - Search: 40%
         - Display ads: 21.5%
         - Classified: 17%
         - Rich media/video: 9.5%
         - Lead generation: 8.3%
         - Sponsorship: 2%
         - E-mail: 1.8%

- 82.4% of marketers plan to increase their email marketing this year, compared to 2007.

- In the U.S. spending on online social networking advertising by marketers is on the rise with the following growth:
         - 2006: $350 million
         - 2007: $920 million
         - 2008: $1.56 billion
         - 2009: $2.02 billion
          -2010: $2.4 billion
         - 2011: $2.7 billion

There’s lots of other interesting data in the report, as well, so check it out.