New B2B online advertising data out this week
Thursday, March 27th, 2008
BtoB 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.
