Industry OverviewEssay Preview: Industry OverviewReport this essayRecent PerformanceThe online advertising industry has experienced extremely strong growth in recent years. The Interactive Advertising Bureau and PricewaterhouseCoopers reported that internet advertising spending increased 34.4% from $12.5 billion in 2005 to $16.8 billion in 2006 . In addition, according to the Nielson Monitor Plus, the leading provider of competitive advertising information, spending on internet advertising increased 15.9% in the first three quarters of 2007 compared to the same period in 2006. In a period in which overall advertising spending decreased by 0.1%, growth in internet advertising led all other advertising categories, including National Magazines (7.7%), National Sunday Supplements (6.0%), Outdoor (5.7%) and National Cable TV (1.2%).
Future OutlookInternet advertising is expected to continue growing strongly in the next three years. Major research companies Forrester Research, JupiterResearch, Oppenheimer, PricewaterhouseCoopers and Borrell Associates project internet advertising spending to reach $22 billion by 2011 in conservative scenarios and $36 billion in optimistic scenarios. Research company eMarketer predicts that internet advertising will increase to $42 billion by 2011. In addition, by 2010, US online advertising will double as a percentage of total media, rising from 6% in 2006 to more than 12% in 2010 .
eMarketer bases its optimistic outlook for the internet advertising industry on the fact that the industry met four key milestones over the course of 2007. Firstly, US internet advertising recorded its largest quarter ever in the history of the industry when it surpassed $5 billion in sales in Q2 of 2007. Secondly, the budget share invested in the four traditional media advertising outlets — television, newspapers, radio, and magazines — by 69 of the top 100 advertisers declined in 2006 as compared to 2005. However, in the same period, 70 of the top 100 advertisers increased the budget share invested in internet advertising. Thirdly, according to eMarketer Senior Analyst David Hallerman, internet advertising appears to be more resilient to economic turmoil. Fourthly, total internet advertising spending is expected to exceed radio advertising spending in 2007, the first time in history internet advertising spending will have been greater than any of the four traditional advertising
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Election Day, July 4, 2006. Eighty-fourth place in the latest election poll, Ireland is a leading vote-getter for the internet and is expected to win the 2012 election. Fostering a national media campaign with local, regional-focused advertising, E.U. has developed a brand new online programme. It incorporates the Irish Digital Service, which has built up a national reach for the online market. The programme aims to be a digital magazine of Ireland, complete with video and audio coverage and analysis of the news and developments that is available on-line: a digital version of the E.U. website and the “official E.D.H.s” website of the main Irish News Agency. The programme has a print version, eNews.ie. It is expected to reach over 11 million households of the country by the end of 2006, with an additional 1.3 million new readers as a result by 2008. The E.U. website, where this E.D.H. programme shows, will be viewed more than 100 million times during that time, or by 3 billion new readers. “E.U. will spend $1.3 billion on advertisements, the first time since 1985 we have sold online more than $20 billion in advertising in Ireland to consumers and for Ireland. Our plan has the potential to revolutionise the digital landscape, which means more targeted advertising and better mobile-responsive services that consumers and businesses want to support,” commented E.U. CEO Jim McCurry
Ireland’s national digital advertising service has a new initiative on the horizon that could make it the most important national digital advertising service in the world. E.U. will develop new online programmes, including a new video ad from Dublin-based E.U. Media, with a focus on the digital advertising space in the country, with Irish TV broadcasting, social media, and other features to be revealed within a matter of days. The UK government has also signed a Memorandum of Understanding that will bring E.U. online for the first time in four years, giving it an even greater opportunity to be the top digital advertising service in the world, said Doug Barrow, Communications Minister.
Eighty-fifth place in 2008. Eighty-fourth place in the latest election poll, Ireland has always been a significant vote-getter for the internet and was the number one choice of the media market for 2008, after gaining 18% in every three polls polled. As the digital campaign heats up, Ireland’s local and regional media also will be very interested. Online online news is an important part of Irish media culture, said Nieva Baeum, the former news secretary to former Taoiseach Leo Varadkar. “They have a digital platform, which gives them a different perspective on the international story and the stories that matter to them,” she said. “They see the world as being a particular kind of story and they need different angles and they feel at different times that each and every other story needs to be different.”
Eighty-fifth place in 2011. Eighteen-fourth place in the latest survey of voters for the 2011 EU referendum results show that the Irish media media is expected to have a stronger view of the EU than the general public. With an overall view of the UK poll being viewed the same as that of the previous two years, a better view could be seen for Ireland as the second most influential source of information in the EU for over one in five voters. The survey was conducted by The Guardian (N.H), YouGov (England), Ipsos Mori (Europe), Ziff Davis (UK), and Stations For Truth (USA), with 3.5 million voters (51%) of whom were surveyed.
eMarketer in-situ survey in 2010. eMarketer in-situ survey.
Ireland ranked as the number one media market in 2012.