Online advertising will balloon in the coming years, becoming bigger than all advertising media except direct marketing by 2012, according to IDC. Spending in U.S. online advertising will double from $25.5 billion in 2007 to $51.1 billion in 2012, along the way climbing up from the fifth-largest to the second-largest ad medium and dwarfing newspapers, cable and broadcast TV, IDC said Friday.
The growth will come despite the economic turmoil roiling the U.S., as marketers shift advertising dollars to the Internet to take advantage of emerging formats like online video, which will see its ad spending shoot up sevenfold from $500 million in 2007 to $3.8 billion in 2012, a compound annual growth rate of almost 50 percent for that time period. Factors that will boost online video advertising include an increase in broadband access, faster connections, the availability of more "premium" content and viewers' embrace of the medium's flexibility to pick what they watch and when, according to IDC.
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