Tuesday, January 3, 2012

What’s Coming In 2012: Digital Advertising, Up Close And Personal

paidcontent reporting:
According to figures from ZenithOptimedia, global advertising revenues will reach $486 billion in 2012, a rise of 4.7 percent compared to 2011. With wider economic pressures bearing down on the overall ad market, digital ad spend is still seeing healthy growth: it will account for slightly more than one-fifth of all ad spend, but more than half of all growth, as advertisers become more confident in digital media metrics, and the ad industry gets more sophisticated in what it offers to brands and publishers in the name of digital advertising—which will remain a key way of funding digital content, as media companies continue to tinker with other charging models. Here are some specific areas to watch in this space:
Social media and advertising. Social networks already make money from marketing and advertising services—according to an estimate from eMarketer in September, Facebook apparently will have made some $3.8 billion in advertising revenue in 2011—so 2012 will be the year that we see more social networks, not just Facebook, look at leveraging their audiences to grow this even more.
These advertising services will be a crucial piece to put into place for Facebook in particular as it gears up for a widely-expected IPO. Keeping in mind recent IPOs for Groupon (NSDQ: GRPN) and Zynga, in which people questioned the longer-term business models for these social media properties, Facebook will be looking for big and consistent sources of revenue to demonstrate to the investor community that it has a solid foundation for the long haul...
http://paidcontent.org/article/419-whats-coming-in-2012-digital-advertising-up-close-and-personal/

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