Affiliate Marketing Drove £3B in UK Sales in 2007
The UK market for affiliate marketing grew an estimated 45% in 2007, taking the total value of online sales generated by this channel in 2007 to more than £3 billion, according to research published in...
View Article875MM Consumers Have Shopped Online – Up 40% in Two Years
More than 85% of the world’s online population has used the internet to make a purchase – increasing the market for online shopping by 40% in the past two years – according to the latest Nielsen Global...
View ArticleDirect Marketing ROI for Auto Retailers Nearly $34 for Every $1
Auto retailers spent $7.3 billion on direct marketing campaigns in 2007, driving $248.1 billion in sales – for a return on investment of $33.81, according to the Direct Marketing Association’s...
View ArticleOnline Consumer Buzz Identifies Best-in-Class Vehicle Brands
Nissan and GM brands ranked the highest in two categories (out of seven) in BrandIntel‘s third annual Consumer Voice Awards, which recognize top vehicles according to (pdf) consumer discussions and...
View ArticleFacebook Breaks into UK Top 10 Property Rankings for First Time
Google Sites remained the top Web property in the UK with nearly 29.3 million visitors, reaching 89% of the online population – while Facebook.com broke into the top 10 for the first time, according to...
View ArticleAdvertising Spending Targeting African-Americans Exceeds $2.3B a Year
Advertising spending on media outlets that reach African-American consumers totaled $2.3 billion for the period October 1, 2006 through September 30, 2007, according to the first 12-month analysis of...
View ArticleSearch Advertising Performance Improves as Google Strengthens Market Lead
Search advertisers spent 29% more on search engine advertising in the fourth quarter of 2007 compared with the year-earlier period, and they improved their return on investment (ROI) 13.1% in the same...
View ArticleTop 10 Entertainment & New-Release Movie Online Ad Spenders – December 2007
Note: Nielsen Online’s AdRelevance service uses a proprietary methodology for estimating online advertising expenditures and takes into account only image-based technologies and advertising sold per...
View ArticleMore ‘What If’ Data Issued on Yahoo-Microsoft Combo
Both Hitwise and comScore issued additional data this week on what sort of market player would be created with a potential merger of Yahoo and Microsoft’s MSN, in terms of reach of online properties,...
View ArticleOne-Third of Health Services Advertising Spend Is for DM Campaigns
Health services companies spent $2.4 billion on direct marketing advertising in 2007, resulting in $28.7 billion in sales – or an ROI of $11.86 for each dollar spent – according to a new report by the...
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Google Holds Steady at 66% of US Searches, Ask.com Share Up 19% YOY
Google accounted for 65.98% of all US searches in the four weeks ended January 26, while Ask.com’s share – 4.21% – was up 19% year over year, according to Hitwise. Yahoo Search and MSN Search received...
View ArticleClick Fraud Rate Climbs to 16.6% in Fourth Quarter
The overall click fraud rate for the pay-per-click (PPC) industry averaged 16.6% in the fourth quarter of 2007, and the rate of click fraud for all of 2007 was up 15% over 2006 levels, according to...
View ArticleMobile Advertising Changes Voters’ Attitudes and Behaviors
With Super Tuesday not having settled who will be anointed the Republican and Democratic nominees for US President, mobile advertising may be an effective way for candidates to change voter attitudes...
View ArticleShare of Ad Spending by Medium – October 2007
Note: Internet spending estimates are from AdRelevance. All others from Nielsen Monitor-Plus. Different methodologies employed by each company may lead to disproportionate comparisons.
View ArticleNASCAR Fans Revving to Buy Items in Big-Ticket, High-Tech Categories
NASCAR fans are top-spenders in big-ticket retail categories, avid tech consumers, and influencers when it comes to making business purchasing decisions, according to (pdf) a Scarborough Sports...
View ArticleA-B King of Super Bowl Ads; Hyundai Improves – SalesGenie Damages – Image
The television broadcast of Super Bowl XLII averaged a record 97 million viewers – and among the big winners were Anheuser-Busch and Hyundai, according to comScore’s 2008 Super Bowl post-game survey....
View ArticleSignificant Growth in Hispanic TV and Radio Projected
Hispanics are the country’s fastest-growing ethnic group but have lower penetration rates for multichannel video packages – and therefore constitute a significant market opportunity – according to SNL...
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