"Small
businesses who use the internet have grown 46% faster than those that do
not."
-American
City Business Journal
Online Advertising For 2003 Exceeds $7 Billion
Online
advertising revenue reached $7.3 billion in 2003, up from $6 billion in
2002, according to the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB).
Online
ad revenue peaked in 2000 with just more than $8 billion. After showing
small gains through the first three quarters, 2003 ad revenue spiked in the
fourth quarter, reaching $2.2 billion. Fourth quarter ad revenue accounted
for 30 percent of total 2003 ad revenue. Moreover, over the same period a
year ago, 2003 fourth-quarter ad revenue jumped 38 percent (or $602
million).
In addition, keyword search advertising accounted for 40
percent of 2003 fourth quarter revenue and 35 percent of total 2003 revenue,
up from 21 percent of fourth-quarter 2002 revenue.
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DIRECTnewsline
"There is currently $10,000.00 spent every second in
e-commerce transactions on the Internet today, and that increases every
day."
-
U.S. Department of Commerce
"80% of all people who see
an ad in the yellow pages that lists a web-address, will go to that
website!!"
- NEC Research Institute
"In the near future, if you are not doing business on the internet, you will
be out of business.”
- Bill
Gates, Chairman and CEO of Microsoft Corp |
