Internet’s Ad Power Creams TV
ADOTAS EXCLUSIVE — Have you seen the latest statistics on Internet usage?
The results should be no surprise, and if your clients aren’t online then they’re definitely missing opportunities in the form of increased inquiries, new and repeat customers and better sales – no ifs, ands or buts about it.
The most recent studies show that people throughout the world are increasing the amount of time that they spend online. These studies also show that U.S. users alone spend an average of nearly an hour and a half (86.8 minutes) on the Internet every single day. As the amount of time spent online grows, so too does the power and effectiveness of online information for reaching various markets.
It’s important to make sure that your clients understand how and why the Internet is quickly becoming the world’s most powerful and influential source of information and because it so effectively reaches so many, those who fail to embrace this media will almost certainly be left behind.
Here are some key points from the latest research that you can share with them:
Internet usage has increased worldwide. The growth in Internet marketing potential has been nothing short of phenomenal.
The Miniwatts Marketing Group has been charting Internet usage by world region since 1995. Statistics show an overall increase in Internet market penetration. In fact, less than 1% of the world’s population (.4%) were regular Internet users in 1995. The most recent figures, from March of 2008, show an Internet usage increase of over 2000%. From that same source, we also know that worldwide Internet usage figures are now at 21.1 % or the world’s population (1,407 million Internet users worldwide).
No other type of media has grown so dramatically during the same time period.
Internet usage has grown most rapidly in industrialized nations. Internet usage in industrialized regions of the world, where individuals tend to have a higher per capita income, has increased even more rapidly than in other areas.
Through the Internet, you can reach over 1 billion individuals worldwide — most of whom are educated and literate with a disposable income. No other single form of media can give you such a broad reach.
More statistics to bolster these claims:
• The most recent data from the Miniwatts Market Group statistics shows that Internet usage in the Americas (North and South) accounts for over 25% of international usage, with nearly half (42%) of everyone in this region using the Internet.
• Internet usage statistics for another industrialized region, Europe, accounts for another quarter (27.1%) of all Internet usage worldwide. In Europe, 47.7% of the population uses the Internet.
• As high as the Internet usage figures are for the Americas and for Europe, the statistics show that the highest number of Internet users in the Asian region of the world, where over 529 million Internet users account for 37.6% of all Internet usage worldwide.
• Taken together, Internet usage in these three regions alone (the Americas, Europe, and Asia) accounts for over 92% of the world’s Internet usage.
Internet usage is replacing television. What are all those Internet users doing online? An awful lot of them are watching videos that they might have seen on television (or heard on the radio) in an earlier generation.
In fact, studies show that 80% of all Internet users now watch online video. In a single month, February of 2008, there were 116 million unique viewers for online video. In that same month, there were 6.3 billion streams of online video viewed, or an average of 54.7 streams of online video per every online viewer.
There is no doubt that a growing marketing force within the Internet is the area of video. The online video audience is increasing. Studies show that online video is an increasingly effective marketing tool. It has also been shown that online video viewers rely on the information that they view to make decisions and form opinions.
Online video viewers rely on the Internet to make decisions. Online videos are also an important factor in influencing the decision-making process of viewers. Studies show that 80% of online video viewers have watched an ad online, and of that 80% who watched an ad, 52% then went on to take some kind action.
It may be these statistics that have caused advertisers to pour more money into online video advertising: $1.4 billion has been spent in online video advertising in 2008. In fact, it is estimated that by 2011 advertisers will spend over $4 billion a year on advertising for online video alone.
With these statistics and track record of proven results, your clients can’t afford to ignore the Internet and online video in particular (though, of course, there are still some who, for whatever reason, ignore it anyway).
Make sure that you (and your clients) take advantage of this ever-changing media whose enormous potential in terms of growing marketing presence and increasing the proverbial bottom line cannot and should not be overlooked or under-estimated.
Article Sponsor
More Features
Reader Comments.
No comments yet
Leave a Comment
Latest News
- Moskovitz, Rosenstein Leave Facebook To Form Venture October 6th 2008
- BlackArrow Raises $20 Million October 6th 2008
- Hakia Launches “Quality” Focused Interface October 6th 2008
- Context Optional Introduces Social Marketing Platform October 6th 2008
- eBay Fires 10% of Workforce, Makes $1.3B Worth of Acquisitions October 6th 2008
- Click Forensic Unmasks Weapon in Trademark Infringement Battle October 6th 2008
- Video Advertisers May Cash in on Fiscal Crisis October 3rd 2008
- Obama Issues iPhone App October 3rd 2008
Features
- Self-Serve Ad Exchange: This Century’s Strowger Switch? October 6th 2008
- Banners: Back from the Dead October 3rd 2008
- How To Earn Top Network Admittance October 2nd 2008
- Marketing Secrets of an Online “Lurker” October 1st 2008
- How To Produce a Social Ad That Doesn’t Suck September 30th 2008
Spotlight
HipCricket: SMS Is Still the Wave of the FutureADOTAS EXCLUSIVE — HipCricket, a mobile marketing company, has been changing the way advertisers think about reaching their audiences since [...] more...
Reader Favorites
Classifieds
Most Commented
- Can 314 Ad Networks Really Thrive? (8)
- Obama’s VP Pick Inauspicious for Net Neutrality (7)
- In The Time Of Recession, Is Branding Really Enough? (2)
- Study: Ad Network Use Soars (2)
- The Ad Revenue Waterfall (2)
- Facebook’s $100 Million Virtual Economy (2)
- Boomers Are Slutty Shoppers (2)
- Ralph Lauren Launches Mobile Shopping Site (2)
