Digital advertising
continues to show growth across all channels
Search still remains the biggest driver of ROI. As traffic on mobile and tablet devices
increases 400% in a year, advertisers will increase their search investments across
devices. Thus, search on devices will advance as quickly as social, and will positively
influence growth in search spend globally.




Look no further                                                                         Google to rule them all
than search


                                                                                                                           UK                     DE




       Q1 2011              Q1 2012 (US)          Q1 2012 (UK)



US & UK overall search spend & ROI
Search spend increased 16% YoY in the US and 3% YoY in the UK.
                                                                                                Google Bing/Yahoo




                                                                                                     FR                     JP                    AU


                                                                                              Market share by country
                                                                                              Google continues to dominate the search space despite suffering
Indexed Q1 2011 = 100 percent                     Bing/Yahoo Google
                                                                                              its first loss in market share since Q1 2011. The trend in France is
                                                                                              similar to that of the UK with Google growing YoY at Bing/Yahoo’s
US CPC trends                                                                                 expense. In Germany, however, Google has significant market share
Bing/Yahoo CPCs continue to rise, reaching an 18% increase YoY.                               relative to last year with a 1.6% YoY gain. Japan is much more evenly
Conversely, Google shows decreases in CPCs since last quarter                                 split between Bing/Yahoo and Google.
and down 5% YoY.




Keep in touch with mobile and tablet trends



                                                                                                                          United                      United
                                                                                                                          States                      Kingdom




U.S. mobile spend and forecasts                                                                              U.S. vs. U.K. mobile spend
In the U.S., overall spend on mobile devices reached 7.65% in Q1,                                            Mobile spend in the U.K. is higher than in the U.S.
on pace to be 15 to 20% of search spend by the end of 2012.                                                  (11 percent in the U.K. vs. 8% in the U.S.).




                                                                                                                                         U.S. mobile and
                                                                                                                                         tablet spend
                                                                                                                                         Spend on tablets now
                                                                                                                                         exceeds smart phones,
                                                                                                                                         with the inflection
                                                                                                                                         point that occurred
                                                                                                                                         in October 2011.
               05.11      06.11   07.11   08.11   09.11    10.11      11.11   12.11   01.12     02.12    03.12
                                                                                                Mobile Tablet




 US mobile                                                                              US mobile
 UK mobile                                                                              UK mobile


 US tablet                                                                              US tablet
 UK tablet                                                                              UK tablet

U.S. and U.K. CPC rates                                                                U.S. and U.K. Conversion rates
Mobile & tablet vs. desktop                                                            Mobile & tablet vs. desktop




From clicks to “Likes,” Facebook is still fertile
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Facebook growth rate                                      Facebook CPC rates                                                Facebook engagement
Brands continue to acquire fans at                        Facebook CPC rates have continued to                              Facebook post engagement increased
significant growth rates and are                          increase by 40% quarter over quarter.                             by 176% YoY. The most significant
on pace to double fan bases in                                                                                              rise in engagement rates was seen
the next 14 months.                                                                                                         immediately after the release of
                                                                                                                            Timeline for brands.

Global advertising update_q12012_infographic

  • 1.
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