Thursday 4 December 2014

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http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/dec/03/google-facebook-uk-digital-advertising-market

Google and Facebook will have more than half of UK digital ad market

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This article is about how predictions say Google and Facebook which are media giants will be taking over more than half of the £8 billion digital market in 2015 due to advertisements on smartphones and websites.

  • The UK operations of Google and Facebook will make a combined £4.1bn in 2015, a 50.8% share of the total expected to be spent on ads on websites, smartphones, online video and social media next year.
  • Facebook UK’s ad revenues are forecast to grow by 55% this year to £576m and by a further 29% next year to £743m, with all of that income coming from display advertising. 
  • Google that continues to dominate the UK market, keeping a stranglehold on advertising derived from internet searches with a 90% market share.
  • Google UK dwarfs Facebook with a 41.6% share of the total UK ad market to the social networking site’s 9.2%.
  • Twitter UK is expected to make about £89.5m in the UK this year, with £82m of that coming from advertising.
  • Emarketer said that a major driver for both Google and Facebook has been the explosion in ad spending on smartphones.


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