US Online Ad Spending Statistics

Khalid Saleh

Khalid Saleh

Khalid Saleh is CEO and co-founder of Invesp. He is the co-author of Amazon.com bestselling book: "Conversion Optimization: The Art and Science of Converting Visitors into Customers." Khalid is an in-demand speaker who has presented at such industry events as SMX, SES, PubCon, Emetrics, ACCM and DMA, among others.
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US Ad Spend On Search Engines

Year Search Ad Spending

( In Billions)

%age Change
2011 15.36 27.9%
2012 19.51 27.0%
2013 22.86 17.2%
2014 25.41 11.2%
2015 27.37 7.7%
2016 29.11 6.3%

US Search Ad revenues for the Top 4 Search Engines

Search Engine 2011 2012 2013 2014
Google 74.4% 77.9% 78.7% 79.8%
Bing 7.0% 7.0% 7.7% 8.7%
Yahoo 6.7% 4.5% 3.6% 3.0%
AOL 1.5% 1.0% 0.8% 0.6%

Top 10 Google Adwords Advertisers of 2011 (Jan-Sept 2011)

Company PPC Spend
IAC/Interactive Corp $174,231,000
Amazon.com $118,501,000
AT&T $115,564,000
Expedia $92,163,000
Experian Group $79,281,000
Microsoft Corp $70,943,000
eBay $70,554,000
Priceline.com $67,616,000
Capital One Financial Corp. $57,080,000
State Farm Mutual Auto Ins. Co. $54,507,000

Top 10 Industries that in Spent the Most On Google Ads 2011

Industry Amount Spent on Google Ads ( In Billions)
Finance and Insurance 4.0
Retailers and General Merchandise 2.8
Travel and Tourism 2.4
Jobs & Education 2.2
Home & Garden 2.1
Computers and Consumer Electronics 2.0
Vehicles 2.0
Internet & Telecom 1.7
Business & Industrial 1.6
Occasions & Gifts 1.2

Video Advertising

181 million U.S. Internet users watched nearly 37 billion online content videos and more than 10 billion video ads in May 2012.
21.6% of online videos viewed were video ads, representing more than 1 in 5 videos viewed online.

The average viewer watched 21.9 hours of online video content. Video ads accounted for 1.9 percent of all minutes spent viewing video online.

Average conversion rates for online video increased 10% from 39.9% to 43.9% during Q4 2011.

The duration of the average online content video was 6.5 minutes, while the average online video ad was 0.4 minutes

Top U.S. Online Video Ad Properties Ranked by Video Ads Viewed (May 2012)

Video Property Ad Videos Views ( In Millions) Total Ad Minutes (in Millions) Frequency ( Ad Videos Per Viewer)
Hulu 1,666,846 725 55.5
Google Sites 1,385,273 143 18.6
Brightroll video network 1,130,983 673 10.3
Adap.tv 966,204 556 13.1
Tubemogul 896,787 259 17.4
Specific Media 751,542 359 7.7
Tremor Video 725,944 408 14.1
SpotXchange 615,290 326 13.5
Auditude 569,862 219 11.6
ESPN 490,103 169 28.6

Display Advertising

Facebook Delivers 1 out of every 4 Display Ads

Top 10 US Online Display Ad Publishers by Number of Impressions

Ad Published Number of Impressions (in Millions)
Facebook 1,343,170
Yahoo Sites 528,993
Microsoft Sites 215,650
Google Sites 173,929
AOL Inc 131,373
Turner Digital Network 73,588
Glam  Media 54,810
ESPN 47,096
Viacom Posts 38,532
eBay 34,464

Top 10 US Online Display Advertisers of 2011 by Number of Impressions

Advertisers Number of Impressions (in Millions)
AT&T Inc 195,792
Experian Interactive 67,565
Verizon Communications 49,481
Scottrade Inc 44,031
Google Inc 40,454
Microsoft Corporation 38,662
Netflix Inc 36,991
Ebay Inc 32,302
Progressive Corporation 30,042
InteractiveCorp (IAC) 29,403

Social Media Ad Spending

U.S. social media ad spending will reach $9.8 billion in 2016

Year National  Ad Spend (in Billions) Local Ad Spend (in Billions) Total Spend  (in Billions)
2011 3.0 0.84 3.8
2012 3.6 1.2 4.8
2013 4.4 1.5 5.9
2014 5.0 2.0 7.0
2015 5.8 2.5 8.3
2016 6.7 3.1 9.8
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Khalid Saleh

Khalid Saleh

Khalid Saleh is CEO and co-founder of Invesp. He is the co-author of Amazon.com bestselling book: "Conversion Optimization: The Art and Science of Converting Visitors into Customers." Khalid is an in-demand speaker who has presented at such industry events as SMX, SES, PubCon, Emetrics, ACCM and DMA, among others.

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