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Searching for Search Growth — The Truth is Still Out There
Posted by Richard in Media Monday, 6 March o 14:51 No Comments
In the last week, Nielson//NetRatings and comScore Media Metrix, two competing Internet measurement companies, both released their search engine results — with contradictory findings and implications for GYM. Tables 1 & 2 show Nielson//NetRatings results while Table 3 shows comScore Media Metrix results. Here is a link to the Nielson//NetRatings press release in pdf or in html at Tekrati and a link to comScore press release in pdf.
What’s interesting is the degree of the difference and the implications that can be derived.
According to Nielson//Netratings, searches grew by 1.6 billion or 39%, January 2006 over January 2005. It looks like the growth is very good, not quiet as high as the same period in earlier years — but trending well. According to comScore Media Metrix, search grew by half a billion or 11%, January 2006 over January 2005. Now the alarm bells are ringing and I’m wondering whether search engines and media sites that derive significant revenue from partnering with these search engines (like Google Adsense), are a worthwhile investment.
What’s even more confusing is share percentage increase. Looking at one set of numbers Google & Yahoo only slightly increased. Looking at the other set of numbers Google had a good increase while Yahoo lost 3 points.
It seems the only thing that both agree upon is the fact that Google is still the leader and still pulling away from its competitors.
Table 1. Total Online Searches, Jan 2005 vs. Jan 2006 (U.S.), According to Nielson//NetRatings
|
Month
|
Online Searches (000)
|
|
January 2005
|
4,085,880
|
|
January 2006
|
5,699,528
|
|
Y-O-Y Growth
|
39%
|
Source: Nielsen//NetRatings, February 2006
Table 2: Search Share Rankings (U.S.), According to Nielson//NetRatings
|
Search Engine
|
Jan 2005
Search Share |
Jan 2006
Search Share |
Precentage
Change |
|
Google Search
|
47.1%
|
48.2%
|
1.1%
|
|
Yahoo! Search
|
21.2%
|
22.2%
|
0.9%
|
|
MSN Search
|
12.8%
|
11.0%
|
-1.8%
|
Source: Nielsen//NetRatings, February 2006
Table 3: Total Internet Searches and Share of Online Searches by Engine, January 2006 vs. January 2005 — Total U.S. Home, Work and University Internet Users, According to comScore Media Metrix
|
|
Searches
Jan 2005 Billions |
Searches
Jan 2006 Billions |
Precentage
Change |
|
Total Internet Searches
|
4.95
|
5.48
|
10.7%
|
|
Share of Searches by Engine
|
Jan 2005
% |
Jan 2006
% |
Share Point
Change +/- |
|
Google Sites
|
35.1%
|
41.4%
|
+6.3
|
|
Yahoo! Sites
|
31.8%
|
28.7%
|
-3.1
|
|
MSN-Microsoft Sites
|
16.0%
|
13.7%
|
-2.3
|
|
Time Warner Network
|
9.6%
|
7.9%
|
-1.7
|
|
Ask Jeeves
|
5.1%
|
5.6%
|
+0.5
|
Source: comScore qSearch
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Record online ad revenues in Q4 2005
Posted by Richard in Media Wednesday, 1 March o 14:01 No Comments
According to a press release today by The Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB), they and PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) performed a joint study and found that Internet advertising revenues for 2005 are estimated to exceed $12.5 billion.
… a 30% increase over the previous revenue record of $9.6 billion in 2004. The 2005 Q4 revenues totaled a record $3.6 billion; making it the second consecutive quarter to surpass the $3 billion mark and the highest quarter reported. Fourth quarter revenues represent a 35 percent increase over the same period in 2004 and a 17 percent increase over Q3 of 2005.
I wonder what the split is between search based advertising and banner advertising — perhaps the IAB can tell us when their report is made available in April.
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