Search: the revolution in online advertising

WARC Hot Topics are the essential guide to debates in and around marketing. This paper discusses the rapid rise of search advertising on the internet.

Search: the revolution in online advertising

April 2005
Introduction

Introduction

As the internet has matured as an advertising medium, an increasing proportion of spend has been devoted to search advertising. It is certainly the most significant sector of the online advertising market, accounting for around 40 per cent. This has greatly excited the digerati, and led to the formation of trade bodies on both sides of the Atlantic the US-based SEMPO  (Search Engine Marketing Professional Organization) and the quite new SMA-UK (Search Marketing Association UK).

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