Thursday, March 21, 2013

News Pooper


This week the Advertising Standards Authority released their numbers for ad spend across all media channels for 2012.  In not so surprising news digital continues its steady growth, while that staple of the 20th century the newspaper continues its decline.  I’m still baffled when I see those rolls of newsprint laying outside people’s houses in the morning, like some old news dog has pooped out it’s latest slightly out of date offering on the footpath for us to step in.  Weird. 


Greedy old television keeps gobbling up ad spend to remain relatively stable.  I know, boring isn’t it.  Like Coronation St it just keeps fearlessly rolling on – for now.  OnDemand and Digital continues to nibble away at TV budgets, they will eventually succumb as they have in the U.S and U.K.  

Anyway, enough of this over opinionated babble, some key numbers;

  • Digital spend in 2012 – $366m, representing 11.6% YoY growth
  • Digital now no.3 media by ad spend
  • TV no.1 - $614m, flat
  • Newspapers no.2 - $540m, decline of 7.2% YoY
  • Digital increased YoY by $38m, to represent 16.9% of all ad spend
  • Mobile contributed $2.83m to digital spend, representing 176% increase from 2011
  • On line video contributing $12.69m



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