Advertising organizations have witnessed a paradigm shift towards digital advertisements. Internet advertising is known as digital advertising, or online advertising, or web advertising. Internet advertising is a form of marketing that is used by a business that leverage the Internet. This use of the Internet for advertising is specifically done to deliver promotional advertisements to consumers across various geographies.
Advent of the Internet from the recent past has proliferated awareness for Internet advertising which goes beyond geography to find customers all over the world. Internet advertising is witnessing high adoption in today’s era owing to easy accessibility to end user through the Internet for various business which enables quick, easy, efficient, and affordable reach to target audiences/consumers. Global Internet Advertising Market was valued at US$ 183,150. Mn in 2018 and is forecasted to increase significantly at a CAGR of 12.6% from 2019-2028.
Prominent players that opt for advertising services usually incline towards programmatic advertising. Programmatic advertising implies the use of the software after purchasing the online advertising space. These advertisements are rich in content and visualizations which are more effective in the right use of placement. For example, Google LLC and The Kellogg Company accompanied the campaign to expand the latters retail sales. Google LLC’s primary focus was on key performance indicator where visibility was measured with double-clicks active view, and this advertising was focused on index and frequency of consumers reviews.
Evolutions in advertising are bifurcated by types of advertising sources, which includes as follows:
1. Display Advertising: It is an online paid advertising mode, that advertises using images and text. Popular forms of display advertising include landing pages (LP’s), banners, and popups. Display ads differ from other ads because they do not show up in search results.
2. Search Engine Marketing (SEM) & Search Engine Optimization (SEO): SEM and SEO promote content and increase advertising visibility through searches.
3. Social Media: Advertisements that are displayed on social media application through a popup or that are spread through online word-of-mouth technique are two types of social media advertising modes.
4. Native Advertising: Advertisements that are sponsored at the bottom of the blog or FB posts.
5. Pay Per Click (PPC): Advertisers only pay for when a user clicks on advertisements, which is calculated by the strength of PPC as a tool.
6. Remarketing: It is a cookie-based technology advertisement that follows the user/consumer around the Internet, in order to remarket him/her his interests again.
7. Affiliate Marketing: Affiliate marketing is promoting a product while earning a commission for each sale.
8. Video Ads: Video advertisements are displayed in between at start or end of a video and the returns are calculated by the clicks that are clicked on those advertisements.
The global Internet advertising market has three scopes. First, type which includes search ads, mobile ads, banner ads, classified ads, and digital video ads. The social media ads will be dominating due to the high presence of social media apps and high advertising revenue generated by social media companies such as Facebook.
Secondly, applications which include retail, automotive, entertainment, financial services, telecom, and consumer goods. Third by region, North America, Europe, Asia Pacific, Latin America, and the Middle East and Africa.
Prominent players that offer Internet advertising services include Alphabet Inc., Facebook Inc., Baidu Inc., Yahoo, Inc., Microsoft Corporation, Alibaba Group Holding Limited, Tencent Holdings Limited, Twitter, Inc., AOL (Verizon Communications), eBay Inc. , LinkedIn, Amazon.com, Inc., IAC, SoHo, and Pandora.
