Buying and Placing Online Display Ads
Forty-seven ways to buy and place display advertising by other medium and the types of display ad formats. Part two in a two-part series.
Forty-seven ways to buy and place display advertising by other medium and the types of display ad formats. Part two in a two-part series.
According to the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB), Q1 2011 set an all-time record in Internet advertising with $7.3 billion in revenues, a 23 percent year-over-year increase. A growing component of this increase is online display advertising (banners and video), according to recently released predictions by eMarketer, which estimate that banner ad spending alone will reach $11.73 billion by 2015 – that’s no small potatoes! Factors influencing this increase include high inventory, lower pricing, and the rise of Facebook. Last week in Part 1 of this column, we covered ways to buy and place display advertising that included by means of buying and by types of targeting. In Part 2 we’ll cover by other medium and the types of display ad formats.
By Other Medium
Email. We may take graphical emails for granted these days, but in effect, they are really one big display advertisement. When it comes to buying email display advertising, the options include:
Mobile. Mobile offers many variations on common display formats: banners, videos, coupons, and in-game (see below), but a prevalent format in mobile is “appvertising.”
Instant messenger. With the rise of social networking platforms like Twitter and Facebook, you might not hear as much about IM anymore, but advertisers can still reach those using IM with small-scale versions of banners.
Adware. Adware is ad-supported downloadable software, commonly found these days in toolbars, desktop applications, and games.
Internet TV. Probably still the least widely adopted/newest terrain, Internet TV advertising presents new interactive opportunities to advertisers.
Types of Display Ad Formats
When it comes to display ad formats, eMarketer data shows video as the fastest growing format, likely to surpass rich media by the end of 2011. EMarketer sees growth of all ad formats breaking out like this:
To further break down display ad formats, we have:
See the IAB rich media creative guidelines or Google’s Rich Media Creative Types for more helpful information.
EMarketer’s research tells us what factors could lead to even more online display ad spending:
What do you think? Will you be buying more display ads now that you’re armed with all this information?