Online advertising is booming. Already a $32 billion business, advertisers are expected to spend a full $62 billion online in 2016. But news publishers are not poised to cash in on the growth, a report released Monday by the Pew Research Center suggests.
The problem? News publishers’ online advertising products simply aren’t competitive. Most tend to depend on static, un-targeted banner advertisements, making their products less desirable than the highly targeted advertisements offered by the likes of Facebook and Google.
Among the other findings:
- 21% of ads on an online news site are for the news organization’s own products.
- By category, the financial industry is the largest spender in online news advertising (18%), followed by cosmetics and toiletries (5%).
- Most ads are static banner ads. Rich media and video ads are rare.
- Few legacy print customers are moving to digital
via Mashable
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A detailed study that shows newspapers losing $7 from print for every digital $1, without even a sense of how they are addressing a key aspect of that transition. It’s an unfortunate vacuum.
One exec bluntly states, “There’s no doubt we’re going out of business right now.”
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This unfortunate state of affairs is costing the newspapers $25 billion this year and success stories are rare. One success I was able to find comes the The Atlantic magazine, a much smaller company pulling in $18 million in advertising.
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