Are Brands ‘Exiting’ An Era Of Search?

Are Brands ‘Exiting’ An Era Of Search?

by , Staff Writer @lauriesullivan, April 3, 2019

Are Brands 'Exiting' An Era Of Search? | DeviceDaily.com

Search, which has been a staple for many brands and advertising campaigns, might becoming an “old-school” marketing and advertising media. That’s according to data released Wednesday from Borrell Associates.

The 2019 Benchmarking Local Media’s Digital Revenues report shows the industry might be exiting the era of traditional search-engine dominance.

In 2013, paid search comprised 32% of all digital ad spend. By 2023, paid search will give way to highly targeted display ads, as video formats also become more popular.

“Buying keywords on Google or Bing seems like old-school marketing when you consider how easy it is to reach consumers based on their GPS location, what they clicked on two days ago, or what search terms they typed in this morning,” per the report. “Likewise, buying ads on search-based listings sites such as Craigslist, Cars.com, and Homes.com are good bottom-of-the-funnel opportunities to reach buyers but again begin to look ‘so 2000s,’ compared with other ways to reach active buyers.”

Marketers also might want to think of Amazon as the latest disruption, similar to the way Google came into the marketplace during the 2000s and Facebook in 2010.

Today eMarketer estimates Amazon has become the world’s fourth-largest ad platform. In 2019, eMarketer forecasts Amazon will generate $14.03 billion in ad revenues.

Borrell cites numbers from Pivotal Research that estimates Amazon will have $38 billion in annual ad revenue by 2023, becoming the third-largest U.S. advertising company, behind Google and Facebook.

MediaPost.com: Search Marketing Daily

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