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Tuesday, July 1, 2003

Linked from this article of online marketing research.

Jan 15 2003: Pop-ups are annoying, but effective ...the survey indicates that the click-through rate for pop-ups was almost twice that of banner ads.
http://www.nua.ie/surveys/index.cgi?f=VS&art_id=905358708&rel=true

February 6, 2003: Over 64 percent of Internet users arrived at sites by direct navigation, compared to about 53 percent only a year ago, according to WebSideStory's StatMarket division. . . "This does not mean search sites or other Web links are now less important, because users still have to initially find a site before they can bookmark it. However, having a site worth returning to is becoming increasingly important to businesses."
http://www.statmarket.com/cgi-bin/sm.cgi?sm&feature&stat020603

April 2003: Overture Beats Google with Superior Results, Listing Control and Service 
Independent research firm comScore proves that Overture delivers clicks with higher conversions and more revenue 
http://www.content.overture.com/d/USm/ac/re/nl/apr03si.jhtml

April 18, 2003: Optimizing Online Ad Spending. Three of four brands spent 3% or less of their budgets online, yet the research shows the optimal mix for all four involves spending at least 10% of budgets online.
http://www.iab.net/news/pub_pdf/emarketer_2003_4_22.pdf

May 27, 2003: Jupiter: 76% of marketers say search more effective than banner advertising
http://www.btobonline.com/cgi-bin/article.pl?id=11051

June 3, 2003: New Online Ad Size Research Reinforces “Bigger Is Better” Mantra
http://www.iab.net/news/pr_2003_6_3.asp

June 12, 2003: The IAB and PwC found signs that the long decline in the Internet advertising industry finally ended last year. One of the key drivers of this growth has been the emergence of paid search. The keyword advertising market more than doubled in 2002, bringing in $635 million in 2002.
http://cyberatlas.internet.com/markets/advertising/article/0,,5941_2221201,00.html

June 2003: According to CMR, ad spending in business-to-business magazines dropped 21% in the first half of 2002, the worst by any media. Where is that money going? The Interactive Advertising Bureau has one answer: search engines. Keyword search revenue increased more than 350% from $82 million in 2000 to $288 million in 2001. Remarkable given that total online ad revenues declined 12% last year. 
A washingtonpost.com survey found that 77% of business decision-makers polled said the Web is the place they find out about new products and companies. And nearly half noted that magazine and newspaper readership had decreased.
http://www.iconocast.com/trends.html

June 12, 2003: Online-Ad Sales Show Signs of Return to Growth 
Among types of ads, paid-search ads were the standout format of 2002, increasing their proportion of online-ad revenue nearly fourfold, to 15% from only 4% in 2001. Their share was 21% in the fourth quarter of 2002. http://webreprints.djreprints.com/771480654277.html

June 25, 2003: 41% of those marketers who are implementing SEM strategies are measuring such efforts based on click-through and general site traffic. Only 11% are using a detailed ROI analysis of their SEM efforts, which includes lifetime value as well as revenue by phrase.
http://www.emarketer.com/news/article.php?1002311

User Studies:

Feb 20 2003: Nearly 40 percent of US workers online. Over 50 million Americans are currently online at work, according to a new report from eMarketer and The Wall Street Journal. 
http://www.nua.ie/surveys/index.cgi?f=VS&art_id=905358724&rel=true

Feb 27 2003: More than 10 million African Americans are online, according to new research from Nielsen-Netratings.
http://www.nua.ie/surveys/index.cgi?f=VS&art_id=905358731&rel=true

Mar 26 2003: Consumer spending on paid Internet content will reach USD2 billion in 2003, reports InternetNews. 
http://www.nua.ie/surveys/?f=VS&art_id=905358749&rel=true

Apr 3, 2003: New research from Pew Internet & American Life indicates that 77 percent of online Americans have used the Net in connection with the war in Iraq. 
http://www.nua.ie/surveys/?f=VS&art_id=905358755&rel=true

May 12, 2003: The average Internet activity — both at work and at home — in April 2003 for surfers in the U.S., UK, and Australia, as reported by Nielsen//NetRatings Inc.  http://cyberatlas.internet.com/big_picture/traffic_patterns/article/0,,5931_2204911,00.html

June 16, 2003:U.S. Market Internet Penetration 
http://cyberatlas.internet.com/big_picture/geographics/article/0,,5911_2222631,00.html

June 18, 2003: A whopping 65 percent of the 1,100 U.S. Internet users that were surveyed won't patronize a poorly designed site — even that of a favorite brand — and 30 percent reported that Web site design is more important than a great product. Even rock-bottom prices only persuaded 4 percent to shop on a poorly designed Web site. 
http://cyberatlas.internet.com/markets/retailing/article/0,,6061_2224101,00.html

June 18, 2003: According to May 2003 measurements from Nielsen//NetRatings, the number of active Internet users in 13 nations has declined by nearly half a million since April 2003. 
http://cyberatlas.internet.com/big_picture/geographics/article/0,,5911_2223541,00.html

June 26, 2003: Web users are picky and impatient, typically visiting only the first three results from a query, with one in five searchers spending 60 seconds or less on a linked Web document, according to Penn State researchers.
http://live.psu.edu/index.php?cmd=vs&story=3364

Online Business / Ecommerce:

December 27, 2002: Small Biz Are Big Spenders -- Many markets stand to benefit from the deep pockets of small businesses (SBs) of up to 99 total employees, according to comprehensive research by Access Markets International (AMI) Partners, Inc. that indicates an IT spending spree of roughly $340 billion in 2002. 
http://cyberatlas.internet.com/markets/smallbiz/article/0,,10098_1561831,00.html

Jan 20 2003: Online spending to reach USD14.8 billion. US consumers are expected to spend USD14.8 billion online in the first quarter of 2003, reports InternetNews.
http://www.nua.ie/surveys/?f=VS&art_id=905358713&rel=true

Feb 26 2003: Ecommerce sales on the up in US -- Online retail sales in the US surpassed USD45 billion in 2002, reports E-commerce Times. 
http://www.nua.ie/surveys/?f=VS&art_id=905358730&rel=true

Mar 11, 2003: At least 4,854 Internet companies have either been acquired or have shut down in the three years since the end of the dotcom boom, according to Webmergers. 
http://www.nua.ie/surveys/?f=VS&art_id=905358739&rel=true

Apr 1, 2003: eMarketer predicts that worldwide B2B ecommerce revenues will surpass USD1.4 trillion by the end of 2003. 
http://www.nua.ie/surveys/?f=VS&art_id=905358753&rel=true

June 12, 2003: Online retailers that are already hoping for another big holiday season may want to heed these two words, "free shipping." Jupiter Research (a unit of this site's corporate parent) found that 89 percent of the respondents to its annual Retail Consumer Survey Report indicated that free delivery and handling was the promotion most likely to encourage their online purchases. 
http://cyberatlas.internet.com/markets/retailing/article/0,,6061_2221061,00.html

June 20, 2003:The study found that more than two-thirds (68 percent) of the government sites that were evaluated had Web application failures. While the figure may seem high, the government sites actually outperformed a sample of e-commerce sites, which recorded a 72.5 percent failure rate. 
http://cyberatlas.internet.com/big_picture/applications/article/0,,1301_2225381,00.html

 

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