Online Advertising

Indian Ad Market SNUBS recession, grows by 25% in 2008

According to Nielsen, the impact of the recession in India has been minimal. The overall ad market grew by 25% in 2008, very healthy under these circumstances.

Media Outlet2008 (US$000s)2007 (US$000s)% Change
TV2,195,0651,845,80719%
Newspapers3,322,9552,418,70237%
Magazines411,922324,77127%
Radio670,285648,0643%
Cinema47,13242,71310%
Outdoor289,165263,16910%
Other89,83959,33851%
TOTAL 7,026,363 5,602,564 25%
Source: AdEx India – A division of TAM India Research

The top three categories for ad spend growth for the full year were education (52%), telecom/Internet service providers (39%) and retail (33%).

Online ad spend hasn’t been shown separately, but I guess it is part of  “Other” which has shown healthy growth. For now, the online ad spend seems to be fighting for a separate line item in such reports. We got to become bigger to have our own line item in such reports. How will 2009 be for the online ad market, good in my opinion.

BG Mahesh

Internet application ideator and implementor. Been there and done that since early 1990s. I like to present data to the common man in the simplest manner on the internet.

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