Google Rises To UK’s 2nd Biggest Ad Earner

Google now challenging ITV to be UK’s top advertiser by Times Online reports Google is just one spot behind the leader in ad revenue earned in the UK market. This data comes from Google’s Annual Report where they learn Google UK’s ad revenue has “risen by 83 per cent.” Google UK has earned $1.6 billion […]

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Google now challenging ITV to be UK’s top advertiser by Times Online reports Google is just one spot behind the leader in ad revenue earned in the UK market. This data comes from Google’s Annual Report where they learn Google UK’s ad revenue has “risen by 83 per cent.” Google UK has earned $1.6 billion (£825 million) in 2006, putting them ahead of Channel 4 who has earned “just over £800 million” but behind the leading ad revenue earner in the UK, ITV. ITV is expected to report earnings of £1.47 billion in 2006 this Wednesday.


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Barry Schwartz
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Barry Schwartz is a technologist and a Contributing Editor to Search Engine Land and a member of the programming team for SMX events. He owns RustyBrick, a NY based web consulting firm. He also runs Search Engine Roundtable, a popular search blog on very advanced SEM topics.

In 2019, Barry was awarded the Outstanding Community Services Award from Search Engine Land, in 2018 he was awarded the US Search Awards the "US Search Personality Of The Year," you can learn more over here and in 2023 he was listed as a top 50 most influential PPCer by Marketing O'Clock.

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