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IAB: First Half 2015 Ad Revenues $27.5 Billion, Search Captures 50 Percent

Today the IAB (and PriceWaterhouseCoopers) released its half yearly Internet Advertising Revenue Report. Total US digital revenues were $27.5 billion for the first half of 2015. Mobile ad revenues were $8.2 billion or just under 30 percent. Search led all other categories, though its percentage share of desktop advertising is declining. A year ago, paid-search […]

Greg Sterling on October 21, 2015 at 1:56 pm
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Today the IAB (and PriceWaterhouseCoopers) released its half yearly Internet Advertising Revenue Report. Total US digital revenues were $27.5 billion for the first half of 2015. Mobile ad revenues were $8.2 billion or just under 30 percent.

Search led all other categories, though its percentage share of desktop advertising is declining. A year ago, paid-search advertising represented 39 percent of desktop revenue. It now represents 37 percent. Overall, dollars are increasing, however; and when combined with mobile search, the contribution of search advertising to the digital total is 50 percent.

IAB 1H 2015

According to the report, desktop paid search brought in $10.1 billion in the first half vs. $9.1 billion a year ago. However, when mobile search revenues are included, the paid-search total climbs to $13.7 billion.

Mobile search revenue by itself was $3.6 billion. The overwhelming majority of that likely belongs to Google, given its mobile search market share. Indeed, digital ad revenue is highly concentrated among a few dominant companies.

The IAB estimates that “the ten leading ad-selling companies” captured nearly three-quarters (72 percent) of all ad revenue in the second quarter. That concentration is arguably even more acute in mobile.

For a more complete discussion of the IAB numbers, see Ginny Marvin’s overview of the entire report. You can also access a copy of the full report here.


Opinions expressed in this article are those of the guest author and not necessarily Search Engine Land. Staff authors are listed here.



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Greg Sterling
Greg Sterling is a Contributing Editor to Search Engine Land, a member of the programming team for SMX events and the VP, Market Insights at Uberall.

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