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As reported earlier in the week (see CMR Chief Predicts 2.5% Rise In US Adspend This Year), CMR has raised its 2002 US advertising forecast to $109.1 billion – a growth of 2.5%. CMR chief executive, David Peeler, presented the predictions at the AdWatch: Outlook 2002 conference in New York, saying: “We are off to… Continue reading CMR Forecasts Show Improving H2 For US Media

A study of nearly 200 marketing professionals in the US shows marketers to be cautiously optimistic about the growth of their media budgets for the remainder of 2002. The research, conducted by DoubleClick, also claims that websites have become a ‘critical sales channel’, with a larger proportion of respondents expecting web sales to show stronger… Continue reading US Marketers Cautiously Optimistic About 2002 Budgets, Finds DoubleClick

US advertising spend is predicted to rise by 2.5% to $109.1 billion dollars in 2002, according to CMR chief executive officer, David Peeler. Speaking at conference yesterday, Peeler said that the second half of the year could see a 6.2% jump in adspend, led by political advertising during the mid-term elections. The 2.5% full year… Continue reading CMR Chief Predicts 2.5% Rise In US Adspend This Year

Global advertising and communications group, WPP, has forecast that the advertising recovery will be shallow and gradual, rather than U- or V- or W-shaped. This concurs with the predictions of analysts at Merrill Lynch (see Ad Agencies Stock Weak As ‘Muted’ Recovery Is Predicted). The group yesterday issued a profits warning, saying that trading is… Continue reading WPP Forecasts A Shallow And Gradual Advertising Recovery

US radio revenues increased by 4% year on year during April, with local spend up 2% and national up 6%, according to the latest data from the US Radio Advertising Bureau. The first four months of 2002 show national spend up 2%, whilst local ad sales and the combined total figures remained flat overall. The… Continue reading US Radio Revenue Creeps Up 4% In April

Despite expectations of the beginning of a recovery in advertising market conditions in the second half of the year, the outlook remains decidedly unclear, according to the Financial Times. The paper says that whilst a number of companies at the Mid-Year Media Review in the US have begun to talk about an improvement in the… Continue reading Advertising Outlook Remains Unclear

Online advertising impressions increased by 77% year on year, as the market showed further signs of recovery, according to the latest data from Nielsen//NetRatings. Impressions totalled 94.2 billion in May, a leap from 53.2 billion impressions a year earlier. Retail goods and services was the leading industry advertising on the web, issuing nearly 34 billion… Continue reading Retailers Driving Online Ad Revival, Says Nielsen//NetRatings

Global advertising agency, Interpublic Group (IPG), has indicated that its revenue will be down in the high, single-digit percentages for the second quarter of the year, indicating that the slow recovery may not yet be wide-reaching. IPG had previously forecast that its revenues will be flat year on year for the full year 2002. However,… Continue reading Interpublic Says Ad Revenues Remain Down, Visibility Poor

Advertisers currently buying space in the US upfront markets are embracing the interactive and online enhancements offered by broadcast and cable networks and incorporating them into their campaigns, according to today’s Jack Myers Report. Myers says that this is another indication of a strengthening media economy, particularly given that last year advertisers “insisted that any… Continue reading Interactive Buys Point To Strengthening Media Economy, Says Myers

Total US magazine advertising revenue increased 2.4% year on year during May, closing at $1.5 billion, according to the latest data from the Publishers Information Bureau (PIB). However, the number of ad pages for May were down 6.3% on last year, at 20,268. In the year to date, advertising revenue showed a 3.3% decline, closing… Continue reading US Magazine Revenues Up But Volumes Down In May