According to the report, Facebook has grown too, and as compared to 2006, is now a major supplier with a market share of 3.1% in 2010. Facebook over took AOL in 2010 and seeing the current growth is expected to leave Microsoft behind by the end of 2011.

ZenithOptimedia has made growth predictions in global ad spend till 2014, as things will continue to look up despite the crisis in Europe. The reason behind this sustained growth are the events that occur every four years.

We quote, Every four years the quadrennial events- the summer Olympics, the European Football Championship and the US Presidential and other elections- provide a reliable boost to the global ad market. This time we expect the combination of the quadrennial effect and the Japanese recovery to add US$7 billion to ad expenditure in 2012. Without this extra stimulus, ad expenditure would grow 3.1% next year, slightly less than this year.

Global Ad Market Growth Predictions:

ZenithOptmedia has predicted these figures for the world markets.

• Western Europe- Due to the economic turmoil, will grow by just 2.0% in 2012. However, the improvements in economy may see a 2.8% growth in 2013 and 3.3% in 2014. Global ad expenditure would grow by 3.2%.


• Central & Eastern Europe- Will see a growth of 9.6% a year.


• North America- A 3.6% growth in North American ad expenditure in 2012, which will grow to 3.7% in 2013 and 4.4% in 2014.


• Latin America- is predicted to grow by 7.3% a year.


• Japan- In 2012, the ad expenditure growth is predicted at 3.1%. Where as the growth will be 1.9 and 2.5 percent in 2014 and 2015, respectively.



• Asia Pacific (Barring Japan)- Markets will grow by an average of 10.4% a year.

Other Parts of the World- As ZenithOptimedia further predicts, The exception is the Middle East & North Africa, where political turmoil has disrupted media production and distribution, and made advertisers wary of attracting negative attention. We forecast the Middle East & North Africa to grow at an average of 1.3% between 2011 and 2014. Overall we expect developing markets which we here define as everywhere outside North America, Western Europe and Japan- to increase their share of the global ad market from 32.3% in 2011 to 35.9% in 2014.

Paid advertising will account for almost half the expenditure in the internet advertising segment. However, the growth rate of 15.7% per year is impacted by the mobile ad market. Display advertising segment has an impressive growth at 18.9 percent per year and will continue trailing paid search into 2014, taking 22.6 and 25.6 percent, respectively.

Global Ad Expenditure Predictions:

According to ZenithOptimedia, till 2014, 48% of the total global ad expenditure growth will come from 10 developing markets. The BRIC- as in Brazil, Russia, India, and China markets will account for a full 33%.

Another prediction puts internet advertising share increasing to 21.2 percent. The present top players- Denmark, Norway, Sweden and the UK account for more than 25% of total spend. But in 2014, Canada is expected to join in the top spenders by replacing Denmark.