30 Unique and Creative Advertising Campaigns | Tutorialboard. Posted on 24. Jun, 2009 by Olson in Graphic Design {*style:<b> </b>*} Banner Ad Design | PointBanner Home. The Online Ad Recession Continues. Is This What A Reset Looks Like? The recession in online advertising, which began in the first quarter of 2009, continued into the second. Every quarter we keep track of the combined advertising revenues of the four largest Web advertising companies (Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, and AOL), which together represent the lion’s share of all online advertising revenues and is a decent proxy for the market as a whole.
In the second quarter of 2009, their combined global ad revenues were $7.864 billion, down 3.4 percent from a year ago. In economics, a general rule of thumb is that two down quarters marks a recession. Last quarter saw the first annual decline in advertising revenues of 2.1 percent. And the annual decline this quarter got a little worse. However, on a sequential basis compared to last quarter, it is actually pretty much flat (but still down 0.18 percent). Will this recession continue into the current quarter, or did we just witness a fundamental “reset”, as Steve Ballmer likes to call it. Ads of the World: Creative Advertising Archive & Community. Digital Marketing: The Golden Rules of the Web - Advertising Age - DigitalNext.