It Is Estimated That In 2006 Marketers Will Spend $280 Million on Advertising and Marketing on Social Network Sites in the US

DUBLIN, Ireland--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c43250) has announced the addition of emarketer’s report ‘Social Network Marketing: Carving out Some MySpace’ to their offering.

Attention: Marketers, Advertising Agencies, Educators, Retailers and Researchers.

The Social Network Marketing report analyzes the still-developing, yet-to-be-proven online social networking space.

Online social networking has become a cultural phenomenon over the past year, sparking thousands of media stories, blog postings and television exposes. The basic concept is simple enough: Online social networks enable people to create profiles, describe their interests, share their thoughts in blogs or postings, and connect with other people. But the variations on the theme are endless.

The good news is that social networking is an area where many marketers see great potential and are eager to test the waters. The bad news is that, in time, many social networking ventures will no doubt be shelved as grand experiments.

Led by MySpace, social networking is a cultural phenomenon that is still developing a stable revenue model. Even so, it is estimated that in 2006 marketers will spend $280 million on advertising and marketing on social network sites in the US, and an additional $70 million in international markets, mostly to create profile pages and sponsored promotions.

Key questions the "Social Network Marketing" report answers:

• How much money is being spent on advertising on social network sites?

• How can marketers’ best use social networks?

• What industries are creating successful models today?

• How will social networking changing advertising?

• Will social networks age well or will they always appeal only to the young?

• And many more...

Sources include:

American Advertising Federation (AAF)
Burst Media
comScore Media Metrix
comScore qSearch
eMarketer
Forrester Research
Hitwise
Nielsen//NetRatings
Piper Jaffray & Co.

The contents inside this report include:

Impetus
US Online Social Network Ad Spending, 2006 & 2010 (millions)
Issues & Questions
The eMarketer View
Key eMarketer Numbers: Social Network Marketing
Implications for Your Business
Social Networks Defined
Social Network Ad Revenue
US Online Social Network Ad Spending, by Type of Network, 2006
 (millions)
US Online Social Network Ad Spending, 2006 & 2010 (millions)
US Online Social Network Ad Spending, 2006 & 2010
 (% of total US online ad spending)
Worldwide Online Social Network Ad Spending, 2006 & 2010 (millions)
MySpace Revenues
Online Advertising Impressions on MySpace, May 2005-May 2006
 (thousands)
Top 10 Advertisers on MySpace, Ranked by Impressions, May 2006
 (thousands)
Visitor and Usage Metrics
Select Social Network Sites among US At-Home, At-Work and University
 Internet Users, May 2006 (thousands of unique visitors)
US Unique Audience for Select Social Network Sites, May 2006
 (thousands)
US Visitors to Select Social Network Sites, May 2005-May 2006
 (thousands of unique visitors and % change)
Top 10 Social Network and Community Web Sites in the US, Ranked by
 Unique Visitors, 2005 & 2006 (thousands and % increase/decrease vs.
 prior year)
Top 25 Web Properties among US At-Home, At-Work and University
 Internet Users, May 2006 (thousands of unique visitors)
Top 20 Social Network Web Sites in the US, Ranked by Share of Visits,
 April-June 2006
Page Views and Session Times
US Page Views for Select Portal and Social Network Sites, April 2006
 (billions)
Select Social Network Sites, by Page Views per US Unique Visitor and
 Average Minutes per Visitor, May 2006
Average Session Time of US Internet Users on Select Social Network
 Sites, March-May 2006 (minutes:seconds)
US User Metrics for MySpace, May 2005-May 2006 (thousands of unique
 visitors, millions of page views, minutes per visitor)
US User Metrics for MySpace vs. US Total Internet Audience, May 2006
 (thousands of unique visitors, thousands of daily visitors, millions
 of pages viewed and average minutes per user)
International Data
Worldwide Visitors to Select Social Network Sites, April 2005 &
 April 2006 (thousands of unique visitors, % change and % of visitors
 from the US)
Top 10 Internet Community and Chat Websites in the UK, Ranked by
 Market Share, May 2006 (% of total visits)
Demographics of Social Network Users
Age
US MySpace Users, by Age, May 2005 & May 2006 (% of unique visitors)
Demographic Profile of US MySpace Users, May 2006
 (thousands and % composition of total audience)
Demographic Profile of US Facebook Users, May 2005 & May 2006
 (% of total unique visitors)

YouTube.com Users in the US, by Gender and Age, May 2006 (thousands of
 unique visitors and % of total audience)
Gender
US Unique Audience for Select Social Network Sites, by Gender,
 May 2006 (thousands and % composition of total audience)
US MySpace Users, by Gender, May 2005 & May 2006 (% of unique users)
US Teen Internet Users Who Visit and Join Social Networking Sites, by
 Gender, 2006 (% of respondents)
Race/Ethnicity
Demographic Profile of US MySpace Users, May 2005 & May 2006
 (% of total unique visitors)
Demographic Profile of US YouTube.com Users, May 2006
 (% of total unique visitors)
Who Is Marketing on Social Networks?
Similarities Between Internet Marketing, circa 1995, and Social
 Network Marketing, circa 2006
Interactive Marketing Channels that US Marketers Are Currently Using,
 Piloting or Expecting to Pilot within the Next 12 Months, December
 2005 (% of respondents)
Interactive Marketing Channels that US Marketers Are Currently Using,
 Piloting or Planning in the Next Year, by Industry, Q4 2005
 (% of respondents in each group)
US Advertisers Who Have Advertised on a Blog or User-Generated Content
 Site, 2006 (% of respondents)
Select Marketers with Ad Profile Pages on MySpace, July 2006
Sample Advertisers on Select Social Network Sites, July 2006
Types of Social Network Marketing
Profile Pages, Sponsored Groups
Sponsored Promotions and Site Sections
Targeted Banner Ads
Search
Share of Online Searches in the US, by Search Engine Provider,
 April 2005 & April 2006
Share of Online Searches in the US, by Search Engine Provider,
 May 2005 & May 2006
Ad Networks
Local Buys
Issues and Concerns
Fear of User-Generated Content
Consumer Privacy Concerns
Fake Profiles and Hijacked Brand Names
I've Got 80,000 Friends. Now What?
What's Next
AIM Pages
Vertical Social Networks
Marketer-Specific Networks
Related Information and Links
Related Links
Related Charts
Suggested Keywords for eStat Database
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