The Newsonomics of Newspapers’ Slipping Digital Performance

Follow Newsonomics @kdoctor   First published at Harvard’s Nieman Journalism Lab   As we approach the middle of the 2010s, where do newspapers fit in the battle for America’s largest ad sector — digital? And how well are all those paywalls doing? Two reports tumbled into the ...

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The Newsonomics of Online Ad Trending

So, through thick and thin, digital marketing, with better targeting being introduced around the clock, keeps pulling dollars away from traditional media — TV, newspapers, radio, and magazines.

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Without Online Classifieds, Online Ad Spending Was UP in 2009

In fact, if you parse the numbers, overall ad spend in the U.S. would have been up in 2009 – a year wracked by near Depression that saw print and broadcast advertising drop by 20% and more. Online classifieds lost $920 million year over year; overall digital ad spend was down about $700 million.

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