NEW YORK – Total measured advertising expenditures in the first nine months of 2009 dropped by 14.7 percent as compared to the same period in 2008, according to data released by TNS Media Intelligence, the leading provider of strategic advertising and marketing information. Ad spending during the third quarter of 2009 was down 15.3 percent versus last year, the sixth consecutive quarter of year-over-year declines.
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NEW YORK – Total measured advertising expenditures in the opening quarter of 2009 plunged 14.2 percent versus a year ago, to $30.18 billion, according to data released by TNS Media Intelligence, the leading provider of strategic advertising and marketing information. This follows a 9.2 percent decline in Q4 2008 as the advertising recession accelerated in the new year.
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DUBLIN, Ireland – Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/dac4c3/2009_outlook_big) has announced the addition of Borrell Associates Inc.’s new report “2009 Outlook: Big Slowdown Begins for Local Interactive Advertising” to their offering.

Next year will be the first in many in which some components of interactive advertising show little or no growth, or may even decline. The changes foreseen are not cyclical, and show no sign of improving quickly, irrespective of upward movement in the nation’s economy. For local interactive media, the big slowdown has begun a year earlier than we anticipated. The spending levels by local advertisers – which have grown at a frenetic 47% this year – are expected to slow down to a relatively paltry 8% in 2009. Local media companies projecting double-digit and even triple-digit increases in their interactive budgets next year will have a very difficult time meeting those expectations – especially if they rely on banner ads. Traditional forms of interactive advertising such as banner ads are quickly falling out of favor and site publishers should begin looking at expanding their ad arsenal with other offerings. Download the executive summary to read more.
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DirectServe Puts Advertisers in a Direct Relationship with Their Customers across the Google AdSense Content Network

BROOMFIELD, Colorado – TruEffect, a provider of next-generation advertising technology, today announced that its patent-pending DirectServe™ Technology has been certified across Google’s AdSense content network. DirectServe™ is currently the only solution certified by Google to deliver display advertisements from an advertiser’s own Web domain on Web sites participating in Google’s new content network. DirectServe enables advertisers to create a direct relationship with consumers visiting Web sites on the Google content network by targeting them with the right message at the right time, within the context of their relationship.
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