Google may pull in $5 billion in ad revenue from tablets this year
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We all know that Google makes almost all of its money on ad revenue. For the 4th quarter of 2012, 94% of Google's revenue was based on advertising, and it looks like more of that revenue could be coming from tablets this year. A new estimate puts Google's 2013 ad revenue from tablets at $5 billion. The new estimates come from Marin Software. A big part of it is that last week Google changed its ad system to require advertisers to pay for ads on tablets even if they were targeting PC users, because Google said the ad performance on the two device sets were "similar".
Tablet ad effectiveness rates climbed 31% in 2012, and by the end of the year, ad conversion rates on tablets was 3.3% compared to 3.9% on desktops. The idea is that by the end of 2013, search-ad prices for tablets are expected to pull even with desktop ad prices. Right now, tablet search-ad prices are 17% lower and climbing steadily.
Couple rising ad prices with the record sales of tablets, and it comes out to be a pretty big number. In 2012, mobile devices generated almost $8 billion in ad revenue for Google, and Marin projects tablets alone to generate $5 billion in 2013. That makes it seem like a pretty solid investment for Google to pay whatever it does to be the default search engine in iOS, since the iPad still holds close to half of tablet sales.
source: WSJ
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9 Comments
1. cybervlad81 posted on 12 Feb 2013, 19:41 1 0
Pay 1 billion and make 5 billion. Sounds good.
2. nikenturd (unregistered) posted on 12 Feb 2013, 20:03 1 3
Google is fast becoming censor-oriented ...you cant even get the right results off Google images...using Bing more often now
5. MichaelHeller posted on 12 Feb 2013, 20:40 4 0
You can turn off Safe Search on Google and get anything you want.
7. nikenturd (unregistered) posted on 12 Feb 2013, 20:49 0 5
You dont get it...EVEN if its off, they still censor stuff...try it yourself
9. networkdood posted on 12 Feb 2013, 21:44 1 0
B.S....I have zero problems with being sensored on Google Search, you just have to know how to search.
4. nikenturd (unregistered) posted on 12 Feb 2013, 20:37 0 2
Nope...Bing doesn't censor...porn afficionados would attest to that lol
6. nikenturd (unregistered) posted on 12 Feb 2013, 20:46 0 1
Duh....youd think i did not know that?
8. networkdood posted on 12 Feb 2013, 21:42 0 0
..and, nothing from me, as I block all as...ha
