New research from SEMPO sheds light on what's happening in the search marketing industry today, from the size of the industry to key trends that will shape the year ahead.
The SEMPO sponsored survey was conducted by Radar Research, LLC and Intellisurvey, and drew 553 respondents. This is the second annual industry-wide survey; last year's 2004 State of the Search Marketing Industry was released a little more than a year ago. The report had both predictable findings and a few surprises. According to the study, the U.S. and Canadian SEM industry has grown from $4 billion to $5.75 billion, with paid placement accounting for 83% of the total spend. Despite its demonstrated effectiveness and the amount of time and energy search marketers spend discussing organic search engine optimization techniques, SEO accounted for just 11% of overall spending, or $643 million.
Paid inclusion, the controversial practice only offered by Yahoo, drew just 4% of overall spending, or $246 million.
And the market for SEM technologies, including leasing, agency solutions and in-house development, is growing, but still made up less than 2% of overall spending, or $90 million.
The SEMPO study says that the search marketing industry will grow to $11 billion by 2010 in North America.
SEMPO's numbers are significantly lower than those recently put out by Wall Street research analysts. For example, last week Piper Jaffray's Safa Rashtchy said that the paid search market alone in 2005 generated an estimated $10 billion globally in 2005, is expected to grow 41 percent in 2006, to more than $14 billion.
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Research proves that Pay-For-Performance™ search listings
deliver bottom line
results.
Jupiter Media Metrix, a leading research and analysis company, recently conducted two studies that demonstrate the effectiveness of Yahoo! Search Marketing's Pay-For-Performance™ search model.
"Jupiter believes the paid search model succeeds precisely because consumers find relevant listings, advertisers only pay for qualified traffic, and the interests of the publisher are allied with both of those constituencies."
Jupiter published analysis on the following topics:





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Information compiled from Jupiter Media Metrix: Paid Search Engine Placement, July 2001and Online Advertising Effectiveness Study, August 2001