Google’s Search Generative Experience may result in a substantial loss of advertising revenue for publishers, potentially amounting to $2 billion. The AI-powered search engine is expected to trigger a significant decline in search traffic, ranging from 20% to 60%. Such a steep drop in search traffic for publishers is likely to lead in a sharp … Read more
Google is facing a $2.27 billion lawsuit by 32 media groups claiming that the company’s digital advertising practices have led to financial losses. The publishers, including Axel Springer and Schibsted, are based in various countries across Europe, such as Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, Hungary, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Spain, and … Read more
The direct written premiums in the US auto insurance market are projected to reach $390 billion by 2030 according to McKinsey & Company. Companies that win auto insurance customers can grow revenue per customer even more by bundling in additional products like homeowners, life, and pet coverage. If you factor in the multi-year lifespan of… … Read more
Yelp’s ad revenue increased by 13% to a record $1.28 billion in the final quarter of 2023. Ad clicks for the year experienced a year-over-year growth of 5%, while the average cost per click (CPC) increased by 9%. Services sector. Yelp reported a record-breaking $793 million in advertising revenue from Services businesses in 2023, marking … Read more
Yandex, N.V. has agreed to sell its Russian assets – including the Yandex search engine – as part of a deal worth 475 billion rubles (roughly $5.2 billion). Reports of a coming sale emerged in November. The sale still will need regulatory and shareholder approval. About the sale. Yandex N.V., the Dutch parent company of the … Read more
Amazon generated $14.65 billion from its advertising services in the final quarter of 2023. The figure marks a 26.8% increase from the same period in 2022 – a result better than forecasts predicted by Wall Street. Why we care. Amazon’s outstanding performance helps to cement the digital advertising industry’s recovery from a challenging start to 2023. … Read more
Alphabet Inc., Google’s parent company, reported record-breaking advertising revenue of $65.52 billion in the fourth quarter of 2023, year on year. A 12.7% gain in search revenue was accompanied by a strong increase in revenue for YouTube ads by 15.5%. Google’s advertising network was slightly down 2.1%, however, this was an improvement on the 2.6% … Read more
Did you know that Google Search checks about four billion host names each and every day for robots.txt purposes? Gary Illyes said in the December Search Off The Record podcast “we have about four billion host names that we check every single day for robots.txt.” He said this at the 20:31 mark in the video. … Read more
Established two years ago with the primary objective of streamlining how websites signal their content changes to search engines, IndexNow has been on an impressive trajectory. As of now, 60 million websites join the platform daily, and an astounding 1.4 billion URLs are submitted each day. Addressing the Disconnect Between Search Engine Results And Real-Time … Read more
Amazon generated $12.06 billion from its advertising services in the third quarter of 2023. The figure marks a 26.3% increase from the same period in 2022 – a result significantly better than forecasts predicted by Wall Street. Why we care. Amazon’s exceptional performance serves as a powerful signal that the digital advertising industry is experiencing a … Read more
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