Ad Spend

How to forecast ad revenue

2012/02/14 Samuel-f Parent Rémunération, Ad Spend

For this exercise, I’ve remained with the same website I used to manage as an example. You’ll see I’ve filled in on the horizontal months. They actually start at December 2005, but for the sake of clarity I’ve only shown here 2009 through to the end of 2014. In other words I’ve taken the last three years’ worth of data for forecast the next 2. Ideally, you should try to go as far back as you possibly can, even if it’s only one month here and there – it’ll give you more background on which to rely.

Read More

What are 174 more experts predicting for 2012?

2012/02/01 Samuel-f Parent SEM / SEO, Targeting, Newspapers, Ad Spend, Magazines, Display Advertising, Radio, Traditional media, Mobile Marketing, Social Media, Television, Content marketing, Vidéo, Email marketing, Advertising, Location based marketing

Every year I publish a round up of the various blog posts that crop up on the web predicting what next year will be like – I stick to interactive marketing and relevant topics as this would never end.

Read More

Ad revenue forecasting – Traffic forecasting explained

2012/01/27 Samuel-f Parent Éducation, Ad Spend, Media Sales

For this exercise, I’ve taken numbers from one website I used to manage as an example. You’ll see I’ve filled in on the horizontal months. They actually start at December 2005, but for the sake of clarity I’ve only shown here 2009 through to the end of 2014. In other words I’ve taken the last three years’ worth of data for forecast the next 2. Ideally, you should try to go as far back as you possibly can, even if it’s only one month here and there – it’ll give you more background on which to rely.

Read More

So you want better ad revenue forecasting?

2012/01/06 Samuel-f Parent Ad Spend, Media Sales, Éducation

This is quite possibly the least exact science there is: ad revenue forecasting. Every publisher goes through this exercise on an annual basis. Budget period comes around at different times for different companies. Most media operators either operate on a calendar year (January to December) or a broadcast year (September to August) but there are some differences. In most cases, budgets have to be proposed 4 months out and finalised a good month or 2 before the start of the new fiscal year.

Read More

My top 10 blog posts to date in 2011

2011/07/01 Samuel-f Parent Social Media, Television, Foursquare, Location based marketing, Yellow Pages, Facebook, Newspapers, Advertising, Ad Spend, Traditional media

It’s almost a ritual or maybe a tradition already. Every 6 months bloggers publish their 10 best posts of the previous period.
Why do it?
I can see 2 good reasons for myself. #1 it allows me to promote my most appreciated work, which can in turn increase their readership, increasing traffic to my site (which is good for my ego), and #2 to help you discover content you may have missed that could be of interest to you.

Read More

Performance Indicators : Internet

2011/05/24 Samuel-f Parent Éducation, Advertising, Measurement, Ad Spend

We talk a lot about the digital revolution that traditional media is being put through: upheaval, readership and audience shrinkage, bankruptcy, pay walls… This post is a major update to a previous one “Traditional media performance indicators” (20 January 2010), however this one is segmented in that we’ll discuss only Internet in this post. Others will follow to cover individually television, radio, newspapers, magazines and other media platforms.
What’s the situation really like in 2011? Traditional media are not dead – not yet, and not for a while at least. They’re not all as strong as they’ve once been, but they still occupy an important place in the media landscape. Let’s look at the situation with Internet a bit:

Read More