Traditional Media Share of Global Ad Spend Expected to Gradually Decline

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Clik here to view.By 2015, the internet should account for 23.4% of global ad spending, details Zenith Optimedia in a new forecast. That’s up more than 5% points from last year’s 18%, and comes at the expense of almost all traditional media, none of which are slated to see any growth in share of spending. TV’s share will remain flat, at about 40%, as will cinema’s (at just 0.6%), but newspapers, magazines, radio, and outdoor will see varying levels of declining share. Print, as expected, will be hardest hit: newspapers and magazines are the only media forecast to see a decline in expenditures. (more…)