By 2015, small and medium sized businesses (SMBs) are expected to spend nearly $17 billion on digital advertising. This number represents nearly 70% of SMBs totally marketing budgets. The remaining 30% of their advertising budgets will be directed to traditional advertising media outlets. This will represent a significant decrease from the 52% of budgets spent on traditional advertising in 2010.
The 70% that will be allocated to digital channels will breakdown as follows:
- Online/Digital: Includes mobile, social, online directories, display, and digital outdoor
- Performance-based Commerce: Includes pay-per-click, deals, and couponing
- Customer Retention Solutions: Includes email reputation and presence management, websites, social marketing, and calendar/appointment-setting
During this forecast period, spending in traditional advertising outlets is expected to be flat with $10.8 billion spent in 2010 and $12.1 billion to be spent in 2015. However, overall spending on media, marketing and business solutions will grow dramatically from $22.4 billion in 2010 to $40.2 billion in 2015.
BIA/Kelsey also expects spending on performance-based commerce and transaction platforms to increase to $4.6 billion in 2015 up from $1.7 billion in 2010. Customer retention spending is also expected to increase. 2010 saw customer retention spending of $3.5 billion; this number should rise to $6.9 in 2015.
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