WebVisible: SMBs Spent Average Of $2,201 On Search In Q1, Bing Share On The Rise
April 15, 2010 at 06:28 AM EDT
According to the latest quarterly report by local online advertising company WebVisible , the average small business advertiser spent $2,201 on search advertising in Q1 2010, a 2.4 percent increase over the previous quarter and a 91 percent increase over the same period last year. Year-over-year spending was up 111 percent in Q4 2009 and 91 percent in Q3 2009. WebVisible posits that Bing saw its share of search spending increase by 10 percent in Q1 over the previous quarter, while Google’s share increased by 3 percent over the same period. Yahoo’s share of spending dropped by 9 percent.