Birth of Online Advertising

Posted on October 27, 2011 by GilPress

Today in 1994, the first banner display ads went live on hotwired.com. The first advertisers were MCI, Volvo, Club Med, 1-800-Collect, AT&T and Zima. Advertisers spent over $6 billion on display advertising in the U.S. in 2010, out of a total spending on online advertising of $26 billion.

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I launched the Big Data conversation; writing, research, marketing services; http://whatsthebigdata.com/ & https://infostory.com/
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