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Online ad revenues across the Atlantic  exceeded $5.2bn (£2.5bn) in Q3, making it another record quarter, according to the Interactive Advertising Bureau.  

Spending on online ads increased by $1.1bn (£532m) or 25.3% on the same period last year, and also rose by 3% compared to Q2. 

US online ad revenues for the first half of the year rose by 26%, to nearly £10bn (£4.9bn), while ad revenues for Q2 2007 totalled over £5bn (£2.4bn), according to stats from IAB / PwC.

Last week, the IAB reported the UK figures, finding that UK online ad revenue rose by 40% in the same period, reaching £1.33bn.

I can’t work out this IAB / DMA Search Marketing Best Practice Charter, which was released to the masses last week “to reinforce advertiser and agency confidence in the medium”.

I’m not sure whether to file it under ‘heart in the right place’ or not, but I do know that it is sorely lacking in any best practice guidelines.

Also, I’m not convinced that advertisers particularly need their confidence restoring (we recently estimated that in the UK more than £2bn will be spent on search marketing in 2007 – not a sign of a crisis of confidence).

UK internet users are the most attractive to advertisers in Europe and are targeted with even more ad spend per head than those in the US, according to new figures from the Internet Advertising Bureau (IAB).

Highlights from the IAB report , released yesterday, include...

The Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) has announced it has reached an agreement with both comScore and Nielsen/NetRatings over auditing of their measurement techniques.

Last month, the IAB challenged both metrics firms to throw open their methods to inspection by independent auditors and expressed concern about the use of panels to measure web audiences.

The Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) released its 2006 Internet Advertising Revenue Report yesterday, with the figures revealing that total online ad spend reached $16.9bn (£8.5bn).

The report (PDF) shows that online ad revenue grew by 35% on 2005's figures, with a record $4.8bn (£2.4bn) in revenues for Q4 2006.

The Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) has again raised concerns about the measurement of web audiences and has called for major research groups to open up their systems to an independent audit.

IAB president and CEO Randall Rothenberg has written an open letter to the CEOs of comScore and Nielsen//NetRatings, challenging both firms to throw their methods open to scrutiny.

UK online ad spend has overtaken that spent on national newspaper advertising for the first time, while Google has also extended its dominance of the market.

New figures from the IAB and PwC reveal that online ad spending passed the £2bn mark for the first time last year, with the market growing by a massive 41% from 2005.

US online ad revenues reached a new record of $4.2bn in Q3, according to figures from the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB).

The report, conducted by PwC, showed a 33% increase in internet ad revenues from the same period in 2005, and a rise of 2% from Q2’s figure of almost $4.1bn.