There’s an interesting study out today from Jupiter Research that adds weight to the notion that offline advertising plays a big part in driving targeted and demand-driven search activity.
The survey, responded to by over 2,000 internet users in the US, found 67% of the online search population had been driven to the web to look for something they had seen or heard of offline.
This reflects our thinking, and mirrors what we've been hearing anecdotally. Nobody visits Google without having a search query in mind. What triggers such a query? Offline advertising is one such influencer, and Jupiter has some good stats on this after the jump...