Google expands sales of print ads
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Google Inc. is expanding a test program that lets online advertisers buy ad space in newspapers, as the publishing industry struggles to offset business that has moved to the Internet.
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Rescate writes &quot;As reported by Reuters,Google is launching Google Print, which will show book excerpts next to regular Google search results.
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The auction giant said it would begin selling radio airtime to advertisers, expanding into a business that Google entered last year.
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By Chadwick, Philip  HP has posted improved results for the second quarter of the year with a boost in revenues for its imaging and printing division. Over the period, revenue grew by 6% to Pounds 3.6bn ($7.2bn) while revenue for commercial printer units improved by 21%.
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Shares of Google, the most-used Internet search engine, which went public this summer, surged 17 percent Friday after quarterly profit more than doubled and the company said the market for Internet advertising was showing no signs of slowing.
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(InfoWorld) - Google is ramping up its efforts to help specific vertical markets create more effective online advertising using its technology to help clients highlight as many of their assets as possible to drive not only online but also offline sales. At its New York office Thursday, the directors of Google's vertical industry practices discussed some of the ways Google is changing its advertising strategies to be more industry-specific, something that the company hasn't traditionally done, said Tim Armstrong, president of advertising and commerce, North America, for Google. Armstrong said Google wants its advertising practices to be so vertical-specific that in the future, the specialists in those markets will be driving the company's advertising strategy --Â so much so that he joked the he would be out of a job. "The vertical people will be running Google," Armstrong said. "I'll be the least useful person in the room.... If you were to come into Google for a day, you'd actually see the industry groups have become the most specific connection point with customer." Most companies don't have a quantitative view of all of the assets they have for sale, and part of what Google is helping vertical industry customers do is take stock of all of their offerings so they create better ways to constantly reach customers, he said. As part of this strategy, Google's retail advertising practice is working on new technology that will help companies in that space assess all of the resources on their Web sites so they can more carefully choose keywords for targeted advertising. Currently, Google is working internally with customers to help them do this, but the company is still handing hard-copy results to customers, said John McAteer, director of Google's retail practice. In the future, however, Google wants to provide an automated way to crawl and index an entire Web site so companies can electronically compile all of its assets and generate keywords on their own, he said. Eventually, Google will offer the technology as a public tool, similar to one it already includes in its AdWords platform that helps customers crawl their Web sites to come up with relevant keywords for ads, said Brett Goffin, industry sales manager at Google. Neither McAteer nor Goffin could provide a time frame for when this tool would be made available. As part of a presentation Thursday, McAteer and Goffin outlined a case study in which Google teamed up with Rooms to Go Furniture, a company whose top executive was skeptical that online advertising could drive offline sales. Google worked with the furniture company to place online banner ads in local markets, targeting several U.S. metropolitan areas to drive customers to local stores. When the campaign was over, Rooms to Go saw a return of more than seven times its investment, and customer average order size 20 percent larger than the retailer's average sale. Moreover, retail stores accounted for 86 percent of sales, while only 14 percent came from e-commerce sales, McAteer said. In addition to its retail work, Google also has been doing market research to help other verticals, such as the automotive industry. The company's automotive market team plans to hold a Webinar on Oct. 11 to reveal the results of a study it conducted with Compete Inc. to discover buying habits of customers in the automotive space. Bonita Coleman Stewart, Google's industry director for automotive, said the two companies found that the time to market for automotive shoppers has shortened to one month, reducing the amount of time companies in this market have to reach customers with campaigns. She said that Google has not identified how it will use this information to serve its advertising customers but that will be part of the discussion on next month's Webinar.
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You knew it was coming Google is bringing its new-age advertising know-how to the UK newspaper business.â¦
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Google is beta testing a new type of ad with a select number of its clients that allows them to take advantage of the rise in popularity of the widget.
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Google Inc. said third-quarter profit and sales more than doubled as it sold more advertising and attracted more Internet surfers to its Web sites.
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Four major U.S. newspaper chains launched an online advertising network on Friday that will let advertisers book national campaigns through a single point of contact, reaching 50 million people a month across the U.S.Investors include the Tribune, Gannett, Hearst, and New York Times companies, which publish flagship newspapers such as the Chicago Tribune, USA Today, the San Francisco Chronicle, and the New York Times, respectively.The network, QuadrantOne, will let an advertiser place ads on hundreds of Web sites focused on 27 major markets, targeting users by what they are viewing, their online behavior and demographic information.QuadrantOne is most notable for the online players that aren&#39;t participants, such as Google, Yahoo, or Microsoft. This latest move by the newspaper companies may be designed to assert greater control over their print and Web properties.Yahoo reached a landmark revenue-sharing deal&#160;in November 2006 with seven U.S. publishers. Yahoo provides search services, places job ads on its own HotJobs site and sells Web advertising.&#160;The deal was expanded in April 2007, with some 264 newspapers distributing their content on Yahoo&#39;s portal.One of the QuadrantOne&#39;s investors, the Hearst company, is participating in the Yahoo deal.Google&#39;s PrintAds program lets its customers who are already buying contextual Web-based ads to also place ads in 600 daily and weekly U.S. newspapers. Google also offers easy tools for customers to design their own ad that can be uploaded to particular newspaper.The Chicago Tribune, the New York Times and the San Francisco Chronicle participate in PrintAds.If newspapers develop better ways to sell their own online ads, they may not have to share revenue with their Web counterparts such as Yahoo and Google.Online advertising accounted for about $16.9 billion in revenue in 2006 and is expected to rise to $50.3 billion by 2011, according to a December 2007 report from the Yankee Group.The U.S. newspaper industry is in dire straits, in part because of a bumpy U.S. economy, declining print readers and falling print advertising revenue.Critics argue that newspaper companies waited far too long to revamp their businesses with the surge in online publishing and advertising over the last 15 years.Companies such as Google, which has made a fortune in Web-based advertising, have reaped some gains at the expense of newspapers, as advertisers look for cheaper and more targeted ways to reach buyers.Classified advertising, once a bread-and-butter source of revenue for newspaper, has also declined over the years due to advertising boards such as Craig&#39;s List.&#160;
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There&#8217;s a long article today by Kevin Delaney in the WSJ (sub req&#8217;d) about Google&#8217;s efforts to woo advertisers into its print and audio ads tests: There have been some hiccups. Mr. Schmidt said in October that in tests of print-ad sales, &#8220;the first iteration didn&#8217;t work.&#8221; Google executives have given the system a major overhaul [...]
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Web search leader Google Inc.  posted quarterly earnings on Tuesday that blew past  expectations on strong Web search advertising, driving its  share price up almost 10 percent to a record high.
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Google reported today that its fourth-quarter profit nearly tripled from a year ago as the world's most popular search engine continued to expand its dominant role on the Web, especially in the highly lucrative area of online advertising.
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Google may have plans to expand its search engine beyond static text.
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Google Wednesday reported strong increases in fourth-quarter and full-year sales and profits that topped Wall Street forecasts thanks to robust growth in online advertising.
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Google said today that its quarterly profit rose as its ability to capitalize on Web advertising gained momentum against rivals such as Yahoo and Microsoft.
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NEW YORK - Google Inc., owner of the world's most-used Internet search engine, has introduced interactive advertisements that work like Web pages, allowing clients to target shoppers with more video and images.