Efficient Frontier Releases Q2 U.S. Search Engine Performance Report

Percent of U.S. Search Spending

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.–(EMWNews)–Efficient Frontier, the worldwide leader in providing Search Engine

Marketing technology and services to leading advertisers and agencies,

today released the U.S. Search Engine Performance Report: Q2 2008.

Data from a fixed set of large scale search engine advertisers showed

that Google gained more than its fair share of advertising dollars in

the second quarter of 2008: for every new dollar spent on search

advertising in Q2 2008 versus Q2 2007, Google received $1.10, while

Yahoo! lost $0.09 and Microsoft Live Search lost $0.01. Google accounted

for 77.4 percent of total search engine spending in Q2 2008, an increase

of 2 percentage points over the previous year. Yahoo! lost nearly 2

percentage points of search engine share in that period, accounting for

17.8 percent of total spend, and Microsoft Live Search’s

share remained relatively stable at 4.8 percent of search engine

spending.

Other highlights from the report include:

• Cost per click (CPC) rates increased by 13.8 percent for Google in Q2

  2008 versus a year ago, while average CPCs on Microsoft Live Search

  increased at a slower rate of 5.6 percent, and Yahoo! CPCs declined by

  7.3 percent.

• Return on Investment (ROI) improved on all three search engines, with

  Microsoft Live Search improving 25% YOY, while ROI on Yahoo! Search

  increased by 13%, and Google’s ROI increased

  by 3%.

• Automotive advertisers increased search advertising spending by 24

  percent in Q2 2008 versus Q2 2007, but retailers increased search

  spending by a cautious 1 percent. Financial services advertisers, hit

  hard by the mortgage crisis, decreased search engine spending by 7

  percent YOY, and travel advertisers decreased spend by 17 percent as

  consumers pulled back on leisure spending.

• The global outlook for Google’s growth is

  very positive, with the search giant capturing 75% or more of search

  engine spending in Q2 2008 in the global markets in which Efficient

  Frontier operates, with the exception of Japan and China. In Q2 2008,

  for the first time Google captured a majority share of search engine

  spend in Japan, with 56% of search spending in that market.

“This overall growth in the search channel, along with increased ROI

across all the search engines, indicates a positive outlook for search

advertising as marketing budgets become increasingly scrutinized,” said

James Beriker, President and CEO of Efficient Frontier. “In a

potentially volatile economy, it becomes even more important for

advertisers to work with an SEM partner that has proven technology and a

services organization focused on maximizing ROI and driving growth in

the search channel.”

Efficient Frontier analyzed 23 billion impressions and more than 390

million clicks to determine how shifts in the search engine marketplaces

impacted overall spending and campaign effectiveness. The Search

Engine Performance Report: Q2 2008 was completed based on data from

a fixed sample of Efficient Frontier’s U.S. clients from Q2 2007 through

Q2 2008, and includes data from large search engine advertisers across

multiple verticals as well as findings on search engine spend,

click-through rates, CPCs and ROI.

To download a copy of Efficient Frontier’s Search Engine Performance

Report: Q2 2008, please visit http://www.efrontier.com/efficient-frontier/resources/research/

getResearchQ208.html. (Due to its length, this URL may need to be

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About Efficient Frontier

Efficient Frontier is the market and technology leader in providing

Search Engine Marketing (SEM) solutions for leading global advertisers

and agencies. Founded in 2002, Efficient Frontier pioneered the

application of modern portfolio theory to SEM and today combines its

core algorithms and bidding technology with comprehensive strategic and

tactical services to manage more than $500MM in global search spend. The

largest and most sophisticated advertisers and agencies partner with

Efficient Frontier to achieve and sustain optimal return on investment

and ongoing campaign growth and efficiencies in highly competitive and

volatile search marketplaces. The company has 200 employees and is

headquartered in Mountain View, CA with offices in New York, the United

Kingdom, France, Germany, Hong Kong and India, and licensing

partnerships in Japan and Australia. Efficient Frontier is a privately

held company with funding from Redpoint Ventures and Cambrian Ventures.

For more information, please visit www.efrontier.com

and subscribe to the Efficient Frontier blog at http://blog.efrontier.com/.

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