According to sources, there be good and bad news for the year 2008 for us bloggers. On the one hand, there will be a slowly grow of the online advertisement up to 29%. The other side, the dollar value will further weaken in 2008, and US mortgage will continue to worsen for the next few years.
At the moment there are not many information that may be promoting alarmism. Are only predictions. However, I don’t know about you, but pay attention to what eMarketers says.
Online Advertising: + 29%
According to New York Times online advertising will grow(+29%) over the next three years and advertising on web video and mobile phones will triple just a bit faster than the market as a whole in the same period.
Next year online ad spending will increase by 29 percent, it predicts. By 2011, the company predicts, $42 billion will be spent in advertising online. That will only be a 12 percent increase from 2010.
My opinion
For bloggers can be highly profitable to getting one part of 29% increase in online advertising. If as predicted, the online video advertising will rapidly evolving, than will be need think to increasing the Youtube videos.
Dollar Down: Future Of Bloggers
The dollar may continue to decline to the next two years and will make U.S. assets less attractive to investors.
The dollar may extend a two-year decline against the euro on speculation a slowing economy will make U.S. assets less attractive to investors.
“The U.S. economy will be pushed close to the recession level,” said Greg Salvaggio, vice president of capital markets in Washington at currency-trading company Tempus Consulting. “There will be further dollar weakness in early 2008.”
My opinion
If you are not US blogger, and with the dollar grow down, your earn could going down the drain. While if you are a us citizen, you can invest your money earned to other resources.
Social Marketing Will Be Always More Important
The social networks, are an important part of the independent publisher’s day-to-day work. According to the report, Facebook saw 125% growth from October 2006 to October 2007.
My Opinion
If so , adding your articles on social networking can be a point in favor for get popularity on your blog. So here is a collection of over 100 social networking. I hope you find it useful.
These are my predictions for the year 2008. What else do you think might happen in 2008? What are your predictions? What is your opinion? If you’re written about it feel to leave a link to your advice in comments below.
