This has been a bit of an uphill battle for these clients. They are starting to understand how to sell online: using an inventory and selling targeted ad spots. Now they need to re-educate their customers. It is a bit of a long process – especially since many of their ads are booked for a year online.

I wonder if these numbers may balance out again as some of these larger/medium websites figure out the need to target for their advertisers.

I think it’s also important to clarify that there are very different types of advertising going on in the large sites vs. the medium and small.

The type of declining advertising is direct action (i.e. click here now to get something) also known as remnant or bulk.

The type that is doing well is brand advertising (i.e. please know that our brand cares about your interest).

It’s alos important to point out that there has already been a significant change in advertising spends away from direction towards brand advertising, as brand advertising has a much effective ROI if in fact you cannot offer something that is worth clicking on at exactly that moment.

At Dogster/Catster we are very much in the brand camp as it’s how we can give our advertisers campaign results that they are looking for.