| |
On-line Advertising Revenues |
 |
Although Internet advertising only really started in 1994, revenues showed a steady and fast growth. In 1997 US$ 906.5 million were spent on on-line advertising. Compared with advertising revenue for the television industry in equivalent dollars for its third year, the Internet was slightly ahead, at US$ 907 million compared to television's US$ 834 million. 1998 on-line advertising grew by 112 percent to US$ 1.92 billion in revenues, and is on track to hit US$ 4 billion in 1999, which would put Internet advertising at about 2 percent of the U.S. ad market.
Table: Spending on On-Line Advertising by Category
(first quarter 1999)
Category
| Percent
| Consumer-related
| 27 %
| Financial services
| 21 %
| Computing
| 20 %
| Retail/mail order
| 13 %
| New media
| 8 %
| |
Table: Types of On-Line Advertising
(first quarter 1999)
Type of Advertising
| Percent
| Banners
| 58 %
| Sponsorships
| 29 %
| Interstitials
| 6 %
| E-mail
| 1 %
| Others
| 6 %
| |
Source: Internet Advertising Bureau (IAB).
|
|
WIPO
The World Intellectual Property Organization is one of the specialized agencies of the United Nations (UN), which was designed to promote the worldwide protection of both industrial property (inventions, trademarks, and designs) and copyrighted materials (literary, musical, photographic, and other artistic works). It was established by a convention signed in Stockholm in 1967 and came into force in 1970. The aims of WIPO are threefold. Through international cooperation, WIPO promotes the protection of intellectual property. Secondly, the organization supervises administrative cooperation between the Paris, Berne, and other intellectual unions regarding agreements on trademarks, patents, and the protection of artistic and literary work and thirdly through its registration activities the WIPO provides direct services to applicants for, or owners of, industrial property rights.
|
|
|
