Digiday Research: 90 percent of media execs think Amazon can threaten the duopoly
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Amazon is eating the world. Just about everyone is saying it these days. The Amazon avalanche is coming to ad tech, too. In its third-quarter earnings call, Amazon announced that its advertising business grew 58 percent year over year to $1.12 billion.
At the Digiday Programmatic Media Summit in November, we surveyed 78 leading media executives to see if they think Amazon has the potential to threaten the Facebook-Google duopoly. Ninety percent responded that Facebook and Google should be nervously looking over their shoulders.
But perhaps it’s not time to panic yet. Despite Amazon’s ascent, almost all new spending — 99 percent — of the total $72.5 billion in U.S. digital ad revenues went to the duopoly last year, according to Pivotal Research analyst Brian Wieser.
Based on eMarketer’s 2017 ad revenue projections, Amazon’s ad business would need to achieve 100 percent year-over-year growth over the next four years to reach Facebook’s projected ad revenues for 2017. It would then take another year to match Google’s projected ad revenues for 2017. Amazon’s projected ad revenue growth from 2017 to 2018 is 42 percent.
In the short term, Amazon may not threaten Facebook’s and Google’s grip on advertising. However, Amazon’s tech is quickly laying the foundation for such a change.
A recent study by ServerBid found that Amazon’s Transparent Ad Marketplace is the most popular server-to-server wrapper. Amazon’s header-bidding solution was also the third most popular among the Header Bidding Industry Index top 100 publishers. Additionally, Amazon’s demand-side platform tied Google for having the highest adoption rate among agencies in a survey from research firm Advertiser Perceptions and grew its brand adoption by over 50 percent this year. Amazon’s brand-focused application programming interface for Amazon Marketing Services should help address existing data issues.
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