Techcrunch is reporting that online advertising revenue growth from the big four players, Google, Yahoo, Microsoft and AOL has nearly ground to a halt, the four combining for only a 0.6% growth in Q3.
For fear-mongering comparative reasons only, at the end of Q4 last year, growth was at a robust 12%, paving the way for modest 2.8% in Q1 2008, and 1.1% in Q2.
Revenues were worth a total $8.1bn in Q3, following the same flatlining approach as revenue growth.
Interestingly enough, in the same rollcall, Techcrunch reports that the feel-good company behind the website ICanHasCheezburger, with its silly user-created captioned cat photos, has recorded a surge in traffic growth and an amazing 43.5% jump in revenue for the month of August.
LOLcats are so yesterday now .. Although i have the widget on my iGoogle and get a fresh 3 every day - Some still make me LOL... most don't
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