As consumers shift to view content on new
media screens such as mobile devices,
digital television and radio, and laptops,
strategies to gradually change marketing
and advertising business models to sync with
changing communications services landscape
and accompanying consumer behaviour
patterns are viewed as critical for advertisers
to optimise their return on investments.
Research by Alcatel-Lucent predicts that, total
investments in global advertising will roughly
grow at 33% from USD600 billion a year
in 2007 to USD800 billion a year in 20113,
coming a long way as compared to USD400
billion range in the period between 2000 and
2004.