Google’s Q1 UK revenues in GBP

So Google’s Q1 results came out over a month ago, so this post is quite late. Nevertheless, here the usual UK analysis. I’ve tweaked the chart to give the USD change too. FX rates are taken from oanda.com. Here’s the chart of the data table: Here’s the year-on-year percentage growth: And finally the quarter-on-quarter percentage […]

Google Took 88.9% UK Market Share In 2009

The IAB UK released its 2009 Internet Adspend report this week, declaring that £3.54bn was spent on online advertising last year. Paid search took a whopping £2.15bn, 60.7% of the total. My previous analysis on Google’s financial results suggests Google made £1.912bn in 2009. That’s an 88.9% market share. The share is broadly in line […]

Yawho Are You?

SEM traffic is a bit like scotch whisky. You might think you’re getting a pure single malt from the glens of Google or Yahoo, when in fact you’re washing down a blend of different traffic sources. Sure, you’ll get the strong flavours of the world’s leading search engines, but often there’s an after taste of […]

Google UK’s Q4 revenues in GBP

Google results came out yesterday, so here’s my usual look at the sterling version of the numbers. FX rates are taken from oanda.com as usual. Here’s the chart of the data table: Here’s the year-on-year percentage growth: And finally the quarter-on-quarter percentage growth: Perhaps the only concern is that QoQ, Q4 is only 1% up […]

Google UK’s Q3 revenues in GBP

This is an update on a previous post, looking at Google’s UK revenues in GBP. Google breaks out its UK revenues due to SEC regulations, but in dollars. This makes it difficult to determine how successful they’ve been in the UK because of currency fluctuations. I make the conversions back to sterling, so here’s the […]

Google’s UK Revenues in GBP

Google’s Q2 2009 results came out last week, with the usual parade of pre-forecasting and post-analysis. I thought it would be useful to breakout the UK component of their revenues. Being a US company, Google report in US dollars, so I’ve made a rough estimate of what those revenues are in sterling. I’ve taken the […]

Two Great Videos from Google and Microsoft

Here’s a couple of really good videos I’ve seen from Google and Microsoft in the last day or two. Ten Years of Google I saw this yesterday at a conference as part of Mark Howe‘s keynote presentation. Microsoft Advertising Intro Perhaps the best explanation (to an advertiser or agency) I’ve seen from Microsoft of what […]

Google UK Revenues Down In USD, But Up In GBP

Google released their Q4 2008 results last night and on the face of it it didn’t look good for the UK business. Q4 revenues were down to $685m from $772m in Q3, and even down slightly from Q4 2007’s number of $692m. Of course what’s really done for Google UK is not the economy (so […]

Don’t Not Bid on Keywords You Don’t Want

Yes, that double negative in the title of this post is confusing, so let me explain. One of the biggest challenges any Adwords advertiser faces is controlling how Google serves ads against queries. Google gives us four match types (broad, phrase, exact and negative) to control the ad serving. It’s broad match which is the […]

Google Updates My Change History

Here’s another one of those, “When did they do that?” posts. Looks like Google have made a great improvement to the My Change History tool.

Jonathan Beeston

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