In the present day and age, social media networks have become a major component of the digital advertising market. The social media sites such as Facebook, Twitter, StumbleUpon and LinkedIn have paved a new way in the digital advertising to find out the potential and right consumers for the business.
From the year 2002 – 2005, several global leading social media networks were unveiled on to the internet. With ever growing technology and social media networks, businesses have started focusing on advertising their products through social media networks.
In United States, through social advertising, a new concept in digital advertising is projected to generate a Ad revenue of $11 billion by the end of 2017 and this estimate was made by Bia Kelsey. In August 2008, Facebook has reached 100 million users and in late December 2009, it has generated whopping Ad revenue of $746 million through the hits.
In the year 2006, internet has seen a new social media network named 'Twitter' and within a period of 4 years, the Twitter has grown abundantly and starting promoting its tweets & trends. According to estimates made by eMarketer in December 2011, Twitter has generated Ad revenue of $44.6 million.
Facebook, the leading social media network has introduced ADS API and sponsored stories which in turn helped the network to enhance its Ad revenue to $3.2 billion. Several other social networks such as Yahoo, foursquare, LinkedIn are implementing different strategies in social media advertising to earn millions of dollars.
