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Thursday, June 11

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Advertising Boom

By Brad

A new report from the Interactive Advertising Bureau, has released some numbers showing the Internet’s effect not just in advertising revenue, but in jobs:

Interactive advertising is responsible for $300 billion of economic activity in the U.S., according to a new study released today by the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB). The advertising-supported Internet represents 2.1% of the total U.S. gross domestic product (GDP). It directly employs more than 1.2 million Americans with above-average wages in jobs that did not exist two decades ago, and another 1.9 million people work to support those with directly Internet-related jobs. A total of 3.1 million Americans are employed thanks to the interactive ecosystem.

Check out the IAB’s full report.

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