The past year has seen different reactions to the economic catastrophe depending on the sector. Some areas have felt the influence of this more than others, but it's certain that PPC marketing is here to stay and will be proven if statistics for 2021 show anything.
1. $110 Billion was spent on search advertising in 2020 (Statista, 2021).
2. PPC is one of the top three best channels for high-volume leads (Formstack, 2020).
3. Seventy-seven percent of online users are able to easily spot a paid search ad. (Clutch, 2018).
4. For every 100 people who see a PPC ad, 11.38 of them click on it. (Sparktoro, 2019).
5. A third of surveyed users say they click on paid search ads because it directly answered their search request. (Clutch, 2018).
Google AdWords Statistics
Between the different types of PPC ads, text ads are by far among the most popular. 49% percent of users prefer these when they're presented with both shopping and video ads (31% and 16%). (Clutch, 2018).
Google AdWords Statistics
Over 27% of people now use an ad blocker. (Search Engine Journal, 2021).
Google AdWords Statistics
The top three reasons people use ad blockers are they are shown too many ads (49%), being shown irrelevant/annoying ads (47%), and ads being too intrusive (44%). (Global Web Index, 2019).