The retail sector recorded the highest increase in SEA budget expenditure, with growth of just 4 percent. The telecommunications sector (+1 percent) halts the growing trend of the previous month; the falling budgets in the banking sector (+1 percent) also stabilize. These even increase minimally in May. SEA spending in the insurance sector (+0 percent) stagnated at the low level of the previous months. Significantly less was spent on SEA in May in the food + beverages sector (-13 percent). Budget spending also fell slightly in the vehicles (-5 percent), cosmetics + personal care (-4 percent), and clothing + lingerie (-3 percent) sectors.
The relatively stable SEA budgets in the month of May could be due to a lack of seasonal events. This writes Media Focus in a statement on Wednesday. The question of how the budgets will develop with regard to the two upcoming sporting events in the summer remains exciting.
Uefa European Football Championship 2012
In this and the next issue of the SEM Trend Report, the focus is on the Uefa European Football Championship 2012. In addition to the soccer teams, there are ten other "players "on the field. UEFA was able to line up ten global sponsors with Adidas, Canon, Carlsberg, Castrol, Coca-Cola, Continental, Hyundai-Kia, McDonald's, Orange and Sharp. In this context, we were interested to find out which other advertisers would like to benefit from this event. To this end, Media Focus analyzed who already enriched their AdWords campaign with football-specific keywords in May and who was able to achieve what visibility in SEM as a result. Next month, the market research company will look back and examine how the advertisers' SEM "match" turned out.
It is striking in the SEA ranking that in the weeks before kick-off Coke.com, with its ticket promotion "Get tickets for UEFA Euro 2012 now", is only one official sponsor among the top 5 SEA advertisers. Together with Cablecom.ch "EM 2012 in HD quality", the two frontrunners in the SEA ranking have a big lead over the other SEA bidders. Puma.ch is jumping on the EM wave as an equipment supplier and is exclusively booking terms from the clothing sector "Squadra Azzurra jerseys now from the equipment supplier in the PUMA online store!". Swiss Post is taking a different approach and is pushing Euro 2012 with Fanbands.ch via its own brand "Show the flag & collect fanbands". The specialist portal for youth soccer Fd21.de is an initiative to promote youth soccer and primarily books terms relating to the Euro 2012 schedule.
The Swiss SEO ranking once again highlights the dominance of German and international websites offering soccer-specific content, Media Focus concludes.