Online-media is going to get more and more slice from advertising pie.
Though TV still dominates over all mediums, digital-marketing or online-advertising is going to be more popular; especially, smart advertisers in telecom and retail sectors actively use web. AzNet (Azerbaijani segment of Internet) is not so well-developed, but has own specifics.
Problems of AzNet
They are too much:-) But the most important ones are:
- low qualifications of marketers and business-owners
- lack of standards, no regulatory organs
- low investment and venture business culture. Which results in following:
- few sites. In fact they are many, but high-quality ones which are interesting to advertisers are less.
- Competition from global or international websites
- Market itself is little.
Biggest sites
Many things depends on calculation criteria, but generally the most popular sites in Azerbaijani are global ones:
- Youtube (also part of Google)
- Odnoklassniki.ru
- Mail.ru
- vkontakte.ru
- Wikipaedia
- Yandex etc.
The most popular Azerbaijani websites are turbo.az (announces about auto-selling) and news sites (Day.az, Musavat.com etc.).
Biggest advertisers
- mobile operators – Bakcell, Narmobile, Azercell
- retail – Ideal Perfumery&Cosmetics,Baku Electronics,United Telecom, Integral
- finance – all major banks: Bank of Baku, Unibank, KapitalBank, YapiKrediBank, Accessbank
- automobile – Hyundai, Audi, Porsche, Chevrolet, Folkswagen, Mazda, Nissan
- FMCG – Procter&Gamble,Unilever, Henkel
- Food – Coca-Cola, Azersun, PepsiCo, Baltika-Baku
Biggest sales-houses
Most websites sell their inventory directly: both new sites with niche audience and well-known sites with millions of monthly pageviews (like APA Group, disput.az etc.)
But most of digital budget is spent through advertising agencies, therefore sites tend to sell inventory through sales-houses/digital agencies.
The biggest digital sales-houses in Azerbaijan are New Media, NetAnt, GapMedia, Universal-reklam etc. In general, their work principles and approach to work is somehow the same.
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