digital advertising is feasting on the corpse of the us yellow pages - digital advertising signs

Remember the yellow pages? The inches-
Before the days of Craigslist and Angie List, the thick phone book of the local business stayed at the door?
Don't worry, it seems that many advertisers have forgotten.
Years after becoming the darling of Madison Avenue, digital advertising is finally expected to surpass spending on American television, radio, billboards, print and other traditional media forms this year.
Research firm eMarketer predicts that spending on digital advertising will rise to about $129 billion, while spending on traditional advertising will fall to $109 billion.
The sharp decline in directory advertising spending like Yellow Pages has hit the scale.
EMarketer estimates that advertising revenue in the United States is expected to decrease by $ 19% this year from last year.
At the same time, spending on online platforms such as Amazon is also increasing.
Other print formats-
Not including their digital outpost.
It is expected to be hit by 18%.
The company makes estimates and forecasts based on the analysis of data from research companies, government agencies, media companies and listed companies, as well as interviews with publishers, advertising buyers and agencies.
In the United States, the "yellow pages" are created and printed by various publishers, which is different from other countries such as the United Kingdom, where the term is trademark.
Many people, however, no longer receive printed phone books.
People in the United States can choose not to get yellow pages through websites run by two trade groups-the Local Search Association and the Directory Publishers Association.
At least once a year in the United States, people in the country are still consulting telephone and printing enterprise catalogues or a $3 billion business, the Wall Street Journal reported (paywall).
Other countries have stopped printing their catalogues.
End of UK Yellow pages 51-
Printing began in January.
In general, in the United States, the share of spending on traditional media advertising such as printing, billboards and non-advertising
Digital television and radio will drop from 46% last year to 51% in 2019.
Advertisers are moving the money online, and most consumers in the United States are now online.
Google (GOOG) and Facebook combine nearly 60% of U. S. spending on digital advertising or appear on desktops, laptops, tablets, mobile devices and other devices.
Connected devices.
Thanks to Instagram, Facebook is expected to continue to flourish in 2019, while Google will decline slightly.
Amazon overtook Microsoft as the third-largest advertising publisher in the United States in 2018, and its digital advertising business in the United States will grow by 50%, which will be the biggest growth.
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