Internet has become a major medium for communication,

The number of internet users is on a rapid rise worldwide and is used by people of all age and types.  Internet has become a major medium for communication, entertainment and is in the process of replacing the traditional entertainment and informative medias such as television, radio, newspaper, magazines etc.

Internet has also become a major and effective medium for advertising and it has be predicted that the online advertising and marketing is  soon going to replace the advertising through traditional medias such as television, radio, newspaper and magazines. I have picked around 10 advantages of online advertising (not in that order) when compared with the traditional offline advertising.

1) Wider Coverage
The online advertising gives your ads a more wider coverage and this globally wider coverage helps in making your advertisements reach more audiences, which may ultimately help you in getting better results through your online advertising campaign.

2) Targeted AudiencesWhen compared with offline advertising, online advertising always helps you to reach the targeted audience and this helps in making your campaign more profitable and getting more relevant leads.

3) Affordable
Another main advantage of online advertising or marketing is the much affordable price when compared with the traditional advertising costs. With a much lesser cost you can advertise on the net for a wider range of audience and geographical locations.

4) Easy to Track and Measure Conversion
Measurability and easiness to track the conversion makes online advertising miles ahead on the traditional advertising methods. A lot of effective analytics tools are available to measure online advertising campaigns which helps in more improvisation of the ads.

5) Speed
Online advertising is much faster than offline advertising and you can start sending out your ads to a wider audience, the moment you start your advertising campaign.

6) Informative
In online advertising, the advertiser is able to convey more details about the advertisement to the audience and that too at relatively low cost. Most of the online advertising campaigns are composed of a clickable link to a specific landing page, where users get more information about the product mentioned in the ad.

7) Flexible Payment
Payment flexibility is another added advantage of online advertising and marketing. In offline advertising you need to pay the full amount to the advertising agency irrespective of the results. But in online advertising there is the flexibility of paying for only qualified leads, clicks or impressions.

8) Better ROI
Since online advertising is mainly focused on performance based payment, you ROI is sure to be far better when compared with offline advertising.

9) Easy Audience Engagement
Online advertisement makes is easy for the audience to engage with your ads or products. As an advertiser we would be able to get more feedback from the audience and thereby improve the quality of our ads going forward.

10)Better Branding
Any form of advertising helps in improving the branding and online advertising stands a notch high in improving the branding of your company, service or product

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