Paid Search Explodes for Black Friday

This year, paid search spent on “Black Friday” related keywords began booming a month earlier than in 2014.

More evidence that the holiday shopping season is starting earlier: Paid search spend on a set of 161 keywords containing “black friday” began surging the week of September 27, a month ahead of last year.  Between September 27 and Sunday, November 22, 1,226 advertisers spent $7.3 million on these keywords, according to paid search monitoring firm AdGooroo.

Advertisers spent $3.68 million on the term “black friday deals” — and that’s just on Google desktop text ads.  That term also garnered the largest number of impressions by far, with close to 50,000, compared to the next biggest term, “black friday,” which generated 17,000 impressions.

Among advertisers, Target topped the list of biggest spenders on Google desktop text ads in the US during this time period, according to AdGooroo’s monitoring data. The report shows Target.com spent $1 million, beating out Amazon.com, which spent $790,000 on “black friday” keywords.  

The full list is available here.

Thanks for the update on Black Friday advertising from Search Engine Land – one of the best websites for all things search related!  See the original article here.