# ad:tech Panel On State of Digital Economy

**Published by:** [Continuations](https://continuations.com/)
**Published on:** 2009-11-04
**Categories:** advertising, ad:tech, gdp, economy
**URL:** https://continuations.com/adtech-panel-on-state-of-digital-economy

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I will be participating in an ad:tech panel this afternoon with the title “Digital Economy 2010: A Robust Recovery or Another Year of Trench Warfare?" I have to admit that I am not entirely sure what that means, but in a prep call with moderator Mark Mahaney we came up with some fun questions. The one that is most interesting is whether we may be facing a long-term decline in the percentage of GDP that is spent on advertising. I am pretty sure that I saw a statistic to the effect that advertising as a component of GDP is the lowest it has been in a long time, but right now don’t seem to be able to find it (so there is a small possibility that I dreamed it up). There are two completely opposite ways such a decline might happen. It could be a sign of advertising getting less effective and hence being used less. Or it could arise if advertising is getting much more efficient and a smaller amount of it can sustain the same demand. In either case though it is possible to see a decoupling of economic growth from advertising growth.

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