Evolution of Digital Marketing

  • First Clickable Banner Ad

    Clickable banner ads offered cheaper ad space than traditional media in addition to ROI measurements and analytics, allowing marketers to measure the effectiveness of an ad in a way that wasn't possible before. Just a year later widespread use of the banner ad began and it because very successful.
  • Ebay is founded

  • Google is Founded

    Google is Founded
    Google quickly expanded and improved its search engine and learned how to analyze content to target users with relevant information.
  • First commercial mobile SMS appears

  • Linkedin is launched

  • MySpace is Founded

  • Skype initial release

  • Facebook is Launched

  • Flickr is launched

  • Google's Initial Public Offering

  • Digg is founded

  • Youtube is Founded

  • The internet's billionth user logs on

  • Gmail is launched

  • Twitter is founded

  • "You" are Time Magazine's person of the year

    "You" are Time Magazine's person of the year
  • Tumblr is launched

  • Hulu is launched

  • Google Street View arrives

  • The first iPhone is introduced

  • First hashtag is posted on twitter

    "how do you feel about using # (pound) for groups. As in #barcamp [msg]?" -Chris Messina
  • Groupon is Launched

  • Spotify starts streaming music