For newspapers, 2010 was bloody, but not as bloody as it could've been.
Still, figurative signs of the industry's demise continue to add up — and this one, via Ad Age, is big:
"The year just ending marked a sea change: The internet (including mobile) passed newspapers in 2010 U.S. ad revenue, making the internet the second-largest ad medium behind TV."
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Now, as I pointed here, there is evidence that the hemorrhaging of newspaper print advertising is slowing. Advertising dollars fell 7.1 percent industry-wide during the third quarter, according to the Newspaper Association of America, following drops of 7.6 percent during the second quarter, and 11.4 percent during the first.
But without a major fourth quarter turnaround, newspapers aren't catching up to the Web sprint, especially if we're including mobile.
A sea change indeed.
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