One of the most common questions asked by our client is ‘What is a good CPM / CPC in Korea ? and as Google or Yahoo do not have a strong market share in advertising where should I promote my services or products. Well this is a tricky question as we are dealing with specific Korean search engine , Naver for instance take a huge market share in Korea followed by Daum and Nate. On our experience working on major media plan for big companies, your campaign result in term of CPM and CPC will depend of the length of the campaign, the number of impression, the design quality of the graphic material, and most important one the targeted portal where you will display your banner.

On major portal like Naver, daum, Nate you can reach a CPC from 500 KRW to 1500 KRW with a CTR from 0.06 to 0.15, but having a good graphic campaign can make you go up to 0.2 to 0.3.  On video portal like Pandora.tv, Afreeca, Mncast you can reach some very low CPC under 200 KRW but the conversion rate is usually quite low around 50 to 60%. We get strong CTR from 0.5% up to 2% and even sometime higher.

If you have been browsing on youtube.com using Internet Explorer 6 lately, you may have encountered the following message:

We will be phasing out our support for your browser soon

As you can read, it seems that Google will be phasing out support for what was six years ago the most widely used browser during its tenure. This seems to be in sync with the end of Internet Explorer 6 and 7′s lifecycle on July 13, 2010, after which Microsoft will stop providing service packs and updates for both versions.

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According to KoreanClick and the Korean Times, for the first time since its launch in Korea in 2008, YouTube became last month the number one video portal in terms of overall usage time with a 42.79% market share.

Although local player Pandora.tv lost its first position in June with 34.19% market share, it still maintained its top position in terms of unique visitors at 6.9 million versus 4.7 million for YouTube.

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